Comparison

Grounded vs Shaterian

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

Head to head
About

Grounded

This app offers daily affirmations and uplifting quotes to promote calm and positive thinking. Users can save their favorites, create personal reminders, and customize the app's appearance. It aims to help users reset, refocus, and move forward with intention.

Highlights
  • Daily affirmations and quotes
  • Save favorite affirmations
  • Create personal affirmations
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Widget support
  • Shareable affirmation cards
Features
Read full description

Grounded is your daily space for calm, clarity, and positive thinking. Browse uplifting affirmations and quotes, save the ones that resonate, and create your own personal reminders to return to throughout the day. Grounded is designed to help you reset, refocus, and move forward with intention. Whether you need encouragement, peace, or a moment to breathe, Grounded helps you reconnect with what matters most. Features: • Fresh affirmations and uplifting quotes for your daily routine • Save favorites and keep a personal library of encouragement • Add your own affirmations in your own words • Sync favorites, personal affirmations, and appearance settings across your devices with iCloud • Customize the app with themes and fonts • Widget support to keep affirmations visible throughout your day • Share beautiful affirmation cards with others • Optional Apple Intelligence support when generating a new affirmation Ground yourself. Refocus. Move forward with intention.

About

Shaterian

Features
Read full description

Shaterian is a quiet place for your memories, your days, and how you are feeling. It was made for older adults and for people living with Parkinson's, and it is built on one idea: what you tell it is kept on your iPhone. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat anything. SPEAK, AND IT IS KEPT Tap once and talk. Your words are turned into text, tagged, and filed for you. There is nothing to organise and no forms to fill in. Take as long as you like. ASK ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE Ask a question out loud or type it. Shaterian answers from what you have actually told it, and shows you which memories the answer came from. When your own memories do not hold the answer, it says so rather than making something up. A LINE IT WILL NOT CROSS Questions about diagnosis, dosage or whether to change a treatment are recognised and turned back to your own care team rather than answered by a model. SEE HOW YOUR LIFE CONNECTS Your memories appear as a constellation of the people, places and themes that run through them. Follow a thread, open a cluster, or see where a memory happened on a map. BRING IN WHAT IS ALREADY YOURS Photographs and workouts can become memories, with your permission and only the ones you choose, and your contacts help it recognise the people you mention. Your calendar and Reminders are read, never copied: ask what is on today and Shaterian tells you. ASK IT TO DO THINGS Set a reminder or a routine for your pills, call or message someone, put an appointment in your calendar — it proposes, you confirm, and Apple's own screens do the rest. HOW YOU ARE TODAY A gentle daily check-in, a mood note, and — if it is useful to you — somewhere to log a dose and how you are feeling when you take it. A TWIN THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU Choose a photograph and Shaterian builds a quiet three-dimensional likeness that takes its colouring from you. If you choose, it can also take the shape of your face with the front camera, once, to build the head. That shape stays on this iPhone, is never sent anywhere, and is deleted the moment you remove it. MADE TO BE USABLE Type that grows with your iPhone's own text size, up to half again as large. Generous targets for unsteady hands, and a calm, high-contrast palette. PRIVACY, PLAINLY There is no account to create and no password to remember. Signing in with Apple is optional: it tells the app your name, and the first time it switches on Sync with iCloud. Your memories, your health notes and your photograph are held on this iPhone. There is no server of ours. Sync with iCloud keeps your memories — only your memories — in your own iCloud and in step across your iPhones, and it stays off until you turn it on or sign in. Where your iPhone cannot turn speech into text itself, Apple's speech service does. Nothing is sold, nothing is used for advertising, and nothing is used to train anything. TWO WEEKS FREE, THEN $2.99 A MONTH Shaterian is free for two weeks, then $2.99 a month (or the equivalent in your currency), charged to your Apple Account and renewing each month until you cancel — in Settings › your name › Subscriptions, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your memories stay on your iPhone whatever you decide, and you can see and remove them from the app without subscribing. Privacy Policy: https://privacy.shaterian.com/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Shaterian is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or give medical advice, and it is not a substitute for your doctor, nurse or specialist. Always seek the advice of your doctor or care team before making any medical decision, including about medication, and use this app in addition to their care, not instead of it. The general health information in the app comes from Parkinson's UK, the Parkinson's Foundation and the NHS, and every source is listed inside the app.

Screenshots

Grounded4 screens
Shaterian4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grounded at none against Shaterian's 1. Shaterian's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shaterian sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.29 per month. Grounded asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grounded ships an update every 4 weeks, Shaterian daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grounded versus Shaterian: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroundedShaterian
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB56 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBethany Michelle CurtisFab Lab Connect

In-app purchases

None

Grounded

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Shaterian

Subscriptions1
  • Shaterian Monthly14 Days trial$2.291 Month

Questions

Is Grounded free?
Grounded is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shaterian free?
Shaterian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grounded or Shaterian have ads?
Neither Grounded nor Shaterian shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grounded or Shaterian?
Grounded ships an update every 4 weeks, and Shaterian daily. Most recently, Grounded was updated on October 7, 2026 and Shaterian on October 14, 2026.

Other comparisons