Keep Afloat vs Budget Brief
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Keep Afloat
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Use Keep Afloat in three simple steps: 1 - Create portfolios to logically group your money and all of your investments and financial obligations. 2 - Create accounts within each portfolio. 3 - Add transactions to each account. Main features and functionality ・Unlimited portfolios, accounts, and transactions. ・Take advantage of the streamlined user interface that focusses on just the fundamentals of recording your financial situation. ・Set up automatically repeating transactions. ・Pin important transactions to pull them out of the traditional chronological order and move them to the top. ・Indicate transactions as planned so that you have everything covered and decide if you wish to include them in the account balance or not. ・Use your preferred text size (supports the full range of text sizes including all of the accessibility larger text sizes available in your device’s Settings app). ・Use in your preferred device orientation–portrait or landscape ・See your finances shine in Dark Mode. Keep Afloat uses the default currency from your device’s Language & Region setting in the Settings app.
Budget Brief
Log all your financial transactions to gain insights into your spending habits. The app provides various helpful breakdowns of your financial data.
- Transaction logging
- Financial breakdowns
- Spending insights
- Cross-device support
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Get a variety of helpful breakdowns of your finances by logging all your transactions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Budget Brief at none against Keep Afloat's 1. Budget Brief also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Keep Afloat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Budget Brief asks for nothing beyond the download.
Keep Afloat ships an update fortnightly, Budget Brief weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keep Afloat | Budget Brief |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Canty | Yannik Bloscheck |
In-app purchases
Keep Afloat
- Keep Afloat Premium$2.99
Budget Brief
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Keep Afloat free?
Is Budget Brief free?
Do Keep Afloat or Budget Brief have ads?
Which is updated more often, Keep Afloat or Budget Brief?
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