Maya AI Coach · Comparison
Maya vs Fastic: a coach or a fasting companion?
Last updated: July 16, 2026
For women over 35 who want an actual coach rather than a fasting timer, Maya offers voice conversations, permanent memory, and a plan that adapts after sessions for $9/month. Fastic is a gamified intermittent-fasting app with an AI food scanner and a basic chatbot (Fasty), around $12.99-$14.99/month or $30-$75/year on promo.
Maya vs Fastic at a glance
Price
Maya: $9/mo, $19/quarter, or $89/yr
Fastic: About $12.99-$14.99/mo; Fastic Plus yearly lists at $79.99 but frequently sells for $30-$75 on promo. Free tier with basics
What it is
Maya: A named AI coach for women 35+: real-time voice conversations, permanent memory, and a weekly plan that adjusts after each coaching session.
Fastic: A gamified intermittent-fasting app: fasting timer, body-status tracker, AI food scanner, courses, and challenges
Coach or tool?
Maya: A coach. One persona (Maya) who talks with you, not a logging tool
Fastic: A fasting toolset with a chatbot: Fasty answers questions; the timer and challenges drive the experience
Voice
Maya: Yes. Real-time voice conversations, plus text chat
Fastic: No real-time voice coaching
Memory
Maya: Yes. Permanent memory of your history, preferences, and past conversations
Fastic: Tracks fasting streaks and logs; no permanent coaching memory
Adaptive plan
Maya: Yes. A rolling weekly plan across 8 lifestyle areas that updates after coaching sessions
Fastic: Fasting protocols (16:8 etc.) plus courses; not session-adaptive
Food logging
Maya: No calorie counting or food database. Maya coaches habits, not numbers
Fastic: Yes: AI photo food scanner plus barcode logging
Trial
Maya: Free quiz + personalized plan preview before you pay. Cancel anytime
Fastic: Free tier with basic features; Plus unlocks protocols, courses, scanner, and full stats
The core difference: coaching vs gamification
Fastic keeps you engaged with streaks, challenges, and a friendly interface built entirely around the fasting window. Its chatbot, Fasty, answers questions, and the AI food scanner gives quick nutrition info from a photo.
Maya is not organized around fasting or streaks. It is organized around you: one coach you can actually talk to, who remembers your history and adjusts your weekly plan after each coaching session. Not another tracker. An actual coach who talks, remembers, and adjusts your plan.
Price, honestly compared
Fastic Plus is about $12.99-$14.99 month-to-month; the yearly plan lists at $79.99 and frequently sells between $30 and $75 on promotion. There is a workable free tier.
Maya is $9/month, $19 per quarter (1 month free vs monthly), or $89 per year (2 months free vs monthly). On a promo year Fastic can be cheaper; month-to-month Maya is cheaper. The bigger question is whether you want a fasting product or a coach.
Streaks are fun. A relationship is stronger.
Fastic keeps you coming back with streaks, challenges, and playful energy, and the food scanner makes logging quick. Gamification is genuinely motivating, for a while.
The limit of points and streaks is that they don't know you. When a streak breaks (eventually one does), the game resets to zero. When life breaks a week with Maya, the coaching absorbs it: the plan eases up, the conversation continues, and nothing you built disappears.
What coaching with Maya actually looks like
Screenshots from the real app. This is the difference between logging into a tool and having someone in your corner: a coach who talks, remembers, and keeps your plan honest.
Where Maya wins
- Coaching depth: real conversations and sessions vs a Q&A chatbot
- Real-time voice (Fasty is text-only)
- Permanent memory of your history and preferences
- A plan that adapts to your life instead of fixed fasting protocols
- Cheaper month-to-month: $9 vs about $12.99-$14.99
Where Fastic wins
- Fasting specialization: protocols, body-status timeline, and education built for fasting
- Gamification: streaks and challenges that many users find genuinely motivating
- AI food scanner with photo and barcode logging, which Maya does not do
- Promo-year pricing can undercut Maya's annual plan
The verdict
Choose Fastic if intermittent fasting is your chosen method and you enjoy gamified streaks, challenges, and food scanning.
Choose Maya if you want a coach who leads the process: talks with you, remembers everything, and reshapes the plan when your week goes sideways. Take the free quiz to see your plan first.
Frequently asked questions
Is Fastic's Fasty a real AI coach?
Fasty is a chatbot that gives instant answers and guidance inside Fastic. It is useful for quick questions, but it does not hold voice conversations, keep permanent memory, or restructure a personalized plan after coaching sessions the way Maya does.
Is Maya or Fastic cheaper?
Month-to-month, Maya: $9 vs Fastic's roughly $12.99-$14.99. On yearly plans it depends on Fastic's promos ($30-$75 vs Maya's $89). Maya's quarterly option ($19 per 3 months) sits in between.
Do I need to fast to use Maya?
No. Maya's plan spans 8 lifestyle areas (like eating rhythm, movement, sleep, and stress) and adapts to what works for you. Fasting can be included if it suits you, but it is never the premise, unlike Fastic where the fasting timer is the core.
Does an AI weight loss coach actually work?
The honest answer: an AI coach improves the odds you stay consistent, because it is always available, never judgmental, and keeps the plan realistic. Maya coaches habits and behavior; it makes no medical or outcome claims. For medical concerns, talk to a clinician.
Which is better for women over 35?
Maya is built specifically for women 35+; Fastic is a general-audience fasting app. If you want the coaching to understand your life stage without explaining it every time, Maya was designed for exactly that.
Does Fastic have a free version?
Yes, with basic fasting tracking, water and step tracking. Plus unlocks all protocols, courses, the AI scanner, and full statistics. Maya has no free tier, but the quiz and personalized plan preview are free and plans start at $9/month, cancel anytime.
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