The Mindful Meal Planner vs ExplOdin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Mindful Meal Planner
Log meals, portions, and digestive symptoms to identify patterns and potential food triggers. Visualize your gut health with a unique plant-based tracker and a daily harmony score. Offers a premium subscription for advanced insights and personalized meal plans.
- Quick meal and symptom logging
- Visual gut health plant tracker
- Daily harmony score
- Trigger identification engine
- Personalized meal plans (Pro)
- Guided elimination protocols (Pro)
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The Mindful Meal Planner helps you understand how what you eat connects to how you feel — without noise, judgement, or dogma. LOG IN SECONDS Capture meals, portions and FODMAP tags, plus digestive symptoms — bloating, pain, gas, urgency, energy and mood — on a clean daily timeline. SEE YOUR PATTERNS Your private Garden Row grows a plant for every food: it thrives on your calm days and wilts on your flare days. A daily Harmony Score turns a dozen signals into one clear number you can follow over time. FIND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS, HONESTLY The correlation engine surfaces foods that tend to line up with better or worse days, with plain-language confidence and clear caveats. Associations are not diagnoses. MINDFUL MEAL PLANNER PRO (optional subscription) - Every possible trigger and beneficial food, 90-day trends and weekday patterns - Your full personalized 7-day meal plan, generated from your own data - Guided elimination and reintroduction protocols - A shareable summary for your dietitian or doctor - Monthly $7.99 or annual $39.99, with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; the subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Your logging, history, Harmony Score and the whole low-FODMAP recipe library are always free. The Mindful Meal Planner is a general wellness and journaling tool. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/mindful-meal-planner/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/mindful-meal-planner/terms
ExplOdin
This app helps you manage overwhelm and anxiety by providing tools for immediate stress relief and guided decision-making. It features a visual mood companion and AI prompts to help you untangle thoughts and build confidence.
- Mood-tracking visual companion
- Instant stress relief techniques
- Guided decision-making frameworks
- Decision outcome logging
- AI-powered writing prompts
- Progress tracking and milestones
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ExplOdin turns overwhelm into clarity. It's a warm, playful wellness companion for anyone who freezes on decisions or feels their anxiety spike when choices pile up — a way to steady yourself in the moment and think a choice all the way through. MEET YOUR MOOD-ORB A living companion that mirrors how you feel — it puffs up and "explodes" when you're overwhelmed, then breathes and settles as you work through things. Watching it calm down is oddly satisfying, and it makes progress feel real. STEADY YOURSELF IN THE MOMENT When stress spikes, tap one button for fast, evidence-based relief — physiological sighs, box breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, muscle release, and more. A simple 0–100 stress gauge (your own self-rating) shows it easing. THINK THE CHOICE THROUGH Break any hard decision down with clear, guided frameworks — a weighted matrix, pros & cons, impact vs effort, values fit, and 10-10-10. ExplOdin does honest arithmetic on the weights and scores you set to surface a Clarity Score — you can always see exactly why, and the decision is always yours. LEARN FROM WHAT HAPPENS Log how a decision actually turned out, spot your patterns over time, and build real confidence. Gentle streaks and milestones keep it encouraging, never shaming. A LITTLE AI HELP WITH WORDS (never with the decision) Stuck at a blank page or a spiraling thought? Optional "Untangle" prompts suggest options, reframe a worry into one kind next step, or help you reflect — it only ever helps you find words; it never scores or makes your choice. EXPLODIN PRO (optional subscription) The relief tools and core decision loop are always free. Pro unlocks the Values and 10-10-10 frameworks, unlimited decisions and criteria, full history, stress-pattern insights, unlimited AI, and extra orb looks. - Monthly ($6.99) or annual ($39.99), with a 7-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in Settings ExplOdin is a wellness and decision-support tool, not therapy, and it does not provide medical, mental-health, or crisis care. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a professional or call or text 988 (US). Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/625/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/625/terms
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Verdict
The Mindful Meal Planner and ExplOdin are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. The Mindful Meal Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and ExplOdin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Mindful Meal Planner against 5.0 for ExplOdin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | The Mindful Meal Planner | ExplOdin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | THE O POSITIVE WAY LLC | Michele AmesHodges |
Customer experience
The Mindful Meal Planner
ExplOdin
In-app purchases
The Mindful Meal Planner
- Mindful Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Mindful Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
ExplOdin
- ExplOdin Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- ExplOdin Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year





