TimedTrainer vs BeTimed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimedTrainer
This app provides a simple and flexible timer for various workout types, including HIIT, Crossfit, and Tabata. Easily create custom routines with intervals and rest periods, and receive notifications even when the app is locked or music is playing. Focus on your training without distractions.
- Customizable workout creation
- Interval and rest period timers
- Unlimited rounds and loops
- Background operation
- Simple and flexible interface
- Workout notifications
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Build a workout in seconds. Hit start. Train. TimedTrainer is an interval timer with one job: telling you when to move. No more staring at the clock on the wall, no more fiddling with your phone between rounds. No accounts. No onboarding tour. No preset plans you'll never use. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a workout and name it. 2. Add rounds. Each round has a name, a work time, and an optional rest after it. 3. Choose how many times to repeat the whole list, and go. That's the entire app. A core workout takes about twenty seconds to build: - Crunches, 1:00 - Plank, 0:30, then rest 0:05, because planks hurt - Bicycle kicks, 1:00 Repeat 5 times. Start. WHAT'S IN IT - Unlimited rounds, and 1 to 100 sets of the whole list - Work and rest per round, from preset chips or a typed h:m:s keypad - Reorder, duplicate, and delete rounds while you build - A Get Ready countdown before the first round - Clear audio cues: a ding into each round, beeps counting down the last seconds, a buzzer at the end, a chime at the finish - Four sound themes: Classic, Arcade, Fight Night, and Zen - Pick how many seconds of beeps you want before a round ends - Haptic taps at every work period, rest, and finish - Keeps timing with the screen locked, the app in the background, and your music playing - Pauses itself for a phone call, for Siri, or when your headphones drop out, then picks up exactly where you stopped - Keeps the screen awake during a workout, unless you'd rather it didn't - A day streak, and this week's training at a glance on the home screen - A summary after every workout with total time and working time. Add a photo and share the card. GREAT FOR Boxing - HIIT - CrossFit and WODs - Tabata - EMOM and AMRAP - Circuits - Weight lifting - Sprints and Fartlek - Stretching and mobility - Martial arts and MMA drills - Wrestling - Jump rope - Rehab sets PRICE TimedTrainer is free, with ads. One $0.99 purchase removes them permanently. Everything else is unlocked from the start: no subscription, no paywalled rounds, no limits.
BeTimed
Create custom interval training routines for various activities like yoga, HIIT, and meditation. Design workouts with unlimited steps and rest periods, and enjoy a minimalist display during sessions. Runs efficiently in the background.
- Custom workout routines
- Unlimited steps and rest intervals
- Drag and drop step arrangement
- Copy steps for repeating intervals
- Informative and minimalist display modes
- Background operation
- Listen to own music
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BeTimed is an easy to use, beautifully crafted interval timer app for Professional and Personal use. Design workouts with unlimited steps or rest intervals. Use BeTimed for unlimited workout routines for Yoga, Tabata, cardio training, HIIT, MMA, boxing and any type of interval training as well as meditation sessions. Use it to add multiple steps for each workout with rest steps as needed. Easily move, copy and delete steps in each workout. Great for teachers, trainers, coaches and personal workouts. key features: - design as many custom workout routines as you need - add custom steps to each routine with name, duration in hours, minutes and seconds, description, type, sounds and other options - add rest steps between your workout steps depending on your workout for flexibility. - easily arrange the steps of each workout by simple drag and drop - easily copy any step many times ideal for Tabata or other repeating type of interval training workouts - play each of your routines with screens in two styles - an informative style with all the information about each step of your workout or a minimalist zen style with few necessary elements for your workout steps - BeTimed runs efficiently in the background as well - BeTimed has help screens to help you use all the apps' features - "Zen" minimalist mode when you run your routine steps to keep things simple - Listen to your own music while working out Use BeTimed to achieve the next level in your training.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TimedTrainer at Free against BeTimed's $3.99. TimedTrainer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 4). BeTimed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment 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
TimedTrainer is free to download; BeTimed costs $3.99 up front. TimedTrainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BeTimed asks for nothing beyond the download.
BeTimed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TimedTrainer has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of TimedTrainer's written reviews are positive against 86% of BeTimed's.
TimedTrainer ships an update every 3 weeks, BeTimed every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimedTrainer | BeTimed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KSI Technology, LLC | Gary Saggu |
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TimedTrainer
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In-app purchases
TimedTrainer
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BeTimed
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