LIFE Fasting Timer & Tracker Reviews

by Melanie 👑

I use to use LIFEFastingTimerTracker daily. I was in the process of doing an extended water fast when they removed that option. They will not let you do anything over an week. Apparently they know more about your body than you do. I am very obese 380+ pounds, and my doctor was intending to supervise me. I liked that I would be able to track the days within LIFEFastingTimerTracker but since that has been removed I have switched to a regular countdown app. I’m sure you can track it week by week but that’s not only inconvenient but also confusing. Especially if trying to track hours in ketosis. Not to mention seeing it broken up, or seeing that it has “ended” may cause lack of motivation or cause you to quit your fast earlier than intended.

by Vafi88

Fasting is great if you are overweight, have certain chronic disorders, are looking for a healthier way to eat, mental clarity, etc. but there are some groups that should not fast. Pregnant women shouldn’t be fasting, children shouldn’t be fasting, be people who have eating disorders shouldn’t be fasting.

You’ll find 2 of the 3 on this platform immediately. 14 to 16 year olds who are promoting anorexia and have goal weights as low as 70lbs on their bio. 70lbs as a 16 year old? Not a healthy weight at all.

This content doesn’t just stay within the circles labeled “rexi and buls” as in anorexia and bulemia, but it’s also in the general circles that show skinny pictures of people with a whale as a status. Every one of these people (mostly young girls, as always) is fasting 20-30 hours at a time and most of them are frequently fasting and posting daily.

I switched to LIFEFastingTimerTracker as a secondary app to Zero which is simply a tracker with some information, and I thought this would be better since it’s a community. Yet that community is essentially 30% rebadged girls who are suffering and promoting their suffering to other young girls.

I reached out to LIFEFastingTimerTracker and they told me they patrol and delete them, yet I’ve seen these people for months doing the same things.

It’s unhealthy for everyone. I will no longer take part. Deleted my account.

by KatieHolzy

I know that, done correctly, intermittent fasting can improve heath and promote weight loss. However, I have read posts from users who are “fasting” for 900+hrs with use of water only. Another poster discussed contemplating purging after eating during her fasting window. This person elected to take an excessive amount of laxatives to help clear her system of the unwanted food instead of vomiting. Other members in the feed send encouraging remarks to these posters. As a registered I find these posts very sad and disturbing. This is extremely unhealthy, not mention dangerous and LIFEFastingTimerTracker does not do anything to curb these posts. At this point there is nothing LIFEFastingTimerTracker does to stop the user from fasting too long. This is a dangerous app in the wrong hands. Very disappointed!!! I hope that the makers of LIFEFastingTimerTracker takes this very seriously.

by Newtofasting

LIFEFastingTimerTracker is fine but it’s not personalized to you or your body at all, which is very important regarding ketosis/autophagy. It merely tells you the stages you’re going through based off of when you press ‘start fast’. It does not link (that I’m aware of) with a Fitbit or Apple Watch to give more data and tailor the results to you. There is some good information but also a TON of links that you think will help you but they’re really ads for products....I get it, people have to make a living but it’s somewhat misleading. Also, I didn’t even know about LIFEFastingTimerTracker until I was 6 days into a Fast. I could not go back and enter the weights from previous weigh ins. LIFEFastingTimerTracker seems like another attempt by a tech employee to cash in and make it rich by doing the bare minimum regarding a useful app.

by Ari Maarie

This is a nice basic app with some fun side features but for me it’s missing some really important features. For an IF app it doesn’t track your eating hours which is kind of a pain. If you’re on a 16:8 it will track your 16 but when you hit end fast your own your own to keep track of your 8 hours. I really need an app to track the other end of my fast as well, and possibly remind me when I only have an hour left before my fast begins. I can often get busy and accidentally end up only having 1 meal for the day when I end my fast because I don’t realize I’m approaching the end of my eating window.

Because it doesn’t track your non fasting hours it’s also easy to take too little or too much time in your eating window, and then you end up fasting longer to correct your schedule. If you don’t mind setting alarms on your phone to remind you when to resume your fast LIFEFastingTimerTracker is fine - but I want it all in one place.

by Melkatd

LIFEFastingTimerTracker was wonderful for the first 2 weeks— it made such a difference in my IF journey than previous times because of the circles, having communication even with strangers as it is— people to communicate with and encourage each other. It was nice! Then, apparently there was some kind of harassment or bullying anomaly in the newcomer circles and they had to clean house, delete a bunch of stuff, posts, people—I missed all the drama, but from THAT moment, when the moderator or creator of those circles posted their “Apology” for the triggering a—hole and etcetcetc—-everything went haywire. My notifications completely stopped, I never got another notification or communication of any kind for anything I posted. Ever again. It became like I was doing IF all alone again. I may as well not have LIFEFastingTimerTracker . Just glad I didn’t pay for it. Really sad. Will have to look elsewhere I suppose.

by Lana 💖

I haven’t been using LIFEFastingTimerTracker long but a few things that bug me is that the comment section should be reversed. The oldest comment should be at the top and the newest comment should be at the bottom. Also, one of the even more annoying things are that every time you exit LIFEFastingTimerTracker it refreshes. As in, if I were looking at my feed and exit out LIFEFastingTimerTracker for a second I would have to start all the way from the beginning of the feed. Other apps don’t do that for me and it’s really frustrating if I’ve scrolled really far in the feed and I have to start all the way over.

But good job overall life fasting team!

by SimSharon

I’ve been using LIFEFastingTimerTracker (and fasting) for about eight months, and I do like how he helps me keep track of how long I’ve been fasting. What I wish it did was allow me to see my entire fasting history. When I started, my fasts were shorter, like 12 hours for a couple weeks, then 14 hours, etc. I’m now consistently fasting 18-20 hours, but I don’t remember when I started doing that, and that is actually my real start date. I know I wasn’t doing much good at 12-14 hours, so I’d love to know when I was consistently at 16 and then when at 18. There doesn’t seem to be any way to look at data that old, which is frustrating and which makes me deeply regret starting with LIFEFastingTimerTracker. If there’s a way to see my all-time data (not the all-time numbers LIFEFastingTimerTracker shows because those are pretty much worthless), I’d love to know how to do it.

by Prasand J

Been fasting every day for the past five years. At the beginning of this year I started working out again, so I wanted to become more disciplined in my fasting. For me personally, LIFEFastingTimerTracker is great for that, and I can see how it would help others push past their goals (as they see they only have an hour left to go). But the health features are lacking to almost non-existent.

It reflects at which point the body goes into ketosis, and heavy ketosis, but lacks any relevant data input to do any real calculations. The ability to indicate which type of fasting a person is doing would make a difference (ie. water fast, liquid fast, or dry fast). The ability to add a meal data point (a simple total calories eaten) could eventually give way to doing real calculations (maybe even eventually using the body fat percentage, bone density, activity data of Apple’s health app). The ability to automatically update the body weight using the data of the health app would be beneficial, as well as exporting any relevant health data to the health app / HealthKit.

LIFEFastingTimerTracker has much potential, but for now it barely goes beyond being a basic fasting time tracker.

by Danny_369

Update: So now after having tried many of the other fasting apps it seems that none of them are great. That includes some that are paid apps. So this may be one of the best fasting apps. But if you compare it to all the other apps out there I can still only give it three stars at best. So this is a really great 2 star app.

Original review: Annoying. Too many things here pointing you to get the paid app. But then I was going to start a fast after I ate and you can’t set a future time because “We can’t be sure that you will actually start your fast at that time.” ARE… YOU… KIDDING ME!!! Sorry but that is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

by Jenjer08

I just started fasting a few weeks ago and wanted an app to track my fasting time. I decided I’d rather use an app that mainly allows me to watch my fasting time GROW than to watch my eating window SHRINK, so I chose this Life app. Overall I like it for all the reasons others have noted. I especially love that it shows when you’re body is supposedly in Ketosis. A few things that I think could make it truly awesome:
First and foremost: Make LIFEFastingTimerTracker compatible with the Apple Watch! Honestly, this alone may cause me to switch to another fasting app. Sad face.
Allow users to enter their weight data with a decimal point. Currently you can only enter whole numbers. Everyone knows that those decimal points count A LOT for people looking for trends mapping results. Seems like it would be such a simple programming fix and would allow much more accuracy for users.
Show the user’s actual eating window for each fasting day. In other words, after the user has tracked his/her fast, calculate for them the resulting eating window (times) and number of eating hours. Again, seems like a pretty easy “fix” that would make LIFEFastingTimerTracker more robust and improve user experience.

by Help_Me_Ronda

LIFEFastingTimerTracker is wonderful for keeping track of generally where your body is at during a fast - especially an EF of over 36 hours. It does need, however, better person-to-person communication ability within LIFEFastingTimerTracker . Zero alerts that anyone has posted or commented to you under your post is frustrating. My personal group is only 36 people- and even with that small number it is difficult and time consuming to go back through the thread to see if someone is awaiting your reply. I know I have missed many.

by AJ422

Now I can no longer edit my fast! I started fasting earlier today but forgot to start the timer so I did it now and went to edit but its blank! I can’t see the wheel to adjust the time! I can hear it turning if I run my finger over the area where it’s supposed to be! You say you fixed bugs that I never noticed but created one glaring one. And yes I restarted/rebooted my phone
**Update- the day after, it mysteriously started working again. I can edit my time and actually see numbers not a blank screen so I’m changing my rating back to 4 stars. Overall its a nice tracker.

by Navmatic

I love LIFEFastingTimerTracker. It makes tracking my fasts fun & simple, and the social aspects, as well as the informative Learn tab are great. Some things that would make it even better: 1) let me see my current fast, even when I’m in airplane mode or have a bad connection. It’s ridiculous to have to ping your servers just to start a fast or see my current progress, and causes a huge delay when opening LIFEFastingTimerTracker 2) a counter showing hours since last fast would be nice, so I know how much longer before I start again 3) let me export my data to a CSV file, so I can analyze it with other tools.

by Lawrawrbx

I’ve been using LIFE for about a year and some change now to monitor my fasting schedule and I love it. It’s helped me gain control of my eating immensely. Two things that I would change/suggest:

1. Bring back the general post wall. I liked posting on the wall or seeing everyone’s updates. The community aspect was a major positive of LIFEFastingTimerTracker and you guys took it away.

2. Maybe have a widget or something so I can easily access or see my fasting time instead of having to go all the way into LIFEFastingTimerTracker to see it.

by Pete Joyce

Does what it says. I rated four but probably should be 3.5 I am only using the free version. I’m not thrilled with the navigation. I don’t know what the different colors in the bar mean. I like that they are selling health products— especially if they are the best in their opinion not just companies scratching each other’s back. I’m probably getting the scale they are pushing. If that pans out I’ll look at other things. Back to LIFEFastingTimerTracker . It keeps me honest. It turns out I’m good at micro fasting. I feel great all the time. I have avoided a ton of calories I do not need and I feel better than ever— the GI track is very happy. I’m 58 and I just discovered the proper way to feed me.

by Kaura Lim

I like LIFEFastingTimerTracker but the profile area with past stats has never been right and always buggy. Prior to this update when you swiped to past weeks, the summary at the top wouldn’t cleanly swipe to other weeks - instead the numbers from multiple weeks would crash into each other or be positioned in the middle so some of the info is cut off either to the left or right. Now it swipes better bc you have to use the arrows but it shows 8 days listed (1 more than is in the week range), the days are out of order and the longest fast for a week are sometimes wrong. Also your current summary (week you are on now) is showing the prior week’s stats (either that or the previous week’s summary is wrong!) Please fix!

by LuluZ

LIFEFastingTimerTracker just keeps getting better. Not only can I track my fasts and edit the start and stop times, but I can join or create fasting groups and track my fasting history. LIFEFastingTimerTracker also indicates when you are most likely in ketosis and most likely getting the benefits of autophagy (although that is dependent on multiple factors.) You can record your weight as well if you wish to track those changes and LIFEFastingTimerTracker includes informative articles to educate you. Love LIFEFastingTimerTracker!

by Gord On

I think LIFEFastingTimerTracker is great. I would love be able take notes during the fast to track my body’s reaction to process, my sensations and so forth. I am fasting for the first time in my life and I am my 29 th hour of 36 hour monk fast. I feel alright, it certainly not easy. My symptoms are yellowish skin tone, heat in my face, minty sensations in arms. I am sure those signs will be different next time around. So it would have been nice to have sone sort of diary/log for foods taken before, right after and track the crAves and such.

On other hand, it might worth keeping LIFEFastingTimerTracker as simple as possible.

by ChandyPants

LIFEFastingTimerTracker has been fantastic! Seems like a silly thing to rely on an App to keep track of fasting time... but seeing that clock count down, and having that button... for whatever reason is working this time. I’m doing a 16 hour fast daily, and my energy is up, my weight is going down. This has been such a big help. Thank you so much to the devs. I haven’t even engaged in some of the other features, I’m just using the timer, but I’m super thankful that they’ve helped me make a real change that I feel like I can stick to this time.

by N6boa

I just want to share how poorly LIFEFastingTimerTracker tracks data. Read carefully:

Only 4 bar graph data show when there should be 6; it shows 113 hours cumulative fasting when it should be 96; it shows 28 hours in Keto when it should be 24; the dates with data only show 5 dates and there should be 6; it shows 8 total fasts in the cumulative data but there should only be 6. Showing the screen shots would be helpful to see this BUT if you’re data oriented, as I am, then you’d see clearly the data “tracking” is all over the place; there’s no logic to it.

Also, the help tab isn’t helpful; emailing wasn’t helpful, and you can’t get them to answer their phone. I know it’s free but don’t bother with LIFEFastingTimerTracker.

by Lolimnotnissy

Gave it two stars FOR NOW because it actually offers a lot that many casting apps currently don’t! Fasting circles and counting all your hours in ketosis is my favorite, but unfortunately the way LIFEFastingTimerTracker runs is horrible. Every bug u can think of, quits unexpectedly, randomly exits from where you were and makes you log in, takes very long to load when it actually opens, sometimes it stops track a fast I started? I’ve updated it a few times since but it STILL keeps happening, I honestly am just looking for a new app with similar features and if I find it I’ll delete this one unless it’s finally fixed.

by Dr. Tuitupou

This is an awesome app. I love that it shows when you’ve hit certain milestones in your fast like ketosis, deep ketosis, etc. I like the social circle aspect as well. I deducted 1 star because this is one of the few apps where I would actually like to receive notifications about what milestone I’ve hit, who’s commented on my post, and when I’ve hit my fasting goal. The point of the social circle is for support, but if I put “I’m struggling” and I can’t see the comforting words from the people in my circle, what’s the point? Especially if you’re in a large circle, it’s borderline impossible to find your post to see what others have commented.

by Zappawolf

It’s been a very useful app for basic fasting. I really like knowing when I’m in heavy ketosis to time my cardio. The latest update, however, makes it difficult to edit fasting start and stop times. I frequently forget to click “begin fast” and have to manually edit it the next day, but you can’t see the text when making those edits. You can get a feel for it and guess until you’re right, but that’s really clumsy. Hopefully this will be fixed in future updates. This is happening on iPhone XS with IOS 13.1.3.

by Johnstorm

I like LIFEFastingTimerTracker a lot, especially the milestone icons illustrated during the fast. I just wish it was better at communicating things such as hitting the milestones, or when users make comments. I also wish there was an ability to add friends. Finally, it would be great if LIFEFastingTimerTracker made an acknowledgment when the fast goal is reached. A little confetti, some color changing, something to show a celebration. As it stands now, the clock just keeps ticking away even after the fast goal is reached. Kind of a letdown.

by Michelewtf

This is a great fasting app. Simple and easy to use, but I’m writing a review in hopes my feedback gets looked on. First a mood between I feel Good and I’m struggling, cause sometimes I don’t feel good but I’m not struggling... maybe like a “Meh” emoji, Second some notifications would be nice. When I hit 24h, 48, 72h etc. when the “Keto” hits and other markers in a fast hit. Maybe a measurement log too... and possibly incorporate a better social section of LIFEFastingTimerTracker . Not asking for anything drastic for it but Idk I don’t see much of a social support and that would be nice. The one app I would like to be social on.

by NuttyArwen

Update: The bug was fixed pretty fast. Thank you for that! I think I’ve tried all the fasting apps that AppStore has to offer, and Life Fasting Tracker is by far the best! I just love the user interface!
Nothing comes close to it, in my opinion. Thank you so much for LIFEFastingTimerTracker!

Old Review: We can no longer edit our fast after the update. Please fix it! Will change my rating after this obvious bug has been squashed.