Comparison

Chamasoft vs BudgetPals

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

Head to head
About

Chamasoft

This app automates financial bookkeeping for investment groups, replacing manual methods. It manages member invoicing, payments, and provides online access to financial statements. Features include an e-wallet, expense tracking, and financial reporting.

Highlights
  • Automated member invoicing
  • Online member financial statements
  • E-Wallet for payments and withdrawals
  • Expense and project tracking
  • Financial reporting
  • Loan management
  • Penalty management
Features
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Chamasoft is a book keeping tool for Investment Groups ( Chama ), commonly known as Chamas. Chamasoft automates the operations of these groups, eliminating the need for complex Excel sheets and bulky write up, thereby making the work of financial book keeping within the group easier. It achieves this in the following way: 1. It automates member invoicing, 2. Keeps an updated statement for each member, 3. Members can login to view their financial position within the group, 4. Reminds members to make payments, stores group data on the cloud (available 24/7 anywhere in the world) and 5. A cash book module for use by the Treasurer. FEATURES: - Chamasoft E-Wallet Chamasoft provides an online E-Wallet that chamas can use to manage their finances by making payments via M-Pesa and withdrawals to M-Pesa or any bank account. - Financial Management Chamasoft acts as an online treasurer. All one does is record payments and Chamasoft reconciles the records. - Membership Management Chamasoft allows one to register all members on the system where they access to their chama records online. - Bank Account Management Chamasoft records withdrawals, transfers and deposits that are performed on the bank accounts. - Expense Management Chamasoft allows users to track expenses as they occur, be it for land purchases or payments for services. - Project Management One can track projects e.g. Expenses regarding purchase of land, and the contributions needed to carry out the project. - Loan Management For chamas that do internal lending, Chamasoft provides a platform for recording these loans. - Financial Reports Chamasoft generates the following reports; Member Statements, Loan Summaries, Expense Summary and Transaction Statements. - One Time Penalty Management One can penalise members for issues such a late coming and this will be reflected on the members' statement. CHAMASOFT Focus on your Group Investments (chama, sacco) as we handle your group financial administration. Do not wait — Download and automate your group, chama or sacco now!

About

BudgetPals

Features
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BudgetPals is an application powered by SasaPay, a licensed and regulated payment service provider (PSP) by the central bank of Kenya, that make chamas/group contributions easy to manage. With BudgetPals, members will now be able to contribute and socialize in one integrated platform which will conveniently save them time. In addition, members will have full visibility of the contributions they have made with a full access to the group statements as well as personal statements in real time. Users can create groups with unlimited members. In addition users will not be able to chat or view other users telephone if they have not saved it in their phone contacts, this is to ensure full privacy of group members. Our core values: Transparency Reliability Integrity Consistency Team spirit Optimism Commitment to our customers

Screenshots

Chamasoft4 screens
BudgetPals4 screens

Verdict

The call

Chamasoft and BudgetPals are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Chamasoft versus BudgetPals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChamasoftBudgetPals
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB78 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDigital Vision East AfricaBudgetPal Limited Liability Company

In-app purchases

None

Chamasoft

No in-app purchases

None

BudgetPals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chamasoft free?
Chamasoft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BudgetPals free?
BudgetPals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chamasoft or BudgetPals have ads?
Neither Chamasoft nor BudgetPals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chamasoft or BudgetPals?
Chamasoft ships an update every 2 months, and BudgetPals every 2 months. Most recently, Chamasoft was updated on October 24, 2026 and BudgetPals on October 7, 2026.

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