CIB Bank vs Simple #MakeItEasy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CIB Bank
Manage your finances with real-time notifications, easy payments, and global money transfers. Open accounts online, track transactions with charts, and control your cards. Securely shop online with a virtual card and manage your banking needs from your fingertips.
- Open account online
- Real-time financial overview with charts
- Manage cards and limits
- Virtual card for online shopping
- Global money transfers
- Scan and pay postal orders
- Fingerprint login and transaction authorization
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Imagine having real time notifications, an easy way to pay and send money anywhere you want in the world, full control of your finances at your fingertips. Great, right? Try CIB Bank Mobile application and experience new and easier banking. Open account online Open an account directly from your Mobile app, following a fully online process, scanning easily your documents and taking a selfie to verify your identity. It will take just shortly for you to have a CIB Bank Account! Manage your everyday banking needs • Overview your finances quickly, thanks to well-designed charts and graphs • Check your account and savings history, balance and last transactions in a light speed • Use the free push message service to easily follow your transactions • Manage your cards or change card limits when you need it • Use your Virtual card to shop safely online • Top up your pre-paid mobile phone balance anytime • Transfer now or on a future date to anybody • Scan your postal orders and pay them quickly and fully online • Pay to the selected recipients from your contact list who are part of CIB community, by using #withPAY • Convert your currency to any others, in just a few steps • Create your beneficiary and template to perform recurring payments in a tap Personalize your app • Update your personal information and customize your Mobile App inside the Settings area • Check the balance of a selected account without logging in to the mobile app • Use fingerprint to quickly register and authorize transactions • Use the built-in #withKEY mobile token to log in to the CIB Internet Banking Safety & security • All data related to accounts and PIN are not saved on the mobile phone • After three repeated input of the wrong PIN, the app becomes inactive, which is further secured from unwanted access Banking made easy #withCIB!
Simple #MakeItEasy
Manage parking, buy e-vignettes, and purchase public transport tickets. Order food, pay for online purchases with QR codes, and access insurance services. Store loyalty cards and manage money orders.
- Parking payment and reservation
- E-vignette purchase
- Mobile transport tickets
- Food ordering and delivery
- Vehicle and phone insurance
- QR code payments
- Money order management
- Loyalty card storage
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You can use the new Simple app with your usual Simple account. When you log in to your account, you’ll find all the goods and products you bought with the old Simple (Classic) app: mobile tickets and passes, event tickets, vignettes, insurances you’ve taken out, and your purchase history. You can use the new Simple app regardless of your bank: you can easily save bank cards issued by any bank and use them to pay for the services available via the application. Services available in the renewed Simple app Parking – payment of parking fees for public areas and indoor spaces countrywide: - parking reservation and timing of expiry time, - multiple vehicle registration numbers can be saved, - warning on zone boundary, - location-based reminders. e-Vignette – purchase of Hungarian motorway vignettes: - for up to several vehicles, timing of the start of validity for weekly and monthly e-vignettes - electronic invoice available, - warning of the date of expiry of the vignette. Mobile ticket/BKK – buy public transport mobile tickets and passes countrywide: - BKK passes and weekly and daily tickets, normal and time-based tickets - Volánbusz intercity and local bus tickets and passes, - tickets and passes from many other local operators. Food ordering – order food with the app: - in nearly 800 cities and towns across the country, - from the full range of Falatozz.hu, - delivery even to multiple addresses. Vehicle assistance insurance (breakdown assistance): - in cooperation with the insurance provider Groupama, - for vehicles up to 15 years old. Device insurance for mobile phones: - in cooperation with the insurance provider Magyar Posta Biztosító - against theft and breakage, not just for new devices - with a monthly payment option. QR code payment – pay for your online SimplePay purchases quickly and easily using Simple app. Money orders – with new functions: - save money orders for later payment, - payment of partially filled money orders. Loyalty card: - save any barcode loyalty card in the app. OTP SZÉP card check balance service. OTP Health Fund – balance top-up. You can run Simple and Simple Classic applications on your device simultaneously. Our Customer Service is available 24/7 via the usual contact details!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CIB Bank at 52% against Simple #MakeItEasy's 13%. CIB Bank also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Simple #MakeItEasy's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and rating (4.4 vs 4.2). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple #MakeItEasy holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple #MakeItEasy has 533 ratings behind it against 74, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of CIB Bank's written reviews are positive against 13% of Simple #MakeItEasy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CIB Bank ships an update every 6 weeks, Simple #MakeItEasy weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CIB Bank | Simple #MakeItEasy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (74 ratings) | 4.4 (533 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews — better | 12.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 74 | 533 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 239 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CIB Bank Zrt. | SimplePay Zrt. |
Customer experience
CIB Bank
Simple #MakeItEasy
In-app purchases
CIB Bank
No in-app purchases
Simple #MakeItEasy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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