Comparison

SugarStop vs SugarGrip

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

Head to head
About

SugarStop

This app helps you manage sugar cravings by providing in-the-moment support and insights into your triggers. It encourages building healthier habits and visualizing your progress with a virtual sugar jar.

Highlights
  • Pause sugar cravings in the moment
  • Understand sugar triggers
  • Collect sugar cubes for skipped sweets
  • Visualize sugar content in foods
  • Build healthier sugar habits
  • Reduce sugar intake gradually
Features
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SugarStop helps you pause sugar cravings in the moment, understand what’s behind them, and build calmer habits. Whether you crave sweets when you’re stressed, tired, bored, emotional, or simply out of habit, SugarStop gives you support exactly when temptation hits. WHY PEOPLE LOVE SUGARSTOP Pause cravings before reacting Open the app when temptation hits and ride the craving wave with quick support. Understand your sugar triggers Learn what’s really behind cravings — stress, tiredness, boredom, emotions, or habit. Save sugar cubes in your jar Every skipped sweet adds sugar cubes to your growing collection. See sugar differently Discover how much sugar is inside everyday sweets with visual sugar cubes. Build healthier sugar habits Small choices add up over time. PERFECT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO • stop sugar cravings • reduce sugar intake • quit sugar gradually • understand emotional eating • stop stress snacking • build healthier habits • eat less sugar without extreme dieting Sugar cravings happen. Let’s ride them together. The app is free to download. Access to all content requires a paid subscription purchased through the app. Payments and Renewal: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://martinmitrevski.com/bill-organizer-privacy-policy/

About

SugarGrip

Features
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Most sugar apps want you to quit. SugarGrip helps you stay in control instead. Cutting sugar out entirely is unrealistic for most people, and the all-or-nothing framing is exactly what makes one biscuit feel like a ruined week. SugarGrip is built on the opposite idea: you decide how much sugar fits your life, and three things keep you in that zone — a log that takes seconds, real help the moment a craving hits, and a picture of your own habits that gets sharper every week. LOGGING THAT TAKES SECONDS One tap logs a treat. No food database, no barcodes, no grams to look up. The unit is a treat — one sweet moment — because the point is awareness, not nutritional accounting, and an app you have to fight is an app you stop opening by Thursday. You count up toward a daily allowance you set yourself, instead of down from zero. Add a category, a note or a photo if you feel like it. Or don't — one tap is a complete entry. CRAVING SOS The moment a craving hits is the moment that matters. One tap opens the SOS: a breath, then three doors. • Ride it out — most cravings pass within ten minutes • Downsize it — a smaller version, on your terms • Have it — if it fits your day, it fits Every door is a win. Choosing the treat on purpose is a completely different act from reaching for it on autopilot, and SugarGrip treats it that way. YOUR PATTERNS, FROM YOUR OWN LOG Everything you log builds a picture nobody else has: • Which day of the week is really your big one • What you actually reach for most — drinks, snacks, dessert • What sets your cravings off: stress, boredom, tiredness, the clock • When they hit, and how far the intensity falls when you ride one out It describes, it never lectures — no targets you're missing, no trend line pointed the wrong way. You can't consciously choose around a pattern you can't see, and seeing yours is what moves the decision upstream of the reach. NOTHING YOU DO BREAKS ANYTHING There are no "days clean." No red screens. No broken-streak punishment. Logging a treat earns XP, because noticing is the behaviour worth building. Going over your allowance earns XP too. The streak counts days you stayed aware, and it's designed to survive a slip — because the week after a slip is the week that actually decides whether a habit changes. A PLAN THAT BENDS Set your own daily allowance. Mark cheat days ahead of time with a higher one — a birthday, a Friday, a holiday. Planned indulgence is part of control, not a failure of it. The calendar shows the whole picture at a glance: days in control, clean days, cheat days, and the days you went over — all in the same non-judgmental language. PROGRESS THAT MEANS SOMETHING XP, levels and titles that track the skill you're actually building. Level 7 is called "Pausing," because a beat between the want and the reach is the whole game. SugarGrip is a habit-awareness tool, not a medical or nutrition service, and it does not provide health advice.

Screenshots

SugarStop4 screens
SugarGrip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SugarGrip at none against SugarStop's 3. SugarGrip also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). 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. SugarStop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. SugarGrip asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SugarStop ships an update monthly, SugarGrip weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SugarStop versus SugarGrip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSugarStopSugarGrip
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin MitrevskiTristan Stampfler

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SugarStop

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Year
None

SugarGrip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SugarStop free?
SugarStop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SugarGrip free?
SugarGrip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SugarStop or SugarGrip have ads?
Neither SugarStop nor SugarGrip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SugarStop or SugarGrip?
SugarStop ships an update monthly, and SugarGrip weekly. Most recently, SugarStop was updated on October 19, 2026 and SugarGrip on October 15, 2026.

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