Lasta alternative — real calorie tracking, not just fasting
Lasta is built around intermittent fasting and wellness coaching. Swoodie covers the food side it doesn't — real tracking, recipes and planning.
The bottom line
Lasta is a wellness-and-fasting coaching app — fasting timers, mood tracking, AI coach chat, women-focused habit content. Swoodie is the kitchen + tracker — 8,000+ recipes, Chef AI, meal planner, Swipe Together, plus a v1.4 fasting tracker with Fast Together for partner sync. They overlap on the fasting timer; they diverge on everything else.
Lasta is a polished wellness app — fasting timers, a mood tracker, an AI coach chat and women-focused habit content. For a fasting-led routine it's a thoughtful fit.
Swoodie is a kitchen app that also fasts. The 8,000+ recipe library, Chef AI, meal planner and Swipe Together for couples are the core — and v1.4 added a fasting tracker too: six protocols (12:12, 14:10, 16:8, 18:6, OMAD, custom), live eating-window timer, fasting history. The tracker is free; the Coach quips that nudge you mid-window and Fast Together (sync your window with a partner) are Premium. So pair Lasta and Swoodie if you want both — or use Swoodie alone if a polished fasting timer plus the full kitchen is enough.
Feature by feature
| Feature |  Swoodie | Lasta |
|---|---|---|
| Permanent free plan (not a trial) | Free — $0 forever | Onboarding-quiz pricing |
| AI features without paying | 5 free one-time uses, no card | No AI features |
| AI photo calorie / meal scan | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Barcode scanner | Trial — 5 free uses, then Premium | |
| Log a meal you ate ("ate it") | Free — basic calorie logging | Thin calorie tracking |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Intermittent fasting tracker | Tracker: Free · Coach quips: Premium | |
| Paired wellness accountability (2-person daily score) | Free — core pairing + score | |
| Calorie & macro goal setting | Free | Limited calorie tracking |
| iOS app | ||
| Android app |
Where Lasta wins
Lasta is a polished intermittent-fasting and wellness app — fasting timers, a mood tracker, an AI coach chat and women-focused habit content. For a fasting-led wellness routine it's a thoughtful fit, and many people pair it with a dedicated food tracker. Lasta's strength is the wellness-coaching conversation; Swoodie's v1.4 fasting tracker doesn't replace that coaching layer, it just means the fasting timer itself isn't a reason to leave Swoodie for a second app.
Honest scorecard
Where Swoodie wins
- Packaged-product quality score (0–100)
- 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 4 more on the full matrix above
The verdict
Switch to Swoodie if…
you want real calorie and macro tracking, recipe generation, or shared planning with a partner — or you want a fasting tracker that lives in the same app as your recipes and meal plan.
Stay with Lasta if…
intermittent fasting and wellness coaching is your core routine — many people use both, Lasta for fasting and Swoodie for food.
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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