Fasten vs Fasting Center
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fasten
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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.
Fasting Center
Plan extended fasts with personalized projections. Input your body stats and desired duration to estimate weight change, fat loss, and energy use. This data-driven tool provides a clear starting point for your fasting journey.
- Personalized fast planning
- Extended fast duration options
- Projected weight change
- Estimated fat loss
- Energy use projection
- Data-driven starting point
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Fasting Center is a fasting timer and tracker for intermittent and extended fasting. Start a fast, watch the ring fill, see which stage your body is in, and keep your numbers in one place. Fast your way - Plans from 12:12 to 23:1 (OMAD), extended fasts of 24, 36, 48 and 72 hours, an open fast with no end, or a specific end time - A live ring that shows time elapsed, time left or percent. Tap the ring to switch - Change the start or end time whenever you need to - Milestone notifications and a reminder before your fast ends - A celebration when you finish, with your mood, a note and a picture of your fast to share Know what is happening - 17 fasting stages, from digestion to refeeding, and what each one means - Tips that make fasting easier - The scientific sources behind the stages and the calculators Log what matters - Weight, body fat, waist, ketones, blood glucose and blood pressure - Energy, hunger, motivation and anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10 - Calories, water, sodium, potassium and magnesium - Daily notes, and past fasts you add by hand - Apple Health - read weight, body fat, steps, heart rate and glucose, and write weight and body fat back See your patterns - A fasting calendar, charts of your fasting hours, recent fasts and streaks - Trends for your measurements and how you feel, and your BMI - Patterns found in your own data, such as when you feel hungriest Calculators - Extended fasting - estimate the weight you lose in a fast of 1 to 40 days, split into fat, protein, water and gut contents, with a refeeding guide - Intermittent fasting and calorie deficit - set a goal weight or daily calories and see a day-by-day projection Everywhere you look - Home screen widgets, a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and an Apple Watch app with complications - Dark mode, accent colors, and pounds, kilograms or stones - Sixteen languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu and Bengali - Import fasts from Easy Fast or Zero, and export your data to Excel - Use it without an account, or sign in with email, Google or Apple to sync between your devices Important Fasting Center is for general wellness and education. It is not medical advice. Extended fasting is not right for everyone, especially if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, under 18, underweight, or have a medical condition such as diabetes or a history of eating disorders. Talk to your doctor before you start. Weight and body composition projections are estimates, not predictions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fasting Center at every 3 days against Fasten's every 2 months. Fasting Center also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (26 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fasting Center holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fasting Center has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Fasten ships an update every 2 months, Fasting Center every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Fasten | Fasting Center |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yoel Mebrahtu | Andrey Titov |
In-app purchases
Fasten
No in-app purchases
Fasting Center
No in-app purchases









