Dime vs Counted
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dime
This app helps you monitor your spending and manage your finances effectively. It offers insightful breakdowns of your expenditures, allows you to create and stick to budgets, and provides custom reminders to log expenses. Secure your financial data with biometric authentication and enjoy a beautifully designed interface.
- 100% free forever
- Insightful expenditure breakdowns
- Budget creation and tracking
- Recurring expense management
- iCloud sync across devices
- Custom expense input reminders
- Biometric data protection
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Why You’ll Love Dime: • 100% free forever, with no paywall or ads. • Beautifully iOS-centric design, with simplicity at its core. • Insightful expenditure breakdowns over various time periods. • Create budgets based on expense categories and stick to them. • Create recurring expenses with custom time frames. • Sync your expenses, categories and budgets with other devices via iCloud. • Custom reminders to input your expenses. • Biometric authentication to protect your data. • Home screen quick actions make capturing new expenses a breeze. • A gorgeous night theme for dark mode fanatics. • Informative home and lock screen widgets keep you updated at a glance. Dime was built by a solo student developer looking to kickstart his programming journey. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to get in touch through the app or via Instagram @camerafael. Start monitoring your expenditure and take ownership over your finances with Dime.
Counted
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Counted is the expense-splitting app for friends: 100% European, private by design, with an environmental mission. Holiday, flat share, weekend, group gift: log your expenses and Counted tells you who owes how much to whom, in the fewest transfers. No account needed Create a project, send the link. That is it. Your friends join and take part without signing up. An account? Never required. It is for finding your projects on another device, inviting friends from the app and sharing your payment details. Encrypted on your phone Names, amounts, projects, history: everything is encrypted on your phone. Only you hold the key. Nobody can read your books, not even us. Your password, too, never leaves your phone. Receipt scanning, on your phone Take a photo of the receipt: amount, date and category fill in on their own. Everything happens on your phone. The photo is not kept. 100% European Servers in Germany, emails sent from France. Your projects never leave the European Union. Free, really No ads, no trackers, no subscription, no paid version, no cap on expenses or participants. We collect nothing, we do not sell your data. That is not our model. Everything for shared expenses • Expenses, transfers and gains, with several payers and several beneficiaries • Split equally, by shares or by exact amount, checked to the cent • The fewest transfers to settle the group • Recurring expenses like rent or subscriptions: entered once, added every time they fall due • Over 150 currencies, converted at the European Commission's monthly rate • Statistics by category, by person and month by month • History of who added, edited or deleted what • Search by name, note or category, run on your device • With an account, a personal “My expenses” project: what you spend alone plus your share of your groups, month by month • Move an expense from one project to another • Monthly budgets per category on your real share, with an 80 % warning worked out on your device • Offline: browse and enter with no network • CSV and JSON export in one tap • Payment details (IBAN, PayPal, Wero, Lydia, Revolut…) encrypted like everything else • Tricount import: paste the share link, everything comes across • On iPhone and on the web: the same project everywhere, with the same link • 32 languages, including all 24 official EU languages A mission Counted is built to be efficient and simple: no ads, no trackers. The maths runs on your device. We commit to giving a share of our revenue to environmental causes. How does it actually work? counted.fr/en/privacy Verify the code you run yourself: counted.fr/en/verify
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Counted at none against Dime's 3. Counted also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Dime sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Counted asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dime ships an update every 3 weeks, Counted weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dime | Counted |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (318 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 318 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rafael Soh | Bosi Jonathan |
Bugs and requests
Dime
Reported bugs
3 issues- Entries randomly disappearing
- Crashes and freezes on certain devices
- Widget not working as expected
Requested features
6 requests- Add income tracking
- Implement biweekly budget option
- Allow more category customization
- Integrate with external accounts (e.g., bank, credit cards)
- Implement receipt/check scanning with AI categorization
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- Add ability to create multiple accounts
Counted
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dime
- Small Tip$2.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$7.99
Counted
No in-app purchases









