Comparison

MB Contributor vs shutter

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

Head to head
About

MB Contributor

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MemoryBank's Contributor app allows your staff to collect photos and videos to send you for precious moments and other content.

About

shutter

Transform text prompts into stunning visual art and photorealistic images. Explore over 30 artistic styles to create original digital art, illustrations, and high-quality stock photos on demand. Unleash your creativity with an intuitive interface and fast generation times.

Highlights
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Over 30 artistic styles
  • Photorealistic stock photo creation
  • Original digital art design
  • AI avatar generation
  • Fast image generation
Features
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shutter is the camera app you actually want to open. Pick a look, see it live in the viewfinder, and take the photo you already had in your head. No editing afterwards. No ten-app routine. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU SHOOT 13 film and digicam looks render live, before you tap: Golden Hour, 35mm Sunday, Soft Film, Disposable Summer, CCD Night Out, Y2K Digicam, Polaroid Pocket, Dreamy Glow, Cine, Moody Earth, Noir, Super 8 and VHS. Real grain, real flash falloff, real scanlines, real halation. Not stickers on top of a photo. • Zoom pill (.5 / 1x / 2) and one-tap flip • Wave to Shoot: open palm starts a 3-second countdown, peace sign takes a burst. Nobody has to hold the phone. • Light Finder: a golden hour countdown and which way the sun is, right in the viewfinder • Best Face: hold the shutter for a burst and shutter keeps the frame where everyone looks good AN EDITOR THAT KEEPS YOUR FACE YOURS • Looks: put all 13 on any photo in your camera roll • Glow: skin that looks rested, freckles and pores still there. No reshaping, ever. • Eyes Awake, True to You, level, crop, and captions that sound like you • Every edit is undoable and your original is never touched STUDIO: SIX WAYS TO REMAKE A PHOTO • Try It On: photograph a dress on the rack, see it on you before you buy • Take Me There: same you, new place. Santorini at golden hour, a Paris balcony, snow. • Everyone Smiling: two to six frames of the group become one photo where every face is its best • Add Me: get into the picture you were the one taking • Poster Me: your photo as an invitation, with your words on it • Series: one photo becomes a three-shot set for the feed YOUR CAMERA ROLL, FINALLY SORTED • Curate picks the keepers out of a 200-photo dump • Search by vibe: "golden hour rooftop", "that dinner with the candles" • A map of everywhere you have shot • Recipes: save a whole look, film and warmth and grain and glow and crop, then share it with a link. Your friends get the exact same look with one tap. CREDITS Studio runs on our servers, so it uses credits. One credit is one Studio photo. Free accounts get 1 credit a day. shutter Premium is 100 credits a month, every look and full-size exports, at $7.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Credit packs of 20, 60 and 150 never expire and top up any plan. Camera, looks, editor, Glow, Library and Recipes stay free and unlimited. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in Settings. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Photos you send to Studio are processed on our servers; the "Help improve Studio" setting is off unless you turn it on. Privacy policy: https://shutterai.cam/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MB Contributor4 screens
shutter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MB Contributor at none against shutter's 2. MB Contributor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price 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

Both are free to download. shutter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. MB Contributor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MB Contributor ships an update fortnightly, shutter every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
MB Contributor versus shutter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMB Contributorshutter
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMemory Vault Pty LtdVISION LABS YAZILIM HIZMETLERI ANONIM SIRKETI

In-app purchases

None

MB Contributor

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

shutter

Subscriptions2
  • Shutter AI weekly$3.997 Days
  • Shutter AI monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is MB Contributor free?
MB Contributor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is shutter free?
shutter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MB Contributor or shutter have ads?
shutter shows ads; MB Contributor does not.
Which is updated more often, MB Contributor or shutter?
MB Contributor ships an update fortnightly, and shutter every 3 months. Most recently, MB Contributor was updated on November 3, 2026 and shutter on November 4, 2026.

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