Comparison

Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer vs Rounds

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

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About

Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer

Create custom interval workouts using just your voice. Describe your desired exercise, duration, and intensity, and the AI generates a complete plan with warm-up, work/rest periods, and cool-down. Get voice coaching, haptic feedback, and visual progress tracking during your session.

Highlights
  • Voice-first workout creation
  • AI-generated interval plans
  • Voice coaching and alerts
  • Haptic and visual progress tracking
  • Supports various workout styles
  • Workout history and repeat workouts
Features
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Stop fiddling with timers. Just say what you want — "20 minute HIIT for legs" — and Quick HIIT builds the plan and runs it. Voice-powered AI turns your words into a complete interval workout with warmup, rounds, rest, and cooldown. Tap the mic, speak, and start sweating. *** What You Can Say - "Quick 10-minute Tabata" - "30-minute full body HIIT with short rest" - "Boxing circuit, 12 rounds, 3 minutes each" - "Easy beginner workout, 15 minutes" - "Intense leg day EMOM" The AI understands natural language in 30+ languages — just describe what you want. *** How It Works 1. Speak — Tap the mic and describe your workout in plain language. 2. Preview — Review the AI-generated plan: total duration, rounds, and step-by-step breakdown. 3. Go — Start the timer with voice coaching, haptic feedback, and visual progress tracking. *** Features - Voice-first workout creation — No menus, no sliders, no manual setup. Just speak. - AI-generated plans — Full interval plan with warmup, work/rest rounds, and cooldown in seconds. - Voice coach — Hear "Get ready", "Go!", "Round 3", "Rest!", and "Done!" in your language. - Countdown alerts — Audible 3… 2… 1… before each phase so you're always prepared. - Haptic feedback — Feel phase transitions through vibration, even in a noisy gym. - Visual progress — Dot grid shows your position in the workout at a glance. - Workout history — All workouts saved to your account. Repeat any workout anytime. - Screen stays on — Display stays active throughout the entire workout. *** Works for Every Workout Style HIIT, Tabata, circuit training, EMOM, AMRAP, boxing rounds, WOD — whatever your style, just describe it and the AI builds the plan. Don't know what "Tabata 20/10 x8" means? Just say "a quick intense workout" and let the AI handle the structure. *** Why Quick HIIT Unlike traditional interval timers where you manually set rounds, work time, and rest time every single session, Quick HIIT understands plain language. Describe something different every day and get a fresh plan instantly. Setup takes 5 seconds, not 60. *** Subscription Quick HIIT offers a subscription to unlock unlimited features. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://quickhiit.app/terms_of_use Privacy Policy: https://quickhiit.app/privacy_policy

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Rounds

Features
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You set the work, you set the rest, and the timer takes it from there. Before every change it turns red and beeps once a second, so the end of a step reaches you with your eyes down. Rounds is free, with a small banner on the home screen and under the timer. One purchase removes the ads for good, on your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac. You pay once, nothing renews, and there is no subscription to cancel later. It asks you for nothing else. No account, no sign-up, no email address. Your workouts live on your device and travel between your devices through your own iCloud. Two ways to train Workout: you add exercises one at a time, give each one its own time, and drop rests in between. Take an exercise from the 45 built in across seven categories, or type your own name. What you type stays in the app, so next time it is one tap. Intervals: rounds of work and rest, with no exercise names. Set three numbers and you are done. Ten rounds of ninety seconds with thirty off, or eight rounds of twenty on and ten off, take the same three moves. Either one saves as a template with the times already in it. Edit it, duplicate it to change one thing without touching the original, put it in the archive, or delete it. The last seconds In the middle of an exercise you are looking at the floor, not at the screen, so the end of a step has to reach you without being read. The timer turns red and beeps once a second before every change. You choose how long that warning runs: the last 10, 5 or 3 seconds, set separately for exercises and for rests, because the end of a rest needs more notice than the end of a plank. The sound plays even when the phone is on silent, the way the built-in Clock does. If you would rather feel it than hear it, there is vibration. The screen stays awake while the timer runs, and time is counted from the clock, so the countdown does not drift. What you see while you work One number, big enough to read from the floor, and a ring that empties as the step runs out. The whole screen carries the phase: your accent color for work, a cool color for rest, red for the last seconds. Portrait and landscape are the same layout. Every start opens with three seconds of Get ready, so the first exercise does not catch you halfway through a movement. Every workout carries its own timer theme. There are ten of them, and you can build an eleventh from any background and any digit color. On top of that: an accent color for the app, more than thirty typefaces in five groups, and an emoji on the workout so you know it on the list without reading. On the Mac The same app in a window, with a sidebar for your workouts and the archive, a search field, a details panel, and the countdown filling the whole window. New workout is ⌘N, intervals ⇧⌘N, and ⌘, opens settings. Build a workout at the desk and it is on the phone by the time you are on the mat. What free means here A banner on the home screen and under the timer, and a full-screen ad after every other workout you finish. Never in the middle of an exercise. One purchase clears all of it for good, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. What the app does not do It does not weigh you, count calories or draw charts. It does not talk to a watch or to Health. It has no account and does not know who you are, beyond the name you type at the start so it can greet you. When you leave the app, the timer stops and waits for you. Rounds speaks ten languages and follows the one your device is set to. Support: https://nanas.pro/support Privacy: https://nanas.pro/legal/privacy#rounds

Screenshots

Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer4 screens
Rounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer at 15.1 against Rounds's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Rounds sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer versus Rounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick HIIT & Tabata TimerRounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApp Machine SIAAdrian Skobiej

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime access$49.99
1 purchases

Rounds

One-time1
  • Rounds without ads$9.99

Questions

Is Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer free?
Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rounds free?
Rounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer or Rounds have ads?
Neither Quick HIIT & Tabata Timer nor Rounds shows ads.

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