Beancount vs CrabFi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beancount
This app helps you manage your finances by recording transactions in text files. It then generates financial statements like income statements and balance sheets to provide insights into your financial health.
- Record financial transactions
- Generate income statements
- Create balance sheets
- Visualize financial data
- Improve financial life
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Your ledger is a plain-text file. You own it for good. Beancount brings serious double-entry bookkeeping to your phone without locking your financial history inside a proprietary database. Record a purchase in seconds, inspect the underlying Beancount file, and keep a Git history of every change. FINANCIAL CLARITY • See net worth, assets, liabilities, income, and expenses • Compare spending across months, quarters, and years • Explore cash flow, profit trends, budgets, merchants, and account reports YOUR BOOKS, YOUR FORMAT • Keep real Beancount-syntax text files • Browse commits, authors, and line-by-line changes • Edit the ledger source directly and take your files with you BUILT FOR REAL BOOKS • Full double-entry transactions, splits, transfers, and reimbursements • Multiple ledgers, currencies, investments, crypto, and property • Receipt capture, payee and account suggestions, search, and filters Beancount is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.
CrabFi
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CrabFi is a companion app for managing your DeFi automation bots and monitor your wallets from 1 single place. Monitor your portfolio, track LP positions, monitor multiple wallets, manage hedge bots, subscribe to Trend AI signals and receive real-time push notifications — all from your phone. CrabFi never holds or has access to your funds. All operations and balances shown, are executed or retrieved through your own exchange API keys on your own accounts. Your keys are encrypted at rest and only used to manage bots on your behalf. Features: - Portfolio overview with real-time equity tracking - Monitor multiple wallets in 1 place - LP position monitoring with hedge bot status - Push notifications for price exiting your LP Position range - Grid, EMA Cross, and DCA bot management - Trend AI Signals - Push notifications for bot activity - QR code sign-in from your web dashboard - Face ID / biometric security CrabFi connects to your existing web dashboard — sign up at crabfi.com to get started.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Beancount at every 2 weeks against CrabFi's every 3 months. Beancount also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.3). 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.
Beancount ships an update every 2 weeks, CrabFi every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beancount | CrabFi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stargately, Inc. | Felipe Nava |
In-app purchases
Beancount
No in-app purchases
CrabFi
No in-app purchases









