Comparison

uBudget vs bil

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

Head to head
About

uBudget

Track your monthly income and expenses with this minimalist budget app. It allows you to set budgets for different spending categories and monitors your spending against those limits. All your budget values are visible on the main screen for quick access.

Highlights
  • Income and expense tracking
  • Budget reports
  • Dark mode
  • Biometric security
  • Data backup and restore
  • Currency selection
  • Data export
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uBudget is a simple, minimalist budget app that will allow you to track your spending each month. It has a simple user interface that will allow you to quickly and easily track your monthly income and expenses. Each entry in a month is allocated a budget. Example - Clothing $100. The program will keep track of the maximum budget for clothing ($100), how much was spent and the remaining balance for the entry. No need to go through countless menu options all the budget values can be seen on the main screen. uBudget features: * Income and expense tracking * Reports per budget entry * Dark mode * Touch and Face ID enabled * Backup and restore data * Select different currencies * Import previous month budget * Export data to an external program * Full history log for each month * Savings mode Advertisement video required to continue access. We take privacy very important and therefore none of your data is stored externally. Only you have access to your budget data. Privacy settings: * Touch/Face ID required if app is locked * Data connection is required to backup and restore data

About

bil

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Flexible, simple bill tracking. We believe you should have more control over how you track finances, so we set out to build bil with flexibility and simplicity in mind. Have a bill that's due every 3 months? Go ahead and add it, as is. Pitching in $25 every week when you carpool to work? Weekly expenses are welcomed here, too. Keep forgetting about that yearly subscription until you see it hit your bank account? We can help. bil gives you the ability to visualize your cash flow, in our out, in a number of different ways and allows you to group it in whatever way you see fit.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: bil at none against uBudget's shown. bil also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). uBudget's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

uBudget ships an update every 3 weeks, bil weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
uBudget versus bil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruBudgetbil
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiveshen GovenderRollingbit LLC

In-app purchases

None

uBudget

No in-app purchases

None

bil

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is uBudget free?
uBudget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is bil free?
bil is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do uBudget or bil have ads?
uBudget shows ads; bil does not.
Which is updated more often, uBudget or bil?
uBudget ships an update every 3 weeks, and bil weekly. Most recently, uBudget was updated on November 3, 2026 and bil on October 27, 2026.

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