Comparison

Mean Eats vs Dining Hall Macros

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

Dining Hall Macros

Features
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Dining Hall Macros shows what is actually in your dining hall food. Every item on today's menu, with the real protein, carbs, fat, fiber and calories, pulled straight from your university's own dining data and refreshed every morning. BUILD A PLATE THAT HITS YOUR TARGET Tell it your protein and calorie target for the meal. It picks items from across the stations and puts a plate together that hits it. Do not like it? Reroll. LOG WHAT YOU ATE One tap per item, in half, single, one-and-a-half, double or triple servings. Your daily totals update as you go. TRACK IT OVER TIME Log your weight. See daily totals against your targets. See whether the last two weeks actually moved. YOUR ACCOUNT FOLLOWS YOU Sign in with your email on any phone and your diary, targets, diet settings and weight history come with it. EATING AROUND A DIET Vegetarian, vegan, halal, gluten-free and allergen filters. Set what you avoid and it stops suggesting it. SCHOOLS UT Austin, Texas A&M, UNC Charlotte, UCLA, UC Berkeley, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins, UPenn, Northwestern, Notre Dame, UChicago and Vanderbilt. Not your school? Email ammo.biz08@gmail.com and it gets built if the dining data is public. Free. Built by Ammo Performance Group.

Screenshots

Mean Eats4 screens
Dining Hall Macros4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dining Hall Macros at 15.0 against Mean Eats's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mean Eats versus Dining Hall Macros: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMean EatsDining Hall Macros
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperVidya GollapalliAiden Muhammad

In-app purchases

None

Mean Eats

No in-app purchases

None

Dining Hall Macros

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mean Eats free?
Mean Eats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dining Hall Macros free?
Dining Hall Macros is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mean Eats or Dining Hall Macros have ads?
Neither Mean Eats nor Dining Hall Macros shows ads.

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