Fasting Timer vs Fasten
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fasting Timer
Effortlessly track intermittent fasting with this powerful app. Monitor fasting phases, including fat-burning and autophagy, and build healthy habits with various fasting plans. Start your journey in seconds with no account required.
- Circular countdown timer
- Real-time fasting phase tracking
- Multiple IF protocols
- Streak tracking
- Body Map visualization
- Home Screen Widget
- Zone notifications
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Fasting Timer is a simple intermittent fasting tracker. Start a fast with one tap, see which stage you are in, and look back on every fast. No account, no quiz: open the app and start. FREE • 14:10 and 16:8 timer with a stage ring and countdown • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you fast (supported iPhones) • History calendar for the last 7 days: edit start and end times, delete a fast or add one you forgot • End-of-fast summary with mood and a short note • Streaks, a weekly progress chart and badges • Water tracker • Reminders: fast complete, time to start, streak at risk • Dark and light themes PREMIUM • All plans: 18:6, 20:4, OMAD (23:1), 5:2 (mark your two low-calorie days), 36 h, 48 h, 72 h and custom fasts up to 168 hours • "In your body now" cards for each stage of your fast, with sources from peer-reviewed research • Learn library of short articles (a few are open to everyone, including "Who shouldn't fast") • Full history and detailed progress: longest fast, average, completion rate and a monthly heat map • Weight log in kg or lb, with a chart • Apple Health: read and save your weight, and optionally save water • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Extra reminders: one hour before your goal, eating window closing, stage milestones • No ads PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account or sign-up. Your fasts, notes and weight are stored on your device. The free version shows ads; Premium removes them. NOT MEDICAL ADVICE Fasting Timer is a tracking tool, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before fasting, especially before longer fasts or if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, have diabetes or another medical condition, or have a history of eating disorders. SUBSCRIPTION Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. The price and any free trial are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ralf9090.github.io/fasting-timer/privacy.html
Fasten
This app helps you track various fasting traditions and intermittent fasting schedules. It calculates exact start and end times based on location and tradition-specific calendars, providing countdowns, reminders, and progress tracking. It's designed for privacy with no ads or tracking.
- Support for 12 traditions and intermittent fasting
- Automatic date calculation from astronomical calendars
- Live countdown ring and widgets
- Customizable reminders
- Progress tracking with charts and streaks
- Private journal for reflections
- Offline functionality
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Your fast deserves more than a stopwatch. Fasten is a calm, private fasting companion for every tradition. Choose your faith or protocol and Fasten works out each fast's real start and end time from your location and the tradition's own calendar, counts it down, reminds you on time and keeps an honest record of your practice. 12 TRADITIONS, PLUS INTERMITTENT FASTING • Ramadan, Fajr to Maghrib with local prayer times • Sunnah fasts on Mondays and Thursdays • Orthodox Christian: Wednesdays and Fridays, Great Lent, the Apostles', Dormition and Nativity fasts • Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox fasting seasons • Catholic: Ash Wednesday, Fridays of Lent and Good Friday • Jewish: Yom Kippur, Tisha B'Av and the minor fasts • Hindu vrats and Navratri • Buddhist Uposatha, Jain Paryushana and Das Lakshana • LDS Fast Sunday and the Bahá'í Fast • Intermittent fasting: 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, OMAD or custom • Personal challenges with your own schedule Every plan shows its real rules, so you always know what the fast asks of you. DATES CALCULATED, NOT GUESSED Movable fasts come from built-in astronomical calendars: Hijri months from the new moon, the Hebrew calendar, Hindu lunar days, Western and Orthodox Easter, and Naw-Rúz from the equinox. Prayer and sun times use 13 recognised calculation methods with Standard or Hanafi Asr, matched to your country automatically. It all works offline. A TIMER YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE A live countdown ring shows how far you are, what remains and the exact window of today's fast. Start, end or skip in a tap. REMINDERS THAT ARRIVE ON TIME Get a reminder before each fast, plus alerts at the start, halfway and the end, all scheduled on your device so they fire even with the app closed. WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITY Keep the countdown on your home screen. On iPhone, a Live Activity follows a running fast on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. On Android, an ongoing notification does the same. SEE YOUR DISCIPLINE GROW • Calendar with completed, missed and upcoming fasts, plus the Hijri month • Log a past fast with your own times • Streaks, total hours, completion rate and personal bests • Weekly hours and monthly activity charts • A private weekly reflection journal SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE English, Arabic, Amharic and Hindi, with a full right-to-left layout for Arabic. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. Your location, if you share it, is used only to calculate sun and prayer times and never leaves your phone. Export a backup file whenever you like and restore it on a new device. Fasten is free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Start every fast with purpose.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fasten at 4.5 against Fasting Timer's 3.0. Fasten also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Fasting Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Fasting Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Fasten asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fasten holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Fasting Timer ships an update every 3 days, Fasten every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Fasting Timer | Fasten |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Batuhan Senavci | Yoel Mebrahtu |
In-app purchases
Fasting Timer
- Premium Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
Fasten
No in-app purchases









