Most IF apps are pure timers. Most calorie counters either don’t ship fasting at all, or gate it behind their highest paid tier. So serious fasters end up juggling two apps — a fasting tracker AND a food logger — that don’t talk to each other.
Swoodie added intermittent fasting in 2026 with the same six protocols Zero and Fastic use. Your first five fasts are free; unlimited fasting takes Lite or Premium. Coach quips from Ollie inside your fasting window are Premium; Fast Together (pair up with a friend or partner and follow each other’s fast live) takes Lite or Premium to start, and the person you invite joins free. All of it lives in the same app as your recipe library, calorie tracking, meal planner and couples mode.
Pain points Swoodie addresses
- Juggling a fasting timer app + a calorie counter app that don’t talk to each other
- The fasting timer itself locked behind a subscription
- No social accountability — fasting solo is hard to stick with for more than a week
- Window-open and window-close reminders scattered across phone apps that don’t sync
- OMAD and longer protocols offered with no safety nudges or “talk to a professional” reminder
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 →What Swoodie does for intermittent fasting specifically
Fasting tracker + meal tracking in one app
Log meals as you eat them and see the live fasting timer in the same dashboard. No second app to open. Meal logging is free; your first five fasts are free, unlimited with Lite or Premium.
Step Counter
Connect Apple Health or Health Connect so your daily steps add calories to your goal — useful for filling your eating window with the right amount of food. Lite or Premium.
Ready-made diet plans
Load a curated 7-day plan into your planner and tweak it to taste, so your eating window always has a meal lined up.
Six protocols to choose from
12:12, 14:10, 16:8 (the most popular), 18:6, OMAD or set your own. Your first five fasts are free, unlimited with Lite or Premium; Coach quips are Premium, and hosting Fast Together takes Lite or Premium.
Fast Together — follow a partner’s fast live
Pair up with a friend or partner and see their fast as it runs — their protocol, when they started, how long they’ve been in, refreshed as you watch. Send a 👏 when they need it. You each keep your own protocol. Lite or Premium to host, free to join — same model as Nest.
Window-open and window-close reminders
Opt-in push notifications scheduled around your protocol. No more checking a separate app to know if you can eat.
Fasting Coach (Ollie quips)
Gentle nudges and milestone celebrations as you progress through a window. Premium. The OMAD preset ships with a “talk to a professional” caution.
Wellness Circles
Fast alongside a small group of 3–5 with a shared daily scoreboard, so nobody breaks their window alone.
Swoodie Moments
Share your breaking-fast meal with friends who fast too — a meal-photo feed shared only with your partner or Circle, for accountability and ideas.
Text-to-Nutrition
When your window opens, type what you ate and get calories and macros instantly — no scanning each item.
Quick facts
Free to start
Six protocols + live timer + history, no account needed
Unlimited fasts
Lite or Premium (first 5 fasts free)
Fasting Coach (Ollie quips)
Premium
Fast Together (host a pairing)
Lite or Premium
Fast Together (join a pairing)
Free
Free calculators to start with
Plan the numbers before you track them — free, instant, no sign-up.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best meal planning and calorie tracking app for intermittent fasting?
It depends on your priority, but for intermittent fasting the best app is one that does more than count calories — it should also plan meals and suggest recipes. Swoodie combines AI photo and barcode calorie scanning, AI recipe generation, and an AI meal planner with a consolidated shopping list in one app. Six protocols, a live eating-window timer and a partner’s fast you can follow live via Fast Together — alongside Swoodie’s recipe library, calorie tracking and AI meal planner. One app for both sides of how you eat.
Is Swoodie a good app for intermittent fasting?
Yes. For intermittent fasting, Swoodie combines AI photo + barcode calorie scanning, AI recipe generation, an AI meal planner with consolidated shopping lists, and Swipe Together for couples cooking decisions. Six protocols, a live eating-window timer and a partner’s fast you can follow live via Fast Together — alongside Swoodie’s recipe library, calorie tracking and AI meal planner. One app for both sides of how you eat.
Is there an app made specifically for intermittent fasting?
Most calorie counters are generic and treat intermittent fasting as an afterthought. Swoodie is one app for tracking and cooking whose recipe library, AI meal planner and dietary filters adapt to intermittent fasting, and the free tier is generous enough to test the fit before subscribing.
Can one app do both calorie tracking and recipes?
Yes — that combination is exactly what Swoodie is built for. Most apps pick a side: calorie counters track but do not help you cook, recipe apps cook but do not track. Swoodie does both — AI photo and barcode scanning feed a daily calorie dashboard, while AI recipe generation and a meal planner handle what to actually cook.
What does Swoodie do specifically for intermittent fasting?
Fasting tracker + meal tracking in one app — Log meals as you eat them and see the live fasting timer in the same dashboard. No second app to open. Meal logging is free; your first five fasts are free, unlimited with Lite or Premium.
How is Swoodie different from generic calorie counters for intermittent fasting?
Most calorie counters assume a single user with a single goal. Swoodie is one app for tracking and cooking, so for intermittent fasting it adds Swipe Together for shared decisions, an AI Meal Planner that builds plans around your goal, and Chef AI that generates recipes adapted to your dietary needs. The free tier is generous enough to test fit before any subscription.
Is Swoodie free?
Yes. The free tier includes a library of thousands of recipes (Premium opens the full 8,000+), basic calorie & meal logging, and joining Swipe Together sessions — no account, no ads. The AI features (photo scanning, barcode scanner, recipe generation, meal planner) come as a 10-use free trial, no card. Swoodie Premium is $9.99/month or $59.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on yearly, unlocking unlimited AI use, recipe generation and the meal planner.
Start your first fasting window today
Download Swoodie, pick a protocol that fits your day (16:8 is the most common starting point), and the live timer is on. If your partner is fasting too, send them a Fast Together invite and you’ll each be able to see how the other is doing — on your own protocols. Your first five fasts are free (unlimited with Lite or Premium); Coach quips inside the window are Premium, and hosting the pairing takes Lite or Premium.
Counting calories together too? Each of you keeps your own goal — see the calorie counter for couples.
For deeper comparisons of how Swoodie’s fasting stacks up against other apps: Zero vs Fastic vs Swoodie and Yazio vs Lifesum vs Simple vs Swoodie.
Download Swoodie — start a fasting window
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Rather not subscribe? Swoodie Lite is $9.99 once — the whole app except the AI features.