Sports Timer: Interval & HIIT

Dries Claerbout

About this app

Sports Timer is an easy to use programmable countdown timer for interval training, workouts like Tabata and HIIT, circuit training, boxing rounds and teaching. Build your own sequence, load it with a swipe, and add your own music to it.

The display is deliberately big, so it can be read from across the room. That makes Sports Timer as useful for a class or a club as it is for training on your own. Tap the display to start, pause and resume; a long press resets.

Everything is free
• No in-app purchases and no ads. Every feature is included, and your sounds and music are now stored with your presets.
• Nothing that needs your approval: Sports Timer asks for no sensitive permissions and has no internet access at all, so nothing about you can leave your phone.
• No account, no tracking, no data collection.

Key features
• Build very complex workouts, block by block
• Big display (tap it to start / pause / resume, long press = reset)
• Change a workout quickly and easily
• Lots of presets, loaded with a swipe
• Choose the beep that ends a block: 12 sounds are included, or use your own MP3
• Play music while counting, with a music player built in
• Pick music from anywhere through the file picker of Android itself: your phone, an SD card or a cloud drive
• Beeps can use the alarm volume, so they get their own slider and stay audible when your phone is on silent
• Music from another app steps aside for a moment when a beep sounds, instead of drowning it out
• Startup conditions: volume, brightness, load a preset at startup, ...
• Export and import presets by e-mail, cloud drive or Bluetooth, so a workout is easy to share with friends
• Scheduled Start: plan a whole year and let it start by itself, a school bell for example
• Change the colours of the Action, Rest, Stopwatch, Clock and Laps blocks
• Counting up (stopwatch) is possible
• Skip button to leave the current block

A countdown sequence is built from one or more of these blocks:
• Action: counts down the time you work
• Rest: counts down the time you recover
• Stopwatch: counts up (use the skip button to stop and jump to the next block)
• Clock: counts down until the clock of your phone reaches a time you set. At 7:30:00 with a clock block of 00:00 it counts down 30 minutes, so the block ends exactly on the hour.
• Laps: repeats one or more previous blocks X times. Laps can be set to infinity for an endless loop.

Sound marks the end of a block, at the end of every Action and Rest block. Music can play while the timer counts: choose a folder, or a single track for each block.

Sequences are stored in presets, loaded with a swipe.

Preloaded (default) presets:
• Preset 1: Tabata: ( 20s , 10s ) * 8
• Preset 2: Gibala: 180s + (60s + 75s) * 8
• Preset 3: Exercises: (( 30s, 20s , 10s ) * 4 , 2 min rest) * 5
• Preset 4: Stopwatch: (( 30s , 30s ) * 8 , 4 min rest ) * 5
• Preset 5: Basic Timer: Action: 5 min.
• Preset 6: Basic Structure: Rest: 5s (Action: 180s , Rest: 30s ) * 2 laps

All presets and settings can be sent to an e-mail contact, a cloud drive, Bluetooth and more, depending on the apps installed on your phone.

Sports Timer is at home wherever a workout is measured in rounds: judo and other martial arts, boxing, crossfit, cycling, running and sprinting, weightlifting, circuit training and gym classes.

Requires Android 6.0 or newer.

Dries Claerbout
https://timer.clardware.be/
Bruges Area, Belgium

Ratings and reviews

This app is not treated as alarm by the OS, so when the OS goes to power saving mode the Beeps will not be played, which makes it useless! Also the free version can't save settings!

great app. easy to use. set up for hockey quarters. and flexible sound for each part

Excellent for judo