Intermittent fasting app from BodyFast GmbH with a fasting timer, weekly personalised plans from a coach, recipes and daily tips, aimed at people who want to lose weight and eat on a schedule.
Maker
BodyFast GmbH
Launched
Jan 2018
Category
Health & Fitness
Price
Free, subscriptions $11.99 to $69.99
US ratings
146K, 4.7 avg
Best rank
#93 grossing, Italy
BodyFast GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany) was founded by Patrick Hammer and Matthias Schmeißer
On 2026-01-21 Wort & Bild
Milestones stated by the company: 100,000 Google Play downloads
How BodyFast got its users
Installs most likely come from App Store search and word of mouth, plus owned video and discount-code creators; the company states 50M+ downloads, bootstrapped. Confidence: low
Main channel: App Store search and charts, as the reading above names it
App Store search and chartsYouTubePress and articlesPodcasts and interviewsPosts on XCreators and UGC
2018-01 to 2018-09App Store and Google Play, owned social: Launch, then milestone posts with a time-limited 20% coach discount link at one million downloads. 100,000 Google Play downloads (2018-04-05); One million downloads! (2018-09-01)
2019-06Owned social: User story post: a BodyFaster saved about 3,000$ by doing IF. saved about 3,000$
2019Paid video ads (YouTube as reported by...: Ads shown on weight and recovery vlogs
Bar length: how much evidence we found for the channel, on a log scale (ad-days for ads, likes for creator posts, views for own posts and YouTube, articles, episodes, ratings). It shows where the evidence is, not a measured install share.
Creator posts
Category colors match on every tab
Creator posting patterns
posting patterns of 6 creators; 4 profiles checked so far
4 of 6 creator profiles checked: 2 with "one post", 1 with "4+ posts over 30+ days", 1 with "2-3 posts, 30+ days apart".
Daily tracker, 2026-11-09: the rating count and average in each country's App Store, and the best position in Apple's top 100 for the category (overall when only that). A dash: not in that top 100. Listing language: whether the App Store listing is in the country's main language. Ads in it: share of the dissected ads in that language.
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01Creator types: 4 of 6 creator profiles opened; 2 creators stay "not checked yet" until checked.
02Creator post counts differ for 2 of 6 creators (search hits vs profile count). Tables use the profile count.
0320 accounts found in searches are left out of the creator counts: 9 point at another app or are named like the app without being it, 11 never name, tag or link it.
04No Meta video ads dissected yet.
Store data
secondary
146,451
ratings
4.70
average rating
- / -
US free / grossing, 2026-07-30
2
countries charting
Caveats
9
Meta Ad Library was searched logged-out by keyword and page: 0 active ads captured
TikTok Commercial Content Library (EU) returned 0 verified ads
Google Ads Transparency Center was blocked and had no usable domain
No dissection.json existed, so no paid creative was dissected and the psychology list is empty
Instagram profiles were not collected; only hashtag posts were seen
@bodyfastapp and @bodyfastitalia are marked NAME_ALIKE_NOT_THE_APP
TikTok counts are card counts, not verified views; several video pages were access denied
The X posts from @thsottiaux are about another company and are not used
Shares are estimates labelled as such
Paid: every active ad found for the advertiser in the Meta Ad Library with start date and variant count as Meta publishes them; videos fetched for analysis only and deleted after frames, transcript and OCR were derived; one model read per creative into a fixed schema. Organic: public profile counts only. Creators count only when a caption tags, links or names the app (graded per creator). Founder statements quoted verbatim and checked by code. Estimates labelled and linked. Not affiliated with the app or its publisher.
What can your app copy from BodyFast?
Enter your app and we write the first lessons for it from BodyFast and the apps around it. Free.
No ads in Meta's Ad Library (logged-out keyword searches, checked 2026-11-09). No ads in TikTok's ad library (EU, 2 searches). Not shown for BodyFast, nothing to fill them: Winning ads, Top videos, Teardowns, Ad categories, Creative families, Psychology. Data as of 2026-11-09.
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