Comparison

Lively vs Orbit Fasting

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

Head to head
About

Lively

This app helps users understand and align with their menstrual cycle, offering personalized daily tips for nutrition, sports, and self-care. It supports users through all cycle phases, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause/menopause, with an option for partners to sync and share insights.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily tips by cycle phase
  • Nutrition, sports, and self-care guidance
  • Partner Syncing for shared insights
  • Pregnancy and postpartum support
  • Perimenopause and menopause tracking
  • Integration with Apple Health
Features
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Meet Lively Cycle, the premier app for aligning with your cycle to enhance every day. Personalised daily tips are tailored to your menstrual phase and hormone levels, empowering you to navigate each day with confidence and ease. Lively® Cycle app offers guidance on nutrition, sports, and self-care, ensuring you feel supported and nurtured throughout your entire cycle. Unlike men, who function on a 24-hour cycle, women experience a unique 28-day cycle that influences their mood, energy, and well-being. Enjoy Lively with your partner using the "Partner Syncing" feature. Share cycle phases and moods in a private setting to deepen your connection. This unique app experience keeps you in tune with each other’s needs, enhancing understanding and closeness. Your menstrual cycle has four phases, and we've got your back through them all: MENSTRUAL: Time to shed the uterine lining and start anew! Focus on rest, self-care, and light exercise. FOLLICULAR: Feel the energy and creativity boost! Let's set goals, plan, and enjoy nourishing foods. OVULATORY: Embrace your peak fertility and energy. This is the perfect time for socializing, working out, and maintaining a balanced diet. Lively also supports your Pregnancy and Postpartum journey. As your body changes, Lively provides expert-backed insights on nutrition, movement, and self-care tailored to each stage of pregnancy and postpartum recovery. Stay informed about your baby’s growth, track key milestones, and receive gentle reminders to support your well-being. With Partner Syncing, your partner can also access guidance on how to be there for you, making this journey smoother for both of you. LUTEAL: Time to unwind and reflect. Indulge in nurturing activities and satisfy cravings with healthy alternatives. Perimenopause, Menopause Tracker - Discover patterns over time, and better understand what may be happening in your body. When periods are no longer the center of your health journey, Lively continues to support you. What sets Lively apart is not just its comprehensive cycle tracking but also its inclusion of a unique aesthetic period tracker and an ovulation tracker, designed with elegance and sophistication. Lively ensures your health data stays in sync with Apple Health, allowing for an integrated approach to managing your well-being. With Livelyby your side, you'll stay in sync with your body's natural rhythm, optimizing your well-being, energy, and mood. We'll help you make the most of your 28-day cycle and enhance your daily life. From nourishing your body with the right foods to finding the best exercise routines and practicing self-care, Lively has you covered. Ready to start your journey? Join the Lively® community today and let's begin syncing your cycle to transform your everyday life! Join community: IG: @livelycycle Terms and conditions: https://livelycycle.com/terms-conditions/ Privacy policy: https://livelycycle.com/privacy/ Subscription pricing and terms: Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. If we receive a refund request for an in-app purchase, we may provide Apple with information about the user's in-app purchase activity. This could include details such as time since app installation, total app usage time, an anonymous account identifier, whether the in-app purchase was fully consumed, whether it included a trial period, the total amount spent, and the total amount refunded."

About

Orbit Fasting

This app offers a flexible intermittent fasting timer and tracker. It provides insights into metabolic phases, allows for journaling, and tracks weight and hydration. It also integrates with Apple Health and prioritizes user privacy.

Highlights
  • Flexible fasting schedules
  • Fasting phase insights
  • Weight and hydration tracking
  • Journaling and streaks
  • Apple Health integration
  • Privacy-focused data export
Features
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Orbit is a flexible intermittent fasting companion designed to help you fast on your terms, understand your progress, and build sustainable habits. Whether you follow 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, or a custom schedule, Orbit gives you a simple fasting timer, educational metabolic phase insights, hydration and weight tracking, journaling, streaks, and Apple Health integration in one privacy-focused experience. FASTING THAT FITS YOUR LIFE • Start, pause, resume, or extend a fast whenever you need. • Choose popular fasting plans or create a schedule that works for you. • Track elapsed and remaining time with a smooth visual fasting ring. UNDERSTAND YOUR FAST Follow an educational timeline of fasting phases, including digestion, glycogen use, fat burning, ketosis, and later-stage fasting. See what may be happening during each stage and learn what to expect as your fast progresses. JOURNAL YOUR PROGRESS Keep a chronological record of completed fasts. Add mood, energy level, notes, photos, and tags so you can look back and understand your habits over time. WEIGHT & HYDRATION • Log body weight and follow trends over time. • Track progress toward your weight goal. • Quickly add 250 ml or 500 ml of water. • View hydration progress throughout the day. INSIGHTS & STREAKS Stay motivated with current and longest streaks, consistency tracking, average fasting duration, completed fasts, and personalized insights based on your history. APPLE HEALTH Sync supported body weight and dietary water data with Apple Health for a more connected health-tracking experience. YOUR DATA, YOUR JOURNEY Orbit is built with a privacy-first approach and gives you tools to export your fasting, weight, and hydration history as CSV files. Orbit is intended for educational and personal tracking purposes only and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning extended fasting or making significant dietary changes.

Screenshots

Lively4 screens
Orbit Fasting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orbit Fasting at 100% against Lively's 52%. Orbit Fasting also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10). Lively's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and chart position (#34 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lively is free to download; Orbit Fasting costs $1.99 up front. Lively sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Orbit Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Lively versus Orbit Fasting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLivelyOrbit Fasting
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
Best chart rank#34 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB3 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLively Cycle, LLCMaydaysec

Customer experience

Lively

All ratings55,567 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews1,014 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral10.8%
Negative37.2%

Orbit Fasting

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Lively

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Logging issues and data loss
  • Syncing problems with Apple Health
  • Inconsistent app performance

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add custom symptom tracking
  • Improve partner syncing for LGBTQ+ couples
  • Integrate temperature/ovulation tracking
  • Provide more detailed hormone insights
  • Include pregnancy/postpartum tracking

Orbit Fasting

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Lively

Subscriptions10
  • Weekly membership3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly membership3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly membership$4.991 Month
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  • premium$14.991 Year
  • Annual Membership$18.991 Year
  • premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium membership7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Orbit Fasting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lively free?
Lively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Fasting free?
Orbit Fasting costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lively or Orbit Fasting have ads?
Neither Lively nor Orbit Fasting shows ads.

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