Comparison

Purchase Tracker vs BuyBye

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

Head to head
About

Purchase Tracker

A privacy-focused expense tracker that works entirely offline. Log daily spending, set budgets, and gain insights into your financial habits with simple charts and graphs. Ideal for users seeking a straightforward and secure way to manage their money without ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Log daily expenses
  • 100% offline functionality
  • Set monthly spending limits
  • Customizable categories
  • Spending insights with charts
  • Data export/import
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Take control of your money with Purchase Tracker, a simple and privacy friendly way to log your daily expenses. Unlike many finance apps, it works 100% offline, with no ads, no subscriptions, and no online data storage. Perfect for anyone who wants a clean, fast, and reliable spending tracker. Why Choose Purchase Tracker? • Minimalist and easy to use, log purchases in seconds • 100% offline, your data stays private on your device • Free and no ads • Perfect for students, travelers, freelancers or anyone who wants simple expense tracking Track and Manage Your Spending • Record purchases with amount, date and category • View monthly spending in one place • Create custom categories with colors and icons Budgeting Made Simple • Set monthly spending limits • Get insights into your habits with clean charts and graphs • Stay on track without overwhelming features Extra Features • Quick search to find past expenses • Personalize with currency and themes • Export and import data for backup or device transfer With Purchase Tracker, you get a lightweight yet powerful budget manager that focuses on what really matters: helping you understand where your money goes. Start today and build better spending habits with a tool that respects your privacy and time.

About

BuyBye

This app helps you curb impulse spending by showing the real cost of purchases in terms of work hours. It offers features to pause buying decisions and block shopping apps, encouraging intentional spending and savings tracking.

Highlights
  • Visualize purchase cost in work hours
  • Cooldown period for impulse buys
  • Block shopping apps
  • Savings tracking
  • 100 Envelope Savings Challenge
  • Milestone rewards
Features
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Budgeting is better with your pig. Meet Penny, your money buddy in BuyBye. She earns rewards when you make better money choices, helping budgeting feel more fun, motivating, and a little less overwhelming. BuyBye is the budgeting app that shows you the real cost of your spending. Not just in dollars, but in hours of your life. Most budgeting apps track your money. BuyBye helps you decide how to use it. Use BuyBye to: -Set a monthly budget and see what’s left to spend -Track income, expenses, savings, bills, and no-buy days -Use the Worth It? Analyzer to see what purchases cost in work time -See what your money could become if you invested it instead -Pause impulse buys with Cooldown -Temporarily block shopping apps with Shop Block using Apple’s built-in controls -Create savings goals for travel, an emergency fund, or anything else -Try the 100 Envelope Savings Challenge -Earn rewards with Penny as you build better money habits Subscription Information: Some features in BuyBye require an active subscription. This includes adding income and savings to your BuyBye budget. Subscription terms and pricing are available in the app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Purchase Tracker4 screens
BuyBye4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Purchase Tracker at 83% against BuyBye's 11%. Purchase Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). BuyBye's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 35 months) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 15). On price 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. BuyBye sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Purchase Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Purchase Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BuyBye has 1.8K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Purchase Tracker's written reviews are positive against 11% of BuyBye's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Purchase Tracker ships an update every 35 months, BuyBye fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Purchase Tracker versus BuyBye: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPurchase TrackerBuyBye
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (15 ratings) — better4.5 (1.8K ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better10.7% of reviews
Number of ratings151.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsFortnightly — better
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKhanh SteffenBuyBye Inc.

Customer experience

Purchase Tracker

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

BuyBye

All ratings1,724 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews215 reviews
Positive10.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative86.5%

Bugs and requests

Purchase Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

BuyBye

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Too many pop-ups

In-app purchases

None

Purchase Tracker

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

BuyBye

Subscriptions10
  • BuyBye Weekly Plan$3.997 Days
  • BuyBye Monthly Plan3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • BuyBye Quarterly Plan$9.993 Months
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  • BuyBye Yearly Plan (7-day trial)7 Days trial$19.997 Days
  • BuyBye Yearly Winback7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$23.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$26.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • BuyBye Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Purchase Tracker free?
Purchase Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BuyBye free?
BuyBye is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Purchase Tracker or BuyBye?
Purchase Tracker is rated higher. Purchase Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while BuyBye averages 4.5 from 1.8K ratings.
Which is updated more often, Purchase Tracker or BuyBye?
Purchase Tracker ships an update every 35 months, and BuyBye fortnightly. Most recently, Purchase Tracker was updated on October 18, 2026 and BuyBye on October 30, 2026.

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