Comparison

Subliminal Maker vs Shred

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

Head to head
About

Subliminal Maker

Record and mix your own affirmations under ambient sounds at a subliminal volume. This app allows you to use your own voice, which is believed to be more powerful for manifestation. Track your progress and gain insights into your practice.

Highlights
  • Record custom affirmations
  • Mix voice with ambient sounds
  • Subliminal, Whisper, and SATS modes
  • Manifestation velocity tracking
  • Personalized archetypes
  • Sealed letters to future self
  • Voice verification
Features
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The most powerful subliminal voice is your own. SelfMade lets you make your own subliminals: record your affirmations in your own voice and mix them under ambient sound at subliminal volume. Your conscious mind hears rain or theta beats. Your subconscious hears the script you wrote, in the voice it already trusts. For Goddard practitioners, manifesting beginners, and anyone tired of listening to a stranger telling them who they are. WHY YOUR VOICE Your subconscious responds powerfully to your own voice — the voice it has heard and trusted your entire life. It's why Neville Goddard taught self-spoken affirmations as the foundation of manifestation practice. SelfMade brings this tradition into a beautiful modern app. WHAT'S INSIDE • Make your own subliminals — record your affirmations, choose from our library of expert scripts, or describe your goal and let AI write your script in seconds • Mix your voice under rain, ocean, forest, fireplace, Tibetan bowls, or binaural beats (theta 6Hz, alpha 10Hz, delta 2Hz) • Three listening modes: Subliminal, Whisper, and SATS for hypnagogic practice • Sleep timer and seamless looping — made for overnight listening • Manifestation velocity tracking — watch your average days-to-manifestation drop as your practice deepens • Personalized archetypes that reflect your evolving practice style • Notice the Pattern: gentle, Goddard-fluent guidance when a category takes longer than expected • Sealed letters to your future self, written in past tense as if already manifested • Voice verification on every track — you always know what's in your subliminal CATEGORIES Wealth and Abundance, Love and Relationships, Health and Vitality, Confidence and Success, Beauty and Self-Image, Specific Goals Write a subliminal for a specific person, a specific outcome, a specific timeline. Or let our expert scripts guide you. THE PRACTICE, MEASURED Most manifestation apps ask you to trust the process. SelfMade shows you the process working. Every manifestation gets timed. Every category tracked. Every archetype's progress visible. When you've manifested three times faster than when you started, you'll have the data to prove your practice is real. PRIVACY Your voice never leaves your device. Your photos never leave your device. Your manifestation letters are encrypted on your phone with your own keys. We collect only what we need to make the app work. Nothing more. No ads, ever. PRICING Free to start with your first subliminal. Premium unlocks unlimited subliminals, the full script library, and all ambient sounds. Weekly, yearly, and lifetime options are available — see in-app pricing for current rates. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. FROM PRACTITIONERS, FOR PRACTITIONERS SelfMade was built by a solo developer who is also a practitioner. The app speaks the language you already use: assumption, the wish fulfilled, the I AM, scripting, revision, SATS. Goddard-fluent where it matters, accessible where it should be. If this resonates, you'll know. The voice is already in you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Shred

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Most calorie apps are an open-ended log you never finish. Shred is a challenge with a finish line: pick your length, pick your goal weight, and every screen answers one question — day 14 of 90, where do I stand? Shred has no subscription, no in-app purchase and no ads. There is no upsell screen, because there is nothing behind it. NO NUMBER WITHOUT A REASON • Your calorie budget is built from the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, an activity multiplier and the pace you picked. Tap it and a sheet walks through the arithmetic, line by line. • Train hard and the budget moves. Shred credits what Apple Health measured against what your plan assumed — and once it has told you a number, it never quietly takes it back later in the day. • Protein, carbs and fat as rings against target. SEE THE TREND, NOT THE NOISE • Log your weight by dragging a dial that clicks as it turns. No keyboard, no text field. • A smoothed trend line runs through your daily weigh-ins, so one salty dinner doesn't read as a bad week. • A projection line shows where that trend meets your goal if you keep going at this rate. • A road of milestones is built from your own plan and pace, not a fixed list someone else wrote. THREE WAYS TO LOG A MEAL • Scan a barcode. The camera picks it up on its own and looks the product up in Open Food Facts. • Photograph the meal for an AI calorie and macro estimate.* Edit any number before you save it. • Type it in. Shred asks the food database first, then Apple's on-device model — which needs no account and never sends the name off your phone. Start typing something you logged before and it brings back the numbers you saved. *AI photo scan needs a Shred account and is limited to 5 scans in any 24 hours. Barcode scanning and typing keep working when they run out. THE WHOLE PICTURE, NOT JUST CALORIES • Water, tracked by tapping a glass that fills. • Workouts, and body measurements: chest, waist, hips, arms, thighs. • Daily progress photos, with side-by-side compare and zoom. • Stats: lost, to go, average calories, workouts, average water, best streak, a consistency heat map, daily calories against target and weekly summaries. • Drag the cards you actually use to the top of the dashboard. • When the last day lands, Shred stops counting and shows you the whole challenge — the dates, both ends of the scale, how you did — and a way to start the next one. WHAT SHRED DOESN'T DO • No coach, no meal plans, no recipes. • No social feed, no friends list, no leaderboard. • No fasting timer, no workout programs, no exercise library. • No subscription screen every third tap, because there is no subscription. • No Apple Watch app and no iPad app. It is built for iPhone only, so the layouts are designed for one screen rather than stretched to fit several. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • Everything works without an account. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want sync and backup across devices. • Progress photos never leave your phone. Meal photos are the only images that go anywhere, only for the AI scan, and only after you accept a consent screen. • No ads, no ad SDK, no advertising identifier, no tracking. The little the app measures is never tied to you. • Export everything as JSON or CSV whenever you want. Delete your account and its data from inside the app. APPLE HEALTH Shred reads steps, active energy and workouts, and writes your body mass back out. Weigh in here or in any app that writes to Health, and the two stay in sync. Food data comes from Open Food Facts (ODbL). Shred is not a medical device and does not give medical advice. Calorie and macro targets are estimates produced by published equations, and AI photo results are estimates too. Talk to a doctor before starting a weight loss plan, especially if you have a medical condition or are pregnant. Pick your finish line. Start your first Shred today.

Screenshots

Subliminal Maker4 screens
Shred4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shred at none against Subliminal Maker's 7. Subliminal Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Subliminal Maker sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Shred asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Subliminal Maker versus Shred: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubliminal MakerShred
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (47 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames VuPeter Barnett

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Subliminal Maker

Subscriptions6
  • SelfMade Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • SelfMade Premium Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • SelfMade Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • SelfMade Premium Yearly1 Year trial$39.991 Year
  • SelfMade Premium Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • SelfMade Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • SelfMade Premium Lifetime$79.99
None

Shred

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Subliminal Maker free?
Subliminal Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shred free?
Shred is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Subliminal Maker or Shred have ads?
Neither Subliminal Maker nor Shred shows ads.

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