Fasting Secret vs Rhythm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fasting Secret
This app helps you track your fasting periods, monitor your weight, and record body measurements. It offers features for manual or scheduled fasts, progress visualization, and motivational tools to support your health and weight loss goals.
- Manual and scheduled fasting periods
- Weight and body measurement tracking
- Progress visualization with graphs
- Daily notes for motivation
- Data export to text files
- Multi-user support with privacy locks
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The secret to successful weight loss and long term maintenance has long since been sought by millions of people around the world, and we'll try anything to drop a few pounds if someone claims to have lost weight using a 'new method'. In truth, different things work for everyone, but wouldn't you like to lose weight and improve your general health and well-being with very little effort? The secret……………. is fasting. Research conducted around Intermittent Fasting has shown how fasting can be used to safely lose weight, help increase overall health and resistance to disease, but more importantly keep the weight off without going down the route of conventional dieting which can often lead to feelings of deprivation and ultimately feelings of diet failure. Fasting has been used for thousands of years and is one of the oldest therapies in medicine. It's also been used in most religions in the world for mental and spiritual clarity, but fasting has been used to help with chronic conditions including allergies, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol (under doctors recommendation and supervision). Whether you're using Fasting Secret to lose weight, improve your general health or for spiritual reasons, we have a wealth of features to make your fasting a success. For no cost, you can:- * Manually start and stop a fasting period. * Fasting periods are tracked and easily viewed. * Configure the Home Screen Dashboard to show information relevant to you. * Use the Weight Graph Dashboard to view your process at a glance. * Calendar view which indicates any activity entered and when a day is selected any activity entered is listed for easy reference. * Record and monitor your weight, height and body fat. * Enter daily notes to help motivate you. If your motivation for fasting is mainly weight loss our PRO UPGRADE is packed with the following great features and motivational tools:- * No adverts. * Ability to schedule automatic fasting periods with reminders for the start and end of the fasting period. * Ability to schedule fasts with any start time and duration. * Ability to specify that manual fasts started in the past. * Set a weight loss goal and view your statistics and milestones achieved as you progress. * Create your own body measurements and track the changes. * Multi user capability with passcode locking for each user's for privacy. * Export your data to text tiles and spreadsheets. There are different types of Fasts and this app can be used when following plans such as : Intermittent Fasting, Alternate Day Fasting, The 5:2 Method, 24hr fasts, JUDDD, Johnson, 16:8 and more
Rhythm
This app simplifies intermittent fasting with a daily tracker. It supports various fasting schedules, from beginner-friendly to advanced, and helps users monitor their progress over time. Get notifications when your fast is complete.
- Daily fasting tracker
- Flexible schedule support
- Weekly progress tracking
- Customizable fasting goals
- One-click start
- Progress monitoring
- Completion notifications
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Rhythm is a simple intermittent fasting tracker for people who want a clean fast timer without the bloat. No account. No ads. Just a focused way to start a fast, stay on track, and review your history when you're done. Choose any fasting goal from 7 to 24 hours, including popular rhythms like 16:8 and 18:6. Start a fast in seconds, follow your progress live, and switch between countdown and elapsed timer views. Rhythm helps you stay consistent with: - flexible fasting goals - multiple fasts in the same day - reminder and completion notifications - editable fasting history - weekly progress insights If you want a fasting app that feels simple, respectful, and easy to trust, Rhythm gives you the essentials and gets out of your way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rhythm at none against Fasting Secret's 1. Rhythm also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 68%). Fasting Secret's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 458). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Fasting Secret sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rhythm asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Fasting Secret against 4.7 for Rhythm. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.6K and 458 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Fasting Secret's written reviews are positive against 89% of Rhythm's.
Fasting Secret ships an update every 3 weeks, Rhythm every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fasting Secret | Rhythm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) | 4.7 (458 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 458 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fenlander Software Solutions Ltd | Bijan Cronin |
Customer experience
Fasting Secret
Rhythm
User reviews
Fasting Secret
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Makes fasting easier
- 👍 Simple and useful app
- 👍 Great for tracking fasting
- 👍 Awesome app, been using it for years
- 👍 Superb app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Wildly antiquated app
- 🐛 Ugly UI design
- 🐛 Doesn't let you change weight units
- 🐛 Doesn't work properly
- 🐛 Ads are annoying
Rhythm
From 458 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💎 Simple and easy to use
- 🆓 Free app with no ads or subscriptions
- ⏱️ Straightforward fasting timer
- 📊 Tracks fasting progress
- 🔍 Allows editing of start/end times
Room to improve
- ⏰ Can't track fasts longer than 24 hours
- 📅 Limited history view (only past week)
- 🔔 Lacks customizable notifications/reminders
Bugs and requests
Fasting Secret
Reported bugs
4 issues- Timer resets unexpectedly
- Can't edit active fast
- Goal date not working
- Upgrading issues
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to record past fasts
- Scheduled fasts with alerts
- Sync with Health app
- Water tracking
- Fasting benefits info
Rhythm
Reported bugs
2 issues- Can't add past fasts
- Inconsistent weekly progress tracking
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to track longer fasts (e.g., 48-72 hours)
- Option to view fasting history beyond the past week
- Customizable notifications and reminders
- Integration with health/fitness tracking apps
- Weight tracking and progress visualization
In-app purchases
Fasting Secret
- Pro Upgrade$1.99
Rhythm
No in-app purchases
Questions
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