Shared Care vs PerfectFast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shared Care
This app provides a centralized dashboard for parents and caregivers to share vital information about loved ones. It allows for the organization of appointments, medications, notes, sleep logs, and club activities within secure care groups.
- Create and manage care groups
- Share appointments and medications
- Log sleep and carer visits
- Add notes and club information
- Securely store and access data
- Approve or deny new members
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A shared dashboard that gives parents and caregivers a quick and easy way to share care information. Set up care groups for your children and loved ones. Share appointments, medicines, notes, sleep log, carer visit and regular club information between care group members. Introduction - Use Shared Care to set up Care Groups for each person you care for. Add Appointments, Medicines, Notes, Sleep Log entries, Carer Visits and regular Club trips, and share all of this information with other caregivers who use the app - All information is securely stored in a central database and is only accessible to the carers to whom you grant access - Any carer with access to a Care Group can add, edit and delete information, but only the owner of the Care Group can approve new members or delete the Care Group itself - We created Shared Care to help myself and my wife stay afloat in the sea of information related to caring for our two daughters, one of whom has complex medical needs. We sincerely hope that it proves useful for other families and carers Get Started - Start the Shared Care app and tap the Register Now option - Enter your email address, a display name and a new password, then tap the Sign Up button to create your account - Validate your email address by clicking the link in the validation email that will arrive in your inbox - Once registered, you can use the Sign In option next time you need to authenticate Create a Care Group - Tap Add on the Home page then tap Add on the pop up dialog - Enter the name of the person you are caring for in the next dialog, and tap the Add button - You will see your new Care Group listed on the Home page. This list shows the Care Groups that you own or are a member of - You will also see the Care Group you have added on the Manage Care Groups page Join an Existing Care Group - Note that you will need the name of the Care Group and the email address of the Care Group owner. These will need to be shared with you outside the app - Tap Add on the Home page then tap Join on the pop up dialog - Enter the Care Group owner's email address and the name of the person you are both caring for, then tap the Join button - If you navigate to the Manage Care Groups page you will see yourself added to the list of Care Group members, in a pending approval status - After the Care Group owner approves your request to join the Care Group - which they will see on their Manage Care Groups page - you will see the new Care Group on your Home page Using a Care Group - Tap the name of the Care Group on the Home page to navigate to their information - You will now see a list of options at the bottom of the screen allowing you to create and view Appointments / Carer Visits, Notes, Clubs, Medicines and Sleep Log entries - By tapping the gear icon in the app bar at top-right you can navigate to the Settings screen where you can select the default landing page for this particular Care Group. You can also choose the default calendar format and default sleeping and waking times - When you tap through to any of the options, for example Dates, you will see a list of existing entries and a button that allows you to add new ones - Swipe existing items from left-to-right to edit them, and after making changes tap the Save button - Swipe existing items from right-to-left to delete them after being prompted to confirm Medicines - Tapping an item in the Medicines list ticks the checkbox, indicating that the medicine has been given on the current day - The checkbox automatically clears at the start of the next day, or can be reset by tapping again Sleep Log - Designed for carers to enter waking and sleeping periods for the person they care for, e.g. after providing overnight sleep respite - Supports up to 9 waking periods per night, with a minimum duration of 15 minutes per waking period - The sleep log overview is designed to highlight sleeping (thick line) and waking (thin line) patterns per week
PerfectFast
This app helps you track intermittent and extended fasting periods with a clean, focused interface. It supports various fasting schedules, custom durations, and provides detailed history and statistics to monitor your progress.
- Intermittent and extended fast tracking
- Custom fasting schedules
- Fasting history and statistics
- Reminders and notifications
- Apple Watch companion app
- Live Activity support
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PerfectFast helps you track intermittent and extended fasts with a calm, focused experience. Set up a fasting plan, follow your active fast, review your history, and see progress statistics without clutter. The app supports common fasting schedules, custom durations, reminders, fasting stages, history views, statistics, appearance settings, local data export, and Live Activity support on compatible devices. Log water, weight, blood glucose, and ketones beside your fasts, and read them on the fast's own clock in the Fast Timeline, with resting heart rate, heart rate variability, body composition, and sleep from Apple Health if you connect it. The Apple Watch companion lets you check your current or scheduled fast from your wrist, start or end a fast when your iPhone is nearby, and keep progress on your watch face with complications. Your fasting data stays on your device unless you choose to export or share it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PerfectFast at Free against Shared Care's $1.99. PerfectFast also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months). Shared Care's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support 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
PerfectFast is free to download; Shared Care costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shared Care ships an update every 4 months, PerfectFast every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shared Care | PerfectFast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ian Elms | Idan Lupinsky |
Customer experience
Shared Care
PerfectFast
In-app purchases
Shared Care
No in-app purchases
PerfectFast
No in-app purchases









