Comparison

Subscription & Bills vs Subception

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

Head to head
About

Subscription & Bills

Effortlessly manage all your recurring bills and subscriptions in one place. Track expenses, set reminders to avoid missed payments, and gain insights into your spending habits. Secure your financial data with biometric locks and enjoy a beautiful, customizable interface across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Add 300+ pre-defined or custom subscriptions
  • Detailed subscription insights
  • Set due date reminders
  • iCloud Sync
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • FaceID/TouchID and Passcode Lock
  • Light and Dark Mode UI
  • iOS Widgets
Features
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Subtrack is a gorgeous and powerful privacy-friendly subscriptions and expenses tracker. Never miss a due date. - Add subscriptions from a pre-added list of 300+ Subscriptions or add custom subscriptions. Takes less than 20 seconds. - View Detailed Insights of your Subscriptions. - Set reminders and never miss a due date. - iCloud Sync - Use Siri Shortcuts to check your due date and weekly or monthly dues. - Secure your subscriptions with FaceID/TouchID and Passcode Lock - Gorgeous Colorful UI with Light and Dark Mode - Export Subscriptions in a single file - 20+ Alternate App Icons - Beautiful iOS 14 Widgets - Works Everywhere: Subtrack is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac Subtrack is a one-time purchase across all of your Apple devices, including the Mac app. Updated to take the best of iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, try Subtrack on all platforms. Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/subtrackapp

About

Subception

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Subception tells you what your subscriptions actually cost you — and it doesn't charge you a subscription to do it. One payment. No account to create, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no servers of ours in the middle. Your data lives on your devices and syncs only through your own private iCloud. WHAT IT DOES Add what you pay for — streaming, software, gym, storage, the lot — and Subception turns it into something you can actually act on. Monthly and yearly totals at a glance. What renews this week. What quietly went up in price. What you saved by cancelling. It handles the awkward cases properly: free trials that need a decision before they bill, annual plans, quarterly billing, custom cycles, paused subscriptions, and subscriptions in other currencies. ONE APP, THREE PLATFORMS Buy it once and it's yours on iPhone, iPad and Mac. The Mac app is a real Mac app, not a stretched phone screen — with a menu-bar extra, a proper sidebar, and full keyboard support. FREE FOREVER - Up to 5 subscriptions - Prices in any currency, with the equivalent in yours shown alongside - Renewal reminders so nothing bills you by surprise - Home Screen widgets — monthly spend and upcoming renewals - Siri and Shortcuts, plus Spotlight search - CSV and JSON export, import and full backup That last one matters: export, import and backup are never paid features. Your data is yours, and you can take it out whenever you like. That will never sit behind a paywall. PRO — ONE PAYMENT, YOURS FOREVER - The full insights engine — charts, category and payment breakdowns, and smart cards that tell you what changed - Price-rise tracking and realized savings from what you've cancelled - A renewal calendar, in-app and exported to your own calendar - Multi-stage reminders and per-category defaults - Per-account analytics — see what each card actually costs you - Multi-currency analytics — mixed-currency totals, charts and breakdowns converted and combined - Themes and alternate app icons PRIVACY, PLAINLY Subception collects nothing. There is no analytics SDK, no advertising, no third-party framework and no server of ours anywhere. The only thing the app ever fetches is the European Central Bank's public exchange-rate feed, anonymously and without a key, so multi-currency figures stay current. iCloud sync is private to you — device to device through your own account. We never see it. Made by NetSmiths in the UK.

Screenshots

Subscription & Bills4 screens
Subception3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Subscription & Bills at 15.0 against Subception's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Subscription & Bills sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Subception sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Subscription & Bills ships an update every 5 days, Subception every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Subscription & Bills versus Subception: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubscription & BillsSubception
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (192 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings192 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMohit NandwaniNetSmiths Ltd

Bugs and requests

Subscription & Bills

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Data loss after app updates
  • Calculation errors in expense tracking
  • Incompatibility with latest macOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to manually mark subscriptions as 'skipped'
  • Custom calendar view to see subscriptions by pay period
  • Ability to add custom app icons
  • Improved subscription management (pause, archive, etc.)
  • Export/report functionality

Subception

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Subscription & Bills

One-time6
  • Buy me a Coffee!$0.99
  • Buy me Lunch!$2.99
  • Buy me Pizza!$4.99
Show 3 more
  • Subtrack Movie Ticket Tip$6.99
  • Subtrack Pro$8.99
  • Subtrack Pro (For Family)$14.99
1 purchases

Subception

One-time1
  • Subception Founder$19.99

Questions

Is Subscription & Bills free?
Subscription & Bills is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Subception free?
Subception is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Subscription & Bills or Subception have ads?
Neither Subscription & Bills nor Subception shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Subscription & Bills or Subception?
Subscription & Bills ships an update every 5 days, and Subception every 3 days. Most recently, Subscription & Bills was updated on October 22, 2026 and Subception on October 17, 2026.

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