Comparison

Shutterbite vs Intuitive Eating Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Shutterbite

Easily track your meals and snacks with photos, no calorie counting needed. Customize your diary with over 40 options to understand your eating habits and achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Track meals with photos
  • Customizable tracking options
  • No calorie counting required
  • View eating pattern insights
  • Set and track eating goals
  • Earn rewards for milestones
Features
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Shutterbite is designed to be the easiest and most flexible food journal and mindful eating app that you can find. The Shutterbite food journal will help you eat mindfully and improve your relationship with food. With Shutterbite, you can track what you eat with just a photo, no calorie counting or dieting required. You can also customize your food diary with various tracking options that suit your goals and preferences. Whether you want to lose weight, eat healthier, or simply be more aware of your eating habits, Shutterbite can help you achieve it. With Shutterbite, you can: - Track your meals and snacks with photos, the easiest and fastest way to journal your food. - Customize your food diary with 40+ additional tracking options, such as hunger/fullness, meal timer, why you ate, how you felt after eating, mood tracker, who you ate with, and more. - Create your own tracking options from scratch or edit the existing ones to fit your needs. - View your stats and insights to discover your eating patterns and habits, and how they affect your goals. - Set and track your progress towards any eating-related goal, such as losing weight, eating more fruits and vegetables, or reducing sugar intake. - Get rewards and motivation for reaching milestones and staying consistent with your food journaling. Here are a few of the features you can expect with Shutterbite 1. Simple and Easy Meal Tracking: - Track what you are eating using only a picture - No calorie counting required - Custom tracking options make it easy to track whatever is important to you 2. Custom Food Journal - 40+ Predefined tracking options available such as hunger/fullness, meal timer, why you ate, how you food after eating, mood tracker, who you ate with, and more - Easy-to-use tracking options that make it easy to track whatever you want - Edit any of the tracking options to meet your goals - Create your own tracking options from scratch using any of the other tracking options as a starting point - Edit your journal visually so that you create a journal that is truly for you 3. Detailed Stat Tracking - View your stats to find insights into your eating habits. - View your stats for particular food and see how your habits change based on the food that you are eating. - View stats for each particular eating habit that you have added to your journal - See how your habits change by visualizing how your habits change over time 4. Goal Tracking - Track your progress towards any eating-related goal - Get rewards for reaching milestones with your goal - Find the foods and the specific eating habits that best help you accomplish your goals - Help you stay motivated as you progress towards your goal Subscription Information: Shutterbite is free to download and use until you reach a certain threshold. We charge a small fee to store all of your data privately in the cloud, remain ad-free, and continue delivering new functionality and features on a consistent basis. After reaching the threshold of 15 saved meals you will be asked to subscribe to continue saving any more data. Terms of Use: https://shutterbite.com/terms-of-use/ and our privacy policy here: Privacy Policy: https://shutterbite.com/privacy-policy/

About

Intuitive Eating Buddy

This app guides you toward a more natural way of eating by building awareness of your body's signals. Log meals, hunger, and fullness, and track factors like mood and sleep to understand your eating patterns. It offers supportive challenges to help you make small, sustainable changes for a healthier relationship with food.

Highlights
  • Log meals, hunger, and fullness
  • Track mood, workouts, and sleep
  • Add notes and tags for context
  • Identify patterns over time
  • Choose supportive challenges
  • Build a better relationship with food
Features
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Did you know that only 2 in 10 people who diet or count calories manage to keep the weight off? And, at the same time, more than 3 in 10 people end up gaining more weight than before they started. So chances are, dieting or counting calories will leave you worse off overall. Eating Buddy offers a different approach Your body is designed to regulate weight naturally. But highly processed foods, dieting, and chronic stress can override its signals to a point where eating feels out of control. That’s where Eating Buddy steps in. It helps you return to a more natural, intuitive way of eating through awareness. How it works Log meals and body cues in seconds: Quickly log meals, hunger, and fullness to build awareness. Track what affects your eating: Note mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks to see what influences how you eat. Reflect and organize: Use notes or tags to add context and categorize meals. See Patterns over time: Eating Buddy helps surface patterns so connections become easier to notice. Choose challenges that fit you: Based on your patterns, pick supportive challenges to focus on one small, meaningful change at a time. If you are tired of starting over with dieting and want a calmer, more sustainable way to relate to food, download Eating Buddy now to get started. -------------------------- We offer monthly and yearly subscription plans for our optional challenges system. Both plans include a one-week free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our terms of use at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula and our privacy policy at https://www.eatingbuddy.app/privacy-policy .

Screenshots

Shutterbite4 screens
Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Shutterbite and Intuitive Eating Buddy both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's written reviews are positive against 33% of Shutterbite's. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (196 vs 26). On price, rating, 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. Shutterbite sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Shutterbite against 4.8 for Intuitive Eating Buddy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intuitive Eating Buddy has 196 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Shutterbite's written reviews are positive against 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shutterbite ships an update fortnightly, Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shutterbite versus Intuitive Eating Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShutterbiteIntuitive Eating Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (26 ratings) — better4.8 (196 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews89.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26196 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShutterbiteSagital SRL

Customer experience

Shutterbite

All ratings25 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Intuitive Eating Buddy

All ratings194 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

Bugs and requests

Shutterbite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App kicks user out after logging a meal (recent update)
  • Nothing happens when clicking 'log meal' button
  • Notes and tags not displayed in timeline (initially)
  • Dates in timeline are a day behind

Requested features

25 requests
  • Add 'bites' as a unit of measure
  • Allow soft drinks to be added to total drinks
  • Discourage eating when 'ravenous'
  • Allow selection of multiple hunger levels for prompts
  • More articles within the app
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  • Community feature for users to connect
  • Ability to add movement not tied to Apple Watch (manual add)
  • Sync data between devices
  • More analysis and recommendations in reports
  • Make it a one-time payment ($24.99) instead of subscription
  • Add a button for medication/vitamins and water logging
  • Create a separate app for medication, vitamins, and water
  • Log hydration
  • Change 'Satisfied' to 'Slightly full' or 'Satiated' on fullness scale
  • Option to choose how you're feeling *after* eating
  • Ability to adjust the time of logged food
  • More options for describing food amounts (cup, tablespoon)
  • Option to take a picture of the meal and add to log
  • Change timeline order so most recent meal is at the bottom
  • Expand serving/after meal dropdown on 3D Touch or long press
  • Option to select how you're feeling without logging meals
  • More options for reasons for eating when not hungry
  • Integrate with Apple Health for hydration and workout data
  • Set reminders for regular check-ins
  • Display notes and tags in the timeline

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Shutterbite

Subscriptions3
  • Shutterbite Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Shutterbite Premium 6 Months$28.996 Months
  • Shutterbite Premium Annual7 Days trial$43.991 Year
2 purchases

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Shutterbite free?
Shutterbite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shutterbite or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Shutterbite is rated higher. Shutterbite averages 4.8 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Intuitive Eating Buddy averages 4.8 from 196 ratings.
Do Shutterbite or Intuitive Eating Buddy have ads?
Neither Shutterbite nor Intuitive Eating Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shutterbite or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Shutterbite ships an update fortnightly, and Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. Most recently, Shutterbite was updated on November 3, 2026 and Intuitive Eating Buddy on November 7, 2026.

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