Timer for Workouts vs Flextimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer for Workouts
A straightforward stopwatch designed for various workout routines like Tabata, EMOM, and custom intervals. It offers audio and haptic cues to keep users focused during exercise without needing to check their device.
- Tabata, EMOM, and custom interval modes
- Adjustable work, rest, and round settings
- Audio and haptic cues
- Large, easy-to-use buttons
- Automatic settings saving
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Workout Timer is a no-fuss workout timer built for Tabata, EMOM, and fully custom intervals. Three large buttons. One tap to start. One setting button to customize work time, rest time, and rounds. Audio and haptic cues keep you on track so you never have to look at your phone mid-workout. • Tabata – 20s work / 10s rest × 8 rounds (default, fully adjustable) • EMOM – Every Minute on the Minute with configurable rounds • Custom – Set any work/rest/round combination you need , settings are saved automatically No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. Just a timer that works.
Flextimer
Create custom interval timers for workouts, focus sessions, or daily routines. Design sessions step-by-step or use AI to generate them from plain text descriptions. Includes cues for sounds, vibration, and color changes.
- AI-generated timer creation from text
- Customizable interval and round timers
- Step cues for sound, vibration, and color
- Timer Summary with detailed progress
- Configurable run-screen controls
- Saved custom timers and starting points
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More than a countdown. Flextimer is a flexible interval, round, and HIIT timer for workouts, focus, routines, and more — built your way. Design a session step by step, or just describe it in plain words and let AI create it for you to review, edit, and save. Describe. Cue. Run. What sets Flextimer apart is the combination: named steps and repeating rounds, cues for sounds, vibration, color changes, and countdowns, a clear Timer Summary, and AI that can build a timer for you. Fit every part of your session, from prep and work to breaks and cooldowns. Use Flextimer for: • Workouts and interval training (HIIT, EMOM, Tabata) • Boxing, MMA, and round timers • Pomodoro and focus sessions • Meditation and breathing exercises • Presentation and speaking practice • Stretch breaks, chores, cooking, and daily routines • Structured sessions that need more than one countdown Features: • Describe a timer in plain words and let AI build it for you (preview) • Flexible step and repeat-group timer design • Optional final-step skipping, useful for omitting final rest periods • Step cues for additional sounds, vibration, color transitions, countdowns, or in repeating intervals • Timer Summary with total time, time by color, cues, and progress behavior • Configurable run-screen controls for next step, total remaining time, skip, and restart • Custom progress tracking for steps or rounds • Saved custom timers and built-in starting points • Local-first storage • No account required • No ads Flextimer is built for anyone who needs more than a simple countdown timer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Flextimer at 15.1 against Timer for Workouts's 17.6. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Timer for Workouts against 5.0 for Flextimer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Timer for Workouts ships an update fortnightly, Flextimer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer for Workouts | Flextimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YUNFEI XU | SOPHOMATH LLC |
Customer experience
Timer for Workouts
Flextimer
In-app purchases
Timer for Workouts
No in-app purchases
Flextimer
No in-app purchases
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