Comparison

Easy Fasting vs Nightpenny

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

Head to head
About

Easy Fasting

Features
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Easy Fasting is a calm, simple intermittent fasting tracker. Tap start after your last meal, then watch your progress fill toward your goal, on the app, on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE A progress ring shows how long you've fasted, how much is left and exactly when you'll reach your goal. Forgot to tap start? Just adjust the start time. A PLAN FOR EVERY RHYTHM Choose a popular plan like 16:8, 18:6, 20:4 or one meal a day (23:1), or set your own goal from 12 to 72 hours. Switch any time, even mid-fast. FASTING PHASES See what your body is likely doing right now, from digesting to fat burning to ketosis, and when the next phase begins. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A Live Activity keeps your fast in view on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for a quick glance. WATCH YOUR STREAK GROW History shows your streak, total fasts, average fast, how often you hit your goal and a weekly chart. Edit or delete any past fast. GENTLE REMINDERS Get a notification the moment you reach your goal, and an optional daily reminder when it's time to start. Reminders skip days you're already fasting. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your fasting history stays on your device. Easy Fasting is free on iPhone and iPad, with a warm dark mode that's easy on the eyes. Easy Fasting is a tracking tool and doesn't provide medical advice. If you're pregnant, breastfeeding, have diabetes, a history of eating disorders or another medical condition, talk to a doctor before fasting.

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Nightpenny

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Your sleep is a running balance. Good nights deposit, short nights withdraw. Pennie, a warm copper piggy bank, shows where you stand and walks you through a quiet weekly ritual to catch back up. No hustle. No optimization. No shame. Just a quiet weekly ritual and a number that tells you where you stand. FROM A NIGHT'S SLEEP TO A SUNDAY HABIT • PASSIVE TRACKING Pennie reads sleep from Apple Health. You sleep, we count. No extra hardware, no fiddly logging. • A RUNNING 14-NIGHT BALANCE A signature 270° gauge shows your balance: hours owed, hours banked. Updated every morning. • THE SUNDAY RITUAL Three quiet minutes every Sunday. A statement of the week, one line from Pennie, and a repayment plan you actually want to follow. • REPAYMENT PLAN, ON YOUR PACE Pick Gentle (+30 min/night), Steady (+1 hour), or Ambitious (+1.5 hours). Bedtime events sync to Apple Calendar in one tap. • FORECAST WITHOUT THE FEAR See the next 30 nights at your current pace, plus a typical-dip heatmap of where your energy historically wobbles. Patterns, never predictions. • APPLE WATCH + WIDGETS Six widget families: small, medium, large, lock-screen circle, rectangle, inline. A wrist app and complications that keep your balance one flick away. • WEEKLY SHARE CARD Tap the gauge on Sunday to export a five-second vertical clip of your week. Strava-grade restraint. Share Pennie without sharing numbers you'd rather keep. WHAT WE'RE NOT Not a medical device. Nightpenny does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition. Not a pressure cooker. No streaks to break. No red alerts. Debt is a number, not a character flaw. Not a data broker. Sleep stays on your phone. No server, no ads, no data sold. Analytics is opt-in and never carries numeric sleep values. THE SCIENCE, QUIETLY Balance is computed using a 14-night rolling sum (Van Dongen et al. 2003), with surplus above 1h discounted at 40% (recovery is slower than accumulation, per the Sleep Foundation), and clamped at āˆ’8 hours. Full methodology lives inside the app, in Settings → About. PRICING Free • Current balance + last 7 nights • Pennie's daily greeting Premium • Full 14-night ledger • The Sunday Ritual + Calendar sync • Repayment Plan + 30-night Forecast • All six widgets, share card, Apple Watch app • Rich notifications and the full Pennie speech library $6.99 / month (billed today, no trial) $59.99 / year (14-day free trial, save 30%) Built by Foxtaming, an indie studio of one. Questions, weather reports, or sleep stories: contact@nightpenny.com. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nightpenny.com/terms Ā· Privacy: https://nightpenny.com/privacy

Screenshots

Easy Fasting4 screens
Nightpenny4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Easy Fasting at none against Nightpenny's 2. Nightpenny's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 31 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Nightpenny sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Easy Fasting asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Fasting ships an update every 31 months, Nightpenny every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Easy Fasting versus Nightpenny: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy FastingNightpenny
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 31 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISTACK DEVELOPMENTThomas Sobstyl

In-app purchases

None

Easy Fasting

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Nightpenny

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$3.991 Month
  • Annual Premium14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Easy Fasting free?
Easy Fasting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nightpenny free?
Nightpenny is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Easy Fasting or Nightpenny have ads?
Neither Easy Fasting nor Nightpenny shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Easy Fasting or Nightpenny?
Easy Fasting ships an update every 31 months, and Nightpenny every 4 weeks. Most recently, Easy Fasting was updated on November 4, 2026 and Nightpenny on October 31, 2026.

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