Comparison

soom vs Mealbird

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

Head to head
About

soom

Features
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's o o m' is a quiet, sensory way to breathe. No goals. No streaks. No pressure. Just breathing, made tangible. Soom turns your breath into something you can see, feel, and stay with. Instead of tapping buttons or watching timers, your breath becomes the interface. Gentle visuals respond to each inhale and exhale. Subtle haptics follow your rhythm. Sound moves with your breath, not over it. Nothing to manage. Nothing to improve. Just a calm place to return to. s o o m includes a small set of thoughtfully designed breathing practices, each suited for different moments of the day. Some help you settle. Some help you rebalance. Some help you wind down. They are simple, guided, and easy to return to— whether you have a moment, or a little more time. Every part of Soom is designed to feel natural. Visuals stay soft and organic. Haptics are quiet and responsive. Sound is carefully shaped to support the breath. Nothing distracts. Everything follows. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH SOOM • Practice guided breathing with visual and haptic feedback • Choose from calming, balancing, and focusing breath patterns • Use sound that follows your breath instead of distracting from it • Return anytime — breathing sessions are always available You can always breathe freely in Soom. SOOM PLUS Soom Plus is for those who want breathing to become part of their daily rhythm. It adds gentle rituals for morning, midday, and night, short breathing sequences for common moments, and expanded breathing practices—without adding pressure. Some days you breathe once. Some days you stay a little longer. Both are enough. Privacy Policy: https://brindle-poison-f70.notion.site/Soom-Privacy-Policy-2cc5ea89fc718022babfe1fcc050f181 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mealbird

This app creates personalized weekly meal plans with daily protein and calorie targets. It uses USDA data for accurate nutrition information and generates a shopping list based on your budget and preferences.

Highlights
  • Daily protein and calorie tracking
  • Personalized weekly meal plans
  • USDA-verified nutrition data
  • Aisle-grouped shopping lists
  • Customizable dietary preferences
  • Recipe cook times and portions
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Most meal planners average your week. Mealbird checks every single day. Answer a short set of questions — your goal, your body, how much you actually cook, what you won't eat, what you'd spend at the store. Mealbird builds a full week of real meals around your answers, then checks it: every day's protein and calories are added up from USDA FoodData Central and compared to your targets before the plan is ever handed to you. Not an estimate. Not a weekly average. Arithmetic, per day, shown to you. WHAT YOU GET • A seven-day plan. Breakfast, lunch and dinner with real recipes, real portions and real cook times. • Per-day proof. Every day carries its own protein and calorie numbers and a band showing exactly where it landed — no day is allowed to quietly come up short. • The math, line by line. Tap any meal to see each ingredient's grams, its USDA entry, and the multiplication that produced the total. • A shopping list that matches the plan. Grouped by aisle, priced, and checked against the budget you set. The food you eat this week and what the packs cost at the till are shown as two different numbers, because they are two different numbers. • Repeats, if you asked for them. Say you'll cook once and eat it four times and the plan does that, and tells you which meals repeat. • Your kitchen, your rules. Diet, allergies, ingredients you love, ingredients you'll never touch, the equipment you own, how many people you're feeding, which meals you make yourself. • Swap a meal or eat out. Both show you what changes before anything is applied. WHAT IT WON'T DO • It won't guess. Every nutrition number on screen was computed from USDA data, not predicted by a language model. • It won't quietly edit your plan behind your back. • It won't dress an estimate up as a fact. Grocery prices are labelled as estimates, because they are. Validated nutrition is stated plainly, because it isn't. SUBSCRIPTION Mealbird is a subscription. • Yearly: $29.99 per year. • Monthly: $9.99 per month. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of that period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://mealbird.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://mealbird.app/privacy Mealbird is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before making changes to your diet, especially if you have a medical condition.

Screenshots

soom4 screens
Mealbird4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: soom at none against Mealbird's 3. soom also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Mealbird sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. soom asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
soom versus Mealbird: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersoomMealbird
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (154 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings—154 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Subscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYEONJAE IMLusson LLC

In-app purchases

None

soom

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Mealbird

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly, special offer$19.991 Year
  • Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is soom free?
soom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mealbird free?
Mealbird is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do soom or Mealbird have ads?
Mealbird shows ads; soom does not.

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