Fasty vs Spud Run Coach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fasty
This app helps users track intermittent fasting by monitoring fasting days and eating periods. It supports weight tracking in both pounds and kilograms and does not collect user data.
- Intermittent fasting tracking
- Weight tracking
- Fasting day monitoring
- Eating period logging
- Pound and kilogram support
- No data collection
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Fasty: the Fasting Tracker helps you track your weight, the days you fast, and when you eat on non-fasting days (intermittent fasting). Fasty doesn't track any of your data, is free, and supports pounds and kilograms.
Spud Run Coach
This running coach app helps beginners start their fitness journey with guided run-walk programs. It uniquely pauses distracting apps during training sessions, ensuring focus and completion of your runs. Track progress with GPS, integrate with various fitness devices, and visualize your achievements.
- Guided run-walk training plans
- Distracting app blocker during runs
- GPS and Apple Watch tracking
- Integration with fitness trackers
- Progress visualization and stats
- Personalized session adjustments
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Stop skipping the runs you promised yourself. Spud is a couch to 5K running coach with a twist: on your training days, the apps that steal your runs stay paused until you've run. Finish the run and they come straight back. A PLAN BUILT AROUND YOU • Starts from where you are today, even if that's the couch • Run-walk first, then real runs: 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon • Every session written out step by step, with a cue for every interval • Outside or on a treadmill • Spud checks in on how you feel and makes today easier, shorter or a rest day when you need it THE LOCK THAT GETS YOU OUT THE DOOR • Pick the apps that eat your evenings • In your run window they wait until today's run is done • A heads-up an hour before, and again 15 minutes before your apps lock • Emergency override is always one tap away EVERY RUN COUNTS • Track runs with GPS on iPhone, or on Apple Watch with no phone needed • Garmin, COROS, Polar, Suunto, Fitbit and more count through Apple Health, with step-by-step setup for each • Bring in years of past runs from Apple Health • Pair a Bluetooth heart-rate strap SEE HOW FAR YOU'VE COME • Your distance as real trips from your own town • Race predictor, training load and pace trend • Streaks, levels and badges, with friends and leaderboards through Game Center PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your plan and runs live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. Sign in with Apple if you want them backed up to a new phone. Optional. No ads, no tracking. SPUD PRO Your first run is free, with the lock and the voice coach. After it, Spud Pro unlocks the full plan, the lock and run tracking. Choose yearly, monthly or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fasty at none against Spud Run Coach's 4. Fasty also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Spud Run Coach's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 16 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Spud Run Coach sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Fasty asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Fasty against 5.0 for Spud Run Coach. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fasty has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Fasty ships an update every 16 months, Spud Run Coach every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fasty | Spud Run Coach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forest and the Trees, LLC | Matthew Ajayi |
Customer experience
Fasty
Spud Run Coach
In-app purchases
Fasty
No in-app purchases
Spud Run Coach
- Spud Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
- Spud Pro Yearly (Offer)$19.991 Year
- Spud Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Spud Pro Lifetime$79.99
