PennyClerk vs Subscriptions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PennyClerk
This personal finance app helps you meticulously track your spending and earnings. It's designed for users who want detailed control over their financial inflows and outflows.
- Expense tracking
- Income management
- Detailed financial overview
- Personal finance management
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PennyClerk is a personal finance app for micromanaging your expenses and income.
Subscriptions
Easily track and manage all your recurring subscriptions in one place. Get timely notifications for upcoming payments and cancellation deadlines. Organize your finances with detailed insights and customizable features.
- Subscription overview and management
- Payment and cancellation notifications
- Price change tracking
- Document attachment
- Search and pinning functionality
- iCloud Sync
- Multi-currency support
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Get a better overview of your subscriptions, manage them and receive notifications about payments that are due. You can add a subscription in a few seconds or take your time and enter detailed information. • iCloud sync • Decide which subscriptions you want to receive notifications for and set the exact time • Enter price changes and create price histories for subscriptions • Enter cancellation periods and receive notifications about cancellation deadlines • Add multiple documents to a subscription • Search through your subscriptions by name or keyword • Pin subscriptions to a section on the Home page • Support for more than 150 currencies • Export your subscriptions as a CSV or text file • Save, share and import subscriptions with Subscriptions files • Calendar integration • Apple Watch app • Widgets • Customize the app color theme • Alternative app icons • Dark Mode Your data is stored only on your devices. If you enable iCloud sync, it is also stored in iCloud. The app is ad-free. You can add up to 5 subscriptions for free. You can remove this restriction with the one-time purchase of Subscriptions+.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PennyClerk at 5.0 against Subscriptions's 4.1. PennyClerk also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Subscriptions's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Subscriptions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PennyClerk asks for nothing beyond the download.
PennyClerk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Subscriptions has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PennyClerk ships an update every 2 months, Subscriptions every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PennyClerk | Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.1 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 88.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eric Nishio | Alexander Feist |
Customer experience
PennyClerk
Subscriptions
In-app purchases
PennyClerk
No in-app purchases
Subscriptions
- Subscriptions+$8.95
