Comparison

Empty Fasting vs FastiMate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

FastiMate

Build a sustainable fasting routine with personalized plans and reliable tracking. This app offers hydration and habit tracking, with advanced features for consistency and insights. Designed for real life, it focuses on gentle approaches for long-term results.

Highlights
  • Fasting Timer with reliable tracking
  • Fasting History & basic stats
  • Hydration tracking with custom goals
  • Habit tracking for daily consistency
  • Adaptive weekly plans
  • Streak protection
  • Data export (CSV)
Features
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FastiMate is a calm, ad-free intermittent fasting timer for building a routine at your own pace. Start a flexible fast, track water, reflect on how you feel, and stay consistent with friends. START WITH A CLEAR TIMER See your active fast, elapsed and remaining time, completion progress, and expected finish in one calm view. Finish early when you need to, with clear confirmation and reliable history. BUILD CONSISTENCY Create simple daily habits, track water in ml or fl oz, review your week, and reflect on hunger, energy, and mood with quick post-fast check-ins. STAY ACCOUNTABLE TOGETHER Join private challenges for free. Pro hosts create a group and invite friends with a code; invited members do not need a subscription. Follow shared participation while keeping private profiles separate. FastiMate never displays your email on a challenge leaderboard. GET HELP WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL Search support guidance in the app, use saved answers when the network is unavailable, and prepare a contextual support email when you still need help. Nothing is submitted until you review and send the email. FREE FEATURES - Reliable fasting timer - No ads - Recent fasting history and basic progress - Hydration tracking with a custom goal - Up to three active habits - Join social challenges - Searchable help and support - Light, Dark, and System appearance FASTIMATE PRO - Host private social challenges - Full fasting history - Unlimited habits - Adaptive weekly plans - Advanced trends and recommendations - Streak protection - CSV data export FastiMate Pro is optional. Available plans, prices, trial eligibility, and renewal terms are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in Apple Account subscription settings. Fastimate is a wellness tracking tool, not medical advice. Do not use fasting guidance while pregnant or breastfeeding, if you are under 18, or if you have a current or past eating disorder. Conditions or medications that affect glucose, blood pressure, hydration, kidney or liver function, or meal timing require guidance from a qualified healthcare professional. Terms of Use: https://www.dakbas.com/fastimate/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://www.dakbas.com/fastimate/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Empty Fasting4 screens
FastiMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Empty Fasting at none against FastiMate's 3. Empty Fasting also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (83 vs 1). FastiMate's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. FastiMate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Empty Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FastiMate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Empty Fasting has 83 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Empty Fasting's written reviews are positive against 100% of FastiMate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, FastiMate every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Empty Fasting versus FastiMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmpty FastingFastiMate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (83 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings83 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLight Nudgelutfu dogan akbas

Customer experience

Empty Fasting

All ratings84 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%

FastiMate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

FastiMate

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Empty Fasting

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

FastiMate

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • 1 Month Subscription$9.991 Month
  • 1 Year Subscription$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Empty Fasting free?
Empty Fasting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FastiMate free?
FastiMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Empty Fasting or FastiMate?
FastiMate is rated higher. Empty Fasting averages 4.6 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while FastiMate averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Empty Fasting or FastiMate have ads?
Neither Empty Fasting nor FastiMate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Empty Fasting or FastiMate?
Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, and FastiMate every 3 weeks. Most recently, Empty Fasting was updated on November 4, 2026 and FastiMate on October 30, 2026.

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