The Mindful Meal Planner vs FastingForge
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
FastingForge
This app offers an offline intermittent fasting timer with a visual dial that shows your body's typical stage during a fast. It provides science-backed information on each milestone and works without an internet connection.
- Offline fasting timer
- Visual Tempering Ring stage indicator
- Science-backed milestone explanations
- Multiple fasting protocols
- Fasting history and streaks
- Achievements and reminders
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FastingForge is a calm, offline intermittent fasting timer. One tap starts your fast — then the Tempering Ring shows which science-backed stage your body is typically in, and how long until the next one. THE TEMPERING RING A live dial that heats from cold slate to molten gold as your fast runs. Each milestone — blood sugar settling, glycogen depletion, fat burning, ketosis, autophagy — ignites as its hour is reached, with a plain-language note on what is happening. HONEST ABOUT THE SCIENCE Every stage carries an evidence badge: well established, individually varies, or animal-model. FastingForge estimates from the clock; it never claims to measure your body. It is a general wellness and educational tool, not medical advice. WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL The timer, the milestones, your history and your reminders all run on your device. No account needed, no feed, no articles, no upsells mid-fast. EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS IS FREE The timer and the Tempering Ring, every protocol (13:11 through 20:4, OMAD, custom and extended), your full fasting history, streaks and stats, the complete stages library, this month's calendar, achievements and offline reminders — free, forever. FORGE PRO (optional subscription) - Weekday consistency analytics and the full trend breakdown - Weight logging, plus an honest read on how your weekly fasting hours line up with your weekly weight change - Full-history calendar and shareable milestone cards - 7.99 USD per month or 49.99 USD per year, with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Fasting is not right for everyone. Talk to a doctor before fasting if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, under 18, diabetic, taking medication, or have a history of disordered eating. Privacy Policy: https://ayeyyukuqz.accountnotify.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://ayeyyukuqz.accountnotify.app/terms
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Verdict
The Mindful Meal Planner and FastingForge are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 FastingForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 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 FastingForge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | The Mindful Meal Planner | FastingForge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| 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 | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | THE O POSITIVE WAY LLC | Northgate Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
The Mindful Meal Planner
FastingForge
In-app purchases
The Mindful Meal Planner
- Mindful Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Mindful Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
FastingForge
- Forge Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Forge Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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