Comparison

Bobby vs Alla Romana

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

Alla Romana

Features
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Alla Romana splits expenses among friends, flatmates and travel companions — no mental math, and no account to create. • Add an expense, pick who paid and how to split it: equally, exact amounts, percentages or shares. • The app works out who owes what to whom with the fewest payments. • Create groups for home, trips, a couple or work and keep the books separate. • Add people who don't use the app as group members: they pay, owe and get repaid like everyone else. • Attach a receipt photo: the app reads the amount and date right on your device. • Recurring expenses, stats with category budgets, search, group notifications, Siri and a quick-add widget, PDF and CSV export. Your data lives in YOUR iCloud, not on a server of ours. No account, no trackers, no ads. Shared groups sync across your devices and with the other members through iCloud. Without iCloud the app still works, just on that one device.

Screenshots

Bobby4 screens
Alla Romana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Alla Romana at none against Bobby's 6. Alla Romana also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Bobby's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.5). 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. Bobby sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Alla Romana asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bobby ships an update every 2 months, Alla Romana every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bobby versus Alla Romana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBobbyAlla Romana
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYummygumAndrea Breda

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
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

Alla Romana

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
None

Alla Romana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bobby free?
Bobby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alla Romana free?
Alla Romana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bobby or Alla Romana have ads?
Neither Bobby nor Alla Romana shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bobby or Alla Romana?
Bobby ships an update every 2 months, and Alla Romana every 2 days. Most recently, Bobby was updated on October 29, 2026 and Alla Romana on October 24, 2026.

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