saved vs ShootCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
saved
Effortlessly save recipes, restaurant locations, and other web content. This app extracts key information like ingredients and steps for recipes, and pins locations for eateries, making it easy to find what you've saved.
- Save recipes, restaurants, and food links
- Extracts recipe ingredients and steps
- Pins restaurant and cafe locations on a map
- Supports sharing from various social media platforms
- Organizes saved content for easy retrieval
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Share a recipe or restaurant video to Saved and you don't have to dig through three apps to find the one you wanted last week. Saved pulls out the ingredients and steps for recipes, and pins the location for restaurants and cafés. What you can save Recipes, restaurants, cafés, and food links from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and most things you can hit "share" on. How it works 1. Share a recipe reel, video, or link to Saved. 2. Saved reads it. Recipes get ingredients and step-by-step instructions. Restaurants and cafés get pinned on a map. 3. Open Saved when you're cooking or trying to remember the name of that ramen place. Why I built this My wife saves a lot of recipes — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, all of it. When she actually wanted to cook something, she could rarely find it again. So I built Saved. It's also for me, because she gets mad at me when she can't find things. Saved Plus Saved is free. Saved Plus is an in-app purchase that unlocks unlimited saves and faster parsing.
ShootCal
This calendar app is designed for photographers and content creators to plan shoots around optimal light conditions. It integrates with Google Calendar and Contacts, offering features like automated sunset/sunrise scheduling, weather, and tide information. It also includes client management tools and deposit tracking.
- Automated sunset/sunrise scheduling
- Tides and weather information
- Client management and tracking
- Deposit tracking
- Google Calendar and Contacts sync
- Custom session types
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ShootCal is the calendar app made by a photographer for professional photographers and content creators. Plan portraits, weddings, minis, and real estate shoots around the light that makes them great, and let clients book you online. Your appointments, clients, and tasks are saved in ShootCal, with optional Google or Microsoft calendar sync. Features: Booking, website availability, e-sign contracts, galleries, AI calendar import, golden hour, session types, deposits, reminders, reports, web access, Apple Watch, tides and weather. Online Booking on Your Own Website Embed the live availability calendar on your own site (Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, anywhere) as a clean month grid, or share your booking page link. Clients see open days (never names or details), pick a time or send their date, and the request lands in the app. Accept and it is booked, with the client saved. Instant booking and contact-first modes are available per session type, and the whole page is styled to blend with your website. Contracts Your Clients E-Sign Create a wedding, family, or custom agreement from a built-in template, prefilled with the client, date, and package. Share the signing link and track it from draft to signed. Golden Hour on Autopilot Set a session to start before sunset or after sunrise and ShootCal schedules it automatically, with sun times right on the calendar. Studio-hours and fixed-time modes cover indoor work. AI Calendar Import Scan your calendar and build your client list automatically, with each client matched to a session type and their booking history. You review everything before it is saved. Custom Session Types Reusable presets for families, seniors, minis, engagements, weddings, real estate, and more. Each has its own timing, booking rules, price, and cover photo on your booking page. Deposit Tracking + Client Emails Green paid / red unpaid right on the calendar. Optional confirmation emails when a deposit is received, and automatic reminders before sessions. Clients in ShootCal Keep names, emails, and booking history in ShootCal, with the same saved client list in the apps and on the web. Client Photo Galleries - New Deliver and proof finished photos in beautiful online galleries with ShootCal Galleries on the web. Clients sync by email, so delivered galleries, favorites, and print orders show on the client record in ShootCal Web. Free to start. Client Follow-Ups Plan gallery deliveries and check-ins from per-type templates, linked to the client and saved in ShootCal. Tides, Weather & Sun Sunrise, sunset, weather, and coastal tide times, right where you plan the shoot. Calendar Sync + ShootCal Web Appointments, clients, and tasks stay in ShootCal. Optional two-way calendar sync connects your schedule to Google or Microsoft. Create, edit, send invites, and track acceptance in ShootCal. Use ShootCal Web for calendar, clients, and booking tools in your browser. Apple Watch & Widgets Your whole month at a glance on iPhone and iPad, plus your next session and its countdown on your watch face and home screen. Built by a Photographer Two decades of shooting weddings led me to build my dream calendar app. Native Swift, light and dark modes, Shortcuts support, and on-device Apple Intelligence for plain-English event entry. I respond to every piece of feedback. Free to Start ShootCal is free. Optional Basic, Plus and Pro plans add website and storage. Pay monthly through Apple; cancel anytime. Tips are optional. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: saved at none against ShootCal's 6. ShootCal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment 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. ShootCal sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. saved asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | saved | ShootCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khanh Trinh Le Ba | Ryan Smith Photography, LLC |
Customer experience
saved
ShootCal
In-app purchases
saved
No in-app purchases
ShootCal
- ShootCal Basic1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- ShootCal Plus1 Month trial$11.991 Month
- ShootCal Pro1 Month trial$24.991 Month
- Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
- Buy Me a Pizza$7.99
- Sponsor a Feature$19.99









