Daily Fast vs RunIntervals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Fast
This app provides simple intermittent fasting alerts without ads or sign-up. It focuses solely on delivering timely notifications for your fasting periods, making it easy to manage your intermittent fasting routine.
- Ad-free experience
- No sign-up required
- Intermittent fasting alerts
- 100% free to use
- Focuses on fasting periods
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No ads. No sign up. No silly survey questions about your dreams and aspirations. 100% free. Just intermittent fasting alerts... nothing more, nothing less. Currently, this app is specifically built for "intermittent fasting" and does not support extended fasts (24hr+).
RunIntervals
Set custom interval timers with voice or tone alerts. This app seamlessly integrates with your existing audio and fitness apps, pausing or lowering music volume to ensure you never miss an alert.
- Customizable interval durations
- Voice and tone alerts
- Music volume lowering
- Spoken audio pausing
- Works with other apps
- No user data collection
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Just pick your interval durations and click GO! "Plays well with others," so if you have favorite apps for audio or fitness tracking it will work well alongside those. Audio voice alerts or tones will momentarily lower the volume of your music or briefly pause spoken audio just long enough to hear the alert, then let you get right back to listening! This app does not track or collect any user data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Daily Fast at 3.5K against RunIntervals's 123. RunIntervals's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Daily Fast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and RunIntervals sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Daily Fast against 4.7 for RunIntervals. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Fast has 3.5K ratings behind it against 123, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Daily Fast's written reviews are positive against 90% of RunIntervals's.
Daily Fast ships an update every 5 months, RunIntervals every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Fast | RunIntervals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.5K ratings) — better | 4.7 (123 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.9% of reviews | 90.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 123 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Travis Ma | Robotic Jam LLC |
Customer experience
Daily Fast
RunIntervals
User reviews
Daily Fast
From 3.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple, effective
- 👍 Perfect in its simplicity and practicality
- 👍 No nonsense app
- 👍 Fantastic, no frills
- 👍 Clean and clutter-free
Room to improve
- 🔔 Needs audible alert for eating/fasting windows
- 🐛 Countdown timer doesn't work
- 🐛 Notifications are spotty
- 🐛 Can't change times without restarting
RunIntervals
From 123 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Perfect app
- 🚀 Great app
- 🚀 Simple and effective
- 🚀 Straightforward and easy to use
- 🚀 Does exactly what it needs to
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not work
- 🐛 Tones fail
- 🐛 Alerts don't work
- 🐛 Stops randomly
- 🐛 No sound on watch
Bugs and requests
Daily Fast
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown timer issues
- Notification problems
- Time adjustment issues
Requested features
4 requests- Apple Watch complication
- Home screen widget
- Ability to log notes/weight
- More customization options for fasting times
RunIntervals
Reported bugs
3 issues- Interval tones not working with podcast/music
- Interval tones not working on Apple Watch
- App randomly stops during workouts
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to swap run/walk intervals
- Option to start with walking
- Ability to set number of repeats
- Vibration alerts
- Longer interval options (up to 30/60/120 mins)
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- Repeat feature for intervals
- Total time limit for workout
In-app purchases
Daily Fast
- Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
- 2 Cups of Coffee$5.99
- 3 Cups of Coffee$8.99
RunIntervals
- Small Tip$0.99
- Big Tip$2.99
Questions
Is Daily Fast free?
Is RunIntervals free?
Which has better reviews, Daily Fast or RunIntervals?
Do Daily Fast or RunIntervals have ads?
Which is updated more often, Daily Fast or RunIntervals?
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