Comparison

Workout Timer vs Lido

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timers
  • Progress tracking and detailed stats
  • Smart workout reminders
  • Countdown and completion sounds
  • Side-by-side timer comparison
  • Advanced scheduling options (Premium)
Features
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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

About

Lido

This app provides a hands-free workout timer with spoken cues and alerts, even when the screen is locked. It also features a unique visual log where a toy floats in a pool after each completed workout, with rare gilded toys appearing occasionally.

Highlights
  • Hands-free spoken exercise cues
  • Halfway and 5-second alerts
  • Workout log with collectible toys
  • Untimed checklists with rest clock
  • Control Center/Lock Screen integration
  • Screen lock and background operation
Features
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Lido is a workout timer with a pool. Build your workout, press play, and put the phone down. Lido speaks — it announces each exercise, calls halfway so you know when to switch sides, and counts down the last five seconds, even with the screen locked. Finish a workout and a toy floats in your pool: a rubber duck, a beach ball, an orca, a flamingo. One toy per workout, a fresh pool every month. It's a workout log you'll actually want to look at — and every so often, a gilded toy turns up. THE TIMER • Timed circuits with spoken cues — hands-free from first exercise to last • Untimed checklists for gym days: sets, reps, and a rest clock • Halfway and five-second alerts, per exercise • Keeps talking with the screen locked or the app in the background SETS • A standalone rest clock for the bench — tap when you rack the bar, lift when it says go • Start it from Control Center or the Lock Screen without opening the app THE POOL • One toy per finished workout, in your workout's color • Monthly pools you can swim back through • Rare gilded toys, if you're lucky SHARE • Send a workout to a friend as a link — it opens in their Lido, ready to add • No account needed on either end EVERYWHERE • Home Screen widgets for your week and your pool • Lock Screen accessories • Night Swim — a dark mode that lights the pool after sundown PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking, no subscription • Everything stays on your phone • Shared workouts travel inside the link itself — no server ever sees them Free. Made by one person and a rubber duck.

Screenshots

Workout Timer4 screens
Lido4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lido at none against Workout Timer's 3. Lido also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). Workout Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (17.2 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Workout Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Lido asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Workout Timer against 5.0 for Lido. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workout Timer ships an update every 7 months, Lido every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Workout Timer versus Lido: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkout TimerLido
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaximiliano Julio DemonteBrandon Lukas

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Workout Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Week3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Year$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$19.99
None

Lido

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Workout Timer free?
Workout Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lido free?
Lido is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Workout Timer or Lido?
Workout Timer and Lido are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Workout Timer or Lido have ads?
Neither Workout Timer nor Lido shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workout Timer or Lido?
Workout Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Lido every 2 days. Most recently, Workout Timer was updated on November 14, 2026 and Lido on October 31, 2026.

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