Comparison

HIIT Timer & Trainer vs Mada

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

Head to head
About

HIIT Timer & Trainer

Features
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HIIT Timer & Trainer 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 a 12-week home workout plan and a stretching plan. WORKOUT PLAN • A 12-week home plan: strength circuits, intervals and easy days, getting a little harder every few weeks. • Every move explained in plain words — no jargon, no guessing. "12 times", "each leg", "hold 30 seconds". • Strength moves wait for you to tap DONE; intervals have their own hard and easy tones and haptics. • Track your weekly weight and monthly waist alongside the plan. • Personal Plan (one-time purchase): answer six quick questions and get a plan built around your goal, your days and your time — then change any of it by hand, including knee-friendly moves. FLEXIBILITY PLAN — NEW • A second 12-week plan: daily stretching, about 15 minutes, to touch your toes again and squat deep with heels down. CIRCUITS • 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. • HIIT Timer & Trainer calls out every exercise — "Squats", "Plank" — so you never have to look at the screen. • Optional warm-up and cool-down phases bookend any workout, circuits and classic sets alike. LOCK SCREEN & DYNAMIC ISLAND • Your running timer lives on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: current exercise, set counter, and remaining time at a glance. iPHONE • Three things on the screen: sets, exercise duration, rest duration. Plus or minus to dial each one. Long-press +/āˆ’ to auto-repeat. • Five preset slots — four built-in (8Ɨ20/10, 6Ɨ40/20, 5Ɨ1m/15, 4Ɨ3m/1m) and one fully customisable. • 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. • Pause / resume / stop, with a clear "next phase" hint so you always know what's coming. • Set rest to 0 for self-paced circuits — HIIT Timer & Trainer 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 HIIT Timer & Trainer 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 count on your iPhone calendar too. • Voice announcements over AirPods. • Haptic cues every 5 seconds and on phase transitions, so you can train without headphones and still feel the cadence. FREE, WITH TWO OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASES The timer, the built-in presets, the calendar, the Apple Watch app and reading the plans are free. No subscription, ever. Two optional one-time purchases: • Your Presets & Circuits — save your own presets and build your own circuits. • Your Training Plans — run the 12-week and stretching plans, get a plan made for you, edit it by hand. PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No ads. Your settings, plan 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 HIIT Timer & Trainer Most workout apps want a subscription and your data. HIIT Timer & Trainer wants neither. Open it, dial in the workout — or follow the plan — hit START, train, close it.

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Mada

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Did I take my medicine? Did I water the plant? Did I call my parents this week? Mada is a calm, persistent reminder for the small recurring actions you keep meaning to do — medication, plants, toothbrush, family calls. Unlike notifications that vanish the moment you swipe them away, Mada lives on your lock screen as a Live Activity until you tap Done. Why Mada is different • Persistent until confirmed. The reminder stays visible — on your lock screen, on the Dynamic Island — until you actually do the thing. • One tap to complete. Done lives on the lock screen, not three taps deep. • State-based, not time-based. No "37 minutes overdue" countdown. Just upcoming, due, pending, missed. • Apple-native and quiet. Built with SwiftUI, ActivityKit, and SwiftData. No accounts, no ads, no analytics SDKs. • Lock-screen reminders. When enabled, your reminder auto-appears on the lock screen at the scheduled time — no need to tap a notification first. (Optional, off by default.) • Persistent reminders. If you don't tap Done, choose how insistently Mada re-notifies; high-priority schedules nudge one level harder. • Smart snooze. 10 minutes, 30 minutes, Tonight, Tomorrow, or pick your own time. • Simple repeat rules. Daily, weekly, monthly, every N days, one time. • English, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese. Designed for • Daily medication and supplements • Plant care and home maintenance • Weekly calls to family • Replacing toothbrushes, contact lenses, water filters • Anything you keep forgetting to do Mada is not a todo app, not a habit tracker, not a productivity system. It's a forget-proof layer for the things that actually matter. Still there. Until done. Privacy Your core data stays on your device — no accounts, no analytics. Only when you turn on Lock-screen reminders does the app, while the feature is on, send an anonymous device ID, schedule titles, and times to our server so it can deliver the reminder at the scheduled time. Turn it off anytime in Settings — turning it off deletes it. The app group container is shared only with the Mada widget extension on the same device.

Screenshots

HIIT Timer & Trainer4 screens
Mada4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HIIT Timer & Trainer at every 2 days against Mada's weekly. HIIT Timer & Trainer also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. HIIT Timer & Trainer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Mada sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HIIT Timer & Trainer ships an update every 2 days, Mada weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
HIIT Timer & Trainer versus Mada: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHIIT Timer & TrainerMada
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnton PopovJungHwan Park

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HIIT Timer & Trainer

One-time2
  • Unlock presets$0.99
  • Your Training Plans$2.99
1 purchases

Mada

One-time1
  • Mada Pro$4.99

Questions

Is HIIT Timer & Trainer free?
HIIT Timer & Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mada free?
Mada is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HIIT Timer & Trainer or Mada have ads?
Neither HIIT Timer & Trainer nor Mada shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HIIT Timer & Trainer or Mada?
HIIT Timer & Trainer ships an update every 2 days, and Mada weekly. Most recently, HIIT Timer & Trainer was updated on November 5, 2026 and Mada on October 31, 2026.

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