Money Focus vs BetterHalve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Money Focus
Manage personal and business finances with this comprehensive app. Track accounts, create budgets, monitor bills, and generate detailed reports. Supports multiple profiles, currencies, and offers passcode protection for your financial data.
- Account transaction and balance tracking
- Budget creation and tracking
- Bill management with reminders
- Income and expense tracking
- Multiple profile support
- Financial reports and charts
- Passcode protection
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A simple but comprehensive, brief and clear personal & business finance management app. Be good at managing money matters will make your life relaxed and well-organized. Check your Accounts transactions and balance; Check Transactions under a Category; Create Budgets and track transactions under them; Track income and expense Bills and make sure they are paid on time. View Transactions by date. It supports multiple profiles; you can track yours, family members or business finance separately. It can list your transaction by daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, and generate kinds of reports, so you can see clearly about your earnings and spending. Key Features: ⁃ Add a transaction with photo of receipt, payees, account, category, budget, check number, and date. ⁃ Track total accounts balance and balance of each account. ⁃ Check transactions of each account. ⁃ Create categories and sub-categories. ⁃ Check transactions and amounts under a category. ⁃ Create budgets and transaction their transactions. ⁃ Calendar and list view of bills. ⁃ Mark bills as fully or partially paid. ⁃ Create bills reminders to make sure they are paid on time. ⁃ Calendar and list view of Bills. ⁃ Track income and expense bills with or without a repeat cycle. ⁃ Show all transactions by daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. ⁃ Copy transaction to quick add a new one. ⁃ Hide or show cleared transactions. ⁃ Add repeat and one time transactions. ⁃ Mark transaction as cleared or not. ⁃ Dividing one transaction to multiple. ⁃ Built-in calculator or default keyboard to enter amount. ⁃ Check total accounts balance chart view. ⁃ Supports multiple currencies. ⁃ Search transactions by payee, category, account, amount or note. ⁃ Over view of recently finance status. ⁃ Nine finance reports. ⁃ Supports multiple groups, manage your personal, family member and business finance separately. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Share data by email. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ iCloud backup and restore. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Create multiple reminders. ⁃ Refresh exchange rate or change them manually. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). Payment: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscribe semiannual. You will be charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate as defined by iTunes." Purchase semiannual subscription for all features for USD$2.99. Auto Renew: Once subscribes, your account will be charged USD$2.99/semiannual, based on your previous subscription, for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Change Subscription Type: If you want to change your subscription type, Open the "Settings" app. Tap your name, then tap "Subscribe." Tap the name of the subscription you want to change. If different types of subscriptions are available, a list will be displayed. Tap the desired option.Tap "Buy". Share Subscription: If you want to share a subscription with family, please open the Settings app, tap your name and Subscriptions. Then tap the name of the subscription that you can share with family, scroll down and turn on Share with Family. Cancel Subscription: Subscriptions are managed by your Apple account and auto-renewal can be turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, in Account Settings after purchase. By completing your subscription, you agree to app's Term of Use & Privacy Policy. Term of Use:https://www.thelinklinks.com/term.html Privacy Policy:https://www.thelinklinks.com/privacypolicy.html If you have any question or want to add more units, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.
BetterHalve
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BetterHalve is the shared expense app built for couples. Log what you spend, split it your way, and see your household's spending at a glance – synced between both your phones in real time. SPLIT ANYTHING, FAIRLY • Split 50/50, by custom amounts, or by percentage • See who owes whom at a glance and settle up in a tap • Log expenses in other currencies – they're converted to your household currency RECURRING BILLS, HANDLED • Set up rent, subscriptions and other regular bills once – weekly, fortnightly or monthly • They're added automatically, so nothing gets forgotten UNDERSTAND YOUR SPENDING • See your average month and how any month compares • Tap a month on the chart to see exactly where the money went • Where It Goes: spending by category, from groceries to transport • Regular Costs: what you spend each month on things like petrol and your usual grocery store • Every total traces back to the actual purchases behind it BUILT FOR TWO • Invite your partner with a link or code • Get notified when your partner adds an expense • Sign in with Apple or Google PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your data is only shared with your partner • Delete your account at any time from Settings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Money Focus at Free against BetterHalve's $4.99. Money Focus also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.2). BetterHalve's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
Money Focus is free to download; BetterHalve costs $4.99 up front. Money Focus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 6 months. BetterHalve asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Money Focus | BetterHalve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (72 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LINKLINKS LTD | Luke Beretta |
Bugs and requests
Money Focus
Reported bugs
14 issues- Auto-fill for payers and payees not working after update 7.0
- SALDI DEI CONTI and FLUSSO CONTANTI fields not working
- QUEST’ANNO search not working
- Decimal point not available in calculator
- App crashes when updating category
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- App crashes when selecting an account
- App crashes immediately upon opening after iOS 14.2 update
- Transactions disappear when clearing others
- Dropbox crashes when selected
- Email and print button not working
- App crashes when putting in a new bill and choosing category
- Data lost after app crash
- Keyboard lost decimal point after update
- Beneficiary/payer loading is very slow
Requested features
14 requests- Add decimal point/period to calculator
- Add Arabic language support
- Improve auto-fill for payers and payees
- Add import functionality
- Implement stack to add view money transactions and budget
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- Add dark mode
- Improve sync between devices
- Allow splitting transactions across multiple budgets
- Add money goal setting
- Allow adding transactions from any page/account
- Add account logos
- Add different theme options
- Improve budgeting module
- Add tutorials for features
BetterHalve
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Money Focus
- Premium - 6 months$2.996 Months
- Pro Version$4.99
BetterHalve
No in-app purchases









