PayForMe vs Abacus for Firefly III
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PayForMe
Easily track money lent and borrowed between friends. Manage multiple projects, view balances, and clear debts efficiently. Color-coding helps differentiate users for better organization.
- Track borrowed money
- Manage multiple projects
- View member balances
- Create and update bills
- Clear individual debts
- Color-coded user differentiation
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PayForMe is an app to track borrowing money between friends. It either uses Cospend on your Nextcloud instance or iHateMoney as a backend, and has the following features: - Show listed bills - Create new bills - Balance of project members - Handling several projects - Colorcodes to differentiate users - Update bills - Delete bills - Clearing debt of single members - Setting a default payer on a project basis
Abacus for Firefly III
This secure, open-source client connects to your personal Firefly III instance to manage your finances. It offers OAuth2 authentication, secure token storage, and visualizes your net worth and asset account history through charts. It requires a self-hosted Firefly III installation to function.
- Secure OAuth2 authentication
- Encrypted token storage
- Net worth tracking by currency
- Asset account history charts
- Open-source and no analytics
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Abacus: a secure & open source Firefly III client. Introduction: - Firefly III Client for iOS. - Authentication with Oauth2. - Use of iOS Keychains to store the accessToken / refreshToken. - No external API calls nor Analytics API, not even sentry / crashlytics. - Support the Net Worth by currency. - Chart to display history of your asset accounts. Source: https://github.com/victorbalssa/abacus. You need a personal Firefly III instance online (or on your LAN) to use this application: Firefly III : A free and open source personal finance manager. Source: https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/
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Verdict
PayForMe and Abacus for Firefly III both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Abacus for Firefly III's written reviews are positive against 82% of PayForMe's. Abacus for Firefly III also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (44 vs 2). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PayForMe against 4.9 for Abacus for Firefly III. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Abacus for Firefly III has 44 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of PayForMe's written reviews are positive against 100% of Abacus for Firefly III's.
PayForMe ships an update every 4 months, Abacus for Firefly III monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 24, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PayForMe | Abacus for Firefly III |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jona Koenig | Victor Balssa |
Customer experience
PayForMe
Abacus for Firefly III
In-app purchases
PayForMe
No in-app purchases
Abacus for Firefly III
No in-app purchases
Questions
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