Shotup AI vs TimeBack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shotup AI
This app acts as a photographic memory, learning from your screenshots to answer questions about their content and context. It helps you recall saved articles, products, designs, or even chat details, serving as a personal AI assistant for your visual information.
- Learns from screenshots
- Answers questions about visuals
- Organizes saved items
- Contextual understanding
- AI-powered memory
- Suggested questions
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Shotup AI learns and remembers your screenshots. It understands the context and visuals of your shots, and answers any questions about them in chat. We all take screenshots — of posts, articles, restaurants, maps, design inspiration - things we considered important to save and revisit later. However, many of them end up forgotten, buried deep in our photo album. Rarely do we scroll through hundreds of images to find the one we need. What if you had a second brain — a photographic memory - that could remember not just the image but the entire context of every screenshot you’ve ever taken? We are introducing Shotup AI. It doesn’t just store your screenshots — it learns from them. Whether you’re trying to recall an article or a social media post with tips, life hacks, or restaurant recommendations, Shotup AI gives you the references and insights you need based on the stored screenshot knowledge. It’s more than a chatting AI. It’s your backup memory. How it works: 1. Select and sync screenshots you want the AI to remember. 2. The AI learns the context and visuals of the selected screenshots, and organizes key information. 3. Ask anything about the synced shots. Shotup AI will answer based on the relevant knowledge it learned from your screenshots. 4. You can also pick from 'Suggested Questions,' the question options Shotup AI generated based on the screenshot information it learned. For shoppers: Take screenshots of nice jacket or shoes you saw on Amazon, the brand websites or even on the instagram ads. Shotup AI will organize and list down all the items you took from different sites. For students: Take screenshots of your note, online articles, life hacks or tips so Shotup AI can give you reminders and summarize relevant information whenever you need. For designers: Take screenshots of design references, art pieces, mood board, fonts, color codes and more. Shotup AI will suggest relevant shots you took when you need inspiration from your past savings. You can ask - "Show me the warm cozy interior design references I saved." and it will find the right screenshots from you synced list. For everyone: Take screenshots of nice restaurants on Google Map, so it can suggest nice restaurants around there when you ask later. You can also take screenshots of your Whatsapp chat so it remembers your meeting schedule, time and location. Support & Feedback: hello@shotup.ai --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.shotup.ai/termsandprivacy
TimeBack
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Every time you open Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat on autopilot, TimeBack gets in your way. On purpose. Instead of blocking apps outright, TimeBack puts a mindful pause between you and the endless feed. Take a breath, tap the monster away, or solve a quick puzzle. If you still want to scroll after that, you're in. But most of the time, the impulsive urge passes. That's how you reduce doomscrolling naturally. No pure willpower required. HOW TO TAME THE MONSTER TimeBack intercepts impulsive app opens with a short exercise, a breathing pattern, a math challenge, or a playful monster-tap mechanic. Complete it, and the app unlocks. Each pause is a small win over a bad habit. You set a daily budget. The app tracks your streak. And there are no loopholes—the system is designed to stay firm so you don't have to. WHAT YOU GET Mindful Unlock Exercises: Break the autopilot loop with breathing, puzzles, or a monster tap. Daily Budgets: Set specific time limits for your most distracting apps. Streak Tracking: Build long-term, healthy habits and see your progress. Broad Compatibility: Works seamlessly with Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and more. No Hard Blocks: Just intentional friction that makes you think twice. THE NUMBERS The average person spends 2+ hours a day doomscrolling. Cut that in half, and you get back more than 3 years over a lifetime. Reclaim your time tonight. NOT JUST ANOTHER BLOCKER Strict blockers create resentment, and you usually find a workaround in 10 minutes. TimeBack works differently. It builds awareness, not resistance. Over time, you stop reaching for your phone not because you can't, but because you don't want to. Break the habit. Starting now. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Shotup AI and TimeBack are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Shotup AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months and TimeBack sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shotup AI ships an update every 9 days, TimeBack every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shotup AI | TimeBack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PBD LLC | Sergey Mast |
In-app purchases
Shotup AI
- Premium - Sync 1,000 shots$1.996 Months
- Premium - Sync 1,000 shots$2.991 Month
TimeBack
- TimeBack Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year









