5Cs Menu vs Mean Reviews
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5Cs Menu
Discover dining hall menus and hours for all five Claremont Colleges. Explore future and past menus, or find local Claremont restaurants with potential student discounts.
- View dining hall menus
- Check dining hall hours
- Browse future menus
- See past menus
- Find local restaurants
- Student discount alerts
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Quickly find out what's being served in the dining halls across the Five Claremont Colleges! Figure out what dining hall you want to go to for your meal, or, use the app as an excuse to go back to your room and eat popcorn instead. 5C Menu has auto-updated menus and dining hall hours for Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pomona Colleges. You can even change the search date to check out what's going to be served in the future. Or, if you want to make sure you didn't miss out on anything while you were eating popcorn alone in your room, you can check what was served in the past! Tired of eating on campus? 5C Menu also has select few Claremont restaurants for you could explore. Stay on the lookout for student discounts!
Mean Reviews
Log your food and drink experiences with trusted friends. This app uses individual visit logs based on a simple "great or not?" question, moving beyond subjective star ratings. Share your opinions on local eateries with your community.
- Log individual food and drink visits
- Rate experiences as 'great or not?'
- Connect with trusted friends
- Share opinions on local eateries
- Avoid subjective star ratings
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Restaurant quality isn't static - reviews shouldn't be either. Mean Reviews is a new way to log food and drink places with people whose tastes you trust! Instead of a subjective 5-star system that is based off of experiences that may be outdated, Mean Reviews logs individual visits (stacking over time), based off a simple question: "Was it great or not?" Know a place that makes a MEAN pastrami? Do you think that hot spot downtown is just AVERAGE? Had a dinner experience the other night that just made you MAD? Tell it like it is on MEAN REVIEWS!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mean Reviews at every 5 days against 5Cs Menu's monthly. Mean Reviews also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 5Cs Menu's advantage is ratings volume (205 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mean Reviews holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 5Cs Menu has 205 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
5Cs Menu ships an update monthly, Mean Reviews every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5Cs Menu | Mean Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (205 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 205 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Domenico Ottolia | Alec Swanson |
Customer experience
5Cs Menu
Mean Reviews
In-app purchases
5Cs Menu
No in-app purchases
Mean Reviews
No in-app purchases
