Add A Bill vs Grandpa Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Add A Bill
Easily track all your expenses, transactions, debts, notes, and checklists. Share lists and split costs with friends and family. Export your data for safekeeping or sharing.
- Track expenses and money transfers
- Manage notes and checklists
- Create groups for sharing
- Split expenses among friends
- Export data to email
- Customize privacy settings
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Sharing and tracking are easy now, with Add A Bill one can keep track of all expenses, transactions, debts, notes, and checklists. Share the checklist and split the expenses among friends and family easily. Export all your data and share it as needed. Key features: - Track Expenses, Money transfers, Notes, and Checklists. - Create groups and share expenses and checklists. - Customize privacy settings within groups. - Change currency notation easily. - Export all personal & group items including checklists to your email. - Never worry about losing your data. Should be a new line from here - Use your existing Gmail or Apple ID to create an account and log in. - Works greatly with dark mode too, so you can feel the iOS dark mode theme in Add A Bill as well.
Grandpa Notes
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Grandpa Notes is a simple note-taking app. It is free and open source, with no advertisements, in-app purchases or tracking. Your notes are stored as plain text in a straightforward folder structure. You can create notebooks locally or in iCloud. There is also an optional encryption layer that is compatible with Cryptomator.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Add A Bill at every 4 months against Grandpa Notes's every 20 months. Add A Bill also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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.
Add A Bill ships an update every 4 months, Grandpa Notes every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Add A Bill | Grandpa Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Satya Venkata Krishna Achanta | Julien Eyriès |
In-app purchases
Add A Bill
No in-app purchases
Grandpa Notes
No in-app purchases









