Comparison

ClearHiiT vs SumCha

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

Head to head
About

ClearHiiT

Features
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ClearHiiT is the workout interval timer built for HIIT, Tabata, Treadmill, Circuit, and Spin training. Build workouts in seconds, organize them into folders, and let clear voice cues guide you through every interval—without constantly checking your screen. Build Better Workouts : Start with a quick preset or build your workout from scratch. Set warm-up, work, recovery, cooldown, and transition intervals with complete control. Create unlimited workouts and organize them into folders by training style, fitness goal, athlete, client, or family member. Dedicated Tabata Sessions: Create dedicated Tabata workouts with the classic work and recovery structure built in. Optionally enter the exercise on each work phase, then start training. Track Your Progress: After each workout, tell the app how it felt – Too Easy, Just Right or Too Hard. Your history shows every session, your current and longest streak, and a training heatmap of your active minutes by week, month or all time. Manage your history with simple controls to keep your entries tidy. Know Exactly How Hard You're Working: See your heart rate live on your workout screens, read in real time from your Apple Watch. Each heart rate zone has its own color, so you can tell at a glance whether you're warming up, pushing hard or recovering, and adjust your effort without breaking stride. Your current zone also shows right on your Apple Watch during the workout. Train Without Watching the Screen: Press Start and focus on your workout. Clear voice prompts and audio cues play over your music, podcast, or audiobook, telling you when to work, recover, and transition. Choose extended voice prompts for more guidance, or use minimal prompts when you want fewer interruptions. Landscape Workout Display: Turn your iPhone sideways for a clear, easy-to-read landscape workout display. See the interval and countdown at a glance, ideal for treadmill sessions, the gym, or when your phone is across the room. Choose Your Workout Mode Standard: Flexible interval training for HIIT, strength training, boxing, rowing, bodyweight workouts, and more. Tabata: A dedicated Tabata session with optional exercise descriptions on the work phases. Treadmill: Set target speed and incline for every interval, so you know exactly what to set for each phase. Circuit: Name every exercise and follow your circuit without having to remember what's next. Spin: Set target difficulty and power for every interval, giving every effort a clear goal. Train From Your Wrist: Start and follow workouts directly from Apple Watch, with live synchronization to your iPhone. Keep Training With Your Phone Locked: Put your phone in your pocket and concentrate on the workout. ClearHiiT keeps your intervals running with the screen locked and delivers your cues when you need them. When the final interval ends, you'll know you've finished exactly the workout you planned. Features • Organize workouts into folders • Create separate workout libraries for yourself, clients, friends, or family • Unlimited custom workouts • Quick-start workout presets • Full control over every workout phase • Standard, Tabata, Treadmill, Circuit, and Spin modes • Dedicated Tabata session configuration • Per-interval treadmill speed and incline targets • Named exercises for circuit workouts • Per-interval difficulty and power targets for Spin workouts • Extended voice prompts and audio cues over your music • Minimal voice prompts option • Countdown flash before every interval • Portrait and landscape workout displays • Background timing with the screen locked • Apple Watch app with live iPhone synchronization • Live heart rate and color-coded zones, on iPhone and Apple Watch • Simple workout history management • Tidal and Daybreak themes • English, Spanish, French, and German Using ClearHiiT with the Apple Health app on iPhone empowers you to better manage your health. No clutter. No subscription. No data collected. Just your workout, on time.

About

SumCha

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Pick, tap, run. A simple, clean interval running app. · Choose a program like 2 min run / 1 min walk and just tap start · The running screen puts the current interval and time left up front, big and clear · Voice, haptics, and a 3-2-1 countdown tell you when intervals change · Apple Watch: wrist haptics and voice cues for every interval, and race your last run (Pro, 3 free runs) · Pacemaker to run alongside your past runs, and a leaderboard that calls out new records · Build your own: warm-up, run, walk, repeats, cool-down · When a set ends you keep going as a free run, or add one more set · Start, pause, and end from the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets, and Control Center · Auto-pause when you stop, resume when you run · Distance, pace, and calories (uphill included), weekly/monthly/yearly summaries, and your route on a map · Findings and detailed analysis show how your running is trending (Pro) · Save your runs to Apple Health as running workouts · Sync your history across your devices through your own iCloud (the developer can't see it) Free to use, with no ads on the running screen. One purchase removes ads, or go Pro for Apple Watch and Insights too.

Screenshots

ClearHiiT4 screens
SumCha4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ClearHiiT at none against SumCha's shown. ClearHiiT also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ClearHiiT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SumCha sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClearHiiT ships an update every 5 days, SumCha weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
ClearHiiT versus SumCha: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearHiiTSumCha
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB10 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGeorge GaskinIksang Hwang

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ClearHiiT

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$3.99
3 purchases

SumCha

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • SumCha Pro$3.99
  • SumCha Pro$5.99

Questions

Is ClearHiiT free?
ClearHiiT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SumCha free?
SumCha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClearHiiT or SumCha have ads?
SumCha shows ads; ClearHiiT does not.
Which is updated more often, ClearHiiT or SumCha?
ClearHiiT ships an update every 5 days, and SumCha weekly. Most recently, ClearHiiT was updated on November 5, 2026 and SumCha on November 6, 2026.

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