Comparison

Tabs vs My Monthly Budget

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

My Monthly Budget

Features
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Most budgeting apps tell you what you spent. Monthly Budget tells you what happens next — your exact balance, every single day, for the year ahead. SEE YOUR BALANCE INTO THE FUTURE Enter your real account balance once and it becomes the anchor for everything. Monthly Budget projects your balance forward day by day from your income and expenses — and backward too. A clean line chart shows any month, quarter, or year ahead, so you can see a shortfall coming weeks before it lands. A warning banner alerts you the moment your balance is heading toward zero within the next 7 days. ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS, ONE PICTURE Track your salary account, savings, credit card, and more — each with its own balance chart and timeline. Move money between accounts with linked transfers that stay in sync on both sides. Set a savings goal or a minimum buffer per account and watch your progress. Drag to reorder. RECURRING DONE RIGHT Add one-off or recurring income and expenses with real control: weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannual, annual, or a custom interval. Skip, mute, or pause any occurrence without deleting the entry — ideal for irregular months. Override the amount for a single occurrence or from a date forward. Split one transaction into sub-entries when a purchase spans several categories. CATEGORIES & BUDGETS Organise spending with your own categories, each with its own icon and colour. Set a monthly limit per category per account and see at a glance whether you're on track. INSIGHTS THAT LOOK AHEAD Monthly Budget surfaces large or infrequent one-off expenses before they arrive, so nothing catches you off guard. The Subscription Audit lists every recurring commitment with its monthly and yearly cost, sorted by annual spend — so you can spot what's quietly draining your budget. TEST BEFORE YOU COMMIT Use the What-If sandbox to try a raise, a new subscription, or a big purchase and instantly see how it reshapes your balance — without touching your real data. FIND ANYTHING FAST Search across every entry to jump straight to the transaction you're looking for. CREDIT CARD TRACKING Record card expiry dates and get an alert before a card expires, with a list of the subscriptions you'll need to update. WIDGETS & SIRI Keep your projected balance on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Add an expense or ask for your balance hands-free with Siri and the Shortcuts app. IMPORT & BACKUP Import transactions from your bank's CSV export — choose the delimiter, map the columns to any bank's format, and let Monthly Budget group similar transactions into ready-made recurring entries. Export a complete backup of everything at any time and restore it with a single tap. CLOUD SYNC Your data syncs automatically across all your Apple devices via iCloud, with a local fallback so the app always works offline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account required. No ads. No third-party analytics. Your financial data stays on your device and in your own private iCloud. APP LOCK Protect everything with a PIN plus Face ID or Touch ID, and a custom timeout that locks the app after your chosen idle period. Available in English and Danish. Download Monthly Budget and always know exactly where you stand — and where you're headed.

Screenshots

Tabs4 screens
My Monthly Budget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tabs at 3 against My Monthly Budget's 1. Tabs also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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, My Monthly Budget weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tabs versus My Monthly Budget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabsMy Monthly Budget
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe App Shop, Inc.Anders Fog Bunzel

In-app purchases

None

Tabs

No in-app purchases

None

My Monthly Budget

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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