Comparison

Bobby vs Renewise

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Renewise

Organize all your recurring payments in one place. Track upcoming renewals, monitor your monthly and yearly spending, and receive smart notifications to avoid unwanted charges. Supports manual entry or voice input in multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Organize subscriptions
  • Track upcoming renewals
  • Analyze spending habits
  • Voice input for adding services
  • Multi-currency support
  • Widgets and Apple Watch integration
  • Smart notifications
Features
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Renewise is a calm subscription organizer for iPhone and Apple Watch. Keep all your subscriptions in one place, see what renews next, review upcoming payments, and understand how much you spend every month and year. Add subscriptions manually or by voice. Renewise can help recognize the service name, price, currency, and billing period from natural speech in 5 supported languages: English, Russian, German, French, and Spanish. Track subscriptions Add services, prices, billing periods, renewal dates, trials, categories, and reminders. Review before renewal See subscriptions that need attention before they renew. Keep them, remind yourself later, or mark them as cancelled. Spending analytics View monthly spending, yearly impact, trends, categories, and potential savings. Multi-currency totals Add subscriptions in different currencies and choose your display currency for total spending. Currency conversion updates once per day. Widgets and Apple Watch See upcoming renewals and subscription totals on your iPhone Home Screen and Apple Watch. Custom services and categories Create your own services with emojis, icons, or images, and organize them with ready-made or custom categories. Prepared services Choose from 300+ prepared services to add popular subscriptions faster. Cloud backup and sync Keep your subscription data backed up and available across your devices. Smart notifications Get useful reminders before renewals, trials, and important subscription dates. Custom sounds and app icons Personalize Renewise with additional app icons and custom notification sounds. Renewise is designed for people who want a simple, private, and visual way to stay ahead of recurring payments without connecting a bank account.

Screenshots

Bobby4 screens
Renewise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Renewise at 100% against Bobby's 56%. Renewise also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Bobby's advantage is ratings volume (8K vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Bobby sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Renewise sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Renewise holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bobby has 8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Bobby's written reviews are positive against 100% of Renewise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bobby ships an update every 2 months, Renewise every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bobby versus Renewise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBobbyRenewise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (8K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYummygumAleksandr Pavlov

Customer experience

Bobby

All ratings7,954 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,010 reviews
Positive55.8%
Neutral13.3%
Negative30.9%

Renewise

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 5 more
  • 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
Show 6 more
  • 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

Renewise

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Bobby

One-time6
  • Unlock Subscription Limit$0.99
  • Visual Pack$0.99
  • Security Pack$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Unlock Category Limit$0.99
  • All-in-one Pack$1.99
  • All-in-one Pack v2$2.99
2 purchases

Renewise

One-time2
  • Renewise Pro$7.99
  • Renewise Pro · Family$11.99

Questions

Is Bobby free?
Bobby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Renewise free?
Renewise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bobby or Renewise?
Renewise is rated higher. Bobby averages 4.7 out of 5 from 8K ratings, while Renewise averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bobby or Renewise have ads?
Neither Bobby nor Renewise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bobby or Renewise?
Bobby ships an update every 2 months, and Renewise every 3 days. Most recently, Bobby was updated on October 18, 2026 and Renewise on October 9, 2026.

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