HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite vs Hero Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite
This app provides a customizable timer for various training styles, allowing users to focus on their workouts. It offers advanced features like location tracking and heart rate monitoring for detailed performance analysis. Enjoy voice coaching and background music to enhance your training experience.
- Customizable interval timers
- Location tracking for routes and stats
- Bluetooth heart rate monitor support
- Voice coaching for tempo adjustment
- Background music and sound notifications
- Workout history and iCloud sync
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Let our timer to coach your workouts so you can focus on actual training without staring at the watch. This timer meets the needs of amateurs as well as professionals. It was designed to be flexible and highly customisable so it can be used for all kinds of trainings. There is one important difference between this app and other apps on the App Store. No need to change timer configuration when switching exercises all the time. Create and configure timers once and use them multiple times. For more demanding users timers can be composed into entire workouts. All timers and workouts can be categorized into groups. For each timer can be enabled location tracking. With enabled location tracking you can seethe route and location based statistics like distance, speed, pace and altitude. Another great feature is support for heart rate training using a Bluetooth LE heart rate monitor. User can create multiple profiles and switch between them. Heart rate training profile contains all settings for your training like heart rate zones and notification options. During exercising user can be notified about current heart rate and zone. One heart rate zone can be selected as target zone. Voice coaching can notify the user to adjust tempo to stay in current zone. The user interface is designed to be clear and readable from a distance. For notification can be used vibrations, sounds and also text to speech voice. No more looking at the screen to know the current interval. Each timer is composed from intervals. Each interval has a configurable name, duration, color and music. Music can be set also for whole timer. Your workout sessions can be saved into history where you can see how you performed during exercising. All your timers and workout history can be synchronized into iCloud. Features: - Support for Apple Health (only for Full Version) - Synchronization to iCloud (only for Full Version) - Heart rate training feature. - Location tracking feature. - Timer sounds: last seconds, every second, interval end, timer finish and metronome. - Timer vibrations: last seconds, interval end and timer finish. - Timer text to speech voice: interval name, next interval name, duration at beginning of interval, current interval time, counting down for last seconds and timer finish. - Timers can be easily shared and duplicated. - Timers can be categorised into groups. - Timer music (playlist, album or song). - Multiple screens for running timer with different stats: Map, Location, Heart Rate, Timer, Intervals and Music - User can configure visual style for timer screens. - Screens for running timer can be locked. - Each interval has configurable duration, name, color and music. - Runs and plays music on background. - Universal app, works on iPhone and iPad. - Max interval duration is 99 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds. - Max number of sets is 999. Free version includes ads and other restrictions that can be removed with Full Version InApp Purchase. If you have enable Track Location option please note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Hero Timer
This app provides customizable timers for various workout types like Tabata, HIIT, AMRAP, and EMOM. It allows users to create custom routines, review past sessions, and offers a landscape view for a professional timer experience.
- Tabata timer
- HIIT timer
- AMRAP timer
- EMOM timer
- Custom workout creation
- Workout review and sharing
- Landscape orientation
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Train your body as you were at your favorite Box or at the Gym. Select your workout type, configure the time and start training! Hero Timer is perfect for every workout type. It includes a: - TABATA workout timer - HIIT workout timer - AMRAP workout timer - EMOM workout timer - FORTIME workout timer Need a chronometer? Use the COUNT UP timer or the COUNT DOWN option. What else? - Create multiple AMRAP rounds - Create multiple TABATA sets - Configure EMOMs as you wish. - Create Custom workouts mixing together multiple workouts types for a complete training session! - Use the the landscape orientation to have the same experience of the physical professional timers available on the market. - Review your workouts, share or even repeat them. Be a HERO
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite at 4.7 against Hero Timer's 4.1. HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (359 vs 9). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Hero Timer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite has 359 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite's written reviews are positive against 80% of Hero Timer's.
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite ships an update every 6 weeks, Hero Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite | Hero Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (359 ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.5% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 359 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DenciSoft s.r.o. | Francesco Miscia |
Customer experience
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite
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Bugs and requests
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite
Reported bugs
6 issues- Paid version 'piramide mode' does not work
- App freezes when initiating timer settings on iOS 11.2.2
- Audio cues stop working when phone screen is locked
- Music for intervals not working correctly
- Frequent full-screen ads interrupting setup and usage
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- App abruptly freezes when initiating a workout timer setting
Requested features
5 requests- Allow starting song at a certain point
- Loop a song for the entire workout
- Volume of music drops when voice cue plays
- More advanced timer customization options
- Improved handling of music playback with voice cues
Hero Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlimited Timers$1.99
- Full Version$2.99
Hero Timer
- Custom Workouts$0.99
- ADS Free$0.99
- Premium Version$4.99
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