Empty Fasting vs Miles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Empty Fasting
This app helps users focus on a single fasting period at a time, offering both overnight and daytime schedules. It provides customizable themes and icons, home screen widgets, and tracks fasting streaks and trends with encouraging messages.
- Single fast focus
- Home screen widgets
- Overnight and daytime schedules
- Customizable themes and icons
- Streak and trend statistics
- Encouragement during fasts
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· Full-focus on one fast at a time · Home screen widgets & live activities · Overnight and daytime fasting schedules · Make it yours with 6 themes and 18 icons · Statistics for your streaks and trends · Encouragement throughout your fasts
Miles
Track your running progress with a simple interface that displays distance, time, and maps. Set weekly goals and view your progress with live activities and widgets. Syncs with Apple Health and Apple Watch.
- Live Activities for real-time run data
- Widgets for weekly progress tracking
- Set weekly or monthly running goals
- View run history with maps
- Syncs with Apple Health
- Apple Watch integration
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Miles is the simplest but most effective way to track your running progress. Start and end runs with ease and sync seamlessly with Apple Watch. No ads or subscriptions. **Live Activities and Widgets** Miles uses Live Activities to show your current run so you don't need to unlock your phone to check your distance and time. Widgets show your weekly progress to help you stay motivated and focused. **Weekly Goals** Set a weekly or monthly goal to stay motivated on your running journey. **Simple Stats and Map** Stay on top of your progress with a weekly distance chart, and see your running routes with maps for each run. **Health Syncing** Miles can connect with Apple Health to save runs from the app and display runs from Apple Watch and other fitness apps. **Minimalist Design** Stay focused on your runs with a simple design that highlights only the data you need. **No ads or subscriptions** When you get the app, you get the full app and all future updates. There will never be ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Empty Fasting at none against Miles's 4. Empty Fasting also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Miles's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Miles sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Empty Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.
Miles holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 157 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Empty Fasting's written reviews are positive against 89% of Miles's.
Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, Miles fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Empty Fasting | Miles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (84 ratings) | 4.9 (157 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 89.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 84 | 157 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Light Nudge | Miles Vinson |
Customer experience
Empty Fasting
Miles
User reviews
Empty Fasting
From 84 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Beautiful UI design
- 👍 Simple and focused functionality
- 🚀 Snappy and well-thought-out UI
- 💎 Clean and minimal aesthetic
- ✅ Does what it's made for
Room to improve
- ❌ Lacks custom fasting length
- ❌ Can’t personalize app for ADF
- ❌ Lacks Apple Health integration
- ❌ Inability to edit start time
- ❌ Fasts can’t be started at any time
Miles
From 157 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simplicity and minimalist design
- 👍 Clean and intuitive UI/UX
- 👍 Easy to use, no nonsense
- 👍 Great for beginners and minimalists
- 👍 Privacy-focused, no data collection
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate tracking for some users
- 🐛 Occasional data loss/runs not logged
- 🐛 Lacks advanced features
- 🐛 Auto-pause feature missing
- 🐛 No way to change time or auto-stop
Bugs and requests
Empty Fasting
Reported bugs
1 issue- Fast reminders still sent even if the fasting session is currently active.
Requested features
12 requests- Custom fasting length (days/hours)
- More options for ADF
- Apple Health integration
- Ability to edit start time of a running timer
- Set multiple start fast reminders
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- Option to set app to allow fasting from specific things (alcohol, meat)
- Manual time input for fasting
- Apple Watch addition
- Watch widget
- Start fasts automatically
- Ability to start countdown from a previous time
- Ability to add a fast started yesterday
Miles
Reported bugs
4 issues- App deleted run data while paused
- Mile counter/pace counter not working
- Entire runs not logged
- App did not work at all (swipe down issue)
Requested features
9 requests- Send to Strava feature
- Siri commands for start/stop
- Black dark theme option
- Mile ran yearly goal
- Calories burned and elevation tracking
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- Ability to change time or auto-stop
- Add notes to a run
- Direct Apple Watch support
- Companion Apple Watch app
In-app purchases
Empty Fasting
No in-app purchases
Miles
- Miles Pro$1.99
- Tip 1$2.99
- Tip 2$5.99
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- Tip 3$8.99
Questions
Is Empty Fasting free?
Is Miles free?
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