Bout

Planned for: iOS · Android

Bout is still in development and is not yet available. When it launches, it will cost $4.99 once on iOS and Android.

Fitness interval timers are one of the worst offenders in the subscription economy — a screen with a number counting down, gated behind a monthly fee. Bout will do exactly what you need mid-workout and nothing else: build any work/rest pattern, run it on a full-screen color-coded display readable from across the gym, and never see a paywall again.

• Build any pattern. Prepare, work, rest, rounds, sets, rest-between-sets, cooldown — with a label on every phase.
• Or start from a preset. Tabata (20/10 × 8), classic HIIT, 3-minute boxing rounds, EMOM, the 7-minute workout — all editable, all yours to duplicate and tweak.
• Runs with the screen off. Voice announcements, bell cues, and countdown beeps so your phone can stay in your pocket. Music ducks instead of stopping.
• Built for mid-workout hands. Huge touch targets, pause/skip without looking, a colorblind-safe palette option for the running screen.
• "Hey Siri, start Tabata." iOS Shortcuts and a one-tap Android Quick Settings tile get you into a timer without unlocking to the home screen.
• Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no network permission at all — Bout physically cannot phone home.

$4.99, once, on iOS and Android when it launches. That's the whole pitch.