Comparison

Empty Fasting vs Hatchmark

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
Read full description

· 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

Hatchmark

Read full description

Most habit trackers are bloated. Ads pop up right as you're trying to check off your day. Points, badges, levels, and streak-freezes pile on until the thing you actually wanted — to build a habit — gets buried. Hatchmark is the opposite. Pick up to three habits. Tap today's square. Watch your streak grow. That's the whole app, and that's on purpose. WHY THREE HABITS Three is the default on purpose. Focus beats scattering your attention across a dozen half-kept goals — track everything and you end up tracking nothing. Start with three. Hatchmark keeps you honest about what actually matters. NO ADS. EVER. Not on a free tier, not "non-intrusive" ones, not ever. Hatchmark will never sell your attention. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no cloud, no tracking. Nothing to leak because nothing leaves your phone. BUILT TO FEEL GOOD - Tap a day to mark it done — with a satisfying fill and a soft haptic tap - A clean monthly calendar for each habit, so you see your whole rhythm at a glance - Plan ahead: long-press any day to mark days you intend to show up - A simple streak counter — consecutive days, nothing more to decode - Per-habit colors and emoji to make each one yours - Beautiful light and dark themes that follow your system automatically NO CLUTTER No social feed. No gamification treadmill. No badges, levels, or streak-freezes to buy your way out of a missed day. Just the streak, and the quiet satisfaction of not breaking it. HATCHMARK PRO — OPTIONAL, ONE TIME Everything above is free and stays free. Nothing that works today will move behind a paywall later. If you outgrow the free app, Hatchmark Pro is a single purchase — no subscription — that adds: - Unlimited habits - 12 more colors, plus a custom color picker - 36 habit icons, tinted to match each habit - Statistics for every habit - Export your full history as CSV or JSON Buy it once and it is yours for good. Still no ads. Download Hatchmark, pick your three, and start today.

Screenshots

Empty Fasting4 screens
Hatchmark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Empty Fasting at none against Hatchmark's 1. Hatchmark's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Hatchmark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Empty Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, Hatchmark every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Empty Fasting versus Hatchmark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmpty FastingHatchmark
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (83 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings83 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB18 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLight NudgePaul Casian Taropa

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

Hatchmark

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Empty Fasting

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Hatchmark

One-time1
  • Hatchmark Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Empty Fasting free?
Empty Fasting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hatchmark free?
Hatchmark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Empty Fasting or Hatchmark have ads?
Neither Empty Fasting nor Hatchmark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Empty Fasting or Hatchmark?
Empty Fasting ships an update every 3 days, and Hatchmark every 4 days. Most recently, Empty Fasting was updated on November 4, 2026 and Hatchmark on November 6, 2026.

Other comparisons