Budget App vs Cutty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Budget App
Manage your monthly budget and track expenses with this intuitive app. Gain direct control over logged spending, set financial plans, and visualize your expenditures with charts to save money.
- Set monthly budgets
- Log expenses by category
- Visualize spending with pie charts
- Real-time remaining balance
- Editable and categorized expenses
- One-time purchase for premium
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Budget App is the simple, powerful way to budget, track your spending, and finally see where your money goes, no bank logins, no spreadsheets, no learning curve. Set a monthly budget and watch it update in real time as you spend. Log an expense in seconds, scan a receipt to capture it instantly, and organize everything with built-in or fully custom categories. FEATURES - Quick expense logging: add spending in just a couple of taps - Receipt scanning: snap a photo and capture the amount automatically - Custom categories: create your own with a name, icon, and color - Income tracking: log salary, freelance, and more to see your true cash flow - Monthly budgets: set a budget and see what's left at a glance - Recurring bills: schedule rent, subscriptions, and bills to log automatically, and skip any month you choose - Spending calendar: a color-coded heatmap of your daily spending - Savings goals: set goals and watch your progress grow - Insights & trends: clear charts and monthly comparisons that actually help - Category breakdown: see exactly what's eating your budget with pie charts - Multi-year history: review any month, any year, without confusion - iCloud sync: your budget stays up to date on all your devices - Face ID & Touch ID lock: keep your finances private - Home Screen widgets: check your budget without opening the app - Search & export: find any transaction and export your data anytime Whether you're paying off debt, building savings, or just tired of wondering where your paycheck went, Budget App gives you a clear, honest picture of your money, and makes it easy to keep it that way. Download Budget App and take control of your spending today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://sites.google.com/view/budgetapptermsandconditions/home
Cutty
Easily manage all your expenses by category, from utility bills to subscriptions. Monitor your spending weekly, monthly, and yearly with detailed analytics to understand where your money goes. Your financial data is securely stored only on your device.
- Expense tracking by category
- Weekly, monthly, yearly spending analytics
- Add, edit, and organize bills
- Secure on-device data storage
- Subscription management
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Cutty is a calm subscription manager for people whose recurring charges have quietly taken over the card statement. It runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac, and the goal is small - find what you are paying for, see when the next charge lands, and decide what is worth keeping. The home screen opens on a calendar heatmap of the next twelve months, so the heaviest months and the surprise yearly bills are visible at a glance. Tap any month to see which subscriptions land there, which days, how much, in your own currency. A cozy little cat mascot keeps watch while you tidy things up - because nothing about money admin needs to feel like a spreadsheet. Adding a subscription is one tap, picking a color and a cycle takes a few seconds, and the next renewal date sits right there on the row. Cutty also brings on-device Apple Intelligence into the picture. Hand the app a PDF receipt, a screenshot of an email, or pasted text - and it pulls subscription names, prices, and cycles out of the noise. Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no analytics linked to you, no cloud sync unless you decide to turn on iCloud yourself. Deeper tools are part of an optional Premium upgrade - the AI import flow, additional spending charts, plain-English notes about the months ahead, quick links to cancel a service, monthly budget alerts, CSV export, and a lock screen widget. Basics including the calendar, manual entry, renewal reminders, and your full subscription list stay free with no time limit. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTDX9pxPOlUJl_skVUHPi99mAw0y2B2BYd_v1mJkoF3xW3rlOcW5KlYd4t93MMbbGhctSTnBTy7d_l6/pub Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cutty at 100% against Budget App's 51%. Cutty also leads on ads (none vs shown). Budget App's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Budget App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Cutty sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Budget App ships an update every 6 weeks, Cutty every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Budget App | Cutty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (637 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 51.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 637 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WALABOK LLC | Andrii Bashta |
Customer experience
Budget App
Cutty
Bugs and requests
Budget App
Reported bugs
9 issues- White screen display issue on app launch
- Expenses not saving properly
- Duplicate expense entries appearing
- Expenses and labels getting mixed up/swapped
- App force closing during deletion
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- Deletion not working reliably
- Calculation errors with small transaction counts
- App crashes and freezes
- Data not persisting after edits
Requested features
14 requests- Percentage display on pie chart categories
- Custom expense category creation
- Edit and delete expense functionality
- Percentage labels for spending categories
- Custom labels and personalized expense names
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- Health category addition
- Face ID app locking
- Monthly recurring expense templates
- Expense notes and descriptions
- Calendar view showing daily expenses
- Ad-free premium option
- Sorting expenses in diagrams
- Multiple monthly budgets
- Bank account integration
Cutty
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Budget App
- Budgetize Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Budgetize Premium Yearly3 Days trial$16.991 Year
- Premium Version$19.99
Cutty
- Unlock Premium features$9.99
Questions
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