Comparison

Empty Fasting vs Updraft

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

Updraft

Features
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Updraft turns your Apple Health data into a clear daily picture of your training: how recovered you are, what each workout did to your body, and whether your fitness is actually trending up. No account required. Your health data stays on this device. DAILY READINESS A 0–100 score every morning, built from your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, and recent training load — so you know when to push and when to hold back. WORKOUT ANALYTICS Every ride and run is analyzed the moment it syncs: heart-rate and power zones, training load, intensity, and a plain-language read on what the session did for you. Full route, elevation, and per-metric charts on every workout. FITNESS & FORM Watch your fitness climb month over month. Track chronic training load, ramp rate, and Form (TSB) so you can time a peak instead of guessing. TRAINING BALANCE See how your training splits across intensity and heart-rate zones — and how that lines up with a polarized, pyramidal, or threshold model. FOR CYCLISTS Deep power analysis from your best efforts and FTP: • Power Profile — your full curve from sprint to long climb, graded by age and sex, with your rider type • Critical Power and anaerobic capacity (W′), estimated from your bests • Normalized power, intensity factor, variability, and aerobic decoupling on every ride • Personal power records from 5 seconds to 60 minutes — recent, 8-week, and all-time FOR RUNNERS Every run is analyzed automatically — heart-rate zones, training load, intensity, pace, distance, and elevation. Readiness, Fitness, Form, sleep, and HRV trends are all sport-agnostic, so your daily picture reads the same whether you ran or rode. SLEEP & RECOVERY A nightly sleep score, sleep debt against your own baseline, and long-term HRV and resting-heart-rate trends. GOALS Set distance, time, or effort targets by week, month, or year, and let Updraft track them automatically. SHARE Turn any workout into a poster for your feed or stories. WIDGETS Readiness, Form, Fitness, Sleep, and Volume on your home screen. BUILT FOR APPLE HEALTH Updraft reads the workouts and vitals you already record with Apple Watch and other apps. Nothing to log by hand. INTERVALS.ICU Already using intervals.icu? Bring your activities into Apple Health automatically — free for everyone. UPDRAFT PRO Your daily readiness score, workout basics, and weekly streak are free, forever. Updraft Pro unlocks long-term history, fitness and power analytics, training goals, the full records archive, and home-screen widgets. Terms of Use: https://updraft.cc/terms Privacy Policy: https://updraft.cc/privacy

Screenshots

Empty Fasting4 screens
Updraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Empty Fasting at none against Updraft's 3. Empty Fasting also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Empty Fasting versus Updraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmpty FastingUpdraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (84 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings84 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB36 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLight NudgeUpdraft Technologies FZ-LLC

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
Show 7 more
  • 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

Updraft

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Empty Fasting

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Updraft

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Empty Fasting free?
Empty Fasting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Updraft free?
Updraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Empty Fasting or Updraft have ads?
Neither Empty Fasting nor Updraft shows ads.

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