Comparison

Empty Fasting vs Exorcise

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

Exorcise

Features
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Exorcise is a strength-training app that's as smart as it is playful. Meet Boo, your ghostly gym companion who builds balanced workouts, tracks every set, and keeps you progressing. SMART WORKOUTS - Auto-generate balanced workouts from 870+ exercises based on your equipment and recovery. - Pick a goal (strength, hypertrophy, or endurance) and Boo adjusts the plan. - Swap any exercise for a same-muscle alternative, or create your own. SPECTRAL AGE & INSIGHTS - Discover your Spectral Age - the age your body trains like - on the new Insights tab, from your Apple Health cardio fitness, recovery, daily steps, and training. Watch it trend younger. - Spectral Age, daily steps, recovery trends, your muscle map, progress charts, and personal records, all in one place. INTELLIGENT COACHING - Suggested weights that go up when you hit your reps, hold when you miss, and deload after a stall. - Personal records and estimated 1-rep max, with a progress chart per exercise. TRACK EVERYTHING - Fast set logging with +/- weight steppers and a rest timer that starts automatically. - Full workout history with a calendar and per-session detail. - Muscle-recovery heatmap and a daily readiness score from Apple Health. APPLE WATCH - Control your workout from your wrist with live heart rate, set logging, and the rest timer - and your watch saves the workout, with heart rate and calories, to Apple Health. LIVE ACTIVITY - See your current exercise, set progress, and rest countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island - and complete a set without opening the app. STAY MOTIVATED - Build a Soul Streak and climb ghostly ranks, with weekly streaks and achievements. Shake your phone to summon Boo. Your data lives on your device and syncs with Apple Health only with your permission.

Screenshots

Empty Fasting4 screens
Exorcise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Empty Fasting at 17.0 against Exorcise's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, Exorcise every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Empty Fasting versus Exorcise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmpty FastingExorcise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (84 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings84 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLight NudgeChristopher Sivori

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

Exorcise

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Empty Fasting

No in-app purchases

None

Exorcise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Empty Fasting free?
Empty Fasting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Exorcise free?
Exorcise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Empty Fasting or Exorcise have ads?
Neither Empty Fasting nor Exorcise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Empty Fasting or Exorcise?
Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, and Exorcise every 2 days. Most recently, Empty Fasting was updated on October 15, 2026 and Exorcise on October 7, 2026.

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