Steady & Strong vs Timer 2000
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steady & Strong
This app guides users through structured exercise programs for chair-based movement, knee strength, and balance. It provides clear instructions, allows for baseline assessments, and tracks progress over time to help build strength and confidence.
- Chair, knee, hip, back, and balance exercises
- Beginner, intermediate, and advanced options
- Step-by-step visual guidance
- Baseline assessments
- Progress tracking
- Exercise reminders
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Steady & Strong helps you follow structured exercise programmes for chair-based movement, knee strength and balance. Designed to be used alongside the Steady & Strong Exercise Book Series, the app gives you a simple way to follow your daily exercises, view clear instructions, record baseline checks and track progress over time. Designed by a UK-Registered Physical Therapist. Features include: • Chair, knee, hip, back and balance exercise programmes • Beginner, intermediate and advanced exercise options where available • Clear exercise images and step-by-step guidance • Baseline assessments to record starting points • Progress tracking for completed sessions and reassessments • Optional reminders to help you stay consistent • Simple settings to adjust your programme and goal The app is intended as a practical exercise companion for adults who want a calm, easy-to-use way to build strength, mobility and confidence alongside Steady & Strong Exercise Book Series. Important: This app provides general exercise guidance only. It is not a substitute for medical assessment or personalised treatment. If you have pain, dizziness, new symptoms, a recent injury, or a medical condition that affects exercise, seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional before continuing.
Timer 2000
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FiTimer is a fast, no-nonsense interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, stretching, and anything else built around "do X seconds, rest Y seconds, repeat N times." On iPhone and Apple Watch — now with custom circuits, a Lock Screen timer, and streak tracking. CIRCUITS — NEW • Comes with a ready-made Full Body circuit — try it, then build your own. • Build your own workout: named exercises, each with its own duration, repeated over rounds. • FiTimer calls out every exercise — "Squats", "Plank" — so you never have to look at the screen. • During rest it tells you what's coming next. • Optional warm-up and cool-down phases bookend any workout, circuits and classic sets alike. LOCK SCREEN & DYNAMIC ISLAND — NEW • Your running timer lives on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: current exercise, set counter, and remaining time at a glance. • No unlocking mid-set to check where you are. iPHONE • Three things on the screen: sets, exercise duration, rest duration. Plus or minus to dial each one. Long-press +/− to auto-repeat. • Five preset slots — four built-in (8×20/10, 6×40/20, 5×1m/15, 4×3m/1m) and one fully customisable. • 3-2-1 countdown into every workout. • Audio cues that actually help: a rising-pitch tick every second, a higher beep every 5 seconds, plus a voice announcement on a configurable interval ("3 minutes 20 seconds remaining"). Off, every 10s, or every 30s. • Mute toggle for quiet environments — visual countdown only, no sound. • Pause / resume / stop, with a clear "next phase" hint so you always know what's coming. • Set rest to 0 for self-paced circuits — FiTimer waits for you to tap CONTINUE before the next set. • Keeps running when the screen is locked, audio coming through your speaker or headphones. • Siri and Shortcuts: say "Start a fiTimer workout" — works from the Action Button too. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • A monthly calendar marks every day you finished a workout. • Streaks, a 12-week trend chart, and 15 achievements to unlock. • Home Screen widget with your current streak and this week's workouts. • Optional daily reminder at your chosen time — it knows your streak and what's at stake. • iCloud sync: progress and achievements follow you across your devices. • Apple Health: finished sessions can be saved as HIIT workouts. Off by default. APPLE WATCH • Start, pause, and stop workouts from your wrist — no need to fish your phone out mid-set. • Workouts finished on the watch now count on your iPhone calendar too. • Drift-free clock so the timer never falls behind during long sessions. • Voice announcements over AirPods. • Haptic cues every 5 seconds and on phase transitions, so you can train without headphones and still feel the cadence. • Stays awake for the full workout via the watch's extended runtime session. PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No ads. Your settings and workout history live on your devices and in your own iCloud — nowhere else. Apple Health is written only if you switch it on, and never read. WHY FiTimer Most workout-timer apps want to be your fitness coach, sell you premium content, and track your soul. FiTimer doesn't. It's a timer. Open it, dial in the workout, hit START, train, close it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Timer 2000 at daily against Steady & Strong's every 3 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Steady & Strong ships an update every 3 weeks, Timer 2000 daily. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steady & Strong | Timer 2000 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Groom | Anton Popov |
In-app purchases
Steady & Strong
No in-app purchases
Timer 2000
No in-app purchases





