CompBuddy vs Tax Compare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CompBuddy
This app helps you monitor your current total compensation and analyze job offers. You can model salary and stock growth, track historical earnings, and project future compensation packages up to eight years out. It requires no registration and is completely free to use.
- Track current total compensation
- Analyze and compare job offers
- Model salary and stock growth
- Project compensation up to 8 years
- No registration required
- No ads or subscriptions
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CompBuddy is a free to use app that helps people monitor their current total compensation as well as track, analyze, and compare job offers. No registration is required, and there are no ads or subscriptions. This app can be used in multiple ways: -As a current employee, you can use it to track how much you currently make at your job. You can model salary and stock growth and see what total compensation looks like over time. You can even make a new package each year to keep historical data on how much you have made. -If you're looking for a job, you can use this app to keep tabs on the different companies you are interviewing with. You can add notes on important deadlines, as well as begin to fill in compensation information as you get offers in hand with numbers. Then you can project these numbers out up to 8 years to see what the full package picture looks like over time, again adding in factors such as estimated salary and stock growth. -Just have fun with it! Play with the numbers and see what breakdown of salary/bonus/stock/other factors gets you to the numbers you want.
Tax Compare
Compare U.S. federal and state tax scenarios across different years, states, incomes, or deductions. Understand how presidential administrations impacted taxes and see potential changes by relocating. Detailed calculations are accessible with a tap.
- Compare tax scenarios
- Analyze year-over-year changes
- Compare state tax differences
- View impact of presidential administrations
- Access detailed calculations
- No personal data collected
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Easily compare U.S. federal and state taxes between years, states, incomes, or deductions with just a few taps. See how taxes were impacted by presidential administrations. Quickly check how your taxes would change if you lived in a different state. Tap on the numbers to see the detailed calculations. NO PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED. None of the data you enter in the app ever leaves your iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: CompBuddy at 66 against Tax Compare's 1. CompBuddy also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 CompBuddy against 5.0 for Tax Compare. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CompBuddy has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CompBuddy ships an update every 9 months, Tax Compare every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CompBuddy | Tax Compare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (66 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hemant Bhonsle | Jon Barry |
Customer experience
CompBuddy
Tax Compare
In-app purchases
CompBuddy
No in-app purchases
Tax Compare
No in-app purchases
