Comparison

Rounds vs HIIT Customizable Timer

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

Head to head
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.

About

HIIT Customizable Timer

Features
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Build the exact interval workout you want — no presets forcing you into someone else's structure. HIIT Customizable Timer lets you set every variable yourself: • Work time and rest time, set independently • Number of sets per round and number of rounds • Warmup and cooldown periods • Voice announcements (text-to-speech) so you know what's coming without looking at your screen Prefer not to build from scratch? Choose from pre-loaded workout templates and start in seconds. Whether you're doing Tabata, circuit training, boxing rounds, EMOM, or your own custom protocol, the timer adapts to you. No account required. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just a timer that works exactly the way you want it to.

Screenshots

Rounds3 screens
HIIT Customizable Timer3 screens

Verdict

The call

Rounds and HIIT Customizable Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Rounds versus HIIT Customizable Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoundsHIIT Customizable Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNightjar Labs LLC.ELLIOTT BRIAN MILES

In-app purchases

None

Rounds

No in-app purchases

None

HIIT Customizable Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rounds free?
Rounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HIIT Customizable Timer free?
HIIT Customizable Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rounds or HIIT Customizable Timer have ads?
Neither Rounds nor HIIT Customizable Timer shows ads.

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