Bill Karma vs Budgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bill Karma
Manage your budget, track spending, and discover savings opportunities. This app helps you find and cancel unwanted subscriptions and improve your credit score by managing credit card information.
- Budget management
- Spending tracking by category
- Subscription discovery and cancellation
- Credit card management
- APR change alerts
- AI-powered card recommendations
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Bill Karma is your full-service smart money app for budget planning. You can manage your budget, subscription bills, and discover savings all in one app. -- See Your Monthly Spending -- Track your spending organized in useful categories to see where you can save. Saving for that next vacation has never been easier! -- Find And Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions -- We let you know where your money is going. Signed up for a subscription you no longer use but they keep charging you? We got your back! -- Improve Your Credit Score -- See all your credit cards in one place to stay on top of balances, due dates, annual APR, etc. We also let you know if APR on a card has changed! -- Learn About Cards That Match Your Needs -- We use sophisticated technologies based on artificial intelligence algorithms to source cards that match your lifestyle. -- We use bank-level 256-bit encryption -- We have made strong investments in making sure your data is safe with us. Your trust is us is our promise to you. Your bank login credentials never hit our servers and are never stored. We use industry leader Quovo for data aggregation used by the likes of Envestnet, Betterment and other major wealth management firms. Your privacy is most important to us. We will never share your data with third-parties. Please reach out to us at privacy@getbillkarma.com if you have any questions.
Budgets
Easily manage your finances by setting up budgets, tracking spending, and syncing with your bank accounts. Prioritize savings and stay out of debt with tools to monitor your balances and transfer funds between budgets.
- Setup budgets quickly
- Sync with bank accounts
- Track budget balances
- Transfer balance between budgets
- Access on mobile and web
- Secure data encryption
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Your money is moving. See where it’s going and what you could do differently. Budgets brings your spending, bills, and monthly plan together so you can make everyday money decisions with a clearer picture. Understand what’s already spoken for, find spending you could adjust, and make room for what matters to you. START WITH YOUR REAL LIFE Connect your bank and credit card accounts to build a starting plan from your income and spending. Review the suggestions and make them yours. You have something real to work from, instead of a blank budget. SEE WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES Bring transactions together, organize them into categories, and see how your spending compares with your plan. From groceries to dining out, get a clearer view of the choices adding up throughout the month. FIND ROOM FOR WHAT MATTERS Look at your everyday spending and recurring charges to decide what you want to keep and what you could change. Put those choices into a plan that reflects your priorities whether that’s a future trip, a savings cushion, or more room for everyday life. KEEP UPCOMING BILLS IN VIEW With enough account history, Budgets can identify recurring paychecks, bills, and subscriptions. See expected charges alongside your spending so they’re part of the picture when you plan. KEEP YOUR PLAN CURRENT Connected accounts bring in new transactions as they become available. Review your activity and adjust your plan as life changes. Prefer to start manually? Add custom accounts and build your own budget. Connected accounts are read-only. Budgets never moves your money. You decide what changes. Spend well. Save what matters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Budgets at 100% against Bill Karma's 50%. Budgets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8). Bill Karma's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Budgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Bill Karma's written reviews are positive against 100% of Budgets's.
Bill Karma ships an update monthly, Budgets every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bill Karma | Budgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Footbits, Inc. | Derek Wene |
Customer experience
Bill Karma
Budgets
In-app purchases
Bill Karma
No in-app purchases
Budgets
No in-app purchases









