Empty Fasting vs DockIt Alarm
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
DockIt Alarm
This app helps you establish a more intentional morning routine. It allows you to create custom alarms and utilize a 'Morning Focus' feature to temporarily block distracting applications. For users with a specific dock, it offers NFC-based pairing and alarm dismissal.
- Customizable alarms
- Morning routine builder
- Distracting app blocker
- NFC dock pairing
- Bedtime usage reminders
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DockIt Alarm is built to help you wake up with more intention. Create alarms, build a better morning routine, and use Morning Focus to temporarily block the distracting apps that pull you back into bed. For users with an official DockIt Dock, the full experience includes NFC-based dock pairing and alarm dismissal. Features: - Create and manage alarms with a clean, focused interface - Customize your in-app alarm loudness - Use Morning Focus to block selected distracting apps after wake-up - Pair an official DockIt NFC Dock for ownership verification and alarm dismissal - Get bedtime usage reminders when late-night scrolling starts eating into your sleep plan - Keep your morning routine simple, intentional, and hard to ignore DockIt Alarm uses notifications for alarm behavior and Screen Time / Family Controls only for the Morning Focus experience. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Empty Fasting at none against DockIt Alarm's 2. Empty Fasting also leads on ratings volume (83 vs 3). DockIt Alarm's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. DockIt Alarm sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Empty Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.
DockIt Alarm 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, DockIt Alarm every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Empty Fasting | DockIt Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (83 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Light Nudge | Kevin Benedict |
Customer experience
Empty Fasting
DockIt Alarm
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
DockIt Alarm
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Empty Fasting
No in-app purchases
DockIt Alarm
- DockIt Alarm Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- DockIt Alarm Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
Questions
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