CraveSmart vs Shield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CraveSmart
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Real cooking, not dieting. CraveSmart is a macro tracker for home cooks. Keep your family's recipes with the macros for every serving, log the meal you actually made, and share what you cook with other cooks. Net carbs come first, because that is what you count. CRAVEBUDDY, WITH PREMIUM Say your recipe. CraveBuddy does the math. • Tell it what you ate and it logs it to today • Send a photo of a recipe, or type one out, and it drafts the recipe for you to edit and save • Send a photo of a nutrition label with the barcode and it saves the food, so your next scan finds it • Ask it to log one of your saved recipes by name IMPORT RECIPES FROM LINKS, WITH PREMIUM Paste or share a link to a recipe page, a TikTok, or a YouTube video. CraveSmart reads the recipe from the page, the caption, or the video description and turns it into a draft you can edit before you save it. Works from the iOS share sheet. SIRI AND APPLE WATCH, WITH PREMIUM Say "Hey Siri, track food in CraveSmart," then what you ate, on your iPhone or Apple Watch. YOUR RECIPES, WITH THE NUMBERS • Add recipes by hand and see the macros for every serving • Fit any recipe to your macros: set a target for net carbs, protein, fat, fiber, or calories and see how many servings fit • Build your recipe box, with macros on every card • Log the servings you eat to breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack DISCOVER RECIPES FROM OTHER COOKS • Browse a community feed ranked by likes and recency • Search shared recipes by title • Like and comment on recipes shared by other cooks • Open a cook's profile to see every recipe they have shared • Save any shared recipe as a fully editable copy in your library SHARE WHAT YOU COOK Publish a recipe publicly with one control. Its title, servings, ingredients, steps, computed macros, optional photo, and your display name and handle go with it. Edit your recipe later and its shared copy stays in sync. Unshare whenever you choose. NET CARBS BY DEFAULT Fiber is subtracted automatically, and net carbs never fall below zero. Fiber has its own target and progress bar. Calories are calculated from protein, net carbs, and fat for consistent totals. TRACK MORE OF WHAT MATTERS • Pick foods from the Pantry: 247 built-in foods with USDA macros and household portions, plus your favorites and recent logs • Save your own foods • Scan barcodes on packaged foods • Fill in your weight and activity from Apple Health • Set weight and body-fat goals • Follow recommended protein, fat, and fiber targets based on your profile and activity level FREE AND PREMIUM CraveSmart is free to download. Logging food, the Pantry, barcode scanning, recipes and their macros, community recipes, net carbs, goals, your history, and Apple Health are free. The free version is ad-supported. Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription. It includes CraveBuddy, recipe import from links, Siri and Apple Watch logging, and no ads while your subscription is active. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Nutrition information and recommendations are provided for general wellness and informational purposes only. CraveSmart does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Additional terms: https://cravesmart.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://cravesmart.app/privacy
Shield
This app helps you regain control of your digital habits by blocking distracting applications until you complete real-world goals. Set daily objectives and earn access back to your chosen apps by achieving them.
- Goal-based app blocking
- Set daily real-world objectives
- Earn access to blocked apps
- Temporary break option
- Social accountability circle
- Uses Screen Time technology
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Shield blocks your most distracting apps until you finish your goals for the day. HOW IT WORKS Each morning, write down at least three goals for the day: go for a run, finish your reading, call your grandma. You choose which apps get blocked. They stay blocked until every goal is checked off, and then they open for the rest of the day. You can add daily habits too, and those count as well. FRIENDS Goals are easier to keep when your friends can see them. Your friends see your goals for the day and which ones you've finished, and you see theirs, along with how many days in a row you've each kept it up. Add people you know by their handle. Nothing is shared until you've both accepted, and there's no feed to scroll. BEDTIME AND QUIET HOURS Set a bedtime and a wind-down hour, and your apps close on schedule, whether or not your goals are done. FOCUS BLOCKS Start a timer for something you're working on, and your apps stay closed until it runs out. WHEN YOU NEED A BREAK You can lower the shield for fifteen minutes, up to three times a day. It's there for the times you really need an app. SHIELD FAMILY Pair your kid's iPhone and set their goals, habits, bedtime and a daily limit from your own phone. Their apps open once they've finished what you set. Shield Family is an optional subscription, and the first week is free. PRIVACY Shield is built on Apple's Screen Time. Apple doesn't tell us which apps you block, and your usage data stays on your phone. There are no ads, and we don't sell your data. Shield is free to use. You'll need a free account, which takes about twenty seconds and keeps your goals and friends when you switch phones. Terms of Use: https://shieldblocker.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://shieldblocker.netlify.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Shield at none against CraveSmart's shown. CraveSmart's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. CraveSmart sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Shield sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CraveSmart ships an update weekly, Shield fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CraveSmart | Shield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Rescue LLC | Zak Riesen |
In-app purchases
CraveSmart
- CraveSmart Premium Monthly7 Days trial$11.991 Month
- CraveSmart Premium Yearly7 Days trial$71.991 Year
Shield
- Shield Family7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Shield Family7 Days trial$59.991 Year









