Empty Fasting vs Lyse
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
Lyse
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Lyse is a simple and effective app for tracking and managing your intermittent fasting journey, whether you're a beginner or a experienced faster. Features: - Built-in fasting timer presets: 16, 18, 20, 24, or 36 hours - Fasting history with editable records - Dark mode for a sleek and eye-friendly interface - No account needed — start using the app instantly - Works offline, so you can stay on track anytime, anywhere Simple, intuitive, and distraction-free, Lyse helps you stay consistent with your intermittent fasting practice. With no unnecessary clutter or ads, this app ensures a stress-free fasting journey. Start your fasting journey today with Lyse — your reliable fasting companion!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Empty Fasting at Free against Lyse's $0.99. Empty Fasting also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Empty Fasting is free to download; Lyse costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, Lyse every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Empty Fasting | Lyse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (84 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Light Nudge | Aleksei Torshin |
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
Lyse
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Empty Fasting
No in-app purchases
Lyse
No in-app purchases
Questions
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