Comparison

Shoulder vs MakeYour

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

Head to head
About

Shoulder

Features
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How do you get something off your screen and into AI without taking screenshot after screenshot? The big AI apps make you upload screenshots, one at a time. Shoulder is different. Start a recording and do anything you need on your phone. Come back to the app, and Shoulder will pull out the important stuff. Here's some of the things you can do with Shoulder: Get a recipe from a social media video Turn a "Top 10 places to visit in Italy" story into a list you can actually plan around Open a password-protected PDF and have it ready whenever you need it Understand your labs, a bill, or an insurance denial β€” read once, explained in plain words Pull a list of birthdays out of an app that won't let you export one Works with any site, any app, any portal β€” because it only watches when you tell it to. No downloading files just to upload them again, and no waiting on a connector that doesn't exist. If Shoulder can see it, it can help you with it. You're in control. Shoulder only records when you start it β€” never in the background, never without you knowing. It never logs in, clicks, or acts for you. It watches and remembers. You always drive. Record something by accident? Don't worry β€” nothing leaves your phone until you send it. Delete a chat or a project at any time, and there's no record left behind. All your recordings are locked behind Face ID and your passcode, and you can delete those too. Shoulder is your trustworthy assistant that respects your privacy.

About

MakeYour

Features
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Stop downloading another tiny app. Make yours. MakeYour turns a sentence into a native tiny app inside one trusted iPhone app. Build trackers, checklists, calculators, reminder workflows, photo journals, live-data dashboards, ledgers, or gamesβ€”then keep and switch among them. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD β€’ Personal record collections with notes, numbers, dates, totals, completion, and reminders β€’ Task lists and local notification workflows β€’ Calculators and currency-conversion tools β€’ Credited BBC/NPR news collections with local search, topics, and bookmarks β€’ Stock and ETF watchlists with latest/delayed Twelve Data quotes and charts β€’ Income and expense ledgers with balances, budgets, and category totals β€’ Complete original platform and Snake games with touch controls and scoring β€’ Photo-first private journals and trackers using selected or captured images β€’ Latest daily FX watchlists with a chosen base currency, editable currencies, and threshold alerts β€’ Tap-initiated camera, QR/barcode/text scanning, one-time location, contact and text-file selection, today's steps, sharing, clipboard write, and haptic feedback β€’ Local voice notes with optional on-device-only transcription, editable review, and no network-recognition fallback β€’ Explicitly opted-in tiny apps that open from Apple Shortcuts or Siri through one authenticated foreground action β€’ Focused AI helpers that receive only text you explicitly review and send YOUR STYLE, NOT ONE TEMPLATE Generated apps can use different native themes, typography, backgrounds, layouts, spacing, surfaces, imagery, symbols, and colors while remaining accessible and familiar. BRING YOUR OWN OPENAI KEY Your API key is stored in iOS Keychain for this device only. AI requests travel directly from your iPhone to OpenAI. MakeYour does not operate an account or proxy server and never puts your key in a project file or prompt. Market Pocket includes AAPL demo access. Other symbols can use an optional Twelve Data key stored in the device-only Keychain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Projects, records, bookmarks, watchlists, ledgers, voice notes, accepted transcripts, and selected or captured results stay on your iPhone. Device access starts only after you tap, scanned URLs are not opened automatically, and there is no background audio, speech, location, or motion monitoring. Speech transcription requires an available on-device language model and never falls back to network recognition. Sharing leaves MakeYour only after you choose a destination in Apple's share sheet. Before an in-app AI request, MakeYour shows the exact task and text that will be sent. An accepted transcript may become editable text, but its audio is never attached. Photos, records, other apps, and device data are not attached automatically. When generated versions include the visible Shortcuts access block, Apple's dynamic picker receives only opted-in tiny apps' stable IDs, display names, and validated icons. The fixed action requires local device authentication and opens MakeYour in the foreground. It receives no prompt, state, photos, voice notes, provider keys, or generated automation code. Removing the block or deleting a tiny app revokes that app's listing. SAFE NATIVE RUNTIME AI does not download or execute Swift, JavaScript, plug-ins, or arbitrary code. It creates a validated declarative app document. MakeYour renders that document using precompiled native SwiftUI components and a fixed capability allowlist. Network components use only fixed, precompiled providers: Frankfurter for latest daily FX reference rates, BBC/NPR for credited RSS feeds, Twelve Data for latest/delayed market data, and OpenAI for user-authorized AI. Market and currency values are not guaranteed real-time and are not financial advice. Camera capture, live scanning, pedometer data, and meaningful haptic feedback require supported physical iPhone hardware. Unsupported devices and Simulator show an honest unavailable state.

Screenshots

Shoulder4 screens
MakeYour4 screens

Verdict

The call

Shoulder and MakeYour are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shoulder ships an update every 11 days, MakeYour every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Shoulder versus MakeYour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShoulderMakeYour
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 days β€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperBrad CoughlinWang LongWei

In-app purchases

None

Shoulder

No in-app purchases

None

MakeYour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shoulder free?
Shoulder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MakeYour free?
MakeYour is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shoulder or MakeYour have ads?
Neither Shoulder nor MakeYour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shoulder or MakeYour?
Shoulder ships an update every 11 days, and MakeYour every 2 weeks. Most recently, Shoulder was updated on October 31, 2026 and MakeYour on October 31, 2026.

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