Comparison

Fleur vs Basis

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fleur

This app helps you manage your finances with a simple and elegant interface. Easily track daily expenses and income, set monthly budgets, and monitor your spending habits. It offers features like transaction history, repeating transactions, and category management.

Highlights
  • Log expenses and income
  • Set monthly budgets
  • Track spending habits
  • View transaction history
  • Add repeating transactions
  • Create new categories
  • iCloud sync
Features
Currently charting
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Fleur is a cute, aesthetic, and simple budget planner and expense tracker. Easily record your daily expenses and income, set a monthly budget, create multiple accounts, and track your savings and debt. Fleur is an all in one app designed to help you manage your money with ease. Key Features: - Minimal, elegant, and aesthetically pleasing design - Manage your budget together with your partner - Easily record expenses and income - Track your paychecks, savings, and debt - Set a monthly budget - Create budgets for individual categories - View insights and better understand your spending habits - Plan your budget daily, weekly, every two weeks, or monthly - View your transaction history in a calendar - Add recurring transactions - Create custom categories - Easily search and filter transactions - Sync with iCloud Read our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy here: http://fleur.app/privacy_terms We’re always here for you! - If you experience any issues or have questions, please feel free to email us. We hope you enjoy using Fleur as much as we do! :)

About

Basis

This app helps you save money by prioritizing savings before budgeting. It allows you to define spending categories, make conscious decisions about overspending, and track your savings growth over time. It offers quick expense logging and receipt scanning for a streamlined financial management experience.

Highlights
  • Save first budgeting method
  • Customizable spending categories
  • Deliberate period closing
  • On-device receipt scanning
  • Home-screen widgets
  • Complete privacy (no cloud/account)
Features
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Basis is a budgeting app built on one old rule: pay yourself first. Most apps track what you spend and call whatever's left at the end of the month "savings". For most people, that number is zero. Basis flips the order: on payday, your saving rate comes off the top — like a bill. What's left is what you budget, across categories you define. Then, at the end of the period, nothing settles silently. You close the month yourself: every overspent category gets an explicit decision, cover it from savings, or carry it and start next month tighter. Leftovers sweep into savings with one tap. Basis doesn't just track saving. It causes it. THE METHOD • Save first: your saving rate is set aside on payday, before any budgeting happens • Budget the rest across your own categories: rent, groceries, whatever fits your life • Close each period deliberately: settle overspends, sweep the surplus MEASURED AGAINST YOU, NOT A RULEBOOK • Every category charts this period against your own usual pace — "13% under your usual at day 13" • Average per day, projection to period end, and your past periods as bars: drift is visible before it becomes a problem • The capital chart draws the money you've kept across every payday, from your first period to today FAST TO LIVE WITH • Log an expense in two taps with the custom keypad • Or scan the receipt: the text is read on-device and the photo never leaves your phone • Recurring expenses post themselves • Home-screen widgets for quick logging and an at-a-glance balance AND IT'S COMPLETELY PRIVATE No bank link, no account, no cloud. Basis runs entirely on your phone. FREE FOREVER No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases, no premium tier. Basis has no running costs, so it has no price. That's the whole deal.

Screenshots

Fleur4 screens
Basis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basis at none against Fleur's 6. Fleur's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 1) and chart position (#49 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fleur sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Basis asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Basis holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fleur has 13K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Fleur's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basis's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fleur ships an update weekly, Basis every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Fleur versus Basis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFleurBasis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (13K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#49 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkash JainSilvia Stocchi

Customer experience

Fleur

All ratings13,116 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews2,054 reviews
Positive93.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative5.0%

Basis

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Fleur

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Incorrect calculations when updating account balances

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add ability to set spending limits per category
  • Implement more flexible date range options (e.g., fortnightly, custom date ranges)
  • Include password/biometric lock for added security
  • Allow deleting/editing of past transactions
  • Provide option to upload transactions via CSV/spreadsheet
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  • Incorporate multi-currency support

Basis

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Fleur

Subscriptions3
  • Fleur Budget Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Fleur Budget Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Fleur Budget Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Fleur Lifetime$9.99
  • Fleur Budget Lifetime$15.99
  • Fleur Lifetime$25.99
None

Basis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fleur free?
Fleur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Basis free?
Basis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fleur or Basis?
Basis is rated higher. Fleur averages 4.8 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Basis averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fleur or Basis have ads?
Neither Fleur nor Basis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fleur or Basis?
Fleur ships an update weekly, and Basis every 2 weeks. Most recently, Fleur was updated on November 5, 2026 and Basis on October 31, 2026.

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