Fastic: Food & Calorie Tracker 12+

Love it, Use it daily

Never tried intermittent fasting before. This app give you all the tools you need to be successful at it - education, motivation, timers. I find the motivational lessons good, and yes I fall off the wagon from time to time, but it’s easy to pick back up. Recent update allows you to set the days you want to fast, which is good, but would be great if you could set more that one fasting cycle, e.g. 16:8 during week, and then 14:10 at the weekends?

Simple to use interface with great lessons

I love how simple the interface is. I can check off all my tasks as I go along. It interfaces with my health app to record my steps that are recorded from a separate step app I use, so I can see at a glance how many steps of my daily goal I’ve walked. Also, the reminder to drink more water is outstanding. I thought it would be a reminder in the morning and that’s it. Nope, multiple times a day usually a couple of hours apart, if I don’t update the tracker with how much water I’ve drank, it notifies me to drink a glass of water. Such a simple thing, yet it really does make me more mindful of how much water I should be drinking every day.

The one thing that irritates me is the lessons. They are so informative, but every time I finish my fasting cycle the lessons reset themselves as if I never started any at all. I fully completed one of the Mind lessons last night and when I ended my fasting this morning, the Mind lesson I had fully completed reset itself along with all of the other lessons I was half way through.

I still have the stars from finishing them, so that’s good, but every day I have to read all of the lessons I read over the last few days just to regain my progress AND read the next days lessons. It might only be a small gripe in the scheme of things, but considering I am paying to use these lessons, it would be nice if the academy section worked the way it’s supposed to.

Generic App

This is exactly (I mean exactly) the same as other Fasting apps out there - and is let down by several key features:
1. The water reminder never works and is difficult for work out.
2. You can not edit data that was incorrectly stored so if you forget to stop the timer at the right time and the app records that you were fasting for 30 hours rather than 18, then all you can do is delete that days data.
3. There is no good calendar view of good days v bad days like other apps - so it’s not easy to get a snapshot of overall success versus your effort goals.
4. They really missed on this one - the meals can not be broken down by prep time - even though they all are listed with the prep time on the app (eg Lamb shanks 50 mins), you can’t just go and find a quick suggested 10 min meal by sorting / filtering
5. Finally and most frustratingly, there is no ‘diary’ to record any personal info like favourite meals, and why you fell down certain days etc so you can track and learn as you progress.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for the feedback. Constructive criticism like this helps us to make Fastic better. We will try to implement your suggestions and ideas promptly.