Custom Workout Timer vs Timer for HIIT training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Workout Timer
Design custom workout routines with timed exercises. This app provides spoken prompts for each exercise and countdowns for remaining time. Enjoy your music without interruption during your training sessions.
- Create custom workout routines
- Timed exercises
- Spoken exercise prompts
- Countdown timer
- Music player integration
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With this app, you create your own workouts of timed exercises. The app will speak to remind you which exercise to do next, and count down how much time you have left. It doesn't interfere with the music player, so you can listen to your music at the same time.
Timer for HIIT training
This interval training app helps you manage your workouts for various activities like cycling, running, weightlifting, and HIIT. It offers customizable timers for sets, repetitions, and pauses, with visual cues to guide your sessions.
- Customizable time settings
- Customizable number of series
- Customizable number of repetitions
- Pause and resume sessions
- Visual cue screen color changes
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This app is an awesome training timer, whether you're working on cycling, running, lifting weights, exercise, workout, stretching, boxing, MMA or HIIT, this interval timer will prove to be an invaluable asset for your HIIT interval training. This app can be used as HIIT timer, tabata timer, round timer, and anything else about interval training you want to track. Tabata timer is a full featured, easy to use Tabata timer Crossfit HIIT Interval training, kettle bells, running, cycling, or any interval fitness training. FEATURES: * Customize all time settings * Customize number of series * Customize number of repetitions * pause and resume session * screen changecolor for visual cue
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Timer for HIIT training at 4.7 against Custom Workout Timer's 3.7. Timer for HIIT training also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Custom Workout Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 37 months). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Custom Workout Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Timer for HIIT training asks for nothing beyond the download.
Timer for HIIT training holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Custom Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 67% of Timer for HIIT training's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Custom Workout Timer ships an update every 6 months, Timer for HIIT training every 37 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Workout Timer | Timer for HIIT training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 37 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Encodia, LLC | Sergio Musoles Tornador |
Customer experience
Custom Workout Timer
Timer for HIIT training
In-app purchases
Custom Workout Timer
- 7-day TrialFree
- Full App$1.99
Timer for HIIT training
No in-app purchases
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