Intervl vs Ember
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Intervl
This app provides a customizable interval timer for various activities like workouts, cooking, and focus sessions. It features large, readable displays, voice cues, and the ability to create and chain multiple routines. Track your progress and stay on schedule with ease.
- Customizable phase names
- Large, readable display
- Voice and beep cues
- Lock screen and Live Activity support
- Routine chaining
- Activity tracking
- Timer import/export
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Intervl is an interval timer you can read from across the room. Build any routine of repeating phases, start it with one tap, and let the cues carry you, even with your phone locked. Use it for anything that repeats • Workouts: Tabata, HIIT, EMOM, circuits and boxing rounds • Running: run and walk repeats • Stretching and breathwork • Focus and study: Pomodoro sessions • Cooking: sourdough folds, steak flips, anything on a schedule Name your own phases Work and Rest can become Stir and Simmer, Focus and Break, or Breathe in and Breathe out. Your names show on the timer, in the voice cues, on the lock screen and in the Live Activity. Read it from across the room The phase color fills the screen and the countdown is huge. "Next" tells you what's coming, and the big pause button sits right under your thumb. Cues that keep going Beeps and an optional voice keep playing when your phone is locked, alongside your music. Choose Voice, Beeps or Silent for each timer. Every timer at a glance Each timer is drawn as a strip of its phases, to scale, so you can tell a Tabata from a boxing session before reading a word. Set work, rest, rounds and sets with steppers and watch the total update as you go. Routines Play timers back to back: a warm-up, three rounds of intervals, a cool down. Put them in any order and repeat a timer as often as you like. Your week Activity shows your minutes per day, your streak and every finished session. Also • Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island • Open-ended timers that repeat until you stop, with your best set count • Export and import your timers • iPhone and iPad, light and dark mode, large text Free, with no ads, no account and no tracking.
Ember
Find your calm with this mindfulness tool, offering a customizable meditation timer and ambient sounds. Build a consistent practice with guided exercises, session tracking, and an Apple Watch app. Unlock more sounds, meditations, and breathing techniques with a Pro subscription.
- Customizable meditation timer
- Ambient soundscapes
- Guided breathing exercises
- Session tracking and streaks
- Apple Watch app
- Reset sessions for focus and relaxation
- Interval bells
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Fall asleep faster. Stress less. Build a meditation practice that finally sticks. Ember combines a beautiful meditation timer with something no other timer has: real clinical hypnotherapy, created by a certified clinical hypnotherapist with over 20 years of experience. WHY EMBER WORKS Most meditation apps give you sounds and silence. Ember gives you professional guided hypnotherapy sessions that work with your subconscious mind — so you don't just relax for ten minutes, you actually change how you sleep, focus, and handle stress. SEVEN NIGHTS TO A QUIETER MIND New in Ember 2.2: a seven-night guided sequence for the end of the day. Each night is a complete guided hypnotherapy session of around fifteen minutes — setting the day down, returning to a quiet place within, letting tomorrow wait, and finally trusting that you already know how to rest. Night 1 is free. Nights 2 through 7 come with Ember Pro. A VOICE WITH REAL CREDENTIALS Most wellness apps use an anonymous narrator. Every Ember session is written and narrated by Joel Thielke — a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Hypnotherapy Instructor, NLP Practitioner and Trainer, and Yoga Instructor. It is the same trained voice in every session: warm, steady, and male, a rare alternative that many listeners find deeply calming. EVERYTHING YOU NEED • Meditation timer with presets, custom durations, and interval bells • 15 ambient sounds — rain, ocean, campfire, binaural beats, 528Hz, and more • Sound mixer — layer multiple sounds with individual volume control • 17 guided hypnotherapy sessions — 10 Reset Sessions for relaxation, focus, energy, and mindfulness, plus the seven-night sequence • 4 breathing exercises — Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Calming, and Energizing — with animated visual guides • Streaks, achievements, and stats to keep you consistent — free for everyone • Daily reminders so you never miss a session • Apple Watch app — meditate and breathe from your wrist • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Health — Mindful Minutes saved automatically TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Download free and get the full timer, ambient sounds, a complete guided hypnotherapy session, Night 1 of Seven Nights, Box Breathing, and all tracking features. No account. No sign-up. No ads. ONE PRICE. YOURS FOREVER. Tired of subscriptions? So are we. Ember Pro unlocks everything with a single one-time purchase. • Other meditation apps: $69.99 every single year, forever • Ember Pro: one payment, lifetime access, free updates ABOUT JOEL THIELKE Joel Thielke is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Hypnotherapy Instructor, an NLP Practitioner and Trainer, and a Yoga Instructor and meditation coach, certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and the National Federation of Hypnotists. Across more than 20 years of private practice and audio programs, his hypnotherapy has reached millions of listeners worldwide. Your practice starts tonight. Download Ember free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intervl at none against Ember's 7. Ember's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Ember sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Intervl asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Intervl against 5.0 for Ember. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Intervl ships an update every 12 months, Ember every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Intervl | Ember |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jinnius Labs Inc. | Hypnosis and Meditation for Success, LLC |
Customer experience
Intervl
Ember
In-app purchases
Intervl
No in-app purchases
Ember
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