Comparison

FotoShopper vs Sew Help Me Lite

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

Head to head
About

FotoShopper

Capture product details, store locations, and prices from your photos to manage your shopping. Organize items into custom lists for any occasion, from weddings to new babies, and share them with friends.

Highlights
  • Unlimited item creation
  • Up to 5 photos per item
  • Record item details and store combinations
  • Customizable categories and shopping lists
  • Email items and lists to friends
  • Track spending and remaining balance
  • Store location mapping
Features
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Have you ever used the camera on your phone to take a picture of something you wanted to buy? Of course you have!! Then, you get home, look at your photos and realise that you don’t remember any of the details of the products, or more importantly, where you saw them! Whether you’re shopping for a new outfit; furniture for your new home; clothes and accessories for your wedding or those special things you need to buy for your new baby; FotoShopper is the answer...‘Your Personal Shopping Manager’. FotoShopper has been designed with flexibility in mind. Here is a list of the features you can find in FotoShopper:- • Create an unlimited number of items* • Take up to 5 photographs per item • Record an items Name, Description, Product Code • Add multiple store/price combinations per item • Give each item a category • Create as many Categories as you need* • Items can be added to multiple shopping lists • Send your friends an email of any item • Three different table cell sizes, offering different amounts of information • Log up to 3000 characters of notes for every item, don’t miss any detail • Create as many Shopping Lists as you need* • There is no restriction to the number of items you can add to a Shopping List* • Select the quantity to purchase and see the Shopping List total • Enter how many you have purchased and see how much you have spent so far • Keep a track of the balance you have left to spend • Create custom Shopping Lists, for example, a Wedding List • Email your lists to your friends • Sort your Shopping Lists by Item or Store • Search for items by Name, Description, Category or text within your Notes • Create as many stores as you need* • Keep the stores’ address, phone and web site details • While at a store, grab the GPS location, or use the address to find the GPS location • View the location of a store on Google Maps • Show your location relative to a store, to help you find your way back There are 4 different versions of FotoShopper available: 1. The original FotoShopper, without any pre-defined categories, its perfect for all your shopping needs. 2. Wedding FotoShopper, which includes pre-defined wedding categories, will ensure your special day goes stress free. Also, you can create detailed wedding lists, for the perfect celebration. 3. New Baby FotoShopper designed with pre-defined categories to cover all of your shopping requirements for your new baby. 4. New Home FotoShopper. With so many things you need to buy for a new home, the pre-defined item categories will come in very handy! You don’t need to buy multiple versions of FotoShopper. Just purchase the one that suits your needs the best. Remember, in the future, if needed, you can create your own categories to make Fotoshopper even more personal. FotoShopper is not another grocery shopping list application, it’s ‘Your Personal Shopping Manager’, for the really important things in life. Before purchasing FotoShopper please visit our web site, www.fotoshopper.co.uk, and check out the features features and more screenshots! FotoShopper does not require a device with a camera to function, but it does help! iPod Touch and iPad devices can load photographs stored in their internal Photo Albums (loaded via iTunes). The iPhone can use its camera to take photographs of items while you are in a store or can also load photographs from the internal Photo Album. *All subject to the available memory on your device.

About

Sew Help Me Lite

Organize your sewing projects, fabric stash, and patterns. Develop ideas into projects, create shopping lists, and store photos of your creations. Features a detailed search and links to favorite resources.

Highlights
  • Organize fabric stash and patterns
  • Develop ideas into projects
  • Link patterns to fabrics
  • Create shopping lists
  • Store photos of creations
  • Detailed search functionality
  • Sync across devices with iCloud
Features
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The complete sewing and dressmaking organiser.  Organises your fabric stash and patterns.  Develop your ideas into projects, linking patterns to fabrics.  Make shopping lists for your projects.  Take and keep photos of all your creations.  Detailed search facility to help you find your fabrics, patterns and projects. Record links to your favourite blogs, websites and shops.  Store your threads and keep notepads iCloud enabled to sync across all your devices.  No adverts. No subscriptions. No logins.  No data-mining. This "Lite" version is limited to 5 items so you can try before you buy. Get the full paid-for version of Sew Help Me to remove the 5 item limit of the "Lite" version. Just a single one-off lifetime purchase.

Screenshots

FotoShopper4 screens
Sew Help Me Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: FotoShopper at 100% against Sew Help Me Lite's 50%. FotoShopper also leads on iOS requirement (4.3 vs 17.5). Sew Help Me Lite's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Sew Help Me Lite is free to download; FotoShopper costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FotoShopper ships an update every 14 months, Sew Help Me Lite every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
FotoShopper versus Sew Help Me Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFotoShopperSew Help Me Lite
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS4.3 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB197 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFolio Web Design LtdDavid Saunders

Customer experience

FotoShopper

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sew Help Me Lite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FotoShopper

No in-app purchases

None

Sew Help Me Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FotoShopper free?
FotoShopper costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sew Help Me Lite free?
Sew Help Me Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FotoShopper or Sew Help Me Lite have ads?
Neither FotoShopper nor Sew Help Me Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FotoShopper or Sew Help Me Lite?
FotoShopper ships an update every 14 months, and Sew Help Me Lite every 2 months. Most recently, FotoShopper was updated on October 27, 2026 and Sew Help Me Lite on October 10, 2026.

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