Comparison

Fasting Tracker vs hæl

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Fasting Tracker

This app helps you track intermittent fasting with a simple, ad-free timer. It offers core features for free, with optional Pro upgrades for advanced tracking, widgets, and Apple Watch integration. Your data is kept private with no account required.

Highlights
  • Intermittent fasting timer
  • Water tracking with reminders
  • Weight tracking
  • No account required
  • Ad-free experience
  • Advanced protocols (Pro)
  • Home screen widgets (Pro)
Features
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Start your intermittent fasting journey with Easy Fast — the simple, ad-free fasting app and habit tracker designed for weight loss and lasting results. Trusted by 2.4M+ fasters and rated 4.9 stars on the App Store. Hi, I'm Sam. I'm a solo developer and a long-time faster. I created a fasting tracker that is simple, powerful, and private. No invasive ads, no required accounts, and no data mining. Just a tool to help you reach your weight loss and health goals. CORE FEATURES (Free forever) Easy Fast is one of the most generous free fasting apps on the store: • Fasting Timer: Track popular daily fasts like 16:8 and 18:6. • Flexi Plan: Open-ended fasting with no time cap. You decide when to stop. • Fasting Stages: Track your body status from Ketosis to Autophagy. • Water Tracker: Log your hydration with smart reminders. • Weight Tracking: Monitor your weight loss progress over time. • Edit History: Forgot to hit stop? Easily adjust start and end times. • Zero Ads & No Accounts: Just download and focus on your health, not closing pop-ups. GO PRO (Unlock advanced tools & support a solo dev) • Advanced Plans: Unlock OMAD (One Meal A Day), 20:4, week-by-week programs, and extended fasts — matched to your weight loss goal. • Expert Stage Insights: Practical answers at every stage — how long hunger waves last, which drinks break a fast, and whether one bite ruins it. • Widgets, Live Activities & Apple Watch: Track your fast on the Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and right from your wrist. • Complete Tracking: Log body measurements, electrolytes, ketones, and glucose. • Cloud Sync & Backup: Keep your fasting history secure across all your devices. WHY CHOOSE EASY FAST? • Battery-Friendly: A true black Dark Mode that saves battery. • Privacy-First: Your data is never sold. Cloud Sync is entirely optional. • Community Trusted: Join millions of fasters using the most respectful app on the store. Whether you are a beginner starting 16:8 to lose weight or a veteran looking for a clean, ad-free timer, Easy Fast is the tool for you. Download the ultimate intermittent fasting tracker today. Easy Fast is an intermittent fasting tool and should not replace professional medical advice. Terms of Use: https://easyfastapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://easyfastapp.com/privacy

About

hæl

This app acts as a silent observer for your fasting periods and menstrual cycle, reflecting your body's natural rhythms through literary prose. It integrates with Apple Health to provide context-aware insights into your weight and fasting windows, offering a unique, non-prescriptive approach to wellness tracking.

Highlights
  • Fasting timer with literary observations
  • Menstrual cycle tracking via Apple Health
  • Phase-aware fasting window adjustments
  • Literary weight trend analysis
  • Weekly and monthly retrospective letters
  • On-device data privacy
  • Apple Watch and iPad support
Features
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hæl is a fasting timer that observes instead of coaching. the app watches the hours, reads the cycle, and reflects what it sees in prose. no prescription. no congratulation. most fasting apps count down and celebrate. hæl counts and stays quiet. the interface is a single ring. the language is literary. the body’s rhythm shapes what the app says and when. THE FIRST ENTRY hæl opens like a book: a title page, a note before the text, then a first entry written in your own blanks. fill what you like, leave the rest. THE FAST an ensō ring marks the hours. turn it to choose a duration, from eight hours to seven days, or tap the number to write any length: in hours, or by the time you will eat. tap to begin. the timer carries a name that changes as the fast deepens. lauds, prime, terce, vespers. names borrowed from the canonical hours. prose arrives about what the body is doing, not what it should do. overtime continues past the goal without comment. on longer fasts, the inner rings breathe. a day can be marked as rest instead, held without penalty. the fast itself is free and complete. THE CYCLE hæl reads the menstrual cycle through Apple Health, or from the dates you set. the ring tint shifts with the phase, and suggested windows follow it: shorter during menstruation, longer in the follicular days. cycle tracking is optional. non-cycle users receive their own prose register, rotating by month. THE BODY LEDGER weight is read against the cycle, on a ring that holds it. each morning is a bead on a thread. the ring swells where this body usually carries water, so a luteal rise rides inside the swell instead of reading as a gain. last cycle runs beside it as a faint thread: inside it, lighter than then. one line of prose says what the mornings show. the numbers can stay out of sight entirely. THE LETTERS weekly letters arrive on mondays: the fasting, the weight, the cycle, in the same quiet voice. monthly readings take the longer view. quarterly readings mark the turn of each season. once a year, a year-in-review colophon gathers the whole arc into one page. in the ledger, a correspondence appears one letter at a time, on the ensō, the canonical hours, the luteal phase, autophagy. a finite pool that goes quiet when the last page turns. THE COLOPHON when a fast ends, a page stays. the date spelled out, the hours witnessed, a line composed from what happened. a small ceremony, shareable. THE LEDGER a bound record of every fast, grouped by cycle or by month. past groups fold to a spine; tap one to unseal the colophons beneath. THE PRACTICE hydration tracking with eight water drops. notifications that observe the season, the morning, the phase. never demanding, always noticing. live activities on the lock screen and dynamic island. siri shortcuts for starting a fast or checking the hours. Apple Watch companion with a complication that carries its own witness line. iPad support. on iPhone Duo, open the fold and the pages lie open as a book. buttons and settings in eight languages. the prose stays in english. THE FULL WITNESS (one-time purchase) the free app sees the fast. the full witness sees the cycle. the ring becomes phase-aware. the body ledger reads the water and the last cycle. the letters and readings arrive in full. the ledger keeps its whole history, and its letters appear. milestone ceremonies mark the long stretches, seven days, thirty, ninety, a year. one purchase, nothing recurring. PRIVACY all data lives on-device, in Apple Health, and in your own iCloud. no account. no server of ours sees it. purchases are verified by Apple and RevenueCat; usage and purchases are counted anonymously by TelemetryDeck. neither sees your records. hæl is not a medical device. it does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. fasts beyond forty-eight hours should be medically supervised. the app says so every time. settings links to eating disorder support.

Screenshots

Fasting Tracker4 screens
hæl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Fasting Tracker at 9.1K against hæl's 7. Fasting Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Fasting Tracker sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and hæl sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fasting Tracker against 5.0 for hæl. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fasting Tracker has 9.1K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Fasting Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of hæl's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fasting Tracker ships an update every 3 days, hæl every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fasting Tracker versus hæl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFasting Trackerhæl
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9.1K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.1K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB19 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSamtark Pty LtdKI-GEN STUDIOS LLC

Customer experience

Fasting Tracker

All ratings9,068 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.2%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews644 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral1.4%
Negative5.1%

hæl

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Fasting Tracker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inability to save measurements
  • Inconsistent widget updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • Community/social features
  • Ability to plan/schedule future fasts
  • Ketosis/fat-burning tracking

hæl

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Fasting Tracker

Subscriptions10
  • Seedling Sponsor$0.991 Month
  • Seedling Sponsor$1.991 Month
  • Seedling Sponsor$2.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • Seedling Sponsor$3.991 Month
  • Flourish Sponsor$4.991 Month
  • Easy Fast Pro$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Tip$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Tip$14.991 Month
  • Monthly Tip$19.991 Month
  • Easy Fast Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time7
  • Tip$1.99
  • Tip$2.99
  • Tip$3.99
Show 4 more
  • Tip$4.99
  • Tip$9.99
  • Tip$19.99
  • Tip$29.99
2 purchases

hæl

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • the full witness$19.99

Questions

Is Fasting Tracker free?
Fasting Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is hæl free?
hæl is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fasting Tracker or hæl?
hæl is rated higher. Fasting Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 9.1K ratings, while hæl averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Fasting Tracker or hæl have ads?
Neither Fasting Tracker nor hæl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fasting Tracker or hæl?
Fasting Tracker ships an update every 3 days, and hæl every 6 days. Most recently, Fasting Tracker was updated on October 26, 2026 and hæl on October 24, 2026.

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