Fastic alternative — when you want the kitchen, not just the fasting timer
Fastic is a fasting app with a calorie tracker bolted on. Swoodie is built for cooking — recipes, AI generation, meal planning and a couples mode.
The bottom line
Fastic is a fasting app first; calorie tracking and recipes sit around the timer. Swoodie is a recipe-and-cooking app — 8,000+ recipes, Chef AI, a meal planner and Swipe Together, plus a fasting tracker with Fast Together, where you follow a partner's fast live — with the AI on a 10-use free trial, then Premium at $39.99/year versus Fastic Plus at $79.99.
Fastic is one of the better-known intermittent-fasting apps — a fasting timer with phase tracking, a calorie tracker with barcode and AI scanning, a 4,500-recipe library and a 'Fasting Buddies' social feature. Its free tier is unusually generous: the AI food scanner works without paying.
Swoodie is a kitchen app that also fasts. Browse and filter an 8,000+ recipe library for free, generate recipes with Chef AI, plan the week with a merged shopping list, decide dinner with a partner via Swipe Together — and yes, track your eating window with the same six protocols Fastic uses (12:12, 14:10, 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, custom). Fasting tracker is free; Fasting Coach and Fast Together (pair up and follow a partner's fast live) are Premium. AI runs on a 10-use free trial, then Premium at $39.99/year.
Features evolve fast
Swoodie ships new features regularly, so this page may not reflect the very latest. The homepage is always up to date — check there for everything Swoodie does today.
See the latest on the homepage →Feature by feature
| Feature |  Swoodie | Fastic |
|---|---|---|
| Permanent free plan (not a trial) | Free — $0 forever | Generous free tier |
| Annual price | $39.99 / year | $79.99/yr Plus |
| Monthly price | $9.99 / month | $14.99/mo |
| AI features without paying | 10 free one-time uses, no card | AI scanner free; plans & courses Plus |
| AI photo calorie / meal scan | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | AI food scanner — free (advanced in Plus) |
| Multi-photo / multi-dish scan | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | |
| Barcode scanner | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | Barcode (free) |
| Log a meal you ate ("ate it") | Free — basic calorie logging | |
| Meal journal / food diary | Free: last 3 days · Premium: full history | |
| Packaged-product quality score (0–100) | Free — scan, score & breakdown · Premium: better swaps + Ask AI | |
| Recipe discovery / browse | Free — 8,000+ recipe library | Limited free; 4,500 recipes in Plus |
| Swipe-to-choose recipe UX | Free | |
| Filter recipes by ingredients you have | Free — Discover Mode | |
| AI recipe generation (Chef AI) | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | |
| Import a recipe from a URL | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | |
| Import a recipe from a video / social post | Trial — 5 free saves, then Premium | |
| Hands-free voice cooking mode | Free | |
| Multi-day meal planner (1/3/7-day) | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | Plus — meal plans |
| AI-built meal plan | Trial — 10 free uses, then Premium | Plus |
| Shopping list merges duplicate ingredients | Trial — built with the plan | |
| Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together) | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Shared meal plan | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Separate macro targets per person | Free | |
| Multi-person session (family / friends) | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Challenges, duels & leagues | Solo: Free · Duo/Circle: needs a paid host | Fasting Buddies + challenges |
| Intermittent fasting tracker | Tracker: Free · Coach quips: Premium | Free + Premium |
| Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score) | Host: Lite or Premium · Join: Free | |
| Calorie & macro goal setting | Free | |
| BMR / TDEE auto-calculation | Free | |
| Daily nutrition dashboard | Free | |
| Body-stat & weight tracking | Free — on-device | |
| Diet-style macro targets (keto / low-carb / high-protein) | Free | Diet type filters recipes, not macro targets |
| Daily insight drawn from what you logged | Coach Ollie — daily insight: Free · Pattern insights: Premium | Fastic Score — daily tips from your own data |
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Cost over time
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Over 2 years, Swoodie costs $79.98. Fastic costs $159.98 — you save $80.
Prefer paying once? Swoodie Lite is a $9.99 one-time purchase that unlocks the whole app except the AI features. It also exports your log, weights and saves as CSV, so your data can leave with you.
Swoodie is $39.99/year — about $3.33/month billed yearly.
Fastic pricing verified July 2026 · source
Where Fastic wins
Fastic does intermittent fasting well — a clear phase-by-phase timer, a Protein Fasting mode, a genuinely useful free tier that includes the AI food scanner, and 'Fasting Buddies' for accountability. If a fasting-led routine is what you want, Fastic is a solid, well-built choice. Swoodie's own fasting tracker is the v1.4 newcomer here, so if 'Fasting Buddies' has years of usage on it, that gravitational pull is real.
Honest scorecard
Where Swoodie wins
- Swipe-to-choose recipe UX
- Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together)
- Multi-person session (family / friends)
- Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score)
The verdict
Switch to Swoodie if…
you want recipe discovery, AI recipe generation, a full meal planner or a couples mode — rather than fasting as the centre of the app — or you want fasting plus everything else under one Premium plan.
Stay with Fastic if…
intermittent fasting is core to your routine and you want a polished fasting timer with accountability buddies.
Made up your mind? Start free.
Swoodie plans the week, tracks what you eat and lets two people pick dinner together. The recipe library and tracking are free, no account needed — every scan carries a Blood Sugar Score, six Kitchen Tools work offline, and Premium is free for 7 days on the yearly plan.
We put these comparisons together from publicly available information and each app's own website. Prices and features change — if you spot anything inaccurate or out of date, email support@swoodie.app and we'll correct it. We want this comparison to stay fair.
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