Timer 2000 vs Mada
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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 ā now with custom circuits, a Lock Screen timer, and streak tracking. CIRCUITS ā NEW ⢠Comes with a ready-made Full Body circuit ā 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 ā "Squats", "Plank" ā 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 ā 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 +/ā to auto-repeat. ⢠Five preset slots ā four built-in (8Ć20/10, 6Ć40/20, 5Ć1m/15, 4Ć3m/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 ā 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 ā 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" ā 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 ā 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 ā 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 ā 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.
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 ā 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 ā on your lock screen, on the Dynamic Island ā 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 ā 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 ā 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 ā turning it off deletes it. The app group container is shared only with the Mada widget extension on the same device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timer 2000 at none against Mada's 1. Timer 2000 also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Mada sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timer 2000 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Timer 2000 ships an update every 2 days, Mada weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer 2000 | Mada |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days ā better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Popov | JungHwan Park |
In-app purchases
Timer 2000
No in-app purchases
Mada
- Mada Pro$4.99







