Comparison

Interval Timer vs Intervale

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

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About

Interval Timer

This app provides a customizable interval timer for running, sprints, and HIIT workouts. It offers voice and haptic cues, Apple Watch integration, and saves data to Apple Health. Choose from pre-made routines or build your own for focused training.

Highlights
  • Customizable run/walk intervals
  • Voice and haptic interval cues
  • Apple Watch control and phone-free workouts
  • Save sessions to Apple Health
  • 25+ ready-made running workouts
  • Build multi-step advanced workouts
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activities
Features
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Interval Run is a running interval timer for iPhone and Apple Watch. Create run/walk intervals, sprint sessions, and HIIT workouts in seconds. Train with voice announcements and haptic cues, control workouts from Apple Watch, save sessions to Apple Health, and track your workout history. Choose from 25+ ready-made running workouts or build your own. Follow intervals from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and focus on your run. 25+ READY-MADE RUNNING WORKOUTS • Explore run/walk workouts, running intervals, sprints, hill repeats, tempo runs, fartlek sessions, ladders, pyramids, and more • Find workouts for speed, endurance, recovery, and different training goals • Start any workout immediately or customize it to match your training • Save your favorites to My Workouts for quick access BUILD YOUR OWN INTERVAL WORKOUT • Create simple run/walk intervals or advanced multi-step workouts • Add warm-up, running, walking, recovery, rest, and cool-down sections • Set a custom duration for every step • Repeat intervals and complete workout blocks • Add custom cues to guide you through each workout step • Build sprint, HIIT, cardio, and structured running sessions • Save multiple workouts and reuse them anytime • Preview the complete workout before you start VOICE & HAPTIC INTERVAL CUES • Hear clear voice announcements at every interval transition • Feel haptic cues when it’s time to run, walk, recover, or rest • Keep your workout active while your iPhone is locked or the app is in the background • Follow your current interval from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with Live Activities • Listen to music, podcasts, or audiobooks while you train RUN WITH APPLE WATCH • Sync workouts to Apple Watch • Start, pause, and control workouts directly from your wrist • Run phone-free with your workouts ready on Apple Watch • Follow interval progress without repeatedly checking your phone • Track heart rate, distance, and active energy during your workout • Get haptic interval cues directly on your Watch • Save completed workouts to Apple Health TRACK YOUR TRAINING • Browse completed workouts in calendar and history views • Review workout duration, intervals, distance, and active energy • Look back at your running and interval training over time • Share your workout results • Export and restore backups of your workout data MADE FOR RUNNERS WHO TRAIN WITH INTERVALS Whether you’re starting with beginner run/walk intervals, adding speed work to your weekly training, preparing for a 5K or another race, or creating a challenging HIIT session, Interval Run keeps every interval clear from start to finish. Use it as a simple run/walk timer, a running interval timer for speed training, an Apple Watch interval timer for phone-free workouts, or a flexible workout builder for more advanced structured sessions. From beginner run/walk workouts to sprints, tempo runs, hill repeats, fartlek training, and custom multi-step sessions, Interval Run adapts to the way you train. Start with one of 25+ ready-made workouts or create your own. Interval Run handles the timing so you can focus on your training. Some features shown, including the full workout library, advanced workout creation, multiple saved workouts, and full workout history, require Interval Run Pro. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Intervale

Create custom interval timers for various workouts, including HIIT, rehab, and stretching. Get spoken cues and haptic feedback to guide you through each step. Seamlessly integrate with Apple Health to track your progress.

Highlights
  • Customizable named steps with work/rest times
  • Spoken cues and haptic feedback
  • Background operation with screen locked
  • Routine creation for multiple timers
  • Apple Health integration for workout tracking
  • Siri and Shortcuts support
  • Timer sharing via links or QR codes
Features
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Intervale is an interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, physio and rehab exercises, and stretching. Build a timer from your own named steps, give each its own work and rest time, and run it with spoken cues and haptics on iPhone or Apple Watch. - Build named timers from your own steps, each with its own work and rest time. - Add both sides of an exercise in one go, and keep the left and right times in step if you like. - Repeat for as many rounds as you like, with an optional rest between rounds. - Big, glanceable countdown with colour-coded work and rest, and what comes next always on screen. - Sounds, spoken cues and haptics mark every change, so you never need to look at your phone. They play over your music without turning it down. - Keeps running in the background and with the screen locked. - Choose the cue sound and volume, and set the sound and haptics for each timer separately. - Favourite timers and routines start from the Home Screen icon's quick actions. ROUTINES - Put timers together in a routine, in the order you want, with a break between each one. - A break can be a set time, or wait until you tap Start now. - Timers are linked, not copied, so changing a timer changes it in every routine that uses it. APPLE HEALTH - Save finished timers to Apple Health as a workout (HIIT, strength, core, yoga, Pilates and more) or as mindful minutes. Pick the type for each timer. - Your step names are saved with the workout, so you can see the work in the Health app. - On Apple Watch, workouts record your heart rate and active calories and count towards your Activity rings. - On iPhone with iOS 26 or later, the workout is recorded live and Apple measures your active calories. Intervale never estimates calories itself. - It is optional. Every timer works the same without Apple Health, and you can switch it off at any time. - Your Health data stays on your device and is never sent anywhere. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS - Say "Start Leg day rehab in Intervale" on iPhone or Apple Watch to run one of your timers. - Ask "What timers do I have in Intervale" to hear your list. - Both are available in the Shortcuts app too, so you can add a timer to an automation or your Home Screen. SHARE AND DISCOVER - Send a timer as a link in one tap, with no upload, or make a page with a QR code that you can set to expire or stop. - Add timers other people share with you, and see how often your own links were viewed and added. - Discover ready-made timers, and change them once they are yours. - Ask for one of your shared timers to be featured on Discover. It is reviewed before anyone else sees it. APPLE WATCH - Run your timers from the wrist with taps for every change, even with your wrist down. - Sessions file into History on your iPhone. ACCOUNTS (OPTIONAL) - Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. You never have to: every timer works without an account. - Your timers appear on every device you sign in on. - Your shared links stay saved with your account, including on a new phone. - Delete your account in the app at any time. HISTORY AND FOLDABLES - History shows the workouts you have finished, with calories where they were saved. - On iPhone Duo, opened out sideways, your timers and the editor sit side by side, and the running timer shows the steps still to come. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Without an account, everything stays on your device.

Screenshots

Interval Timer4 screens
Intervale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intervale at none against Interval Timer's 3. Intervale also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (540 vs 5). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Intervale asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Intervale holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 540 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interval Timer ships an update fortnightly, Intervale every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Interval Timer versus Intervale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval TimerIntervale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (540 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews21.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings540 — better5
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoma SosnovskyStephen Dawson

Customer experience

Interval Timer

All ratings539 ratings
Positive86.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive21.1%
Neutral8.4%
Negative70.5%

Intervale

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Interval Timer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Timer resets or freezes during workout
  • Prompts not working when phone is locked or in pocket
  • Unexpected interval changes or duration changes
  • Compatibility issues with music playback

Requested features

6 requests
  • Option to pause/resume timer
  • Larger time remaining display
  • Apple Watch app
  • Ability to play audio prompts even with screen off
  • More interval options (run/walk/jog)
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  • Congratulatory audio cue at the end

Intervale

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Interval Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Interval Run Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Interval Run Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full Version$2.99
None

Intervale

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intervale free?
Intervale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Interval Timer or Intervale?
Intervale is rated higher. Interval Timer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 540 ratings, while Intervale averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Interval Timer or Intervale have ads?
Neither Interval Timer nor Intervale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Interval Timer or Intervale?
Interval Timer ships an update fortnightly, and Intervale every 5 days. Most recently, Interval Timer was updated on November 11, 2026 and Intervale on November 10, 2026.

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