Comparison

Meal Reminders vs Meal Replacement Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Meal Reminders

This app helps you maintain a consistent eating schedule to keep your metabolism active. It sends timely notifications for meals, allowing you to prepare. Set your breakfast and bedtime to automatically calculate meal intervals.

Highlights
  • Customizable meal reminders (3-6 meals/day)
  • Automatic time calculation between meals
  • Notifications before meal times
  • Set breakfast and bedtime
  • Focus on metabolism
Features
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Meal Reminders helps you focus on keeping your metabolism running by reminding you when to eat. The reminders are based on 3, 4, 5, or 6 meals a day. The time between meals is calculated based on breakfast time and bedtime. Don't put more excuses! Features: Calculate time between meals based on breakfast time and bedtime Reminds you when its time to eat with notifications Reminds you minutes before a meal so that you have time to prepare it

About

Meal Replacement Tracker

Easily track your progress on a meal replacement program. Monitor meals, water intake, and daily weight with visual cues. Includes customizable reminders and program-specific features.

Highlights
  • Track meals and optional items
  • Monitor daily water intake
  • Record and view daily weight
  • Customizable meal reminders
  • Support for various meal plans
  • Record body measurements
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
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Meal replacement tracker, the easiest way to keep track of your meal replacement program. MR tracker is simple and easy to use. Simply select the week and the day then mark the meals, optional items, and water as you eat/drink them. The day rings will serve as a reminder to what you have already completed and what you have left. It’s easy to make it a goal to close the meal ring and the water ring daily. Record you daily weight on the input screen and view it on the overview screen next to your food and water rings. Color coded to show an increase, decrease, or neutral change in weight. Local push notifications are used to remind you to eat a meal every 2.5 hours. Notifications can be customized with the In-App Purchase - "Custom Alarm". Reminders start after you click your 1st checkbox for the day. Current meal plans are: Standard, Nursing Mother, 4MR2 and 5MR2. Choose the amount of weeks you want to do the program. Standard plan can change Burn and Transition weeks. The other plans can only change the Burn weeks. Take pictures at the Start, Middle and End of your program. Record body measurements at the Start, Middle and End of your program. Restart button to erase all data and start the program over fresh. Added support for iCloud Backup and Sync. Your data will automatically be backed up and synced to your iCloud account and will automatically show up and sync with your other Apple devices using the same Apple ID. ***In-App Purchase - Custom Alarm Notification. Set you default alarm notification interval. Interval ranges from 15 min to 3 hours 30 min in increments of 15 min. You can also set a 1-time alarm notification for you next meal after you checkmark a meal. 1 time alarm notifications don't change the overall default alarm notification interval. This is great for those times when you forgot to checkmark a meal and need a shorter alarm notification for your next meal or if you know you have an appointment when your next meal is supposed to be, you can set the 1 time alarm notification for before or after your appointment. ***In-App Purchase - Overview Details. The Overview Screen can now show a graph representation of your weight for the week and your overall weight in graph form, min, max, and current weight. It will also show what time your next meal is at the top of the screen. It will also create a Live Activity on your lock screen with a timer counting down until your next meal. *It will also show in the Dynamic Island if your device supports it. ***In-App Purchase - Remove Ads. Removes ads from the app. As a bonus you get an extra row of water icons to fill up the space normally used for ads. Portrait orientation only. Ads are used at the bottom of the screen.

Screenshots

Meal Reminders3 screens
Meal Replacement Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Meal Replacement Tracker at Free against Meal Reminders's $4.99. Meal Replacement Tracker also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 53%). Meal Reminders's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Meal Replacement Tracker is free to download; Meal Reminders costs $4.99 up front. Meal Reminders sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Meal Replacement Tracker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meal Reminders holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meal Reminders has 779 ratings behind it against 62, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Meal Reminders's written reviews are positive against 74% of Meal Replacement Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meal Reminders ships an update weekly, Meal Replacement Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Meal Reminders versus Meal Replacement Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal RemindersMeal Replacement Tracker
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (779 ratings) — better3.9 (62 ratings)
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews74.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings779 — better62
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB163 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPedro AnibarroJared Grant

Customer experience

Meal Reminders

All ratings779 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral16.3%
Negative30.4%

Meal Replacement Tracker

All ratings62 ratings
Positive74.2%
Neutral16.1%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive74.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative11.4%

Bugs and requests

Meal Reminders

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when opening the meal plan maker
  • Reminders show up for past completed meals
  • Notification sounds not working
  • Meal times changing unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow more than 6 meals per day
  • Add audible alarms for meal reminders
  • Provide more customization options without requiring a paid subscription
  • Improve tracking and history features
  • Add Apple Watch compatibility

Meal Replacement Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Meal Reminders

One-time6
  • Water tracking trialFree
  • Custom Times$0.99
  • Multiple Plans$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Increase max meals$0.99
  • Premium$1.99
  • Water tracking$1.99
3 purchases

Meal Replacement Tracker

One-time3
  • Overview Details$2.99
  • Custom Alarm$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Meal Reminders free?
Meal Reminders costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Meal Replacement Tracker free?
Meal Replacement Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meal Reminders or Meal Replacement Tracker?
Meal Reminders is rated higher. Meal Reminders averages 4.6 out of 5 from 779 ratings, while Meal Replacement Tracker averages 3.9 from 62 ratings.
Do Meal Reminders or Meal Replacement Tracker have ads?
Meal Replacement Tracker shows ads; Meal Reminders does not.
Which is updated more often, Meal Reminders or Meal Replacement Tracker?
Meal Reminders ships an update weekly, and Meal Replacement Tracker every 2 months. Most recently, Meal Reminders was updated on October 26, 2026 and Meal Replacement Tracker on October 23, 2026.

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