Comparison

TailWind Smart vs BudgetOnly

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

Head to head
About

TailWind Smart

Automate your garage door with smart technology. This app allows you to remotely open, close, and check the status of your garage doors. It can also automatically open as you arrive and close as you leave, enhancing security and convenience.

Highlights
  • Automatic opening and closing
  • Remote control from anywhere
  • Vehicle detection for specific door opening
  • Customizable alerts and schedules
  • Activity history log
  • Unlimited user access
Features
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Don’t just open your garage door with your smartphone. Automate it. Tailwind can close your garage door as you leave, open it when you arrive – all automatically. No buttons. No keypads. Just drive. The Tailwind app allows you to open, close, or check the status of your garage doors from anywhere using your mobile device, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and our iQ3 smart garage door controller (purchased separately). Check out the list of things you can do with Tailwind: Automatically open the door as you approach Automatically close the door as you leave (if you forget to close it) Detect which vehicle you’re driving so it knows which door to open or close (can even work with motorcycles, ATVs, etc)* Automatically close all your garage doors at night, even if someone opens them again! Receive customize alerts telling you who opened the garage door and when See a history log of all activity for the last 30 days Create alert schedules so you only receive alerts at certain times of the day Unlimited users * may require optional Tailwind Vehicle Sensor

About

BudgetOnly

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BudgetOnly is one simple ledger that can save your time. Type $ amount, what it is, AI help you tag categories. That's the whole app. -No sign up, no emai, yet iCloud keep app sync across your devices -No trapped data with no limitation to export your data to csv, for your accountant, for AI tools, etc. -Powerful free features with AI supported tagging -Share a ledger with a family, friend, business partner RECORDING TAKES TWO STEPS Pull down anywhere in the ledger. Type the amount. Type what it was. Done. No category to pick, no date to set, no person to choose — each one has a working default you can correct afterwards. CATEGORIES FILL THEMSELVES IN An on-device model reads the description and puts a category on the line a moment after it lands. Wrong? Tap it once. It remembers that correction and never guesses that description again. The model is given the words only — never the amount. A DASH THAT ANSWERS ONE QUESTION AT A TIME Swipe the card above the stream: · How is this month going — spent, remaining, and a pace mark showing where you should be today · Where the money went — categories ranked, each against last month · Who spent it — when more than one person did Set a spend cap, a net target, both, or neither. Goals belong to the month they were set for, so raising this month's cap can't quietly rewrite a month that already went over. BROWSE A MONTH AT A TIME The month row above the stream scopes everything to one month. Tap search and that same row widens into a filter — keyword, person, category, time. "Uncategorized" is one of the choices, which is how you tidy up. MORE THAN ONE LEDGER Household, freelance, a business, a trip. Each ledger has its own currency, its own categories, and its own members. Attribute any line to anyone on the ledger — including people who don't have the app. SHARE ONE WITH SOMEONE Send an eight-character code. They type it in, and they're in. No account to create, no link to tap, no email address to hand over. Anyone who should read but not write gets view-only. EVERY CHANGE IS ON THE RECORD The Trail shows what changed, when, and who changed it — amounts, categories, deletions, settings. Read-only, because it's a record. EXPORT Any ledger to CSV, any time, free. WHERE YOUR MONEY LIVES On your device, and in your own iCloud. There is no BudgetOnly server, and there never will be. Nothing is collected, nothing is tracked, no analytics SDK ships inside the app, and no third party ever sees an amount. Sharing uses iCloud's own sharing — the people you invite, and nobody else. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No sign-up. No password. No bank connections. No ads. No notifications, no badges, no red dots. No onboarding — the first screen is the app. EIGHT LANGUAGES English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Français, Deutsch — switched inside the app, not in system Settings. FREE, AND PLUS Free, permanently: two ledgers you create (ones you're invited into don't count), one person invited to each, iCloud sync and backup, CSV export, and automatic categories. BudgetOnly Plus lifts exactly two limits — unlimited ledgers, and unlimited people on each. Nothing else sits behind it. If a subscription lapses, nothing locks: every ledger and every person you already have keeps reading, recording and syncing. BudgetOnly Plus is an auto-renewing subscription offered yearly and monthly; the price is shown in the app in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of that time. Manage or cancel in Settings › your name › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://72mn.com/apps/budgetonly/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://72mn.com/apps/budgetonly/privacy/

Screenshots

TailWind Smart4 screens
BudgetOnly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TailWind Smart at none against BudgetOnly's 2. TailWind Smart also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. BudgetOnly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. TailWind Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TailWind Smart versus BudgetOnly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTailWind SmartBudgetOnly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (89 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews51.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings89 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer1931085 Ontario Ltd72mn LLC

Bugs and requests

TailWind Smart

Reported bugs

34 issues
  • Cannot enable Bluetooth during setup
  • Location services need manual enabling
  • App prompts to download unavailable update
  • Auto open no longer works
  • App can't diagnose or update firmware
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  • App no longer allows adding a vehicle
  • App always signed out after update
  • Location triggers rarely work
  • Update broke auto-close
  • Settings changed to auto-close unexpectedly
  • iOS widgets no longer work
  • Frequently signed out and have to re-authenticate
  • Garage doors deleted from app after sign-out
  • Unable to close door, shows 'lockout'
  • Clicking on one door opens/closes the other
  • Massive battery drain for iOS users
  • Auto open/close feature works sporadically for iPhone users
  • App is buggy
  • Garage door shows up sometimes, sometimes not
  • Vehicle shows up sometimes, sometimes not
  • Garage door shows as 'null'
  • Notifications about turning sensor off/on incorrectly displayed
  • Horrible battery drain
  • Background battery drain issue
  • Auto open/close doesn't always work on iPhones
  • Auto open feature through IFTTT no longer works after iOS 13
  • App crashes on iPad when clicking login
  • Consistent backgrounding problem, requires app kill to connect
  • Logs out user, password reset fails
  • Registration of email didn't work
  • App testing severely lacking
  • Signs you out all the time at random
  • IFTTT integration doesn't work with Apple
  • App can't use Bluetooth from iPhone but can with Android

Requested features

8 requests
  • Clearer setup flow with firmware update check
  • Documentation matching latest UX
  • HomeKit integration release
  • Siri Shortcuts improvement
  • Watch face complication for watch app
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  • Disable notifications while home using location services
  • Manage 'admin' settings
  • Fix iPad crash on login

BudgetOnly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

TailWind Smart

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

BudgetOnly

Subscriptions2
  • Plus monthly$1.991 Month
  • Plus annual$12.991 Year

Questions

Is TailWind Smart free?
TailWind Smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BudgetOnly free?
BudgetOnly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TailWind Smart or BudgetOnly have ads?
Neither TailWind Smart nor BudgetOnly shows ads.

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