Workout Timer vs Rounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Timer
This interval timer app helps you achieve fitness goals with precision timing and detailed stats. Customize timers for any workout, track progress, and receive smart reminders to stay consistent. Upgrade for advanced features like unlimited timers and scheduling.
- Customizable interval timers
- Progress tracking and detailed stats
- Smart workout reminders
- Countdown and completion sounds
- Side-by-side timer comparison
- Advanced scheduling options (Premium)
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Achieve your fitness goals with a powerful and intuitive interval timer designed for all types of workouts. Whether you're training for strength, endurance, or flexibility, this app helps you stay on track with precision timing, detailed stats, and smart reminders. With a simple and customizable interface, you can create interval timers tailored to your routines, track your progress over time, and make adjustments to improve performance. Whether you're doing high-intensity interval training, weightlifting, yoga, or cardio, this app ensures you stay focused and efficient. Track your workout history and analyze detailed statistics to measure your progress over time. While editing, you can compare timers side by side to fine-tune your training and optimize your performance. To help you stay consistent, set personalized reminders so you never miss a session. Plus, with built-in countdown and completion sounds, you’ll always stay on track—even when you can’t look at your phone. Upgrade to Premium and unlock unlimited interval timers, advanced scheduling options to receive reminders on specific days and times, and the ability to compare timers while editing to fine-tune your progress. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.qkygames.com/privacy-policy
Rounds
This interval timer app simplifies workout creation for various training styles like HIIT, Tabata, and circuits. Build custom routines by stacking work, rest, and prep blocks, grouping them into rounds, and saving them as presets for quick access. It's designed for gym use, ensuring it won't interrupt your music.
- Customizable workout builder
- Stackable work, rest, and prep blocks
- Round grouping and repetition
- Save and launch preset workouts
- Music interruption-free design
- Customizable sound profiles
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Rounds is an interval timer that does what you tell it to. Wether its HIIT, Tabata, boxing 3s and 1s, a 20 minute EMOM with a finisheror kettlebell circuits, a mobility flow Rounds make it easy. No ads. No accounts. No upsells mid workout. Build the workout you want • Stack work, rest, and prep blocks in any order • Group blocks into rounds and repeat them as many times as you need • Save any workout as a preset and launch it with one tap from the home screen • Start from a handful of starter timers if you don't feel like building from scratch Rounds is made to actually be used in a gym. It doesn't interrupt your music, and we allow for a highly customizable sound profile so you can stay in the zone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rounds at none against Workout Timer's 3. Rounds also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 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. Workout Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Rounds asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Workout Timer against 5.0 for Rounds. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Workout Timer ships an update every 7 months, Rounds every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Timer | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maximiliano Julio Demonte | Nightjar Labs LLC. |
Customer experience
Workout Timer
Rounds
In-app purchases
Workout Timer
- Week3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Year$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$19.99
Rounds
No in-app purchases
