Daily Fast vs Return
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+).
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.
- Guided reset flows
- Breathing exercises
- Reflection prompts
- End-of-day review
- Saved wisdom anchors
- Virtue-focused progress
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Daily Fast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Return asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Daily Fast | Return |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.5K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Travis Ma | Juna Consulting Group Inc |
Customer experience
Daily Fast
Return
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
Daily Fast
- Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
- 2 Cups of Coffee$5.99
- 3 Cups of Coffee$8.99
Return
No in-app purchases









