Comparison

Intermittent Fasting vs Instead

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

Head to head
About

Intermittent Fasting

This app helps you track intermittent fasting, guiding you through different biological stages like ketosis and autophagy. It offers personalized insights and progress monitoring without requiring an account or collecting your data. Stay motivated with features like body score, streaks, and smart notifications.

Highlights
  • Private intermittent fasting tracker
  • Real-time biological stage tracking
  • Body score for progress monitoring
  • Apple Watch app and widgets
  • HealthKit sync
  • Customizable fasting protocols
Features
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Burn is an intermittent fasting tracker that shows exactly what your body is doing, hour by hour. Start a fast in one tap and watch fat burning, ketosis and autophagy arrive in real time. WHAT MAKES BURN DIFFERENT Most fasting apps give you a countdown. Burn gives you the biology behind it. As your fast progresses you can see glycogen dropping, fat burning starting, ketosis beginning and autophagy switching on. When you can see the stages, every hour feels earned. SEE EVERY FASTING STAGE Follow your fast through Fed, Catabolic, Fat Burning, Ketosis and Autophagy on a live timeline, so you always know where you are and what comes next. Stages are educational estimates built to keep you motivated and consistent. ONE SCORE FOR EVERY FAST Body Score combines your fasting consistency and your weight trend into a single number. Instead of judging progress by the scale alone, you get a clearer view of whether your routine is actually moving in the right direction. EVERY PLAN, FROM BEGINNER TO ADVANCED 16:8 to start and learn the rhythm 18:6 and 20:4 when you are ready to go deeper OMAD for one meal a day Extended and open-ended fasts with no time cap Custom windows for any schedule that fits your life ALWAYS IN VIEW Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets Live Activities and Dynamic Island Apple Watch app and complications Smart notifications at the moments that matter HealthKit sync and iCloud backup Dark Mode TRACK WHAT CHANGES Log your weight, review every completed fast, build streaks, hit personal records and watch your trends over weeks and months rather than days. FREE TO START The core fasting timer is free with no usage limits. Burn Pro unlocks Body Score, Apple Watch, widgets, advanced insights and analytics, history editing, progress trends and personal records. Whether this is your first 16:8 or your fiftieth extended fast, Burn stays out of the way and lets the timer do the talking. Download Burn and start your next fast. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Burn is a health and fitness tracking tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Fasting stages, insights and health information are educational estimates only. Speak with a qualified healthcare professional before starting a fasting routine, especially if you have a medical condition, are pregnant, underweight, have a history of eating disorders, or take medication. Privacy Policy: https://wraithbit.com/burn-privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Download Burn and start your next fast.

About

Instead

Features
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Whether the urge is loud or quiet, Instead helps you walk through it, create space before you act, and see how much ground you’ve taken back—one street at a time. • Fog that clears when you walk Your map starts covered. Walk instead of acting on an urge, and the fog lifts behind you, leaving a trail in that urge’s color. Over time, you build a map only you could make. • Walk through what you’re fighting Lust, doomscrolling, texting your ex, anxiety, or anything you add. Every walk has a reason, so your map becomes a record of what you’ve walked through, not just where you’ve been. • Your map, your colors Give each urge a color and watch it spread across the streets you reclaim. Every trail means something because every trail started with a choice. • See the urge shift Rate how strong it feels before you walk and again when you finish. See what changed while distance, time, and steps add up. • History with a place Every walk keeps its route, stats, and location, letting you look back and see where certain urges show up and how you responded. • Progress you can see Watch your revealed map grow over time. A few blocks become streets. Streets become neighborhoods. Every walk becomes part of something bigger. Why Instead An urge is a moment. Instead gives you somewhere to go with it. Walk long enough to create some distance between the feeling and what you do next, then leave something behind you can actually see: a cleared street, a colored path, another piece of your map reclaimed. Download Instead and start revealing your map. The next urge is a walk away. OUR FOG FEATURES REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Intermittent Fasting4 screens
Instead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Instead at 5.0 against Intermittent Fasting's 3.8. Intermittent Fasting's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Intermittent Fasting sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Instead sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Instead holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intermittent Fasting has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Intermittent Fasting versus Instead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntermittent FastingInstead
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWraithBit, IncVisionFuture

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Intermittent Fasting

Subscriptions2
  • Burn Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Burn Pro Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
6 purchases

Instead

Subscriptions6
  • Unlock Instead2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Unlock Instead$14.991 Month
  • Unlock Instead$29.991 Year
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  • Unlock Instead3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Unlock Instead$39.991 Year
  • Unlock Instead3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Intermittent Fasting free?
Intermittent Fasting is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Instead free?
Instead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Intermittent Fasting or Instead?
Instead is rated higher. Intermittent Fasting averages 3.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Instead averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Intermittent Fasting or Instead have ads?
Neither Intermittent Fasting nor Instead shows ads.

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