PerfectFast vs BetterFast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PerfectFast
This app helps you track intermittent and extended fasting periods with a clean, focused interface. It supports various fasting schedules, custom durations, and provides detailed history and statistics to monitor your progress.
- Intermittent and extended fast tracking
- Custom fasting schedules
- Fasting history and statistics
- Reminders and notifications
- Apple Watch companion app
- Live Activity support
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PerfectFast helps you track intermittent and extended fasts with a calm, focused experience. Set up a fasting plan, follow your active fast, review your history, and see progress statistics without clutter. The app supports common fasting schedules, custom durations, reminders, fasting stages, history views, statistics, appearance settings, local data export, and Live Activity support on compatible devices. Log water, weight, blood glucose, and ketones beside your fasts, and read them on the fast's own clock in the Fast Timeline, with resting heart rate, heart rate variability, body composition, and sleep from Apple Health if you connect it. The Apple Watch companion lets you check your current or scheduled fast from your wrist, start or end a fast when your iPhone is nearby, and keep progress on your watch face with complications. Your fasting data stays on your device unless you choose to export or share it.
BetterFast
This app simplifies intermittent fasting with a clean, privacy-focused interface. It allows tracking of various fasting protocols, provides helpful widgets and notifications, and offers data export without requiring an account or subscriptions.
- Track any fasting protocol
- No account or subscription required
- Privacy-focused, data stays on device
- Home screen widgets for progress
- Reminder and encouragement notifications
- Streak tracking and history charts
- Data export functionality
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Fasting should be simple. BetterFast gets out of your way and lets you focus on what matters — your fast. No subscriptions. No account required. No "AI coaching" you didn't ask for. Just clean, reliable fasting tracking that respects your privacy. Track Any Protocol Whether you practice 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, 24-hour fasts, or your own custom schedule, BetterFast handles it. Set your goal and start — it really is that simple. Built for Privacy BetterFast doesn't require an account. Your fasting data stays on your device. We never collect your name, email, or contact details. Start fasting in seconds — no sign-up, no strings attached. Stay on Track Home screen widgets so you can check your progress at a glance Reminder and encouragement notifications to keep you going Streak tracking to celebrate your consistency Charts to visualize your fasting history over time Your Data, Your Way Export your full fasting history anytime. No lock-in, no gatekeeping. Completely Free Full functionality, no paywalls, no premium tiers. BetterFast is supported by ads so you can focus on your health — not your wallet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PerfectFast at none against BetterFast's shown. PerfectFast also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PerfectFast against 5.0 for BetterFast. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PerfectFast has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PerfectFast ships an update every 9 days, BetterFast every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PerfectFast | BetterFast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Idan Lupinsky | Daniel Mayers |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
PerfectFast
No in-app purchases
BetterFast
No in-app purchases
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