Bobby vs BillCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bobby
Effortlessly track your recurring expenses and manage all your subscriptions in one place. Get timely notifications for upcoming bills to avoid late fees and maintain better control over your monthly spending.
- Add custom and pre-defined subscriptions
- View all subscriptions at a glance
- Track monthly spending on subscriptions
- Receive bill due date notifications
- Prevent late payment fees
- Avoid insufficient funds
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Bobby is the easiest way to get insights in your fixed costs. Manage your subscriptions and get notified when a bill is due. EASILY ADD SUBSCRIPTIONS Adding subscriptions is easy, choose from hundreds of existing subscriptions or create your own custom subscriptions. Enter all contract details to get the most out of Bobby, or use Bobby as a quick way to calculate your monthly payment for you. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS AT A GLANCE Bobby provides a clear overview of all your subscriptions and upcoming bills. This way you'll always know the amount of money spent on subscriptions, which helps you to control your monthly spendings. GET NOTIFIED Bobby also notifies you when a bill is due, so you'll never have to deal with late payment fees you didn't know about again. Besides that, it prevents you from having insufficient funds on your account on the day a payment is due.
BillCast
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You are paying more than you think. The average household now carries 12 active subscriptions. Streaming services creep up in price. Insurance premiums quietly rise. Free trials convert to paid plans you forgot about. A $5 charge here, a $15 charge there -- and suddenly you are spending hundreds more per month than you realize. BillCast was built to fix that. ONE PLACE FOR EVERY RECURRING BILL Netflix. Electric. Car insurance. iCloud. Gym. Phone. BillCast brings all of your subscriptions and recurring payments together in a single dashboard -- regardless of which credit card or bank account pays for them. Add subscriptions in seconds, and BillCast categorizes them automatically with interactive charts you can explore by tapping any category. AI INSIGHTS THAT ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING BillCast generates a plain-English summary of your financial health -- not a wall of numbers, but a few clear sentences telling you what is happening and what to do next. On-device machine learning categorizes your spending and surfaces patterns you would never notice by looking at a bank statement. KNOW WHAT IS COMING BEFORE IT HITS BillCast does not just track what you have already paid -- it looks ahead. The built-in forecasting engine uses your payment history to project what the next week, month, or quarter will cost you. Annual renewals, quarterly premiums, seasonal spikes -- all modeled before the charges arrive. DEEP SPENDING ANALYSIS, ZERO EFFORT Interactive category breakdowns show exactly where your money goes. Trend charts reveal whether your spending is creeping up month over month. The insights engine flags silent price increases the moment a charge goes up -- even by a dollar. It also catches subscriptions you have not used in months and duplicate services that overlap, like paying for both YouTube Premium and Spotify. Users who act on these insights save an average of $20 per month. SCAN ANY RECEIPT IN SECONDS On iPhone and iPad, point your camera at a bill or receipt and BillCast reads it instantly using on-device text recognition. On Mac, drag and drop an image or PDF. The merchant name, amount, and date are extracted automatically -- no typing required. SEAMLESS SYNC ACROSS EVERY APPLE DEVICE Add a subscription on your iPhone during lunch. Review your spending dashboard on your Mac that evening. Check upcoming bills on your iPad over the weekend. BillCast uses iCloud to keep everything perfectly in sync -- no accounts to create, no passwords to remember, no setup at all. PRIVACY IS NOT A FEATURE -- IT IS THE FOUNDATION BillCast never sees your financial data. All AI analysis, receipt parsing, and spending forecasts run entirely on your device. Everything is stored in your personal iCloud account. There are no external servers, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers. Most finance apps send your data to the cloud to power their AI. BillCast does not. Your financial life is yours alone. DESIGNED FOR THE APPLE ECOSYSTEM BillCast is a native app crafted with SwiftUI and Apple's latest Liquid Glass design language. It supports Dynamic Type, adapts beautifully to Dark Mode, and takes full advantage of keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures on Mac. It is not a web wrapper or a cross-platform port -- it is built for Apple, by someone who cares about the details. GET STARTED FREE -- UPGRADE WHEN YOU ARE READY Track up to 5 subscriptions completely free, forever. BillCast Premium unlocks unlimited subscriptions, advanced spending trends, price-increase detection, receipt scanning, and priority support. Premium: $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Join thousands of people who finally know exactly where their money goes. Download BillCast today. Privacy Policy: https://manoharnikkam.github.io/billcast-site/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BillCast at every 6 days against Bobby's every 2 months. Bobby's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Bobby sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and BillCast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bobby ships an update every 2 months, BillCast every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bobby | BillCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 55.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yummygum | Manohar Nikkam |
Bugs and requests
Bobby
Reported bugs
10 issues- Notifications don't work
- Crashes on launch
- Everything disappears
- Unreliable and broken
- Glitchy, doesn't work well
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- Notifications are not working
- Notifications randomly stop working
- Notifications come at wrong times
- Subscription data disappeared
- iCloud sync issues
Requested features
11 requests- Add widgets
- Allow editing of subscription details
- Separate monthly and annual subscriptions
- Add ability to mark subscriptions as paid
- Add categories/folders for subscriptions
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- Allow custom icons for subscriptions
- Add ability to hide/pause subscriptions
- Improve notification system
- Add Apple Watch app
- Improve currency conversion
- Add ability to export data
BillCast
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bobby
- Unlock Subscription Limit$0.99
- Visual Pack$0.99
- Security Pack$0.99
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- Unlock Category Limit$0.99
- All-in-one Pack$1.99
- All-in-one Pack v2$2.99
BillCast
- BillCast Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- BillCast Premium Annual$39.991 Year









