Comparison

SubManager vs Winnowed

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

Head to head
About

SubManager

Effortlessly manage all your recurring payments in one secure location. Get timely reminders to avoid unexpected charges and stay in control of your spending. Offers advanced features for deeper financial insights.

Highlights
  • Unlimited subscription tracking
  • Renewal reminders
  • Spending insights
  • Currency conversion
  • iCloud sync
  • Widgets
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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Stop wasting money on subscriptions. Featured in 9to5Mac’s Indie App Spotlight Track all your subscriptions in one place with SubManager — a simple, private, and powerful way to stay on top of your recurring payments. - Know exactly what you’re paying every month - Avoid unexpected charges and forgotten renewals - Stay in control of all your subscriptions in one place - No ads or accounts required - Private by design — your data syncs securely with iCloud - Access your data across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and the web via iCloud Key features: - Unlimited subscription tracking - Renewal reminders (up to 90 days in advance) - Spending insights - Currency conversion for international subscriptions - iCloud sync across all your devices - Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets - Apple Watch support - Siri Shortcuts - Web app for viewing your data anywhere - No ads Unlock advanced features with a one-time purchase by upgrading to SubManager+: - Import subscriptions from documents with Apple Intelligence - Calendar view - Free trial tracking - Categories & payment methods - Price history tracking - Search App Store icons - Advanced insights - Archive expired subscriptions - Expiry notifications - Store lifetime subscriptions - App lock - Export to CSV, PDF or JSON and import from JSON - Change the app icon on your iPhone or iPad to your local currency Feedback is always welcome. You can send your feedback by going to Settings -> Send Feedback Follow SubManager on social media: X @SubManagerApp Bluesky @submanager.app Mastodon @submanager@indieapps.space Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Winnowed

This app helps you manage your subscriptions by prompting you quarterly to assess their usage. It visualizes long-term costs and allows you to easily keep, pause, or cut services. Features include on-device receipt scanning and Siri integration.

Highlights
  • Quarterly subscription review ritual
  • Long-term cost visualization
  • On-device receipt scanning
  • Siri integration and Shortcuts
  • Family Sharing
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Home screen widget
Features
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Winnowed is a subscription tracker built on one observation: the problem is not that you forgot what you signed up for. The problem is that nothing ever asks whether you still want it. Winnowed asks. Every quarter it walks you through your subscriptions one at a time, and before you can decide anything it makes you answer a single question: how often do you actually use this? Then you keep it, pause it, or cut it. The whole ritual takes about five minutes. YOUR STACK Subscriptions grouped by what they cost over five years, not what they cost this month. A $15 monthly service is $900 by the time you are finished with it. Winnowed leads with that number and colors it: sage for the small ones, burgundy for the ones worth a hard look. THE QUARTERLY RITUAL One card per subscription, gentlest first. Each shows the monthly cost, the annual cost, and the five-year projection, plus whether the price has risen and how many times in a row you have kept it. Swipe right to keep, left to cut, down to pause. Add a note to say why, so next quarter you remember. Change your mind and undo. ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO On iPad, and unfolded on iPhone Duo, your Stack sits beside the subscription you are looking at: its five-year cost, price history, and review notes, right next to the list. With a keyboard, Command-N adds a subscription, Command-R starts a review, and Command-F searches. ASK SIRI Ask what you are spending this year, or what any one subscription costs you. Add a subscription or mark one reviewed without opening the app. Your Stack turns up in Spotlight, and every action works as a Shortcut. SCAN INSTEAD OF TYPING Pick a screenshot of a receipt, a bank statement, or your Apple Subscriptions list. On devices with Apple Intelligence, Winnowed reads it on device, turns statement codes into the names you know, and matches each charge to its own price. Devices without it use built in text recognition. Either way the reading happens on your device. FORWARD RECEIPTS A one-time unlock. Select the text of a subscription email in Mail and share it to Winnowed, and the same on-device reader fills in the name and price for you to confirm. Family Sharing included. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your Stack stays in sync through your own iCloud account, on iPhone and iPad. The widget keeps up with changes from your other devices, even when Winnowed is not open. HISTORY Every session you have completed, what you cut, what you kept, and what it came to. Plus a running record of price increases, because subscriptions rarely get cheaper. ALSO Home screen widget. Live Activity during a review. Snooze when the timing is wrong. Search and stage filters. PDF export. WHAT WINNOWED DOES NOT DO It does not connect to your bank. It does not cancel anything for you, because cancelling should be a thing you decide to do rather than a thing that happens. There is no account, no advertising, and no subscription to the subscription tracker.

Screenshots

SubManager4 screens
Winnowed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Winnowed at free against SubManager's free with in-app purchases. Winnowed also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). SubManager's advantage is ratings volume (70 vs 1) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. SubManager sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Winnowed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Winnowed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SubManager has 70 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SubManager ships an update every 8 days, Winnowed monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SubManager versus Winnowed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubManagerWinnowed
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (70 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews97.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings70 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAhnaf MahmudKurt Klein

Customer experience

SubManager

All ratings70 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.6%

Winnowed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SubManager

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Expiry date feature not working correctly, marking subscriptions as expired prematurely.
  • App incorrectly calculates the total amount of all subscriptions, showing a higher figure.
  • Expired option in the app does not function as expected, moving subscriptions to expired before the set expiry date.

Requested features

9 requests
  • Tags for organization
  • Pause option for subscriptions
  • Web search for icons
  • More icons for specific services/banks
  • Option to set subscription active duration and auto-expire
Show 4 more
  • Trend or budgeting report in insights
  • Display converted local currency in notifications
  • Custom icons
  • Automatic/manual payment setting with 'paid until' date

Winnowed

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SubManager

One-time3
  • SubManager+ Family Upgrade$7.99
  • SubManager+$9.99
  • SubManager+ Family$17.99
1 purchases

Winnowed

One-time1
  • Winnowed Forward Receipts$9.99

Questions

Is SubManager free?
SubManager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Winnowed free?
Winnowed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SubManager or Winnowed?
Winnowed is rated higher. SubManager averages 4.8 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while Winnowed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SubManager or Winnowed have ads?
Neither SubManager nor Winnowed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SubManager or Winnowed?
SubManager ships an update every 8 days, and Winnowed monthly. Most recently, SubManager was updated on November 12, 2026 and Winnowed on November 5, 2026.

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