Skiply vs HisaabWise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skiply
This app simplifies school payments for parents in the UAE. It allows secure mobile payments for tuition, uniforms, books, and school events using any bank card. Features include digital permission slips, email receipts, and multiple card support.
- Secure school payments
- Tuition, uniform, book payments
- Digital permission slips
- Email receipts
- Multiple card support
- Transaction history access
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Skip the hassle with easier school payments. Skiply is a mobile payment service powered by RAKBANK that allows parents to make secured payments to schools in UAE with any bank Card. Skiply features include; tuition fee, uniforms, transportation, books payments using a mobile app, signed permission slips for events, email receipts, multiple card support, and much more. Making school payments have never been this easy, say Goodbye to waiting in queues to pay for your Childs’s school fee. Good enough? What if we say, School books for your child is just a login away, ready to get started? Download the app and skip quickly through the long waiting queues. The interface is well-designed and straightforward with impressive offers and push notifications, reminding you of when payments are due. Here are some of Skiply’s features: Seamless user registration, student registration, product catalogue for your school, notifications, order management, Online payment and offers, Email receipts, Multiple card support and much more to explore! With Skiply you can: • Discover all the schools near your location. • Pay online: users can pay off the school products ahead of time, then collect the products or have it delivered to your home. • Parents can pay online for student events arranged by school and sign school permission slip digitally • Create a free MasterPass account: Skiply uses MasterPass, MasterCard’s secure digital wallet solution that accepts MasterCard and Visa. • The Apple Pay/Samsung pay/Google pay checkout option is coming later this year. • Access your eReceipts: now you can easily review your Skiply transaction history in the app. Once you select the school, the app checks for the students registered for that school, Once you click add student you will see your child’s details. Confirm and you are now ready to start exploring the school’s catalogue and make payments for your child’s school needs. You can pay using one of your uploaded payment cards whenever you like. That means you can skip quickly to completion without having to visit the school and spend your precious time waiting in queues. The great thing about Skiply is that family members and guardians who have the app can also use it to pay. All family members will have access to the transaction history. Thanks to Skiply, the payment outstanding is cleared the minute the payment is successfully completed. Is my payment secure? Can someone see my card details? Is it safe to save my card in the Skiply wallet? Well worry no more, the technology provides a single digital storage place for all your payment and shipping information, and encrypts it to keep it out of harm’s way. When you make an online purchase, you simply use the digitally secure checkout option and your payment is processed using the information you have stored.
HisaabWise
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HisaabWise - spend smarter, learn as you go. Managing money in the UAE isn't always simple. You're paid once a month, rent takes a big bite, you're sending money home, and nobody ever really taught you how to make it all work. HisaabWise is built for exactly that - a personal finance app that pairs everyday expense tracking with bite-sized financial education, so you don't just see where your money goes, you learn how to take control of it. Best of all: HisaabWise is completely free. No subscriptions, no paywalls, no ads, no upsells. Ever. TRACK EVERY DIRHAM Log your spending in seconds and see exactly where your money goes each month. Every expense is organized into clear categories so patterns jump out - the coffees, the deliveries, the subscriptions you forgot about. Because HisaabWise knows your real salary, everything is shown as a share of your actual pay, not a generic number. A BUDGET THAT ADAPTS TO YOU HisaabWise builds a smart 50/30/20 budget around your income - needs, wants, and savings - and adjusts as your spending changes through the month. Your savings figure is calculated for you automatically, so every screen tells the same honest story about how you're really doing. LEARN THE SKILLS NOBODY TAUGHT YOU Short, friendly lessons walk you through the money topics that matter in the UAE - budgeting, saving, remittances, avoiding debt traps, and building an emergency fund. Earn XP, keep your daily streak alive, and work through a full curriculum at your own pace. It's financial literacy that actually feels good to do. INSIGHTS & MONTHLY REPORTS Clear reports show how each month played out and how your habits are changing over time. Completed months are saved as a record you can always look back on - a met goal stays met. BUILT FOR THE UAE, BUILT FOR EXPATS Multi-currency support means you can see your money the way you actually think about it - dirhams here, and the currency back home. Tips and guidance are grounded in UAE realities and cite official sources, so the advice is relevant to your life here. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Use HisaabWise in English or Arabic, and switch anytime from your account settings - the whole app, including full right-to-left support, adapts instantly. Your money should make sense in the language you think in. TIPS & GUIDANCE, ALWAYS ON HAND Dozens of practical money tips and in-depth articles help you make better decisions, right when you need them. YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL Your financial information is private. You can export your data or delete your account at any time, directly from the app. WHY HISAABWISE? • 100% free - no ads, no paywalls, no in-app purchases • Expense tracking that speaks in terms of your real salary • An adaptive 50/30/20 budget that does the maths for you • A complete, gamified financial-literacy course with streaks and XP • Monthly reports that keep an honest record over time • Multi-currency, made for UAE residents and expats • Private by design, with full data export and account deletion Whether you're building your first budget, trying to save more each month, or finally getting confident with money, HisaabWise is your calm, judgement-free companion for life in the UAE. Download HisaabWise today and start making sense of your money - one dirham at a time. HisaabWise provides financial education, not regulated financial advice. Guidance is for general informational purposes and cites official UAE sources where relevant.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Skiply at 16.0 against HisaabWise's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Skiply | HisaabWise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (454 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 454 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah (P.S.C) | Neeraj Makin |
Bugs and requests
Skiply
Reported bugs
11 issues- Apple Pay and payment flow not working
- Not receiving OTP for student addition
- Repetitive student details entry
- Confusing payment info entry with hidden CVC field
- Outstanding fees not displayed
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- App lagging
- Cannot process payments for multiple children simultaneously
- Login error: 'couldn't login due to hystrix callback invoked'
- App freezes during payment selection
- Back button malfunction
- Registration failure
Requested features
2 requests- Allow multiple kids to be paid for at once
- Improve payment security
HisaabWise
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skiply
No in-app purchases
HisaabWise
No in-app purchases









