Custom Counter vs PocketActual
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Counter
Quickly tally or count anything with a simple tap. Track goals, habits, events, or inventory with customizable increments and a history of your tallies. Share your counts easily.
- Tap to count or tally
- Customizable increments
- Count history
- Share counts
- Customizable display
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The Custom Counter app lets you quickly tally or count anything with a simple tap on the count pad. Perfect for tracking goals, habits, events, inventory, and more. Features: Count or tally by 1, by 2, or decrease by 1 View a history of all counts — save or delete anytime Share your counts via text or notes Customize the display to fit your style Count anything, anywhere — fast, simple, and personalized.
PocketActual
Manage your finances on the go with this mobile companion for your self-hosted budget server. Browse accounts, check balances, review transactions, and track your monthly budget from anywhere. Add new transactions directly from your phone.
- View accounts and balances
- Browse and search transactions
- Track envelope budget by category
- Navigate between months
- Add new transactions
- Sync with server
- Supports light and dark mode
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PocketActual is a native mobile app for your self-hosted Actual Budget server. If you already run Actual Budget to manage your finances, PocketActual puts your budget in your pocket — browse accounts, check balances, review transactions, and track your monthly budget from anywhere. FEATURES • View all your accounts and balances at a glance • Browse and search transactions across any account • See your envelope budget by category, with spent and remaining amounts • Navigate between months to review past spending • Add new transactions directly from your phone • Pull to refresh or tap to sync with your server at any time • Supports light and dark mode • Respects your currency setting from Actual REQUIREMENTS PocketActual requires a running Actual Budget server. It is not a standalone app — it connects to your own self-hosted instance over your local network or the internet. Actual Budget is free and open source. Learn more at actualbudget.org.
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Verdict
Custom Counter and PocketActual are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 Custom Counter against 5.0 for PocketActual. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Counter | PocketActual |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deep Blue Development LLC | Preeti Sanmukhani |
In-app purchases
Custom Counter
No in-app purchases
PocketActual
No in-app purchases
