HIIT Timer & Trainer vs Palvik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
HIIT Timer & Trainer
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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 ā 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 ā 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 ā then change any of it by hand, including knee-friendly moves. FLEXIBILITY PLAN ā 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 ā 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 ā "Squats", "Plank" ā 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 +/ā to auto-repeat. ⢠Five preset slots ā four built-in (8Ć20/10, 6Ć40/20, 5Ć1m/15, 4Ć3m/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 ā 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" 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 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 ā save your own presets and build your own circuits. ⢠Your Training Plans ā 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 ā 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 ā or follow the plan ā hit START, train, close it.
Palvik
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Train, eat and progress. Palvik builds your workouts and diet around you and tells you what to do each day, no copying someone else's plan. TRAINING ⢠A routine made for you: tell it the days you train, the time you have and your equipment. ⢠Gym, home, calisthenics, kettlebell, HYROX or mobility. ⢠Over 2,100 exercises with their technique and common mistakes explained. ⢠Automatic progressive overload: it tells you what weight to use today based on last time and your effort. ⢠Muscle recovery: knows which muscles are ready and which need rest. ⢠Train with dials: spin weight and reps with your finger. ⢠Swap any exercise for an equivalent if the machine is taken. ⢠Rest timer, also on your lock screen. ⢠Camera form checker (beta). ⢠HYROX simulation with split times. APPLE WATCH ⢠Tick off your sets and follow your rest from your wrist. NUTRITION ⢠Calories and macros worked out from your weight, height and goal. ⢠Scan the barcode or snap your plate to log it. ⢠Eating out? Snap the menu and see what fits your day. ⢠Over 2,400 recipes and a weekly planner. ⢠Meal plans: high protein, muscle gain, 16:8 fasting, vegetarian and more. ⢠Swap any food for an equivalent. PROGRESS ⢠Your records, volume and progress in charts. ⢠Progress photos, weight and measurements. ⢠Streaks, badges and the 75-day challenge. COACH ⢠Ask anything about your training or diet, and adapt today's workout if you're short on time, at home or the machine is taken. APPLE HEALTH ⢠Connect Health to see your steps, sleep and heart rate, and save your workouts, meals, water and weight. YOUR DATA ⢠Stored encrypted on servers in the European Union. We don't sell it or use it for advertising. Apple Health data is never sent to the AI. ⢠You can delete your account and everything of yours from your profile. PALVIK VIP Try everything free for 7 days. After that, a monthly or yearly subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Payment is charged to your Apple account. Manage or cancel it in Settings ā your name ā Subscriptions. Terms: https://palvik.app/terminos.html Privacy: https://palvik.app/privacidad.html Palvik provides training and nutrition guidance; it does not replace advice from a doctor or a registered dietitian.
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Verdict
HIIT Timer & Trainer and Palvik are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters ā price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. HIIT Timer & Trainer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Palvik sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HIIT Timer & Trainer ships an update every 2 days, Palvik every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HIIT Timer & Trainer | Palvik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days ā better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Popov | Adrian Sanchez Garcia |
In-app purchases
HIIT Timer & Trainer
- Unlock presets$0.99
- Your Training Plans$2.99
Palvik
- Palvik VIP monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Palvik VIP yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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