# Fruit Shade: Colour Tracker — Compare fruit colour

> Compare fruit colour (iPhone/iPad app by Harvey Butters.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fruit-shade-colour-tracker/id6819624778 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Harvey Butters](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801254445)
- Category: Utilities, Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $0.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-03
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is Fruit Shade?

Fruit Shade puts sampled fruit colours into words. Choose and confirm the fruit before each photo. All six colour modes are free, with no account, subscription or advertising. One optional extra, Fruit Diary, is a 99p one-time in-app purchase.

BANANA, AVOCADO, TOMATO, MANGO AND PEAR
Fill the guide with your chosen fruit in good, even light. Fruit Shade compares its skin colours with a typical colour chart and gives a conditional estimate, assuming your selection is right. It says what colours it saw. The charts are typical colours, not measurements. Some pears, mangoes and green-skinned avocados change little in colour.

APPLE: PHOTO COLOUR ONLY
Select Apple and confirm “I have an apple”, then choose Describe photo colour. When the sample is readable and predominantly one supported colour band, Fruit Shade describes the sampled photo pixels. It refuses when the image is too mixed, dim, bright or weak in colour for this limited description. This is not a cultivar identification or verified apple skin. Lighting, camera white balance and backgrounds affect it.

YOUR SELECTION MATTERS
Fruit Shade cannot identify fruit or reliably reject other objects. A wrong selection or matching background can still produce an estimate. Apple selected never produces banana guidance, but leaving Banana selected for an apple can still produce a conditional banana-chart estimate.

COLOUR ONLY
Colour cannot tell firmness, taste or food safety. Fruit Shade never says food is safe to eat. It has no medical or meat modes and does not test colour vision.

FRUIT DIARY (OPTIONAL, 99P ONE-TIME)
After a check, Fruit Diary can save a cropped copy of the boxed area with the fruit, the date and your own note, so you can look back later. Reading, editing notes and deleting entries are in the Diary tab; Restore purchase is there too. Diary entries are stored only on this phone, in the app's protected storage. They are not in iCloud or device backups and are lost if you delete Fruit Shade or move to a new phone. Nothing is saved unless you tap Save to Fruit Diary. The six colour modes work fully without it.

PRIVATE AND OFFLINE
Without the diary, photos and crops stay in private cache on your phone, not in Photos; iOS may clear that cache, and fruit choice/results are not saved between launches. No photos or results are uploaded. No account, tracking, ads or remote analysis service. Fruit Shade itself sends nothing; buying or restoring Fruit Diary goes through Apple's App Store.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fruit Diary | $0.99 | one-time |


## Is Fruit Shade safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Fruit Shade.

## Is Fruit Shade legit?

Fruit Shade: Colour Tracker appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fruit Shade is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-11-12

Riper is now Fruit Shade. The app has always described a fruit's colour, so the name and wording now say exactly that, and nothing more. Also includes the optional Fruit Diary (99p, one-time): save a colour check with its photo, the fruit, the date and your own note. Diary entries stay only on this phone and are lost if you delete the app or move to a new phone. All six colour modes stay free.

### 1.2 — 2026-11-09

New: Fruit Diary, an optional one-time purchase. Save any finished colour check with its photo, the fruit, the date and your own note, then look back at it later. Diary entries stay only on this phone: they are not in iCloud or device backups and are lost if you delete Riper or move to a new phone. All six colour modes stay free and work without it.

### 1.1 — 2026-11-05

All five existing fruit-colour chart modes are free. Apple now has a separate, user-confirmed photo-colour description with clear refusals; it does not estimate apple ripeness or identify fruit. Improved wording and accessibility headings.

### 1.0 — 2026-11-03

No release notes.

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