Comparison

Tabs vs Daily Allowance

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

Head to head
About

Tabs

Easily track shared expenses with friends and family for any occasion. Settle up balances quickly by seeing who owes whom. Supports multiple tabs and any currency worldwide.

Highlights
  • Track spending with friends and family
  • Create unlimited spending tabs
  • Add expenses quickly
  • See who owes whom
  • Filter spending by person, date, or tag
  • Supports any currency
Features
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Tabs is the easiest way to track your spending with your friends and family. Are you organising a party, on holiday with your partner, or out having fun with your friends? Tabs will help you to track who is spending what, and settle up your spending with each other at the end. •••• MAIN FEATURES •••• • Track spending money with your friends and family via iMessage • Create as many ‘Tabs’ as you like, one for every occasion. • Add expenses and spending in seconds. • See ‘who owes who’ to settle up your spending. • Understand your spending better - filter by Person, Date or Tag. • Use any currency in the world for each ‘Tab’. If you enjoy using Tabs please rate the app! If you have any feature or support requests we’d love to hear them - send us an email at support@tabs-app.com If you want to send us chocolates and roses, that’s cool too. Don’t forget to check out our other apps to help with your spending and budgets - Pennies and Pennies Mini!

About

Daily Allowance

Features
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Daily Allowance shows exactly how much you can spend today based on your monthly budget. No accounts. No subscriptions. No complicated budgeting tools.

Screenshots

Tabs4 screens
Daily Allowance3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tabs at every 5 days against Daily Allowance's every 5 weeks. Tabs also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tabs ships an update every 5 days, Daily Allowance every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tabs versus Daily Allowance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabsDaily Allowance
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe App Shop, Inc.Anthony Cerelli

In-app purchases

None

Tabs

No in-app purchases

None

Daily Allowance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tabs free?
Tabs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daily Allowance free?
Daily Allowance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tabs or Daily Allowance have ads?
Neither Tabs nor Daily Allowance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tabs or Daily Allowance?
Tabs ships an update every 5 days, and Daily Allowance every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tabs was updated on November 2, 2026 and Daily Allowance on October 18, 2026.

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