Custom Workout Timer vs HIIT Interval Timer
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.
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 Interval Timer at 4.2 against Custom Workout Timer's 3.7. HIIT Interval Timer also leads on ratings volume (103 vs 6). Custom Workout Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (88% vs 53%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and HIIT Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HIIT Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HIIT Interval Timer has 103 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Custom Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 53% of HIIT Interval Timer'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, HIIT Interval Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Workout Timer | HIIT Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) | 4.2 (103 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 52.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 months — 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 | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Encodia, LLC | Thang Nguyen |
Customer experience
Custom Workout Timer
HIIT Interval Timer
In-app purchases
Custom Workout Timer
- 7-day TrialFree
- Full App$1.99
HIIT Interval Timer
- Pro Upgrade$4.99
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