Comparison

Forge vs Fastly Fasting Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Forge

This app offers structured self-improvement through guided practices inspired by Benjamin Franklin's methods. It provides multi-week guides focused on essential skills, decision-making, boundary setting, and more, helping users track their growth over time.

Highlights
  • Structured multi-week self-improvement guides
  • Virtue cultivation based on Benjamin Franklin's method
  • Track progress and celebrate growth
  • Guides for essential skills, decision-making, and boundaries
  • Local data storage for privacy
  • Optional biometric authentication
Features
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Continuous self-improvement through structured practice. The method of Forge Guides comes from Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, inventor, writer, and statesman who spent years faithfully working on his own character. He identified virtues he wanted to cultivate and worked through them in rotation, focusing on one at a time, week by week, and marking his failures rather than just his successes. Forge Guides is built around that same idea, updated for modern life and expanded into six structured multi-week guides you can work through at your own pace: - Essential Skills: Core foundations for personal growth, self-management, and meaningful relationships - Decision-Making Lens: A systematic way to work through a difficult decision - Boundary Setting: Learning to protect your time and energy with clarity and confidence - Recovery Fundamentals: Rebuilding your foundation step by step after setbacks, burnout, or difficult periods - Franklin's Original: Benjamin Franklin's personal 13 virtues in original 18th-century language - Practical Life Skills: Habits that build self-esteem and a more purposeful life CELEBRATE YOUR GROWTH OVER TIME Celebrate over time marking less and less while you progress in virtue, skill, and self-mastery. "I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it." — Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography ** SECURITY & PRIVACY ** - Your data is stored locally and stays on your device. - Biometric authentication can be enabled to protect access to your app. ** SUBSCRIPTION & DONATION ** Subscribe to access Widget Studio or to support the app. Most features of the app are free, no subscription required. Widget Studio ~ Design your own personalized widget and track the virtue or skill of the week on your home screen. - Color palettes in light and dark mode - Selection of fonts, including modern, retro, handwritten, chalkboard, casual and formal styles - In-app live previews - Change your widget designs anytime Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage plans and turn off auto-renewal in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy: https://startinjune-apps.github.io/forge-guides/privacy/ Terms: https://startinjune-apps.github.io/forge-guides/terms/

About

Fastly Fasting Tracker

Features
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Lose weight and take control of your eating with Fastly — the complete intermittent fasting tracker with no subscription. Start a fast in one tap and watch a beautiful timer reveal exactly what your body is doing right now: fat-burning, ketosis, and autophagy. Follow any schedule, track your weight and progress, build streaks, and stay motivated — with no $70/year subscription. Most fasting apps lock the features that keep you consistent behind an expensive paywall. Fastly gives you everything, with no paywall. LIVE FASTING STAGES See your body move through each stage as your fast progresses — fed, fat-burning, ketosis, autophagy, and growth hormone. Know exactly when you'll reach the next stage and what it does for your body. It's the motivation that gets you through the hard hours. A TIMER YOU CAN TRUST One-tap start and stop. A glowing ring fills as you fast and shifts color with each stage. Your elapsed time stays exact after backgrounding, a reboot, or a phone restart — because a wrong timer is the fastest way to quit. EVERY SCHEDULE INCLUDED 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, OMAD (23:1), 14:10, 12:12, 5:2, Warrior, Circadian, and fully custom. Beginner to advanced — switch anytime and set a recurring weekly plan. SEE YOUR RESULTS Log your weight and watch the trend move toward your goal. Track BMI, body measurements, fasting hours, average fast length, and completion rate with beautiful charts. STAY MOTIVATED Build streaks, take on challenges, earn milestones, and beat your longest fast. Visible progress is what keeps you going. WATER AND REMINDERS Track hydration and get calm, motivating reminders — fast start and end, eating-window open and close, "you'll reach ketosis in 1 hour," and log-your-weight nudges. LEARN AS YOU FAST Built-in guidance on fasting benefits, what breaks a fast, the science of the stages, and beginner tips — no paywall. NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO PAYWALL All fasting protocols, live stages, weight and progress tracking, streaks, challenges, water, reminders, and content are all included. No subscription, no "shell" tier. There's an optional one-time remove-ads upgrade if you'd like a clean screen. Whether you're starting your first 16:8 or chasing autophagy on OMAD, Fastly gives you the complete toolkit to lose weight, burn fat, and feel great through intermittent fasting. Download Fastly and start your first fast today — no subscription needed. Fastly is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Talk to your doctor before starting any fasting or weight-loss program.

Screenshots

Forge4 screens
Fastly Fasting Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fastly Fasting Tracker at none against Forge's 2. Fastly Fasting Tracker also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Forge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Fastly Fasting Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Forge versus Fastly Fasting Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForgeFastly Fasting Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStart in June LLCGunawan Santoso

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Forge

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan$39.991 Year
None

Fastly Fasting Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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