HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite vs HIIT Interval 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.
HIIT Interval Timer
This app provides a flexible interval timer for high-intensity training. Customize workout cycles, rest periods, and receive color, voice, and sound navigation cues. It runs in the background and offers a built-in music player.
- Customizable interval and rest times
- Background and screen-locked operation
- Color, voice, and sound navigation
- Built-in music player
- Create and manage custom timers
- Multiple themes
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Run in foreground, background and screen locked, the HIIT app allows you to specify an overall time as well as program High/Low intensity interval and rest time between cycles. + Flexible and Advanced Timer + Clean, simple and easy to use (There is no learning curve here) + Create your own timers with some taps + Create fully customized timers with a complex of cycles and sets, + Run in the background, foreground, screen locked + Color, Voice and Sound Navigations (Customizable) + Built in Music Player (in sync with iOS Music Player) + Multiple themes to select + Manage your timers and data of training (you can even delete unwanted timer or junk data) + Create your own alarms right in the app + Work on iPhone, iPad and iPod + And a lot more features will be added in over time. How to use this app: There is no user manual here! -> Download it -> tap on play button -> you will see -> It’s super easy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite at 4.7 against HIIT Interval Timer's 4.2. HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (82% vs 53%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and HIIT Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 357 and 102 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite's written reviews are positive against 53% of HIIT Interval Timer's.
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite ships an update every 6 weeks, HIIT Interval Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite | HIIT Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (357 ratings) — better | 4.2 (102 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.5% of reviews — better | 52.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 357 — better | 102 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| 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 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DenciSoft s.r.o. | Thang Nguyen |
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
HIIT Interval 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
HIIT Interval Timer
- Pro Upgrade$4.99
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