Comparison

TimeHero Customizable Timers vs Rounds

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Multi-step custom timers
  • Unlimited rounds
  • Personalized audio alerts
  • Save and reuse routines
  • Stopwatch and countdown timers
  • Dark mode
  • Share timer routines
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

TimeHero Customizable Timers4 screens
Rounds3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TimeHero Customizable Timers versus Rounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeHero Customizable TimersRounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid StewartNightjar Labs LLC.

Customer experience

TimeHero Customizable Timers

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rounds

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TimeHero Customizable Timers

No in-app purchases

None

Rounds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeHero Customizable Timers free?
TimeHero Customizable Timers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rounds free?
Rounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TimeHero Customizable Timers or Rounds?
TimeHero Customizable Timers and Rounds are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do TimeHero Customizable Timers or Rounds have ads?
Neither TimeHero Customizable Timers nor Rounds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeHero Customizable Timers or Rounds?
TimeHero Customizable Timers ships an update every 2 days, and Rounds every 2 weeks. Most recently, TimeHero Customizable Timers was updated on October 12, 2026 and Rounds on October 1, 2026.

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