Subscriptions vs SubVault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Subscriptions
Manage all your recurring payments in one place. Easily add, organize, and track subscriptions with customizable features and helpful reminders. Get insights into your spending with comprehensive analytics and sync data across all your Apple devices.
- Effortless subscription adding
- Organize by category, due date, tags
- Supports over 160 currencies
- Comprehensive analytics and charts
- Payment and expiration reminders
- iCloud sync across devices
- Ad-free experience
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Subscriptions is a native SwiftUI app that works seamlessly on iPhone, iPad, and macOS. It features a beautifully designed interface, adhering to Apple's design principles and offering rich customizable features. You can easily keep track of and manage your subscriptions with ease. Features: - Effortlessly adding subscriptions from a vast selection - Organize subscriptions using categories, due dates, tags, and payment accounts - Supports over 160 currencies with daily updated exchange rates - Comprehensive analytics with summarizing charts. - Stay informed with payment and expiration reminders notifications - Widget support for reminders of upcoming payments. - Dark mode for eye comfort - Real-time sync across devices with iCloud - Ad-free experience Pro version: - Multiple tags per subscription - Tracking spending by payment accounts - Face ID, Touch ID & passcode to unlock the app - Data backup & restore - Export to CSV - Easy to import app data via app link - Search app store apps from templates - Price history feature for managing free trials, interruptions, and price changes - Daily exchange rate updates - Long-term support - Help me to keep developing this project Free version: - Unlimited subscriptions - Unlimited categories - Free iCloud sync - Full analytics set - Etc Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SubVault
Effortlessly manage your recurring payments and stay on top of your expenses. This app helps you organize all your subscriptions, provides timely bill notifications, and offers a clear overview of your upcoming payments to help you save money.
- Simple subscription management
- Customizable subscription options
- Clear overview of expenses
- Timely bill notifications
- Financial management tool
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SubVault - Effortlessly manage your subscriptions and stay in control of your finances. - Simple subscription management: Easily add and organize your subscriptions with SubVault's intuitive interface. - Customized subscriptions: Choose from hundreds of existing subscriptions or create your own custom subscriptions to match your unique needs. - Clear overview of your subscriptions: Stay on top of your expenses with a comprehensive overview of all your subscriptions and upcoming bills. - Timely bill notifications: SubVault sends you notifications when a bill is due, ensuring you never miss a payment. Take charge of your subscriptions and streamline your financial management with SubVault.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SubVault at none against Subscriptions's 4. SubVault also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). Subscriptions's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (169 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Subscriptions sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. SubVault asks for nothing beyond the download.
SubVault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Subscriptions has 169 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Subscriptions's written reviews are positive against 100% of SubVault's.
Subscriptions ships an update every 4 weeks, SubVault weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Subscriptions | SubVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (169 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Touchbits Inc. | Haniman Ananthamoorthy |
Customer experience
Subscriptions
SubVault
Bugs and requests
Subscriptions
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes and freezes on some devices
- Syncing issues between iOS and macOS
- Unexpected data loss/reset
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar integration
- Ability to pause subscriptions
- Custom notification settings
- Multi-user/family sharing
- More language support (e.g., Portuguese, Arabic)
SubVault
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Subscriptions
- Yearly$2.991 Year
- Lifetime$8.99
- Lifetime - Family Sharing$12.99
- Lifetime - Family Sharing$19.99
SubVault
No in-app purchases
