Tabata Timer and HIIT Timer Reviews

I started using TabataTimerandHIITTimer for home workouts when I couldn’t make it to the gym. I prefer group fitness classes, so home workouts need to be shorter with more intensity for me to be motivated to do them. That being said, for the few times that I AM motivated to work out at home, using TabataTimerandHIITTimer (along with my own list of exercises that target what I want to work on) gives me the structure to get it done. However, the “rest” periods between exercises are also right before the 1-min recovery between sets, which is confusing if you don’t know that beforehand or don’t really know how Tabata works. Also,
they put a 1-min recovery period after the last set, which is then followed by the cool down period; again, this is fine if you know Tabata format and just think of it as a longer cool down but can be confusing if you’ve never done Tabata before. I haven’t played with it enough to see if I could eliminate the extra “rest” periods before recoveries or the end recovery before the cool down, so maybe that’s somewhere in the settings that I didn’t see. However, for a basic timer to get you through a workout, this works for me.

Useful timer but fairly basic with limited ability to customize functions such as the timing of alerts. Most alerts are also somewhat obnoxious, they would do well to include a selection of clear, identifiable alerts that are more subdued. I do have a gripe. I paid for the pro version after using the basic. The improvements were minor. Which I suppose is what it is. HOWEVER many of the functions flat out don’t work or function improperly interfering with basic features. For instance, the option for a tone three seconds prior to the end of an exercise repeats itself with one second to go. There are similar problems with other functions. There appears to be no option to increase the sound volume on voice announcements relative to music playing simultaneously. There is a function to reduce (or turn off?) music volume during voice announcements BUT IT DOESN'T WORK. In conclusion this is a good basic interval timer that is a few tweaks away from being awesome. Which suggests to me that the designers don’t care / they just want folks to buy the pro version. I hope they prove me wrong by fixing the “broken “ functions first, then improve customizability.

Glad I found TabataTimerandHIITTimer! It works right out of the box. It's preset for the 4 minute (8 rounds of 20second/10 second) Tabata times, all you do is click one click to start. To do another Tabata you have to click the x first to clear the old one. I didn't realize that at first and thought it had quit working. Very simple screen, the numbers are big and easy to see, and there is a small 3 beeps to alert you to change from exercise to rest, plus a woman's voice. There is a banner ad across the top, I guess that would go away if you get the paid version. Try it, you'll like it!

I’ve been using the free version for a a couple years. I finally upgraded to pro because-
A. I wanted to save my presets.
B. It said I can have custom audio through the workout.
C I thought I would be able to make more custom intervals.
A. Is good, I now have saved presets for my stretching routine, boxing, and“murph”.
B. It has a very limited amount of things that the audio will say, there are no custom options. Example: I want to have it call out the name of each stretch on my 32 stretch variation so I can stop reading from a list. But that was misleading.
C. I wanted to go pro to be able to make a more complex interval list for swimming. Example 20 rounds of sprints descending 2 seconds less every round. But the $20 upgrade to pro really doesn’t add much and that is not possible to do.

So it works really great for basic interval counting. and I can have my music playin from my phone and the audio does great at not interrupting too much while still allowing me to know when the intervals start.

It’s a good and basic app. But the $20 upgrade was not worth it.

I’ve been using the free version for a year and decided to upgrade to Pro. I love that TabataTimerandHIITTimer still works in the background without pausing when I check my workout app for next move. I was also excited that my heart rate would be measured during workouts in the Pro version. Only I couldn’t get it to pair with my Apple Watch. I wrote to the developer and received a response that TabataTimerandHIITTimer wasn’t compatible with Apple Watch yet. I really hope they change that soon because if it wasn’t for that, I’d definitely give it 5 starts. Also, the recovery period after workout is over is unnecessary. I wish I cool somehow turn that off. But it’s not a deal breaker.

Update 8/6/20 App work great. Can set interval training like 20 seconds exercise and 40 seconds rest. It talks to you and you can set warming signal beeps to notify you when your exercising / test period is up. This is great for training for a 5k where you run 20 sec then walk 40 sec. The only thing holding me back from 5 stars is TabataTimerandHIITTimer must remain open at all times so in my pocket it’s actually shut itself off or accidentally ended my workout and I had no idea what set I was on while training for 5k. My suggestion is to have a message that pops up asking you “are you sure you want to end this workout?”

This time or does everything you could possibly imagine. Paid version even better!! The only one thing I wish they would do, and that should be an easy fix, is that we should be able to wind back/forward the timer with a slider in real time and/or with "short taps" or 3D hard press on forward/rewind buttons by 5 seconds per tap or press. Ex: press PER 5 sec (fwd or back) or hard press for fwd/back one full set. Currently forward/rewind taps move you COMPLETELY fwd/back per tap. Add feature for moving in small chunks of time and this timer will be King!!!!!

This gives you just about everything you want in a Tabata app. You can use the standard settings of 20 seconds on it and 10 seconds off for eight rounds, or you can customize those numbers as well as enter the number of sets you want to do and the amount of recovery time between sets. You can also set the "warning" sound to let you know when your interval is coming to a close, and you can also set a music playlist, if you want to listen to certain songs while you exercise (or none, if you prefer).

This timer works most of the time. I’ve had it for several months, and have noticed some pretty significant bugs with it:

- it will stop music at random playing in the background
-it doesn’t always give you beeps for counts 3,2,1. I think this is a great feature when it works as you don’t have to keep the timer in eyesight, but it often fails to give you this indicator.
- TabataTimerandHIITTimer will sometimes freeze up as soon as you open it (seems like it prioritizes ad loading and this freaks it out sometimes) and be unusable. This has only happened to me once or twice, but when it does, I have to restart my phone to get TabataTimerandHIITTimer to work.

All in all, it’s ok. I still use it because I don’t want to pay for anything better and I haven’t bothered to look. If it craps out I just use the iPhone stopwatch and do math in my head. You get what you pay for. No idea if the paid version is less glitchy, but I’m not confident enough in the free one to find out.

This makes exercise so much easier on your mind. You realize how fast an exercise is and it makes you want to continue with more sessions because the first was over so quickly. So excited I found this and added it to my fitness apps. It connects with the Health app also, which calculates everything for you, plus I have a daily reminder scheduled on my calendar app and it marks it off for me after I workout! This has made my daily routine so much simpler and organized!

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Fantastic app! Very straightforward and simple to use. I love that I can customize the timer for whatever I feel like doing for that workout. I can leave it at the standard 20 seconds work and 10 seconds rest for 8 rounds for a Tabata workout. Or I can adjust any of the times for work intervals/rest intervals/number of reps/number of sets for other types of interval training. The countdown timer is spot-on, lets me focus on working instead of keeping track of time. Super helpful in my fitness journey! Highly recommended!!!

I’ve been using TabataTimerandHIITTimer off and on for a few years. When I’m doing a HIIT style workout this is TabataTimerandHIITTimer I prefer. Their last update made TabataTimerandHIITTimer complicated to use on my iPhone but it was a glitch due to screen zooming. I contacted the developer and they provided a temporary workaround and then within a few days had the glitch fixed and now works great again. They got on the problem quickly as soon as they were aware of it.

This is perfect for any kind of interval training workout. The only tip for new users, and it is nitpicking, is that remember it adds the "rest period" after each exercise period during the cycle break, so you may need to shorten the cycle break by the same amount.

Really easy to set up. Do change each of the tones for different times so that you can do this by ear and not have to look at the screen

I love this. Keeps me honest as it is merciless in pushing your times. No taking slightly more breaks!

I’ve been retired since July 2010. Started working out regularly. I’ve tried almost a dozen different timers. 9 months into the pandemic the best I’d found just wasn’t doing it anymore. I’d gained 10 pounds. This was the best of the new ones available. You can set any sequence of times with any number of repetitions. I love the spoken “work” and “rest”. No trying to remember whether one or two beeps is which! A week in I’m working out more and have lost 2 pounds.

I like the format, the only problem I have is the number selection at the bottom of the screen when your setting up your times to work out is not visible. TabataTimerandHIITTimer worked for about a month properly so that’s the only reason I know how to adjust my workout time . Other wise You would think TabataTimerandHIITTimer doesn’t work . Not sure if that’s on purpose so you pay for the up grade. If this glitch was fix it would be worth the up grade .

I've been using TabataTimerandHIITTimer for months and has helped me to exercise well and lose weight, the thing that I don't like is its intrusive advertisements, there are other no intrusive ways to show advertisements. The thing that I would suggest is to allow all application to work on unpaid users with advertisement , like so many applications do, instead of giving a half application with advertisement, thing that I find injustice, there's a little of app on your advertisement. Adjust volumen beeps doesn't exist, these beeps sounds louder than my music and my alarm, I just can adjust general volume (music, notifications) and I lower general volumen so I can't listen to music well.

I’ve been using TabataTimerandHIITTimer for 6 or 7 years now. I teach Tabata at the gym. It’s worked perfectly until now.

I play my music separately from TabataTimerandHIITTimer because I like to start and stop the timer between rounds. Just recently it started to stop my music when playing TabataTimerandHIITTimer . Here’s the kicker, it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m at the point where I might delete TabataTimerandHIITTimer and find another one that works consistently. Up until this point this was the easiest and best app, but now, not so much. Any help would be appreciated since I really would like to stick with TabataTimerandHIITTimer.

Great App and worth the investment. I rarely buy apps and when I do I usually regret it but not here. TabataTimerandHIITTimer Helps with Tabata or HIIT Workouts if you are a minimalist and need the core features to be successful.

It you tend to procrastinate on exercise or allow you to setup custom intervals like 20 on 10 rest x8 sets to get started and then once you start you pick the interval you need or you can stop knowing you at least got your heart pumping.

I paid for Pro but am still seeing ads even though I followed Help guidance from developer website suggesting that I re-download from AppStore. So.. I feel really cheated by Apple and this developer. Apple’s QA process should catch these kinds of issues — that’s the whole reason for them taking such a big chunk of each transaction!

Seems like a decent app (if a bit cryptic, because there are ambiguous terms used in structure of app: what is relationship between “sets” and “cycles”? Is one comprised of the other? TabataTimerandHIITTimer doesn’t appear to help you make decisions based on the nature of the relationships).

Great app. If you want to get a quick workout in and use at your own routines whether it be treadmill or elliptical or floor exercises this is a must have app! After your first Tabata you can rest a little longer and Taylor it to your expectations of how you want to workout then this is for you! I didn’t want to workout this am... so I convinced myself to do one 4 minute Tabata. After that I went to 5 Tabata’s of three different machines and 2 floor exercises. All on my timetable. Amazing!!

You can make good adjustments to reps, rounds, rest, exercise in an easy format. I use the free version, so I have to sit through a 5-second ad once in a while, but definitely not a big deal. My only slight complaint is that I listen to Pandora while I use TabataTimerandHIITTimer . Sometimes in the middle of a high intensity workout, my Pandora song stops playing, but the tabata counter keeps working. So, it’s a minor inconvenience, but that is the only thing keeping me from giving it 5 stars.

This has almost everything I wanted in a free tabata App. The main thing I wanted was to customize the alerts & sounds.
This allows sounds to start each round, a halfway alert of each exercise round and a 3 second countdown of to end the round.
A sound to start the rest round and the 3 second countdown to end the rest round.
Allows warmup and recovery periods before and during the cycles with same alerts.
The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is to how to save more than one custom preset work out.

There’s no annoying pop ups you have to close in order to use the timer and it’s for the full four minute workout (with a 7 second “get ready” when you hit start) and has a 20 second count down in Orange, beeps for the final three seconds and then 10 second green rest period, also with the last three seconds being an audible count down!

I thought I was doing Tabatas before I got TabataTimerandHIITTimer, but boy was I fooling myself. My “10seconds of rest” was more like: Okay done set, take a few breaths, look at watch, start counting, get to 10, get back in position, a few more breaths and then wait for second hand to get to a round number, okay begin next set(35 seconds have elapsed).

Now I know what Tabata sets should feel like. I’m dying but getting better each workout.

Great App. No clutter.

I use this Tabata timer app on a tablet and my iPhone. Both work great without any glitches. I paid for pro so I can be a bit more selective in interval choices.
When TabataTimerandHIITTimer is the time keeper it allows me to spend more time with my students in their circuits. Less distraction means more class value!
I can recommend TabataTimerandHIITTimer to any exercise instructor interested in playing around with EMOM or science-based fun intervals instead of rep counting.

Definitely pushes you to another level! Blasted through my plateau with full force! Better than your everyday 8-10 rep bs. You start to feel burnt till you see 3 seconds left, and you push yourself to meet them last seconds. Before you know it, you just met that "one more rep" goal everyone talks about where it counts the most! Give it a shot, I promise you'll love it!!

It's a good, simple app that has some nice features (I like beeps and announcements at the beginning and end of intervals) and the intervals/sets are customizable. HOWEVER there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the screen or switch to another app and keep this one running in the background (it pauses the countdown), which is a near fatal flaw IMO. You have to keep TabataTimerandHIITTimer open and the screen on, which just drains battery. If TabataTimerandHIITTimer was modernized to support multitasking/backgrounding it would be 5-stars.