Interval Timer vs Tennis Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interval Timer
Customize your workout timing with spoken countdowns and sound cues. Build complex interval routines for various fitness activities and stay focused on your training without constantly checking the screen.
- Customizable interval timing
- Spoken countdowns and sound cues
- Support for HIIT, Tabata, and circuits
- Adjustable sound and haptic feedback
- Workout saving and organization
- Offline use and background audio
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Sound Cue is a custom interval timer for workouts that need more than a last-second beep. Place spoken countdowns or beep cues exactly where you need them—early enough to prepare, change equipment, reset, or breathe before the next effort. BUILD EACH PART OF YOUR WORKOUT Choose how many timed work intervals (reps) and sets you want, then time Get Ready, Work, Rest, and Between Sets independently. Build a simple round timer or use Sound Cue for HIIT, Tabata, boxing, circuits, mobility, cardio, climbing, and more. PLACE CUES WHERE YOU NEED THEM Add up to five sound cues to each workout part: Get Ready, Work, Rest, or Between Sets. For each cue, choose a beep or spoken number. Each cue can play once, every second as a countdown, or on a custom repeating schedule. Set when it begins and whether repeating cues stop after a chosen count or continue until that workout part ends. FOLLOW ALONG BY SOUND Start the timer and stay focused on your workout. Phase announcements and scheduled cues tell you when to work, rest, and reset without checking the screen. STAY IN THE FLOW • Track time remaining, the current set and rep, completion percentage, and the next interval at a glance. • Choose beep or voice alerts—or turn them off—for interval changes and workout completion. • Adjust sound volume, turn haptic feedback on or off, and choose whether cues briefly lower music or other audio. • Hear scheduled cues while your iPhone is locked or while using another app. SAVE AND ORGANIZE WORKOUTS The free library starts with three included workouts and holds up to five saved workouts in total. Rename, reorder, edit, and reuse them. Use named groups to keep related workouts together and easy to find. A one-time in-app purchase expands the limit to 100 saved workouts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Sound Cue has no ads, analytics, or tracking. Workouts, cues, and preferences are stored locally and are not transmitted by Sound Cue. Build your intervals, press Start, and let Sound Cue keep you moving.
Tennis Timer
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Train the way you play. Tennis Timer is a hands-free workout timer for tennis players. Leave the phone on the bench or by the net post and let it call the workout out loud: a whistle to start work, a different tone for rest, and the last five seconds counted down so you can finish the ball you're on. Your eyes stay on the ball, never on a screen. FOUR MODES, FOUR THINGS TO WORK ON INTERVAL — endurance and recovery Work and rest, round after round, set after set. Hit hard for thirty seconds, take the rest, go again. The timed rest matters as much as the work: it teaches you to actually use the twenty seconds between points instead of rushing, and it is what keeps your legs under you in a long third set. TIMER — consistency One simple countdown, running straight through. Set eight minutes and keep the rally alive, or feed a whole basket of serves without stopping to check the clock. Nothing to think about but the next ball, which is exactly how consistency gets built. RANDOM — agility and fast response A beep at moments you cannot predict, anywhere between the shortest and longest gap you choose. You never know when the next one is coming, so you stay on your toes and move before you have had time to think, the same way your opponent's shot asks you to. METRO — rhythm and pace A steady beat you can move to. Groove your split-step so it lands on time, hold an even pace through a footwork ladder, or keep shadow swings smooth instead of rushed. A DRILL LIBRARY, READY TO GO Eight tennis drills come built in: a rally simulation, a hard-and-short conditioning set, short all-out bursts with long rest, core holds, a continuous circuit, a cool-down stretch, a reaction drill and a split-step pacing drill. Tap one and everything is set up for you. Make your own, too. Give it a name, choose the work, rest, rounds and sets, and save it to your own tab, right beside the built-in ones. Swipe to edit or delete any drill. MADE TO BE HEARD, NOT WATCHED A referee whistle opens every work block. Different tones mark rest and set breaks, so you always know which one you are in without looking. The last five seconds tick down out loud. Set the volume so the cues carry across the court. They play over your own music without turning it down, and they keep going with the screen locked or another app in front, so the phone can sit on the bench for the whole session. YOUR TRAINING, LOOKED BACK ON Every workout you finish is saved. See your week at a glance, switch the chart between week, month and year, and tap any bar to see what you did that day. Open a session for the full breakdown, rename it, or clear everything whenever you want. BUILT TO BE SIMPLE Numbers big enough to read from across the court. Buttons big enough to hit while you are out of breath. Pick the accent color you like. No account, no sign-up, no ads, nothing to set up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Tennis Timer collects nothing at all. There is no account and no internet connection. Your workouts, drills and settings stay on your iPhone, and they are gone for good the moment you delete the app. iPhone only. Requires iOS 17 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tennis Timer at none against Interval Timer's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tennis Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interval Timer | Tennis Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Octopus Software LLC | Yoon Namkung |
In-app purchases
Interval Timer
- 100 Workout Upgrade$4.99
Tennis Timer
No in-app purchases
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