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 for partner sync — with the AI on a 5-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 (sync your window with a partner) are Premium. AI runs on a 5-use free trial, then Premium at $39.99/year.
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 |
| Start without creating an account | Free — guest mode | Account required |
| AI features without paying | 5 free one-time uses, no card | AI scanner free; plans & courses Plus |
| AI photo calorie / meal scan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | AI food scanner — free |
| Multi-photo / multi-dish scan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Barcode scanner | Trial — 5 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 | |
| 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 — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Import a recipe from a URL | Trial — 5 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 — 5 free uses, then Premium | Plus — meal plans |
| AI-built meal plan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | Plus |
| Auto-generated shopping list | Trial — built with the plan | Plus |
| Shopping list merges duplicate ingredients | Trial — built with the plan | |
| Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together) | Host: Premium · Join: Free | |
| Shared meal plan | Premium | |
| Separate macro targets per person | Premium | |
| Multi-person session (family / friends) | Host: Premium · Join: Free | |
| Challenges, duels & leagues | Create: Premium · Join: Free | Fasting Buddies + challenges |
| Intermittent fasting tracker | Tracker: Free · Coach quips: Premium | Free + Premium |
| Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score) | Free — core pairing + score | |
| Calorie & macro goal setting | Free | |
| BMR / TDEE auto-calculation | Free | |
| Daily nutrition dashboard | Free | |
| Body-stat & weight tracking | Free — on-device | |
| iOS app | ||
| Android app |
Cost over time
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Over 2 years, Swoodie costs $79.98. Fastic costs $159.98 — you save $80.
Swoodie is $39.99/year — about $3.33/month billed yearly.
Fastic pricing verified May 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
- Multi-photo / multi-dish scan
- Swipe-to-choose recipe UX
- Filter recipes by ingredients you have
- Import a recipe from a video / social post
- Hands-free voice cooking mode
- Shopping list merges duplicate ingredients
- Real-time couples meal matching (Swipe Together)
- Shared meal plan
- … and 3 more on the full matrix above
Where Fastic wins
- Intermittent fasting tracker
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.
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.
