Comparison

52 Week Challenge vs Juntei

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

Head to head
About

52 Week Challenge

This app helps you achieve financial goals through a structured savings plan. It offers a gradual progression system, allowing you to save a significant amount over a year with customizable weekly contributions and smart tracking tools.

Highlights
  • 52 Weeks or Monthly Challenge
  • Customizable Financial Goals
  • Smart Financial Tracking
  • Personalized Notifications
  • Gradual Contribution System
Features
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Make saving for what matters simple. 52 Week Challenge turns a financial goal into a plan you can follow. Choose a target, pick the classic 52-week challenge or a monthly plan, and record each contribution as you go. PLAN YOUR WAY • Use the 52-week challenge to build momentum one week at a time • Create a monthly plan for a fixed saving amount • Set your target amount and start date • Choose an image that keeps your goal visible TRACK REAL PROGRESS • Mark contributions as saved • See your current balance, target, and completion percentage • Compare planned and actual savings • Explore monthly and accumulated savings charts • Switch between list and grid views for your goals STAY CONSISTENT • Schedule reminders for upcoming contributions • Review the full plan before creating a goal • Track multiple goals for trips, an emergency fund, a car, a home, or anything else Your money stays in your own account. The app helps you plan and track your progress; it never moves funds or requires a bank connection. Start small, stay consistent, and turn a goal into something you can measure. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Juntei

This app helps you reach savings goals by breaking them into a series of incremental numbers to save. You can choose to tackle larger numbers first or start with smaller ones for visible progress. It tracks your savings both by amount and by the number of savings milestones achieved.

Highlights
  • Goal-based savings table
  • Incremental saving numbers
  • Flexible saving strategies (relief/warm-up)
  • Visual progress tracking (money vs. milestones)
  • Daily saving reminders
  • Achievement trophies and streaks
  • Multiple user profiles
Features
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Saving money is hard because "put aside $10,000" doesn't fit in your head. Juntei breaks your goal into a table of numbers — 1, 2, 3, 4… — that add up to exactly what you want to save. You're not saving ten thousand: you're closing number 37 today, 94 tomorrow, and one day the table runs out. It's the Gauss sum, the one he worked out as a schoolboy: 1+2+3+…+141 comes to $10,011. Every number is a different instalment, and that's what makes it work: you decide how much you want, and can, put aside that day. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tell it how much you want to save. Any amount, from 1 to millions. The app builds the table. 2. Money left over today? Type in how much you saved. 3. The app shows which numbers that money fits, and you pick the strategy: • Relief: start with the big numbers. Fewer cells, but the hard ones die first and the rest of the journey keeps getting easier. • Warm-up: start with the small ones. More cells filled, more visible progress, usually more motivating at the start. 4. Can't close a whole number? Close half of it. $5 fills 1 and 2 and leaves 3 at 67%, and the cell shows partly full on screen. TWO WAYS TO SEE PROGRESS Money is one thing, cells filled is another, and the gap between them is what keeps you going. At $1,583 out of $10,011 you have 15.8% of the money, but you've already closed 38 of 141 numbers: 27% of the table. The app always shows both. DAILY REMINDER One nudge at the time you choose, to save whatever the day left over. The alarm belongs to your device: it goes through no server at all. TROPHIES First number, first hundred, halfway table, highest number closed, days in a row. The streak doesn't break the first day you forget, it goes at risk, and you get a chance to save it. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Juntei runs on your device. No sign-up, no login, no email, no password. We don't ask for bank access: you type what you saved, the app does the maths. Nothing is sent to us, we don't even have a server to send it to. Moving to a new phone? The app writes a backup file when you ask. PROFILES A table for you, one for your kid, one for a trip. Each profile has its own goal and its own trophies. FREE, AND PLUS One profile and one table are free forever, no trial that expires, no catch; the free plan shows a small ad at the bottom. Juntei Plus removes the ads and unlocks unlimited profiles and tables, along with Plus-only colours and trophies. One-time purchase, no subscription, and a fair price. Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian. The currency is the one where you created the table. Juntei is not a bank, not a broker, and pays no interest. It's a table, some arithmetic, and a daily nudge.

Screenshots

52 Week Challenge4 screens
Juntei4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Juntei at none against 52 Week Challenge's shown. Juntei also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 52 Week Challenge sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Juntei sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

52 Week Challenge ships an update every 5 months, Juntei every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
52 Week Challenge versus Juntei: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter52 Week ChallengeJuntei
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (71 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB58 MB
Age rating+4+4
DeveloperRaffael Patrício de SouzaPAULO HENRIQUE DA SILVA

Customer experience

52 Week Challenge

All ratings71 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%

Juntei

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

52 Week Challenge

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly PRO$0.991 Month
  • Annual PRO$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime PRO$19.99
1 purchases

Juntei

One-time1
  • Juntei Plus$2.99

Questions

Is 52 Week Challenge free?
52 Week Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Juntei free?
Juntei is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 52 Week Challenge or Juntei have ads?
52 Week Challenge shows ads; Juntei does not.
Which is updated more often, 52 Week Challenge or Juntei?
52 Week Challenge ships an update every 5 months, and Juntei every 4 days. Most recently, 52 Week Challenge was updated on October 27, 2026 and Juntei on October 25, 2026.

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