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EasyFasting vs Zero (2026): Which Fasting Tracker Fits How You Actually Fast?

EasyFasting EditorialJuly 31, 202614 min read

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You are not really choosing between a good fasting app and a bad one. Zero and EasyFasting are both competent trackers, and the honest question is which job you want the app to do. Zero is a fasting and food tracker that has grown into a broader health product. EasyFasting is a fasting timer that goes deep on the timer and stops there.

That distinction decides almost everything below: what you get free, what you pay, whether the app works on a plane, and whether you can fix a fast you forgot to end. This post compares the two as they are listed on the US App Store in July 2026, including the parts where Zero is clearly ahead. If you are new to the practice itself rather than to the apps, start with our intermittent fasting beginner’s guide and come back once you know which protocol you want to run.

The Short Answer

Pick Zero if you want fasting and nutrition in one place. Photo-based meal logging with macro analysis, a protein score, hydration, sleep, mood, challenges and trend analytics are all things EasyFasting simply does not have. Zero also has 4.8 stars from roughly 445,000 ratings, which is a track record no new app can claim.

Pick EasyFasting if the timer is the product. You get all five protocols free, a full Apple Watch app free, interactive Home and Lock Screen widgets free, and a timer you can edit, skip or delete after the fact. It works offline with no account. It costs $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and there is an $79.99 lifetime option, which Zero does not offer.

Side by Side

Feature	EasyFasting	Zero
Free protocols	All five (14:10, 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, OMAD)	Timers included in the free tier
Free fasting history	Last 7 days, plus a “This Week” snapshot	Basic tracking, streaks and insights in the free tier
Phase / science content	Six-phase model with basic phase info free; detailed phase cards and a Learn tab of structured courses	Free educational content on fasting science
Meal & macro logging	None	Zero Plus: photo meal logging with macro analysis and protein score (3 free logs for new users)
Home / Lock Screen widgets	Yes, free, interactive (start and stop without opening the app)	Not described in the App Store listing
Apple Watch app	Yes, free: full app, complications, Smart Stack card, works without the phone	Not described in the App Store listing
Works offline	Yes	No, an internet connection is required
Account required	No	Not stated; an internet connection is required
Monthly price	$7.99 (7-day free trial)	$9.99
Annual price	$39.99 (7-day free trial)	$69.99
One-time / lifetime	$79.99 lifetime	Not offered

Zero’s in-app purchases are listed at $9.99, $69.99 and $89.99. Only the first two map cleanly onto a monthly and an annual plan, so treat the third as a further paid option rather than a lifetime unlock, because no lifetime tier is offered.

Where Zero Is Stronger

A track record you can actually check

Zero holds 4.8 stars from approximately 445,000 ratings. That is not a marketing number, it is hundreds of thousands of people who kept the app long enough to rate it. A rating base that size tells you the app survives real use across years, devices and iOS updates.

EasyFasting launched in June 2026. It has no equivalent history and cannot pretend otherwise. If your decision rule is “pick the option that has already been stress-tested by a very large number of people,” that rule points at Zero, and it is a reasonable rule.

Food logging that is built in, not bolted on

Zero Plus includes photo-based meal logging with macro analysis and a personalized protein score. For anyone whose goal is body composition rather than just eating-window discipline, this is the feature that matters most, because what you eat in the window drives the outcome as much as the window itself.

EasyFasting has no meal logging, no calorie or macro tracking, no recipes and no coach. That is a deliberate scope choice, not a roadmap gap being coy about itself. If you want the fast and the food in one timeline, Zero wins outright, and new users get three free meal logs to see whether the photo flow suits them before paying. Our guide on what breaks a fast covers the rules, but Zero is the app that will log the answer.

Breadth across the rest of your day

Zero Plus extends past fasting into advanced hydration tracking and habit monitoring across movement, sleep and mood, then layers challenges and detailed trend analytics on top. That combination turns the app into a general health dashboard where the fast is one input among several.

That breadth is genuinely useful. Correlating a hard fasting week against sleep and mood is something a timer-only app cannot do at any price, and challenges give some people the social pull that keeps a habit alive past week three. If you want one app for the whole picture, EasyFasting is the wrong tool and Zero is the right one.

Where EasyFasting Is Stronger

A timer that forgives real life

Most fasting apps punish you for being human. You forget to hit stop, or you start a fast two hours after you actually stopped eating, and the log is wrong forever.

EasyFasting lets you edit the start time of a running fast, and edit both the start and the end of any finished fast. You can delete any log outright. You can also Skip a fast, or skip an empty rest day, so a streak bridges the gap instead of resetting to zero, and skipping is reversible. Skipped fasts still count toward your totals and averages, so the number you look at stays honest.

That matters over months. A streak that breaks every time a wedding or a flu week happens stops meaning anything, and people quit. See how a fasting schedule survives a normal week for the practical version of this.

The watch, free, with nothing held back

EasyFasting ships a full Apple Watch app on watchOS 11: start and stop a fast, switch protocol, read the live phase, all with the iPhone left at home. You also get phase-colored circular and corner complications and a Smart Stack card. None of it is behind a paywall and there is no watch-specific upsell.

The same is true on iPhone. All five protocols are free, and the Home and Lock Screen widgets are interactive, so you start and stop from the Lock Screen without opening the app. If widgets are how you want to run this, see fasting widgets on iPhone. The full free and paid split is on the features page.

Download EasyFasting free on the App Store

Pricing you can end

EasyFasting is $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year, both with a 7-day free trial, and $79.99 once for lifetime access. The lifetime tier is the structural difference. It lets you stop renting a fasting timer, which is a reasonable thing to want from a tool whose core job does not change year to year. Billing is StoreKit only, so you cancel in two taps in iOS Settings and refunds go through Apple.

Pricing: The Clearest Difference

Zero Plus is listed at $9.99 monthly and $69.99 annually, with a third paid option at $89.99. There is no lifetime tier. EasyFasting is $7.99 monthly, $39.99 annually, and $79.99 once for lifetime.

Run the arithmetic on the annual plans, since that is what most people end up on. Zero’s $69.99 against EasyFasting’s $39.99 is a $30.00 gap every year, which puts EasyFasting roughly 43% below Zero. On monthly, $7.99 against $9.99 is $2.00 a month, about 20% lower.

Paying monthly all year costs $119.88 on Zero and $95.88 on EasyFasting, so both annual plans save real money: $49.89 on Zero, $55.89 on EasyFasting.

The lifetime option changes the shape of the decision. EasyFasting’s $79.99 lifetime equals two years of its own annual plan, so if you expect to still be fasting in 2028, it is the cheaper path. Measured against Zero’s annual price, $79.99 is about fourteen months of Zero Plus. After that, one app keeps billing you and the other does not.

Neither of those numbers proves Zero is overpriced. Zero Plus includes meal logging, macro analysis, hydration, habit tracking, challenges and trend analytics, which is a substantially larger product to build and run. You are comparing a nutrition suite against a fasting timer, and the prices reflect that. The question is not which number is smaller, it is which feature set you will open tomorrow morning.

Both apps are free to download, so you can install both, run a week of 16:8 or 18:6, and see which one you reach for before any money changes hands.

Offline and Privacy

Zero’s App Store listing states that the app requires an internet connection. That is a normal design for a product with cloud-backed meal analysis and challenges, but it has consequences: a flight, a subway commute, a rural weekend or a hotel with unusable wifi can all sit between you and your own timer.

EasyFasting works offline. There is no account and no sign-up, so there is no login screen to fail when the network is down. Your fasts, streaks, awards and history live on the device, and if you use iCloud, sync happens privately through your own iCloud account rather than a company database keyed to your email address.

For a lot of people this is a footnote. For anyone who fasts while traveling, or who would rather not hand another company an email address and a health log, it is the deciding factor. It also means nothing about your fasting history depends on a service staying online.

Neither approach is universally correct. Cloud accounts make cross-device sync, social challenges and photo analysis possible, and Zero uses that. Offline-first means fewer features but fewer dependencies. Pick the tradeoff you actually care about.

Who Should Switch, and Who Should Not

Do not switch if you use Zero’s meal logging. There is no equivalent in EasyFasting and there will not be one soon. Giving up photo logging, macros and your protein score to save $30 a year is a bad trade if you were using them.

Do not switch lightly if you have a long history in Zero. There is no import tool. Switching means an empty log, a reset streak and no historical averages, and that loss is permanent. The longer you have logged, the more it costs. If you have two years of data in Zero, keep it.

Consider switching if you have used Zero for a while and only ever start and stop the timer. If your paid features go untouched month after month, you are funding a nutrition product to use a stopwatch, and the cheaper, watch-first option does that job well.

Consider switching if the Apple Watch is where you actually live, if you fast in places without signal, or if you want to stop renting the tool and buy it once.

If you are new to both, install both. They are free to download, the practical differences show up inside a week, and you will learn more from seven days of use than from any comparison table. If you are still deciding on a protocol, read what fasting is and how it works and whether OMAD suits you first.

Try EasyFasting

EasyFasting is free to download, needs no account, and gives you all five protocols, the widgets and the full Apple Watch app without paying anything. If it is not the right fit after a week, you have lost nothing but a download.

Download EasyFasting free on the App Store

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EasyFasting a good Zero alternative?

It depends on what you use Zero for. If your Zero routine is a timer, streaks and phase information, EasyFasting covers that and gives you more for free, including a full Apple Watch app and interactive widgets. If your Zero routine includes photo meal logging, macro analysis, hydration tracking, sleep and mood, or challenges, EasyFasting has none of those and is not a replacement. Try EasyFasting alongside Zero for a week before deciding, since both are free to download.

Can I export or move my Zero data to EasyFasting?

No. EasyFasting has no import tool for Zero data, and there is no supported path to move your fast history from one app to the other. If you switch, you start fresh with an empty log, an empty streak and no historical averages. That matters more the longer you have used Zero. Some people keep Zero installed as an archive and simply stop logging new fasts there, which lets them look back at old data without paying for anything new.

Is Zero Plus worth it?

Zero Plus is worth it if you will actually use what it unlocks. The paid tier adds photo-based meal logging with macro analysis, a personalized protein score, advanced hydration tracking, habit monitoring across movement, sleep and mood, challenges and detailed trend analytics. That is a nutrition and lifestyle product, not just a fasting timer. If you only ever open the app to start and stop a fast, you are paying for a large feature set you are not touching, and a cheaper timer-focused app will serve you better.

Which app is better if I want to track food as well as fasts?

Zero, without qualification. EasyFasting has no meal logging, no calorie or macro tracking, no recipes and no coach, and it is not planning to compete on that ground. Zero Plus includes photo-based meal logging with macro analysis and a protein score, and new users get three free meal logs to try it before paying. If food tracking and fasting need to live in the same app for you, that decision is already made.

Does EasyFasting work without an internet connection or an account?

Yes. EasyFasting requires no account and no sign-up. Your timer, protocols, history, streaks and awards all work offline, so a flight, a dead zone or a hotel with bad wifi does not interrupt a running fast. If you use iCloud, your data syncs privately through your own iCloud account rather than through a company server. Zero’s App Store listing states that it requires an internet connection, so this is a genuine difference in how the two apps behave when you are offline.

Which app is better on Apple Watch?

EasyFasting, based on what each listing describes. EasyFasting ships a full watchOS 11 app that starts and stops fasts, switches protocols and shows the live phase with the iPhone left at home, plus phase-colored circular and corner complications and a Smart Stack card. All of that is free, with no watch-specific upsell. Zero’s App Store listing does not describe an equivalent watch experience, so if the wrist is where you actually check your fast, test both before committing.