Comparison

Gustav Workout Timer vs Chrona

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gustav Workout Timer

This app helps you manage your workout intervals for various training types like HIIT, circuits, and strength. It offers customizable timers, built-in options, and personalized interval naming for a focused and comfortable training experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable intervals up to 10 minutes
  • Ready-made built-in timers
  • Save custom timers to Favourites
  • Custom interval naming
  • New sound and audio cue options
  • Haptic feedback for interval changes
  • Modern Liquid Glass design
Features
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Gustav Workout Timer – your interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, CrossFit, circuit training, and all workout types. Fast, clean, and more convenient than ever. Perfect for HIIT workouts, cardio training, strength training, yoga, and circuit training – all your interval exercise needs. What you'll find in the app: - Customizable intervals: set up to 10 intervals with durations up to 10 minutes, including countdown before your first interval starts. - Built-in timers: pre-made workout timers ready to use instantly without setup. - Favorites: save your custom timers and easily share them with your team. - Personal naming: name each interval according to your workout. - New sounds + audio alerts: choose what signals the end of each interval. - Haptic feedback: gentle haptic response so you stay informed without looking at the screen. - Liquid Glass design: modern, clean aesthetic with new transitions and depth. - New animations: smoother and more engaging workout experience. - Various backgrounds: choose from preset backgrounds or use your own. - Improved user experience: more intuitive keyboard handling, better portrait mode display, and additional optimizations. Whether you're pushing hard through short intervals or going at a steady pace, this app helps you keep the rhythm and focus on your technique.

About

Chrona

Features
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Chrona is a timer you'll actually want to look at — with serious HIIT, Tabata, and EMOM interval training built in. Most timer apps show you numbers. Chrona makes time tangible: a candle that burns down in real time and gutters out at zero. An eclipse that slides toward totality. An hourglass whose sand trickles grain by grain. Restart it, and the whole glass turns over. A bezel of sixty lights going out one by one. Every face ends with its own choreographed moment, synced to the completion sound. TIMERS • Six faces: Digital, Analog, Hourglass, Eclipse, Bezel, Candle • Run multiple timers at once with a focused hero view • Favorites, recents, quick adjustments (+10s, −1m, and more) • Eleven completion sounds, from soft chimes to solar alarms • Home screen widgets and Live Activities keep timers on your screen INTERVALS • Simple mode with one-tap presets — Tabata 20/10, 30/15, 40/20, and more • Custom multi-block workouts with warmup, cooldown, and per-block rounds • Pyramid and Ladder structures generated in one tap • Phase-colored timeline preview and spoken-out motivation • Phase sounds that work with your music, even in the background STOPWATCH • A precision analog chronograph face with lap hand and 30-minute sub-dial • Laps with splits, deltas, and best/worst highlighting • Live Activity support on the Lock Screen PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your timers never leave your device. CHRONA PREMIUM — one purchase, yours forever Unlock the Hourglass, Eclipse, Bezel, and Candle faces, premium sounds, custom multi-block workouts, and recovery tools. One-time purchase; No subscription.

Screenshots

Gustav Workout Timer4 screens
Chrona4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gustav Workout Timer at none against Chrona's 1. Chrona's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chrona sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gustav Workout Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gustav Workout Timer versus Chrona: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGustav Workout TimerChrona
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDalibor Janecek3POV Ventures, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Gustav Workout Timer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Chrona

One-time1
  • Chrona Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Gustav Workout Timer free?
Gustav Workout Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chrona free?
Chrona is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gustav Workout Timer or Chrona have ads?
Neither Gustav Workout Timer nor Chrona shows ads.

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