TimeHero Customizable Timers vs Rounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeHero Customizable Timers
Create personalized multi-step timers with custom audio alerts for various activities. Save and reuse routines for workouts, cooking, studying, and more. Features include unlimited rounds, dark mode, and sharing options.
- Multi-step custom timers
- Unlimited rounds
- Personalized audio alerts
- Save and reuse routines
- Stopwatch and countdown timers
- Dark mode
- Share timer routines
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Create personalized multi-step timers with custom audio alerts for any activity. Perfect for HIIT workouts, interval training, boxing rounds, yoga sessions, cooking recipes, crossfit, sports, jiu jitsu, mma, study breaks, and productivity routines. Key Features: • Multi-step custom timers with unlimited rounds • Personalized audio alerts and warning sounds • Save and reuse your favorite timer routines • Stopwatch and Countdown Timers • Dark mode for low-light environments • Send and Share with friends by Importing workouts, easy copy and paste format Perfect For: Fitness enthusiasts, athletes, home cooks, students, and anyone who needs precise timing control. Whether you're doing circuit training, following a recipe, or managing work intervals, TimeHero adapts to your routine. Why Choose TimeHero? Unlike basic timers, TimeHero lets you build complex timing sequences once and reuse them forever. No more constantly resetting timers or losing track of your workout steps. Download TimeHero and take control of your time today!
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 update cadence: TimeHero Customizable Timers at every 2 days against Rounds's every 2 weeks. TimeHero Customizable Timers also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TimeHero Customizable Timers against 5.0 for Rounds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TimeHero Customizable Timers has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TimeHero Customizable Timers ships an update every 2 days, Rounds every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeHero Customizable Timers | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Stewart | Nightjar Labs LLC. |
Customer experience
TimeHero Customizable Timers
Rounds
In-app purchases
TimeHero Customizable Timers
No in-app purchases
Rounds
No in-app purchases
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