Beta tracker manual

Use the Fasting tracker

Learn every fasting plan, record live or completed sessions, and read weekly plans, progress, results, and history.

What Fasting tracking helps you see

The Fasting tracker separates an active timer from completed history. You can start a fast as it happens or log a complete session afterward, then use the weekly plan, completion results, and history to understand your own consistency.

iPhone

iPad

Mac

Complete Fasting tracker on Mac — Mac combines the active state, weekly schedule, protocol results, and history.

Choose a fasting plan

A plan labels the intended fasting window; it does not create a health recommendation. Choose the plan that matches the session you intend to record.

12:1212-hour fast

An even 12-hour fasting and 12-hour eating rhythm.

14:1014-hour fast

A 14-hour fast followed by a 10-hour eating window.

16:816-hour fast

A 16-hour fast followed by an 8-hour eating window.

18:618-hour fast

An 18-hour fast followed by a 6-hour eating window.

20:420-hour fast

A 20-hour fast followed by a 4-hour eating window.

OMAD23-hour target

One Meal a Day represented as a 23-hour session.

5:224-hour session

The fasting portion of this weekly pattern.

ADF36-hour target

Alternate Day Fasting represented as a 36-hour session.

These are tracking labels, not recommendations.

Fasting can be inappropriate for some people. Choose whether to fast and which schedule to use with appropriate professional guidance for your circumstances.

Start and finish a live fast

Open Trackers and choose Fasting.
Select Start Fast, choose the plan, and confirm the start date and time.
While active, review Duration, Remaining, Started, and the calculated Ends time.
Select End Fast when the session actually finishes and confirm the end time.

Only one fast can be active at a time. Ending it converts the live session into a completed record for History, the weekly view, and plan results.

Start Fast controls and plan selection on Mac — Choose the plan and actual start time when beginning a live session.

End an active fast on Mac — End the active session once; the confirmed end time becomes part of the saved record.

Log a completed fast

Use Log Fast when the entire session happened in the past. Select the plan and its start time; BeFit Tracker calculates the target end from that plan. Review the interval before saving. This avoids briefly creating a live session just to backfill history.

Read the tracker workspace

Active Fast

Duration shows time elapsed; Remaining compares it with the selected plan; Started and Ends make the interval explicit.

Weekly Plan

Move between weeks to review when sessions occurred. Day markers and session spans show completed activity, while plan pills identify the protocol attached to each record. The view reports what you saved; it does not prescribe fasting days.

Fast Type Results

This comparison groups sessions by plan and ranks them using average completion percentage and completed count. It can show which plan you followed most consistently, but it does not measure medical benefit.

History and trend

History preserves dates, times, plan, and actual duration. The trend summarizes sessions over Week, Month, 6 Months, or Year. Edit an incorrect session instead of logging a duplicate.

iPhone and iPad

On iPhone, open the Fasting tracker for live controls; the general Trends screen is only a summary. Landscape iPad makes the weekly plan and session details easier to compare.

Fasting session controls on landscape iPad — The iPad sheet keeps the plan and timestamps together before a session is committed.

Mac

Mac offers the same session model in a wider workspace. It can show manual records and supported records reconciled through iCloud. Mac does not connect directly to HealthKit. Check synchronization before creating a duplicate mobile session.

Fasting workspace on Mac — The Mac workspace shows how the live timer, weekly context, results, and history relate.

Fasting is a Beta informational tracker. It does not recommend a schedule, assess whether fasting is appropriate for you, or provide medical guidance.