Comparison

Mean Eats vs Beyond the Sidelines

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Live dining hall menus
  • Nutrition tracking
  • Meal plan balance view
  • Smart search and filters
  • Campus dining hall map
  • Save favorite dishes
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Physical therapy exercise plans
  • Mental wellness practices
  • Progress tracking
  • Private journaling
  • Clinic integration
  • Guided timers and cues
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Mean Eats4 screens
Beyond the Sidelines4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mean Eats versus Beyond the Sidelines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMean EatsBeyond the Sidelines
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB14 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperVidya GollapalliPaarth Jamdagneya

Customer experience

Mean Eats

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beyond the Sidelines

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mean Eats

No in-app purchases

None

Beyond the Sidelines

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mean Eats free?
Mean Eats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beyond the Sidelines free?
Beyond the Sidelines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mean Eats or Beyond the Sidelines?
Mean Eats and Beyond the Sidelines are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mean Eats or Beyond the Sidelines have ads?
Neither Mean Eats nor Beyond the Sidelines shows ads.

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