CoreFast vs Faaast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CoreFast
This app helps you track intermittent fasting with customizable plans and a live timer. It offers optional food and water logging, and can integrate with health data. Features include reminders, streaks, and social challenges, all while prioritizing user privacy.
- Customizable intermittent fasting plans
- Live accurate timer
- Optional food and water logging
- Apple Health integration for readings
- Privacy-focused, data stays on device
- Widgets and Apple Watch app support
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CoreFast is a calm intermittent fasting tracker that keeps your data on your phone. Pick a plan, tap Start, and see where your fast is at a glance. No account. No ads. No surprise charges. Ending a fast early is recorded neutrally, never as a failure. Today and plans • A live timer that stays accurate if you close the app or go offline • Daily plans from 12:12 to 23:1, plus 5:2, alternate-day, Sunrise to sunset and a custom plan • Each plan explains what a day on it looks like before you switch • Water tracking with your own daily goal • Optional local reminders, with quiet hours • Optional streaks with a weekly rest day, and challenges you choose to join • Longer fasts come with a short sheet on what to expect and when to stop Food log (optional) • Log what you eat during your eating window • Scan packaged foods by barcode (you can turn this off in Settings) • See calories that other apps log to Apple Health Health readings (optional) Connect Apple Health to see last night's sleep, steps, active calories, resting heart rate, HRV and glucose next to your fast. CoreFast only reads; it never writes to Apple Health. Vitals shows your readings over 7 days, 30 days or all time, compared only with your own usual range, and a summary you can share if you choose. Readings are shown as recorded, not as an assessment. Insights and Learn Trends, history and a month calendar show how your fasts have gone. Week on week compares you only with yourself. Learn has 18 short reads in plain language, each with a link to its source. New to fasting? For your first four weeks, Today shows one short tip a day. Circles (optional) Fast alongside a few friends. Share your status, send a cheer, or run a group challenge, like Sugar free or a water goal, with a shared leaderboard. Updates are encrypted and pass through a relay that keeps them for up to 24 hours. Your fasting history and health readings are never sent. Widgets, Watch and Siri • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets; fast details stay hidden while your iPhone is locked • A Live Activity and Dynamic Island countdown • An Apple Watch app with one-tap End and Undo • Siri, Shortcuts, and Controls for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button Private by design Your fasts, food log, water and health readings stay on your device, stored encrypted. They are never sent to us or to any server. If you turn on barcode scanning, only the barcode number is looked up, at Open Food Facts. No account, no ads, no third-party analytics or tracking. Your location is used only if you choose the Sunrise to sunset plan, and is kept on your phone. Export a backup or spreadsheet whenever you like, or delete everything from Settings. A note on safety CoreFast is a tracking tool for general wellness. It is not a medical device and does not give medical advice. Fasting isn't right for everyone: talk to your clinician before you start, especially if you are pregnant, take medicines for diabetes, or have a history of disordered eating. Stop and eat if you feel unwell. A few private questions at the start can switch CoreFast to simple time logging, a quieter app with no streaks or longer plans. Questions or feedback: corefast.support@icloud.com
Faaast
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Faaast is the intermittent fasting tracker that does it all, and keeps it to itself. Start a fast in one tap, watch the hours fill, and see your habit take shape day by day. No account, no ads, no noise. TRACK EVERY FAST • 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, OMAD, 12:12, 14:10, 36 hours, or your own length • Watch the hours fill on the timer style you like: hour blocks, ticks, gauge, filling disc or digital • Go past your goal and the extra hours burn as flame blocks • Got the time wrong? Change any start or end afterwards • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, including one that starts or ends a fast with a tap • Reminders at halfway, at your goal, before your eating window closes and to keep your streak alive SEE YOUR HABIT TAKE SHAPE • A calendar where every fast lands on the day it ends, and good days join up into streaks • See your calendar by goals reached or by hours fasted • Tap any day to see its fasts, water and weight, and edit or delete a fast • Compare this month with the last, and look back over every past month • Your records: average and longest fast, total hours, current and best streak, consistency and the time you usually start • A weekly goal that fits how you fast • A recap card for every week and month in three styles, Faaast, Blocks and Paper, ready to share TRACK YOUR WEIGHT AND YOUR PROGRESS • Log your weight, pick kg, lb or stones, and set a goal • Take a progress photo each month or week, kept only on your iPhone, with an optional Face ID lock • A faint guide from your last photo helps you line up the same pose • Swap the background of your photos for clean white or paper, done on your iPhone • Put any two photos side by side and see what the scale can't STAY MOTIVATED • 62 achievements for fasts, hours, streaks, weekly goals and a few hidden ones to find • Badges change colour as you level up, with a shine when you unlock one MAKE IT YOURS • Light and dark mode • Three app icons to choose from: Ink, Paper and Ember PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no sign-up. Your fasts, weight and photos stay on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud if you turn on backup. • Bring your history from another fasting app (CSV or JSON), and export everything any time FAAAST PRO Unlock more out of every fast: • Fasting stages: what your body is typically doing, hour by hour, with an alert as you reach each stage • Water and electrolytes, logged with one tap • Your weight trend and goal on a chart, next to your fasts • Weight sync with Apple Health • Automatic iCloud backup, and your history restored on a new iPhone in one tap • Three extra timer styles: Flip clock, Countdown and Departure board • A progress photo every day Faaast Pro is €69.99 a year, €7.99 a month, or €79.99 once for life. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://faaast.arecon.eu/privacy/ Faaast isn't medical advice. Talk to your doctor before fasting, and don't fast without medical advice if you're pregnant or breastfeeding, under 18, have had an eating disorder, or take insulin or other glucose-lowering medication.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CoreFast at none against Faaast's 3. CoreFast also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Faaast sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CoreFast asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | CoreFast | Faaast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SATISH CHANDRA KOLLI | Arecon LP |
In-app purchases
CoreFast
No in-app purchases
Faaast
- Faaast Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Faaast Pro Yearly$34.991 Year
- Faaast Pro Lifetime$69.99





