An intermittent fasting app for iPhone and Android, for people who already fast.

Other fasting apps count the hours.
Steady gets you through the hard one.

You already know why you fast. What beats you is one stretch of it, the hour where tired, hungry and low land together. Other apps count right through it. A streak to protect. Badges to earn. Water, weight and steps to log. A dozen notifications before lunch. None of it helps at the hour you want to eat, and all of it is one more thing to fall behind on. Steady is built for one thing: getting you through the hour you usually quit. A timer, one check-in just before that hour, and a record that tells the truth. That is the whole app.

Free to download for iPhone and Android. No account, and nothing you enter leaves your phone.

iPhone and Android · 12 to 20 hour windows · No account · No streak to lose · Your data never leaves your phone · See how it works

Nothing to keep up with.No badges, no levels, nothing to log but how you feel, and only if you want to.

One check-in, not a dozen pings.Steady asks once, just before the hour that usually decides your fast. Everything else is off by default.

Honest numbers.No inflated stages to chase, and no autophagy badge at 16 hours, because it does not happen at 16 hours.

Quiet by design

Every notification Steady can send fits on one screen.

Most fasting apps ping you into a state: drink water, log your weight, you are about to lose your streak. Steady has four switches. A reminder when your window opens. A note when you cross a stage. A mood nudge that stays off unless you turn it on. And the one that matters: a check-in half an hour before the hour you said usually decides it.

All of it is scheduled on your phone. No server sends them, and no push token is ever created.

Steady's notification settings: a start reminder at 8pm, the check-in before your hard hour, stage notes, and mood nudges switched off. A line at the top reads Everything is scheduled on this phone

Your record

Two numbers. Neither of them is your weight.

How many you finished, and your longest. That is the scoreboard, and both can only go up. There is no streak to break, no badge for hitting ten, and no notification when you take a day off.

Underneath sits the one number worth having: how often you felt better a little later after a low check-in, counted honestly, with the fasts you ended early held against it. It is there to take the pressure off the hard hour, not to add to it.

Steady's You tab: 20 fasts, 315 hours fasted, 17 of 20 reached the goal, longest 18 hours 6 minutes. A card names hours 12 to 14 as the hardest, and What gets you through offers water and a short wait with a Start the wait button

The check-in

When it does ask, it is two taps. And it will tell you to stop.

A mood. That is the only thing Steady ever asks you to record, and you can skip it. Log a low one and it shows you your own record for that hour: how often the feeling lifted two hours later. Then it gives you something to do. Three minutes of slow breathing, a small puzzle, or a glass of water and a short wait. About two hours later it checks back in. No library, no program to keep up with.

Tell it your body feels off, like shaky, dizzy or a racing heart, and it tells you to stop and eat, whatever the hour.

An app that will tell you to stop is one you can stop worrying about. Steady is not trying to get you to 20 hours. It is trying to get you through the hour you usually quit, and to say plainly when you should.

Steady's check-in: five moods from Rough to Great, then Does your body feel off? answered Yes, with six signs such as Shaky or sweaty and Dizzy that make the app tell you to stop

Not built for engagement

It wants to be closed.

The first screen says it: other apps want more from you, Steady just stays with you. It is built around one hour of your day, the one where tired, hungry and low arrive together. It works out when that hour hits you, shows up just before, and the rest of the time it is happy to be left alone.

At the moment you want to quit, there is no feed to scroll and nothing to read. There is your own record, and three minutes of something to do. It does not message you to keep you in the app.

Steady's first screen: a ring that reads 16 hours, The good part, above the words Other apps want more from you. Steady just stays with you

What a simple fasting app leaves out, on purpose.

Every feature in a fasting app is one more thing you can be behind on. Fasting is already hard at one hour of the day. The app should not make the other twenty-three harder.

What most fasting apps add

What Steady does instead

A streak with a fire icon and a warning when you are about to break it

No streak at all. Steady counts the fasts you finished and your longest. Nothing resets, so there is nothing to lose.

Badges, levels and achievements

None.

Water, weight, steps, sleep and macros to log

A two-tap check-in on how you feel, when you feel like it. Nothing else to track.

A feed, friends and leaderboards

No account, so there is nothing to compare and nothing to leak.

An autophagy zone at 16 hours

Plain stages, and a note that autophagy needs roughly 24 hours, which Steady does not reach.

Eight to twelve notifications a day

Four switches. One check-in before your hard hour. The rest off by default.

Calorie counting, meal plans and weight goals

None. Steady is not a diet app. It assumes you already know why you fast, and helps with the part where you stop.

Lessons, courses and daily content to get through

Nothing to read. When the hour is hard: three minutes of breathing, a small puzzle, or water and a short wait.

The fasting stages, honestly. What happens, and what doesn't.

Fuel hands over from sugar to fat as the window runs. That is the whole mechanism. No mystery, no magic. Steady names the stages plainly and never tells you something is happening in your body that it cannot know.

Autophagy and true nutritional ketosis need roughly 24 hours or more. Steady tops out at 20, so it does not reach them, and we would rather say so than give you one more number to chase.

12h
The switch
Reserves run low around here, and fat starts doing more of the work.
14h
Running on fat
Hunger tends to come in waves through this stretch.
16h
The good part
The stretch most people come to this app for.
18h
Cruising
Past the hard part. For many people hunger settles from here.
20h
Full burn
The far end of what Steady asks of anyone.

No account. No server. Nothing to leak.

Everything Steady knows about you lives in a local database on your phone. There is no sign-in, no analytics in the app, no advertising and no feed. Delete the app and it is gone.

No account

Nothing to create, nothing to remember, nothing to leak. Payment is handled by Apple or Google; Steady never sees your card or your name.

Nothing leaves your phone

Steady has no server of its own. Your fasts, check-ins and answers are never sent anywhere, and the whole app works offline.

Your medication answer stays put

Steady asks about medication during setup so it can tell you to see your doctor first when it matters. Your answer stays on your phone.

Read the full privacy policy and the health disclosure.

Articles

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Less app. Better fasts.

Steady is a timer, one check-in at the hour that matters, and a record that tells the truth. It is not medical advice, and it will tell you to eat when you should.