Comparison

Meal Reminders vs Vivero

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

Vivero

This app helps you build a healthier relationship with your phone by gamifying mindful app usage. It turns your progress into a growing garden rather than a punitive scoreboard, encouraging consistent habits with grace days and celebrating comebacks.

Highlights
  • Mindful app tracking
  • Virtual garden growth
  • Weekly habit rhythm
  • Grace days for flexibility
  • Private friend circles
  • Badge system for achievements
  • Quick check-in design
Features
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Vivero turns the apps you're mindful of into a garden that grows with you — not a scoreboard that punishes you. HOW IT WORKS Pick a small handful of apps to be mindful of, set your own daily goal in the units that make sense to you, and grant Screen Time access. Each day you meet your goal, your garden grows. Miss one? Nothing dies. Vivero tracks a weekly rhythm — like 5 out of 7 days — instead of an all-or-nothing streak, so one hard day doesn't erase everything you've built. A COMEBACK IS PROGRESS TOO Coming back after a rough stretch gets its own recognition, not a guilt trip. Free grace days protect your rhythm on days that don't go to plan — no ads, no purchase required. YOUR CIRCLE, NOT A LEADERBOARD Grow a small circle with up to 5 friends. Sharing is opt-in and private by default — your circle sees your plant's stage or that you "grew today," not your exact minutes. No public rankings, no direct messages. TEN WAYS TO BE RECOGNIZED Badges span more than just consistency — showing up for the first time, a full week, a comeback, growing your circle, using a grace day, and simply sticking around for the long haul. BUILT TO OPEN BRIEFLY, NOT ENDLESSLY No feed, no infinite missions, no push notifications designed to pull you back in for the sake of it. Vivero is meant to be checked in a few seconds and closed. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Vivero only ever sees the total time you spend in the apps you personally chose to track — never what you looked at, read, or posted. Full privacy policy in Settings. Free includes the complete core experience — goal tracking, your garden, badges, and a circle of friends — for up to 2 tracked apps. Premium removes that limit and adds more grace days, unlimited friends, and additional garden customization. Available in English and Spanish, with an instant in-app language switch in Settings — no need to change your device language. Vivero is designed for adults building a healthier relationship with their phone. It's not a medical device and doesn't diagnose, treat, or claim to cure anything — just a small, honest way to notice your own patterns and grow something from them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meal Reminders3 screens
Vivero4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meal Reminders at 53% against Vivero's 0%. Meal Reminders also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Vivero's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99). 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

Vivero is free to download; Meal Reminders costs $4.99 up front. Meal Reminders sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Vivero sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. 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 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meal Reminders has 778 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Meal Reminders's written reviews are positive against 0% of Vivero's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meal Reminders ships an update weekly, Vivero fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Meal Reminders versus Vivero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal RemindersVivero
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (778 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings778 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPedro AnibarroRummenige Baron

Customer experience

Meal Reminders

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

Vivero

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Vivero

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
2 purchases

Vivero

Subscriptions2
  • Vivero Premium14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Vivero Premium (Annual)14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Meal Reminders free?
Meal Reminders costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Vivero free?
Vivero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meal Reminders or Vivero?
Meal Reminders is rated higher. Meal Reminders averages 4.6 out of 5 from 778 ratings, while Vivero averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Meal Reminders or Vivero have ads?
Vivero shows ads; Meal Reminders does not.
Which is updated more often, Meal Reminders or Vivero?
Meal Reminders ships an update weekly, and Vivero fortnightly. Most recently, Meal Reminders was updated on November 2, 2026 and Vivero on October 29, 2026.

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