Mean Eats vs Beyond the Sidelines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mean Eats
Browse dining hall menus, track nutrition, and manage meal plan information for university students. Find dishes by hall, meal period, or dietary needs, and save your favorites for easy access.
- Live dining hall menus
- Nutrition tracking
- Meal plan balance view
- Smart search and filters
- Campus dining hall map
- Save favorite dishes
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Mean Eats is a student project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of North Texas. Hungry on campus? Mean Eats helps UNT students browse dining hall menus, track nutrition, and manage meal plan information — all in one place. Key Features: • Live Menus — Browse today's offerings across UNT dining halls, updated daily • Continue as Guest — Browse menus and nutrition without signing in • Meal Plan Access — Sign in through UNT's official portal to view swipes and flex balance • Smart Search & Filters — Find items by hall, meal period, dietary needs, and allergens • Nutrition Tracking — Build your plate and track calories and macros • Campus Map — Find dining halls and Where to Spend locations on campus • Favorites — Save dishes you love for quick access • Health Disclaimer — Nutrition info is estimated from public menu data Sign In: Optional UNT login opens the official meal plan portal (mealplans.unt.edu) in a secure web view. Mean Eats never stores your UNT password. Menu data is aggregated from public UNT dining sources for convenience and may not reflect real-time changes. Support: Support: https://vaibhav100968.github.io/eagle_eats/support/ Privacy: https://vaibhav100968.github.io/eagle_eats/privacy/
Beyond the Sidelines
This app supports your physical and mental recovery journey by consolidating your physical therapy plan and mental wellness practices. Track progress, journal your feelings, and connect with your clinic for guided exercises and check-ins.
- Physical therapy exercise plans
- Mental wellness practices
- Progress tracking
- Private journaling
- Clinic integration
- Guided timers and cues
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Beyond the Sidelines is a recovery companion that brings your physical therapy and your mental wellbeing into one calm, encouraging place. Recovering from an injury, or just having a hard week, can feel lonely the moment you leave the clinic. Beyond the Sidelines keeps you company between visits: do your plan, check in with how you're feeling, and watch the small wins add up. 2 Ways To Use It - On your own: build your plan, track your progress, keep a private journal. - Through your clinic: enter your PT's code to get your assigned exercises, send a quick post-session check-in, and message them between visits. Your journal always stays private to you. For Your Body - Your exercise plan with clear steps, cues, and optional demo videos - One tap to mark a session done, or a guided mode with timers - A post-session check-in: rate how it felt and leave a quick note - Milestones to work toward and a journey that shows how far you've come For Your Mind - A mental-wellness mode that reshapes the app around what you need: anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep, or focus - Real practices: breathing, grounding, journaling, gratitude, and more - A private journal for your mood, your wins, and your reflections Private By Design Your journal, mood, and reflections are yours. If you connect to a clinic, they only ever see the exercise data you choose to share. Everything is encrypted in transit. Beyond the Sidelines is a wellness and recovery companion. It does not replace professional medical care. Always follow the guidance of your physician or physical therapist, and stop any exercise that causes pain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Mean Eats at 8 against Beyond the Sidelines's 1. Beyond the Sidelines's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mean Eats against 5.0 for Beyond the Sidelines. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mean Eats has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Mean Eats | Beyond the Sidelines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vidya Gollapalli | Paarth Jamdagneya |
Customer experience
Mean Eats
Beyond the Sidelines
In-app purchases
Mean Eats
No in-app purchases
Beyond the Sidelines
No in-app purchases
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