Comparison

Fasting Companion vs Motive

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

Head to head
About

Fasting Companion

This app guides users through spiritual fasting with purpose, prayer, and reflection. It offers tools to stay focused, build consistency, and explore various types of fasts, fostering a deeper connection with faith.

Highlights
  • Guided fasting timers
  • Scripture encouragement
  • Prayer prompts
  • Reflection tools
  • Customizable fast types
  • Group fasting experiences
  • Journaling and notes
Features
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Fasting Companion helps you fast with purpose, pray with focus, reflect honestly, and stay encouraged through every stage of your spiritual journey. We aim to keep as much free as we can so that affordability is not an issue. We are deeply grateful for our Premium members. We want you to know that premium is not simply about unlocking more features—it also helps us maintain audio, resources, and ongoing content for the wider Fasting Companion community, including those who may not be able to afford a subscription. Our hope is to build a sustainable model where those who choose Premium help make meaningful spiritual support available to more people. Whether you are beginning your first fast or returning to a long-held spiritual discipline, Fasting Companion gives you a calm, Scripture-centred place to prepare, track, pray, reflect, and grow. Fasting can easily become confusing, pressured, or purely physical. This app is designed to help you slow down, create intentional space with God, and stay connected to the deeper spiritual purpose behind your fast. WHY FASTING COMPANION? • Fast with greater purpose Start each fast with a clear intention, a spiritual focus, and guidance that helps you remember why you began. • Stay grounded while you fast Use guided fasting timers, Scripture encouragement, prayer prompts, and reflection tools to stay spiritually centred throughout the journey. • Build consistency without pressure Fasting Companion supports gentle spiritual rhythm, not performance. It helps you return to prayer, reflection, and discipline in a way that feels calm and sustainable. • Make fasting more than abstaining from food Explore food fasts, partial fasts, biblical fasts, discipline fasts, and spiritual practices that help shape your attention, habits, and heart. • Pray with more focus Enter guided prayer moments designed to help you pause, surrender, listen, and reconnect with God during your fast. • Reflect on what God may be forming in you Use journaling, spiritual notes, daily reflections, and end-of-fast prompts to notice patterns, growth, struggles, and moments of clarity. • Stay encouraged through Scripture Receive Scripture-based encouragement designed to support your fast with truth, hope, peace, and spiritual direction. • Fast with others Invite friends into group fasting experiences, helping you stay encouraged, connected, and spiritually accountable. • Grow through guided Christian fasting journeys Premium fasting experiences provide deeper structure, reflection, prayer, milestones, and spiritual formation support. BUILT FOR A DEEPER SPIRITUAL RHYTHM Fasting Companion is for people who want fasting to become more than a timer, a goal, or an act of self-denial. It is for believers who want to create quiet space with God, build spiritual discipline, practise surrender, and become more attentive to what God may be forming in them. Whether you are pursuing a personal spiritual reset, a food fast, a partial fast, a discipline fast, a biblical fast, or a group fasting journey, Fasting Companion is designed to walk with you along the way. Fasting Companion is free to download and includes guided fasting, prayer, reflection, Scripture encouragement, journaling, fasting guidance, audio articles, and group fasting support. Optional Premium unlocks deeper guided Christian fasting journeys, expanded prayer and reflection experiences, personalised spiritual insights, spiritual formation tracking, premium milestones, enhanced widgets, and larger group fasting circles. Step into intentional rhythms of fasting, prayer, and reflection — and be shaped. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Motive

Features
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Earn your screen time. Motive locks the apps that steal your day and gives them back only when you've done what matters. Finish a real task, earn minutes, and spend them on the apps you love — guilt-free. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps to lock. Social, video, games — whatever pulls you in. Motive blocks them with Apple's Screen Time. • Get things done. Every task you complete earns minutes. Harder tasks earn more. • Spend them wisely. Unlock your apps for 15, 30 or 60 minutes. When time is up, they lock again automatically. • Start fresh every day. Unused minutes burn at midnight, so tomorrow is earned again. TASKS THAT FEEL GOOD • Your day as a stack of cards — swipe to complete, swipe to put it off. • Easy, medium and hard tasks with their own rewards. • Categories to keep work, study, home and health apart. • Repeating tasks and reminders, so routines run themselves. SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Weekly stats of earned minutes and finished tasks. • Streaks that keep you coming back. • A clear picture of how much of your day you've won back. KIDS MODE Turn Motive into a chore chart for your child. Homework and chores come first, games come later. A parent PIN protects settings and unlocks, and a playful theme makes it fun. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tasks stay on your device. Motive has no accounts and no ads, and it never sees which apps you use — Screen Time keeps that private. MOTIVE PRO Free gives you the core loop: up to 5 tasks a day and 15-minute unlocks. Pro unlocks everything: • Unlimited tasks every day • Repeating tasks with reminders • 30 and 60 minute unlocks • Custom rewards and categories • Kids mode with a parent PIN Motive Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of 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 anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://dammaker.app/motive/terms Privacy Policy: https://dammaker.app/motive/privacy

Screenshots

Fasting Companion4 screens
Motive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Motive at every 2 days against Fasting Companion's every 9 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Fasting Companion sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Motive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fasting Companion ships an update every 9 days, Motive every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Fasting Companion versus Motive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFasting CompanionMotive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB10 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRODNEY PATRICK BYFIELDAleksandr Demenkov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Fasting Companion

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Join our fasting community.$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Motive

Subscriptions3
  • Motive Pro Weekly$1.991 Month
  • Motive Pro Month$4.991 Month
  • Motive Pro Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Fasting Companion free?
Fasting Companion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Motive free?
Motive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fasting Companion or Motive have ads?
Neither Fasting Companion nor Motive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fasting Companion or Motive?
Fasting Companion ships an update every 9 days, and Motive every 2 days. Most recently, Fasting Companion was updated on October 24, 2026 and Motive on October 31, 2026.

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