Comparison

Daily Fast vs Return

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Ad-free experience
  • No sign-up required
  • Intermittent fasting alerts
  • 100% free to use
  • Focuses on fasting periods
Features
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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+).

About

Return

This app offers guided exercises to help you pause and reset during difficult emotional moments. It provides tools for self-reflection, breathing, and choosing grounded actions to navigate anxiety, anger, and comparison.

Highlights
  • Guided reset flows
  • Breathing exercises
  • Reflection prompts
  • End-of-day review
  • Saved wisdom anchors
  • Virtue-focused progress
Features
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Return is a calm self-reflection app for moments when your mind gets pulled into comparison, anxiety, anger, validation seeking, distraction, or social feed spirals. Open Return when a hard thought shows up. Name the pattern, take a breath, clear the mind, choose one grounded action, and come back to what matters. Return helps you build small moments of awareness throughout the day without pressure, streak anxiety, or judgment. Features include: - Guided reset flows for common mental loops - Breathing and clear-the-mind exercises - Reflection prompts for social media and comparison triggers - End-of-day review history - Saved wisdom anchors - Virtue-focused progress across clarity, restraint, courage, discipline, compassion, and detachment - Local-first journaling in this version Return is designed for young adults, professionals, and spiritually curious people who want a grounded way to interrupt toxic thought loops and live with more presence. Return is not a medical device, therapy service, crisis service, or substitute for professional care.

Screenshots

Daily Fast4 screens
Return4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Return at none against Daily Fast's 3. Return also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Daily Fast's advantage is ratings volume (3.5K vs 4). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Daily Fast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Return asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Return holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Fast has 3.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Fast ships an update every 5 months, Return every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Daily Fast versus Return: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily FastReturn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.5K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.5K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB36 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTravis MaJuna Consulting Group Inc

Customer experience

Daily Fast

All ratings3,450 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral2.2%
Negative9.9%

Return

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Return

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Daily Fast

One-time3
  • Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
  • 2 Cups of Coffee$5.99
  • 3 Cups of Coffee$8.99
None

Return

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daily Fast free?
Daily Fast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Return free?
Return is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daily Fast or Return?
Return is rated higher. Daily Fast averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while Return averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Daily Fast or Return have ads?
Neither Daily Fast nor Return shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Fast or Return?
Daily Fast ships an update every 5 months, and Return every 6 days. Most recently, Daily Fast was updated on November 2, 2026 and Return on October 31, 2026.

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