Meant vs elsehear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meant
This app provides daily affirmations tailored to your desires and upcoming situations. Choose from categories like confidence, love, and success to receive personalized messages. You can save, share, and display these affirmations on your device.
- Daily affirmations based on chosen desires
- Situation-specific affirmations for events
- Save and share affirmations
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable reminders
- Personalized 'For You' feed (Premium)
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The life you're calling in has real moments: the date, the difficult conversation, the room where you decide to speak up. Meant gives you daily affirmations for who you're becoming, and words to take with you when you walk in. Choose the desires that matter to you: confidence, love, self-worth, abundance, calm, success, and more. Find words shaped by those choices, whether you have a whole day ahead or one particular moment on your mind. FOR WHAT'S AHEAD Before a date, you might want to feel magnetic. Before a difficult conversation, you might want to hear yourself clearly. Open a Moment for the situation ahead and move through a few lines made for it. Take the one that feels like yours. WORDS THAT STAY WITH YOU Reveal your Daily Card. Explore affirmations by desire or by how you want to feel. Save the lines you want to return to, or share one as a story or square image. Put a line on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with widgets, and choose when reminders reach you. YOUR DIRECTION, YOUR WORDS Follow what you want more of and change direction whenever you want. Meant uses your choices to shape the affirmations you see. There's no perfect way to arrive here. Start free with a Daily Card, Everyday affirmations, and general widgets and reminders. Meant Premium opens every Moment, the full affirmation collections, your personal For You feed, and affirmations matched to your choices in daily content, widgets, and reminders. Whatever is ahead, you get to choose the words you walk in with. Meant Premium is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. The annual plan may include a 3-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Your App Store purchase sheet shows the current local price and terms before you confirm. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account settings. Terms of Use: https://brunomartiins.github.io/bemartinslabs-legal/meant/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://brunomartiins.github.io/bemartinslabs-legal/meant/privacy.html
elsehear
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Listen to real places around the world, live. Browse places around the world and tune into their live soundscapes. Discover the coordinates and stories behind the sounds you hear. Tap "Take me somewhere" and let Elsehear choose your next destination. Save your favorite places and return to them whenever you like. Favorites sync across your iPhones when you sign in with the same Apple account. See your current place and playback status on the Lock Screen with Live Activities. Browse places and control playback on your paired iPhone with the Apple Watch companion. Available in English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, and German. Elsehear is an art project for sharing the sounds of the world. With thanks to Locus Sonus and the contributors who keep these open microphones listening. Sign in with Apple and an internet connection are required. Audio comes from live sources, so sounds and stream availability vary. Be here, hear elsewhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: elsehear at every 4 days against Meant's every 10 days. elsehear also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Meant sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and elsehear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Meant ships an update every 10 days, elsehear every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meant | elsehear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno Fernando Catossi Martins | dohyun ahn |
Customer experience
Meant
elsehear
In-app purchases
Meant
- Meant Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- Meant Premium Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
elsehear
- support elsehear$6.99









