Comparison

Tabata Timer vs RoundBell

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

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About

Tabata Timer

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Tabata Timer is a simple timer for HIIT, Tabata, and interval training. Cardio, strength, yoga, boxing โ€” whatever you train, keep your rhythm. Features: โ€ข Build your own workout โ€“ Set prepare, work, rest, round rest, and cooldown freely, with a name and duration for each exercise. โ€ข Save your workouts โ€“ Keep your regular routines and start one with a single tap. โ€ข See your progress at a glance โ€“ Color-coded phases, big numbers, and a next-phase preview you can read from across the room. โ€ข Sound and vibration โ€“ Countdown beeps, a finish bell, and haptics, so you never have to look at the screen. โ€ข Keeps running in the background โ€“ Time keeps flowing when you leave the app or the screen turns off, and you get a notification when your workout ends. โ€ข Focus timer โ€“ A dial timer that drains in color as time runs out. Use it for study, cooking, work, or meditation. โ€ข Keeps the screen awake โ€ข 7 languages โ€“ English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish, French Premium: โ€ข Remove ads โ€ข Unlock landscape mode Great for: HIIT and Tabata, CrossFit and circuits, home workouts, yoga and meditation, boxing and martial arts conditioning, study and work focus Download now and make every second count.

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RoundBell

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RoundBell๋Š” ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์—†๋Š” ์™„์ „ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋…๋„, ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์ œํ•œ๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ๊ฐ€ ์•„์‰ฌ์› ๋˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. โ—† ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•Œ๋žŒ ๋ฌด์Œ ๋ชจ๋“œยท์ง‘์ค‘ ๋ชจ๋“œ์—์„œ๋„ iOS 26 ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์•Œ๋žŒ์ด ํƒ€์ด๋จธ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋šซ๊ณ  ์šธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๊บผ๋‘๊ณ  ์šด๋™ํ•ด๋„ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”. 28์ดˆ ์ž๋ช…์ข… ๋ฒจ๋กœ ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ์šธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ—† ์šด๋™์šฉ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ฒŒ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ ์ค€๋น„ยท์šด๋™ยทํœด์‹ ร— ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ร— ์„ธํŠธ. ํƒ€๋ฐ”ํƒ€, HIIT, EMOM, ๋ณต์‹ฑ ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ํ…œํ”Œ๋ฆฟ์ด ๋‚ด์žฅ๋ผ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์นด๋“œ์—์„œ ์ขŒ์šฐ๋กœ ๋“œ๋ž˜๊ทธํ•ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด ๋‹ค์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์›ํƒญ ์‹œ์ž‘. โ—† ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ ๋ผ๋ฉด, ์„ธํƒ๊ธฐ, ๊ณ„๋ž€ โ€” ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋ถ™์ธ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋Œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋ฆฌ์…‹์œผ๋กœ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด ํƒญ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์‹œ์ž‘. โ—† ์‹œํ€€์Šค ํƒ€์ด๋จธ "๋ฒ ์ดํ‚น 20๋ถ„ โ†’ ํœด์ง€ 10๋ถ„ โ†’ ๊ตฝ๊ธฐ 30๋ถ„"์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ˆœ์„œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž๋™ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์ฒด์ธ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ. ์Šคํ…๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“œ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โ—† ์šด๋™์šฉ ์Šคํ†ฑ์›Œ์น˜ ๋žฉ ๊ธฐ๋ก, ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ/์›Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๋žฉ ํ‘œ์‹œ. โ—† ์šด๋™ ์ค‘ ์Œ์•…์ด ๋Š๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š” ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„ ์•Œ๋ฆผ์Œ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๋•Œ ์Œ์•… ๋ณผ๋ฅจ๋งŒ ์ž ๊น ๋‚ฎ์ท„๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ—† ์ง„๋™ ์ „์šฉ ๋ชจ๋“œ ๋„์„œ๊ด€ยท์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹คยทํ—ฌ์Šค์žฅ ํ—ค๋“œํฐ์šฉ. ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ์—†์ด ์ง„๋™์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ. โ—† ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ Live Activity์™€ Dynamic Island๋กœ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ผœ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๋‚จ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ , ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋กœ ๋ˆ„๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ž‘์€ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ์‹œ์ •์ง€ยท๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋›ฐ๊ธฐ. ์•ฑ์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋ฒ„๋„, ๊ณ„์ •๋„, ๊ด‘๊ณ  SDK๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ด ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค๋ฉด ์„ค์ •์—์„œ ์ปคํ”ผ ํ•œ ์ž”์œผ๋กœ ์‘์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”(์„ ํƒ ์‚ฌํ•ญ, ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋ณ€ํ™” ์—†์Œ).

Screenshots

Tabata Timer4 screens
RoundBell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: RoundBell at none against Tabata Timer's shown. Tabata Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Tabata Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RoundBell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tabata Timer ships an update weekly, RoundBell every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Tabata Timer versus RoundBell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabata TimerRoundBell
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size40 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSangwon SeoJaeyoun Kim

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tabata Timer

One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$1.99
1 purchases

RoundBell

One-time1
  • ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž ์‘์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ$0.99

Questions

Is Tabata Timer free?
Tabata Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RoundBell free?
RoundBell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tabata Timer or RoundBell have ads?
Tabata Timer shows ads; RoundBell does not.
Which is updated more often, Tabata Timer or RoundBell?
Tabata Timer ships an update weekly, and RoundBell every 3 months. Most recently, Tabata Timer was updated on November 12, 2026 and RoundBell on November 10, 2026.

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