Comparison

The Mindful Meal Planner vs Neaptide

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Quick meal and symptom logging
  • Visual gut health plant tracker
  • Daily harmony score
  • Trigger identification engine
  • Personalized meal plans (Pro)
  • Guided elimination protocols (Pro)
Features
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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

About

Neaptide

This app offers guided breathing exercises and sensory re-entry techniques to help manage feelings of being overwhelmed. It intelligently suggests a session based on how you hold your device, with options to easily adjust or switch techniques.

Highlights
  • Adaptive session selection
  • Settle and Surface modes
  • Adjustable techniques
  • Screen-off mode
  • Lock Screen widget
  • Apple Watch app
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Neaptide opens to one thing: a circle. Hold it for a few seconds and a session starts. That is the whole interface. Most calming apps open with a menu, a questionnaire, or a sign-up. That is a reasonable design right up until the moment you actually need one — because when you are overwhelmed, deciding is the first thing that stops working. Forty exercises in a list are useless exactly when it matters. So Neaptide decides, and lets you overrule it in one tap. TWO DIRECTIONS Not everyone who feels bad needs to slow down. Some people are running fast: racing thoughts, clenched jaw, cannot sit still. Others are running slow: flat, foggy, numb, stuck. Telling someone who is already shut down to breathe more slowly points them further down. Neaptide reads which way you are going from how you held the screen, then picks accordingly. Settle — for wired. Long exhales, the physiological sigh, orienting, cold contact. The screen cools and darkens. Surface — for numb. A sharper rhythm, movement, bilateral tapping, sensory re-entry. The screen warms and lifts. Two words stay on screen the whole time: slower and brighter. If the read is wrong, one tap fixes it mid-session without losing your place. And if a technique isn't right for you, "try another" swaps it for a different one in the same direction — same place, same clock. THE READ IS A GUESS, AND SAYS SO It is three rough signals — how still you held it, how far your thumb drifted, how quickly you first tapped. A sensible default, not a measurement. The app tells you that in plain words on the screen where it matters, and you can overrule it at any point. NOTHING TO KEEP UP WITH No streaks. No scores. No "day 4". No log, no history, no chart. Miss a month and nothing is waiting for you when you come back. NO ACCOUNT, NO INTERNET No sign-up, no email address, no cloud. Nothing you do in Neaptide leaves your phone, because there is nowhere for it to go — there is no server. It works in airplane mode, on the Underground, and on a phone with no signal. WHY EACH ONE IS HERE Every reset carries a plain-language note about what the technique is generally used for, shown after the session rather than during it. Neaptide describes; it does not diagnose. WHAT YOU GET Thirteen resets across both directions. Unlimited sessions. Haptic pacing you can follow with the screen face-down. A screen-off mode that goes dark and keeps pacing you. Your own session length. A Lock Screen widget. An Apple Watch app that keeps pacing you with your wrist down. One payment. No subscription, ever. Every future update included. Neaptide is not treatment, and not a substitute for care from a professional. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency number.

Screenshots

The Mindful Meal Planner4 screens
Neaptide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The Mindful Meal Planner at Free against Neaptide's $0.99. The Mindful Meal Planner also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Neaptide's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

The Mindful Meal Planner is free to download; Neaptide costs $0.99 up front. The Mindful Meal Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Neaptide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Mindful Meal Planner against 5.0 for Neaptide. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Mindful Meal Planner versus Neaptide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Mindful Meal PlannerNeaptide
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTHE O POSITIVE WAY LLCBertie Allen

Customer experience

The Mindful Meal Planner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Neaptide

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

The Mindful Meal Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Mindful Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Mindful Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Neaptide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Mindful Meal Planner free?
The Mindful Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Neaptide free?
Neaptide costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Mindful Meal Planner or Neaptide?
The Mindful Meal Planner and Neaptide are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do The Mindful Meal Planner or Neaptide have ads?
Neither The Mindful Meal Planner nor Neaptide shows ads.

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