HIIT Interval Timer vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Workout Timer
This app provides a customizable interval timer for HIIT and Tabata workouts. It offers unlimited timer creation with extensive sound and voice reading options, background notifications, and dark mode. All features are free to use.
- Unlimited timer creation
- Folder classification
- High timer setting freedom
- Variety of sounds and voice readings
- Favorite color and reading text
- Background notifications
- Dark mode
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It's a workout timer app suitable for HIIT and Tabata training. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited timer creation, folder classification is also possible - High degree of freedom in timer setting (supports rep and unlimited time) - A wide variety of sounds and voice readings (about 100 types of sounds) - Favorite color, reading text - Background notifications - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: workouttimer://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Workout Timer at 4.7 against HIIT Interval Timer's 4.2. Workout Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (80% vs 53%). HIIT Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (102 vs 23) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. HIIT Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Workout Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Workout Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 102 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of HIIT Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 80% of Workout Timer's.
HIIT Interval Timer ships an update every 5 months, Workout Timer every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HIIT Interval Timer | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (102 ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thang Nguyen | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
HIIT Interval Timer
Workout Timer
In-app purchases
HIIT Interval Timer
- Pro Upgrade$4.99
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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