PlankQuest vs Steadfast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlankQuest
This app gamifies plank exercises with visual timers and challenges to improve fitness. Earn coins to unlock profile customizations and learn proper form through a dedicated academy. Compete daily and strive for higher ranks to showcase your planking skills.
- Gamified plank timer
- Visual rings and on-screen timer
- Personal best tracking
- Profile customization with unlockable cosmetics
- Plank form guide (Academy)
- Daily plank challenges
- Rank progression system
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Plank Quest is a fun app to improve your overall fitness by doing planks! Time your planks with enhancing visual rings and an on-screen timer. See your personal best time! Customize your profile by climbing the ranks to unlock different background colors, and collect cosmetic badges with coins earned from each plank. Learn proper plank form with Plank Quest Academy, a detailed guide to mastering plank form. Compete in a daily challenge with a random plank variation and time. Spend your coins earned from planks on a variety of different cosmetics to display on your profile! Based on your personal best time, you can also earn different ranks to showcase your planking skills. Can you reach Legendary Rank? With Plank Quest, fitness becomes a game, and unlocking new planking personal bests is a blast!
Steadfast
This app helps you track your fasting windows and hydration with a simple, ad-free interface. It offers customizable schedules, water logging, and insights into your body's fasting zones. Premium features provide advanced analytics and customization options.
- One-tap fasting timer
- Water tracking with goals
- Fasting zone insights
- Streak tracking
- Hydration reminders
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Watch app
- HealthKit integration
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The simple fasting tracker for people who just want to fast — not navigate a bloated wellness platform. No account. No ads. No data collection. Free forever, with optional Premium for power users. Whether you're running 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, 14:10, OMAD, or a custom schedule, Steadfast tracks your fasting windows with a clean, focused interface that stays out of your way. EVERYTHING YOU NEED — FREE One-Tap Fasting Timer Start, pause, and complete fasts with a single tap. Choose from 9 presets (12:12 through 48-hour fasts) or dial in any custom duration. Water Tracking Built In Log water right from the Timer screen. Set your bottle size, pick a daily goal, and tap to log. Your hydration counts toward both your wellness goal AND Apple Health. Fasting Zones See what's happening in your body as you fast — from Fed State through Early Fasting, Fat Burning, Ketosis, and Autophagy. Evidence-based zone timings keep you informed and motivated. Fasting Streaks Stay motivated with streak tracking that rewards consistency. See your current streak and longest streak at a glance. Hydration Reminders Gentle nudges during active fasts to keep you drinking. Fully configurable — and never intrusive. Home Screen Widgets Fasting Timer, Fasting Heatmap, Hydration Heatmap, Combined Dashboard, and Water Quick-Add. All widgets match your app theme automatically. Apple Watch App Separate Fasting and Water tabs. Start fasts, log water, check your progress — all from your wrist. HealthKit Integration Water intake writes to Apple Health as dietary water. Weight syncs both ways. Your data stays yours. iCloud Sync Your fasts, water log, and streaks sync across all your devices. Fasting History and Calendar Review completed fasts with monthly stats — hours fasted, daily averages, and consistency tracking. PREMIUM — FOR THE EXTRA MILE Everything you need is already free. Premium unlocks: - Advanced Analytics — Heatmaps, week-over-week trends, and time-in-zones breakdowns - Custom Themes — Beach, Midnight, Slate, and more - CSV Export — Take your data wherever you need it - Extended Widget Library — Full widget gallery unlocked - Priority Support $3.99/month or $24.99/year — a fraction of what other fasting apps charge. WHY STEADFAST? Most fasting apps have expanded into calorie counters, meal loggers, AI coaches, and social networks — then locked basic features behind $70-80/year subscriptions. Steadfast does one thing well: help you fast consistently and stay hydrated. No bloat. No bait-and-switch. No account required. Just open the app and start. Built by ManifestLab. Questions or feedback? Reach us at support@manifestlab.dev. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://manifestlab.dev/steadfast/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlankQuest at none against Steadfast's 2. PlankQuest also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Steadfast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. PlankQuest asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PlankQuest against 5.0 for Steadfast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | PlankQuest | Steadfast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hector Serrano | CognitiveCore Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
PlankQuest
Steadfast
In-app purchases
PlankQuest
No in-app purchases
Steadfast
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$24.991 Year









