Comparison

Bamboo vs Shotted

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

Head to head
About

Bamboo

This app is a Markdown note-taking tool for organizing knowledge and utilizing AI features. It allows users to capture ideas, write long-form content, and connect notes with wiki links. AI assistance is available for drafting, summarizing, and brainstorming, with users controlling their AI provider.

Highlights
  • Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
  • Wiki link creation for connecting notes
  • AI assistance for drafting and summarizing
  • Organize notes into collections
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Import and export content
Features
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Bamboo is a Markdown notes app for writing, organizing knowledge, and using AI on your own terms. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Web Clipper support, Bamboo helps you capture ideas anywhere and continue working across devices. Capture quick notes, long-form documents, tasks, reminders, research, meeting notes, reading highlights, and personal knowledge. Bamboo keeps your notes in Markdown so they stay portable, readable, and easy to manage. WRITE AND CAPTURE Use a focused Markdown editor with syntax highlighting, task lists, tables, wiki links, footnotes, highlights, math, images, and attachments. Keep ideas, notes, reminders, and tasks together so writing, thinking, and planning stay in one place. ORGANIZE AND CONNECT Organize notes into collections for projects, areas, archives, or research spaces. Connect ideas with wiki links, pin important notes, star favorites, and build a knowledge base that stays easy to navigate as it grows. AI ASSISTANCE, UNDER YOUR CONTROL Bamboo Pro lets you connect supported AI providers and use assistant features directly in your notes. Draft, rewrite, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and work with selected content without leaving your workspace. You stay in control of the provider and model you use. KEEP YOUR NOTES YOURS Your notes stay in Markdown, making them easy to move, back up, and keep for the long term. Search across notes, revisit recent work, import and export your content, create backups, and keep your work available across devices with optional Bamboo Pro features such as iCloud Sync, HTML export, and PDF export. Bamboo includes optional auto-renewable monthly and yearly Pro subscriptions. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://zhigui.github.io/app-docs/bamboo/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Shotted

This app uses AI to extract actionable information like summaries, to-dos, and calendar events from your screenshots. It helps organize and declutter your saved images by automatically sorting and making content searchable. Enjoy a privacy-first experience with all data processed on-device.

Highlights
  • AI-powered information extraction
  • Calendar event creation
  • Automated to-do reminders
  • Screenshot categorization
  • Content-based search
  • Optional screenshot cleanup
  • Automatic screenshot syncing
Features
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Turn your screenshots into actions. Shotted automatically extracts summaries, to-dos, and calendar events from your screenshots — so you never miss what matters. We all take screenshots to remember things: receipts, plans, flight confirmations, chat messages, event details, ideas. But they pile up, and the important stuff gets buried. Shotted fixes that. HOW IT WORKS Grant Shotted access to your Photos Select screenshots or enable auto-sync Shotted extracts key information using AI Review summaries, approve events, and act on to-dos KEY FEATURES • Smart Extraction — AI reads your screenshots and pulls out summaries, key points, tasks, and calendar events • Calendar Events — Detect dates, times, and locations, then add them to your calendar in one tap • Reminders — Create reminders directly from screenshot content • Categories — Automatically sorts screenshots into receipts, chats, travel, reminders, and more • Search — Find any screenshot by its extracted content • Cleanup — Optionally remove processed screenshots from Photos to declutter your camera roll • Auto-Sync — Set it and forget it. Shotted watches for new screenshots and processes them automatically PRIVACY-FIRST Your privacy is our top priority: • No screenshots or extracted data are ever stored on our servers • Zero-retention backend — processing is entirely ephemeral • All your data lives on-device, fully under your control • Delete everything anytime from Settings SHOTTED PRO Get started free with 10 screenshot extractions. Upgrade to Shotted Pro for unlimited processing, priority speed, and more. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Settings. Privacy Policy: http://shotted-app-privacy.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/privacy/index.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bamboo4 screens
Shotted4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bamboo and Shotted are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bamboo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Shotted sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 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 — 5.0 for Bamboo against 5.0 for Shotted. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bamboo versus Shotted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBambooShotted
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer志贵 陈Muhammad Khizer Arshad

Customer experience

Bamboo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Shotted

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bamboo

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Annual Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Shotted

Subscriptions1
  • Shotted Pro$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Bamboo free?
Bamboo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shotted free?
Shotted is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bamboo or Shotted?
Bamboo and Shotted are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Bamboo or Shotted have ads?
Neither Bamboo nor Shotted shows ads.

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