Comparison

Account Tracker Pro vs Budget App & Expense Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Account Tracker Pro

Manage your personal finances with this powerful app. Track spending, monitor account balances, set up bill reminders, and create budgets. Gain insights with detailed reports and ensure financial control with multi-currency support and alerts.

Highlights
  • Track multiple account types
  • Bill reminders and alerts
  • Budgeting by category
  • Detailed financial reports
  • Multi-currency support
  • Data backup and syncing
Features
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Apple "New apps and games we love" (on the Mac), March 2017 Apple "Staff Favourite" in the UK (on iOS), Jul/Aug 2010 Account Tracker is a powerful personal finance app that helps you track spending and monitor balances across multiple accounts. Its clean, intuitive user interface, and features such as alerts, bill reminders, budgets, reports and full multi-currency support, make it easy to take control of your finances. This Pro version is a subscription-free version of Account Tracker, with exactly the same content plus basic support for Apple Watch. Try Account Tracker before you buy, it is free to download and supports a 1 month FREE TRIAL. Simply cancel before being charged. Also check out Account Tracker for Mac, now available on the Mac App Store. It requires Account Tracker version 6 or above (to sync over iCloud or Dropbox), and macOS Sierra (10.12) or above. ACCOUNTS - Track multiple accounts: checking, current, savings, credit cards, loans/mortgages ... etc - Separate your accounts into groups, e.g. personal vs business accounts - Enter your recurring transactions using calendar-based repeat intervals, e.g. every 2 weeks, the last Friday of every month ... etc - Quickly and simply enter one-off transactions as they happen - Reconcile your account data with your statements - While it is useful to see where your money goes, you can also look FORWARDS, showing all of your future commitments - Alerts if an account is likely to go overdrawn or hit its overdraft limit BILLS - Enable reminders for non-automatic transactions, e.g. bills that you have to pay manually - View all transactions with reminders set - Alerts to tell you when these transactions are due BUDGETS - Add budgets per category for spending, income and transfers across individual or multiple accounts - View these as daily, weekly, fortnightly/biweekly, monthly, yearly or custom dates (e.g. tax years) - Monitor your transactions against the goals you set REPORTS - Detailed reports to really understand your financial position - Account balance over time, cash flow, spending by category or payee detail, income by category or payer and transfers by category - View these as daily, weekly, fortnightly/biweekly, monthly, yearly or custom dates (e.g. tax years) - Export or print reports as PDF files DATA, BACKUPS AND SYNCING - Import historical transactions or bank statements from a CSV file - Export account statements, budgets and reports in CSV format for offline processing, e.g. in a spreadsheet - Local backup and restore on your device, plus transfer of backups by AirDrop, email, Dropbox or iCloud - Support for database syncing across multiple devices (using either Dropbox or iCloud) - PIN code protection, plus Face/Touch ID and 1Password integration PLUS - Full multi-currency support, per account and per transaction - The default currency is the one local to your device, but this can be overridden - Supports sub-categories and splitting a transaction across multiple categories/subcategories - Universal, retina enabled app that works on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - buy once, use it on ALL of your devices - Also supports the Apple Watch, to display account balances and a snapshot of your main budgets - In-app user guide SUPPORT Please use the link to my support page from the AppStore page or from the app itself (or simply go to http://grahamhaley.co.uk/accounts/). Alternatively, contact me directly via my support pages and you will get a quick response.

About

Budget App & Expense Tracker

This free budgeting app helps you track expenses, plan budgets weekly or monthly, and review cash flow with visual charts. It offers unlimited wallets to separate personal and business finances, with automatic expense tracking via bank feeds and receipt scanning.

Highlights
  • Unlimited wallets for personal and business expenses
  • Automatic expense tracking via bank feeds
  • Receipt scanning and storage
  • Weekly and monthly budget planning
  • Spending limit notifications
  • Visual charts and expense breakdowns
  • Data exporting via CSV
Features
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Brought to you by the #1 award-winning app. Bookipi Expense is a FREE budgeting app with an easy-to-use expense tracker. Plan and record expenses and scan receipts on the go. Use beautiful charts to review your cash flow and plan your budget weekly or monthly. Automatically track expenses by connecting your bank feeds to your in-app wallets. Your expense transaction line items automatically flow through to the expense tracking app with secure and real-time bank feeds. Unlike other budgeting and money management apps, Bookipi Expense helps you separate personal finances and business expenses with UNLIMITED WALLETS for free. You can track your business, travel, and personal expenses in one budgeting platform. Trusted by over 500,000+ small business owners and freelancers in 179 different countries, Bookipi is now delivering the FULL experience. Sync your budgeting data to our invoice maker and receive payments on the same platform. Track all of your income & expenses with a versatile budget planner app. Monitor your spending and SAVE MONEY TODAY. KEY FEATURES: FREE Unlimited Wallets Track your expenses and earnings for personal, professional, or even per-project purposes. By using multiple wallets for multiple occasions, you’re guaranteed never to lose track of your spending. Sync Wallet Balance to Bank Feed Sync your bank to your wallets in real time! Add multiple bank feeds and ditch summarizing expenses across your bank accounts. Save time and manage all of your expenses in one app. Budget Planning Easily create monthly or weekly budgets for better money management. Receive notifications for when you are nearing your limit. Spending Limits Set unique spending limits on each of your unlimited wallets. We'll notify you when your spending is close to your budget limit based on your inputs and real-time bank feeds. Unique Categorization Log and categorize your expense and income entries to make your finances easy to review and organize. Complete with unique icon assigning. Charts & Expense Breakdowns Each wallet has a unique daily report of monthly income & expenses. Visualize your spending patterns and plan your finances ahead of time with our charts and expense breakdowns. By analyzing your monthly financial activity, find out how you can save more money. Receipt Storage Store and manage receipts for easy retrieval. Just take a picture to store it in our secure databases for your easy reference. Review Transactions Our money management app helps with record-keeping so you’re more confident in money matters. Search transactions by date and name, and find attached photo receipts. Data Exporting Generate instant summaries of your wallets with a tap through our CSV exporting feature. Automatic Bookipi Invoicing Data Synchronising Bookipi Invoice users are rewarded with automatic data syncing. Allowing you to keep track of all of your income and expenses in one seamless process. OTHER OUTSTANDING FEATURES: - Expense Record Keeping - Change Currency - Transfer Expenses Between Wallets - Transaction Notes - In-App Chat Support - Global Currency Selections - Intuitive UI Design - Frequently Updated Video Tutorials Bookipi Expense is the easiest free app to track personal & business expenses in one app. Manage your expenses and plan your spending on the go. Track how much money goes in and out of your accounts and have full control over your finances today!

Screenshots

Account Tracker Pro4 screens
Budget App & Expense Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Budget App & Expense Tracker at Free against Account Tracker Pro's $4.99. Budget App & Expense Tracker also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 98). Account Tracker Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (97% vs 65%). On rating, update cadence, ads 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

Budget App & Expense Tracker is free to download; Account Tracker Pro costs $4.99 up front. Budget App & Expense Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Account Tracker Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Account Tracker Pro against 4.8 for Budget App & Expense Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Budget App & Expense Tracker has 2.7K ratings behind it against 98, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Account Tracker Pro's written reviews are positive against 65% of Budget App & Expense Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Account Tracker Pro ships an update every 2 months, Budget App & Expense Tracker every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Account Tracker Pro versus Budget App & Expense Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAccount Tracker ProBudget App & Expense Tracker
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (98 ratings)4.8 (2.7K ratings)
Positive reviews97.4% of reviews — better65.2% of reviews
Number of ratings982.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGraham HaleyBookipi Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Account Tracker Pro

All ratings98 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews195 reviews
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.1%

Budget App & Expense Tracker

All ratings2,679 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive65.2%
Neutral7.4%
Negative27.4%

User reviews

Account Tracker Pro

From 98 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great price, great options
  • 🚀 Easy to use, great support
  • 🚀 Intuitive and functional
  • 🚀 Robust and indispensable
  • 🚀 Excellent for budgeting and forecasting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues on some devices
  • 🐛 Lack of intuitive UI for some users

Budget App & Expense Tracker

From 2.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app, easy to use
  • 👍 Useful features, good for business/personal use
  • ⭐ Fantastic, best app for expense tracking
  • 💯 Awesome, perfect for my needs

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs, issues with recurring transactions and wallet balances
  • 🔍 Missing features like landscape mode, custom recurring expenses
  • ⚠️ Compatibility issues with newer devices, UI not optimized
  • 🔒 Concerns about subscription/bank connection process

Bugs and requests

Account Tracker Pro

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Loss of categories and details after update
  • Syncing issues between primary and secondary devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Receipt image attachment feature
  • Dark mode option
  • Annual budgeting and rollover

Budget App & Expense Tracker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Entries disappearing and reappearing randomly
  • Incorrect wallet totals shown
  • Recurring transactions not working as expected
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to view recurring expenses in future months
  • Option to upload documents/receipts, not just photos
  • Automatic categorization of scanned receipts
  • Customizable categories and icons
  • Dark mode option

In-app purchases

None

Account Tracker Pro

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Budget App & Expense Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Single Bank | Monthly2 Months trial$2.991 Month
  • Unlimited Banks | Monthly2 Months trial$4.491 Month
  • Single Bank | Annual2 Months trial$23.991 Year
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  • Unlimited Banks | Annual2 Months trial$35.991 Year

Questions

Is Account Tracker Pro free?
Account Tracker Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Budget App & Expense Tracker free?
Budget App & Expense Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Account Tracker Pro or Budget App & Expense Tracker?
Account Tracker Pro and Budget App & Expense Tracker are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 98 and 2.7K ratings respectively.
Do Account Tracker Pro or Budget App & Expense Tracker have ads?
Neither Account Tracker Pro nor Budget App & Expense Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Account Tracker Pro or Budget App & Expense Tracker?
Account Tracker Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Budget App & Expense Tracker every 5 weeks. Most recently, Account Tracker Pro was updated on September 26, 2026 and Budget App & Expense Tracker on September 25, 2026.

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