Tabata Pro Tabata Timer 4+

Works well

Coming back to the gym after years away I was I introduced to the whole Tabata thing. I needed an app to help manage the time and picked this one based on the 5-star rating. I like it. The DJ feature is nice but appears limited to Apple Music rather than other streaming accounts. I end up just playing music in a different app. All in all I like it, but I have a few suggestions (their feedback page is “temporarily unavailable”):

1. Make the button for stopping a workout a slider like the power off confirmation on the iPhone. It’s really easy to accidentally hit the stop button and then you can’t get back into where you were in your Tabata cycle. For example, if I accidentally hit the button on cycle six of eight I can’t restart it. I think the slider control makes the most sense but even a confirm dialog would be helpful.

2. I chose this app because it also had an app for the watch. However, the watch app and the iPhone app are not in sync. In other words if I start a Tabata on the phone and then I open the app on the watch app on the watch knows nothing about the Tabata already in progress . The watch app, and the iPhone app should be in sync.

3. I’d like the option to cut the recovery time short if I don’t need it. At certain times during the work out where I don’t need the full recovery time and I’m waiting for recovery time to expire I’d like to have a button that skips to the last 10 seconds of recovery so I can speed things up.

Unethical business practice

Bought your timer tests ago, now it won’t work unless I pay a subscription. Hope woof you like to get into your car one day and it doesn’t start unless you pay a subscription for the car you bought 8 years ago? Off you gas stated a subscription fee before I had bought it then ok, out if you want to charge a fee now do so only to new clientele, but honor your original date never you introduced the subscriptions c’mon!!

Developer Response ,

I apologize if our change to a subscription has caused a bad experience.

If you purchased the app when it was a paid app, you should still have access to all features available at the time of purchase. If not please contact me through the apps support section.

For more information about the change to a subscription model please see: https://simpletouchsoftware.com/support/tabatapro/210/

Amber Star
Developer of Tabata Pro

Developers have made almost useless

I got this app so long ago that I don’t remember whether it was free or paid. I think that I paid for it and got a good set of features. I didn’t use it for a while, and now that I started using it again in the last year, it has become almost useless.

Every time I try to start it for the first time, I get an ad for the subscription version. I don’t want the subscription. It doesn’t offer anything that I’m interested in. So, when the ad would pop up, I would have to hit the “Not Now” to use the timer. (There was no option for “Not Ever”.)

More recently, though, that doesn’t do it. I hit “not now”, then the start button and the ad comes back. I hit “not now” again, then the start button, then the ad comes back. At this point, I have to dismiss the ad at least 4x before hitting the start button actually starts the timer. It has gotten so frustrating that I found another timer app, Timer Plus, that I bought years ago and now I’m using that. It’s much less frustrating. I will be deleting this app from my phone now.

Developer Response ,

I apologize if our change to a subscription has caused a bad experience.

If you purchased the app when it was a paid app, you should still have access to all features available at the time of purchase. If not please contact me through the apps support section.

For more information about the change to a subscription model please see: https://simpletouchsoftware.com/support/tabatapro/210/

Amber Star
Developer of Tabata Pro