Comparison

Fitness vs PepTimer

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

Head to head
About

Fitness

Features
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Fitness is a customizable interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuit training, and your own fitness routines. Set the exercises, work intervals, rest periods, and repeats to fit your session. A QUICK TIMER THAT REMEMBERS YOUR SETTINGS Configure preparation time, work, rest, and repetitions, then press Start. Return to your everyday intervals without creating a saved workout. START WITH A READY-MADE WORKOUT Choose a Tabata routine or a functional fitness circuit, inspect its exercises, and adjust the timing to your needs. BUILD AND SAVE YOUR OWN WORKOUTS Combine exercises, preparation, rest, cooldowns, and repeat blocks in your own sequence. Adjust individual durations and repeat groups of steps. Save separate routines for different training days. BROWSE EXERCISES OR CREATE YOUR OWN Find exercises in the fitness library, read their instructions, and add them to your workout. Create custom exercises with your own name, description, and optional photo or video link. CUSTOMIZE YOUR SESSION Choose exercise icons and colors, rename steps, and arrange your sequence. Duplicate, move, copy, and paste exercises to build routines from steps you have already configured. FOLLOW EVERY INTERVAL See the current exercise, remaining interval time, next step, and time left in the workout. Pause and resume, restart, or move through the sequence. Choose sound cues for your session. KEEP YOUR TIMER IN VIEW Follow your workout with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Use widgets to access your timer. MAKE IT YOURS Use light mode, dark mode, or your system appearance. Pick an accent color and customize workout and exercise icons. REVIEW YOUR COMPLETED SESSION See completed rounds, active time, rest time, total duration, and skipped time in your workout summary. Use a quick timer for daily intervals or build a saved workout with your own exercises and timing. Fitness keeps your session in one place. This app provides a workout timer and exercise instructions; it does not provide coached video classes. No ads. No paywall. No subscriptions.

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PepTimer

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PepTimer is an interval timer that shows you each exercise and calls out the next one. Everything you need to train is free: no ads, no account, no subscription. A voice counts you down and calls out what's coming – laid over your music instead of pausing it, even with your iPhone locked in your pocket. 80+ EXERCISES THAT SHOW YOU HOW • Every exercise has a small figure that demonstrates the move – some from the side and from the front. In lunges the figure switches legs • From strength and cardio to stretches like the downward dog or the cobra • Pilates moves like the Hundred, swimming and the half roll-down, also as the ready-made workouts "Pilates short" and "Pilates long" • During the get-ready countdown and every break, you see what's next, and the current exercise while you do it, too • Browse them in the Exercises tab, with search (under an exercise's old name too) and body-area filters, and build a workout straight from your picks A VOICE THAT GETS YOU THROUGH • Announces the next exercise, counts you down, calls halfway and the last round • Tells you when to switch sides in one-sided moves • Grace in English, Anna in German, Camille in French, Mateo in Spanish, whatever the app's language • Or no voice at all, tones only START RIGHT AWAY • "What do you feel like today?": ready-made workouts for Upper body, Legs & glutes, Core, Full body, No jumping, Tabata, Warm-up & Cool-down, Mobility and Pilates, the 7-minute workout among them • Tabata: classic, with exercises or in four blocks • A quick look at every exercise before you start • Templates for HIIT, EMOM, AMRAP, circuits and boxing rounds YOUR OWN WORKOUTS • As many as you like: exercises from the catalog or with names of your own • Add several exercises at once, with one length for all of them and rests in between if you like • In blocks: say 10 rounds of burpees, a break, then 10 rounds of planks • Drag to reorder, and undo a delete • Share by link: whoever opens it adds your workout in one tap EVEN WITH THE SCREEN LOCKED • Announcements and tones keep going when you lock the screen or switch to another app • On the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island: the time left and a bar of every phase of your workout APPLE WATCH AND APPLE HEALTH • Your iPhone's workout on your wrist too: the phase, the time, the exercise and what comes next • A vibration at every phase change, even with your wrist down • Your heart rate while you train • Pause, resume, skip and end right from the watch • If you like, your workouts go to Apple Health, with or without a watch BUILT FOR TRAINING • Big digits you can read from the mat, portrait and landscape • Figure off, normal or large • Every phase has its own color • Tones: beep, gong, boxing bell or whistle • Vibration on every phase change • Announcement volume independent of your music • Your music dips for announcements – briefly, for longer or not at all • Announcements as captions if you like • Text grows with your text size, up to a cap that keeps every screen readable • The screen stays on while you train • A history of your sessions, with the time trained and the exercises skipped • Light, dark or whatever your iPhone uses PEPTIMER PLUS Buy once, keep it for good. No subscription. • Train together: you lead a workout, and the people next to you join on their own iPhones, all in step. Joining is free. • More voices: Megan, Sam and Reginald in English, Elena, Jonas, Chris and Oma Gerda in German. Listen to them before you buy. • Whatever is added to Plus later is yours at no extra cost • With Family Sharing for everyone in your family YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU PepTimer collects nothing. No tracking, no analytics, no server. Your workouts and your history live only on your device, your heart rate and saved sessions only on your devices and in Apple Health. When you train together, the iPhones talk to each other directly, without the internet, and a shared workout travels inside the link itself.

Screenshots

Fitness4 screens
PepTimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fitness at none against PepTimer's 1. PepTimer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. PepTimer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fitness asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fitness ships an update every 5 days, PepTimer every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Fitness versus PepTimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitnessPepTimer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSvyatoslav BoikoFelix Lauton

In-app purchases

None

Fitness

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PepTimer

One-time1
  • PepTimer PlusFree

Questions

Is Fitness free?
Fitness is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PepTimer free?
PepTimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fitness or PepTimer have ads?
Neither Fitness nor PepTimer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fitness or PepTimer?
Fitness ships an update every 5 days, and PepTimer every 3 days. Most recently, Fitness was updated on November 13, 2026 and PepTimer on November 13, 2026.

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