Fastic alternative: zweitaps

Fastic is one of the best-known calorie trackers there is, with 131,135 App Store ratings. This page tells you why people switch anyway, and where zweitaps is different — with evidence, and with what Fastic does better.

Fastic does its job well, and the reason to leave is usually not a flaw in the app. It is the bill.

That is the loudest single finding across the whole market: seven days of trial, then an annual subscription, and features that used to be free sitting behind it. "Happy to pay once — never a subscription" is the sentence that comes back in every category we looked at.

What people write when they leave Fastic

From our own analysis of critical Google Play reviews. The number is how many readers confirmed the review — not our opinion, but how widely the sentence is shared. German reviews are quoted in the original.

• 7-Tage-Test, dann Jahresabo

  Google Play review, confirmed 678 times

What zweitaps does differently

zweitaps is built around one movement: tap plus, tap the food, done. Two taps for anything you have eaten before, because "Recent" opens directly under the plus. No streaks, no diamonds, no confirmation after saving, no ads in the diary.

You pay once, and only for photo recognition: 100 photos 2,99 € or 500 photos 9,99 €. Logging costs nothing and that will not change — nothing that is free today moves behind a paywall later.

Figures for Fastic come from the vendor's own public help pages and store listings, last checked 15 September 2026. Prices are deliberately not in this table: they differ by country and promotion and would be wrong here faster than they would be right. What is compared is the model. Found a mistake? Write to hello@zweitaps.com and we will fix it.

What Fastic does better

This belongs on the page because it is true: intermittent fasting as the actual subject, water and step tracking and a very large community. If one of those is the thing that matters most to you, stay. Switching apps only to miss something you use daily is a bad trade.

What zweitaps cannot do

So you read it here and not after installing:

• No recipes, no plans, no coaching. zweitaps is a diary, not a programme.
• Micronutrients only roughly. Calories, protein, carbs, fat. If you want to follow iron and B12, Cronometer serves you better.
• A smaller database than MyFitnessPal. We sit on Open Food Facts plus our own selection for European retail. Unusual items are sometimes missing; you enter them once and then you have them.
• Photo recognition is not free. Logging is, permanently. A photo of your plate costs one credit, because every photo costs us compute.

Your diary comes with you

You do not have to start from zero. zweitaps reads the Fastic export — App: Einstellungen → „Meine Daten exportieren“. The steps, which fields arrive and what gets lost on the way are on exporting your data from Fastic.