Comparison

Meant vs elsehear

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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

About

elsehear

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Meant4 screens
elsehear4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meant versus elsehear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeantelsehear
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB40 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperBruno Fernando Catossi Martinsdohyun ahn

Customer experience

Meant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

elsehear

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Meant

Subscriptions2
  • Meant Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Meant Premium Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

elsehear

One-time1
  • support elsehear$6.99

Questions

Is Meant free?
Meant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is elsehear free?
elsehear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meant or elsehear have ads?
Neither Meant nor elsehear shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meant or elsehear?
Meant ships an update every 10 days, and elsehear every 4 days. Most recently, Meant was updated on October 31, 2026 and elsehear on November 6, 2026.

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