Comparison

Citizens Pay vs SaveSpend3

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

Head to head
About

Citizens Pay

Manage your Citizens Pay accounts securely and conveniently from your mobile device. Access statements, schedule payments, and set up automatic payments. Stay informed about your account balance and transaction history.

Highlights
  • 24/7 secure account access
  • Paperless PDF statements
  • Schedule one-time payments
  • Set up Auto Pay
  • View account balance
  • Track transaction history
Features
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Ready to manage your Citizens Pay accounts – anytime, anywhere – from the convenience of your mobile device! Enjoy all of these benefits: - 24/7 secure access to your Citizens Pay accounts in one place. - Go paperless with immediate access to your PDF statements. - Schedule a seamless one-time payment at any time, day or night. - Turn on Auto Pay to pay your monthly installment automatically from your bank account. - Stay on top of your account balance, transaction history, and purchase balance at any time.

About

SaveSpend3

Features
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Helpful to plan and budget your money, SaveSpend3 calculates Savings, or Social Security Accumulation vs filing age, or Spending over time. Earnings/interest, inflation, and taxes are included in the calculations as appropriate. Monte Carlo random variation can optionally be applied to earnings/interest and/or inflation and averaged over multiple runs. Results can be viewed in a table or as a chart. Separate tabs are provided to calculate Save, SSAccumulate, and Spend. Save can easily calculate the growth effects of compound interest rates and yearly taxes and on your regular monthly savings. Compounding frequencies of daily, monthly, quarterly, semiannually, or annually can be selected in the Settings. SSAccumulate similarly calculates compound growth but also takes into account inflation COLA adjustments to the SS amounts. The default 3 filing ages of 62, 66, and 70 can be adjusted by the user in the Settings. Spend will calculate the remaining balance year after year given an initial principal amount and initial withdrawal amount per year. You can budget how long your money will last given its earnings rate per year and the inflation rate per year. This is minimalist by design with no ads, no in-app purchases, no pro buy-up version, no data collection or profiling, no bells and whistles, and no fancy moving graphics to distract you, just numbers. Note: Financial entertainment value only, fun playing with numbers. This uses simple yearly compounding, assumes constant interest, earnings, inflation, and taxes, and should NOT be used for accurate predictions.

Screenshots

Citizens Pay3 screens
SaveSpend34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SaveSpend3 at every 9 days against Citizens Pay's every 6 weeks. Citizens Pay's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Citizens Pay ships an update every 6 weeks, SaveSpend3 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Citizens Pay versus SaveSpend3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCitizens PaySaveSpend3
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCitizens Bank, N.A.29Apps LLC

Bugs and requests

Citizens Pay

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login screen freezes or shows errors
  • App not compatible with latest iOS versions
  • Blank screens and server errors
  • Can't make more than minimum payment with auto-pay

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Face ID or biometric login
  • Allow pasting passwords
  • Show payment details after making a payment
  • Improve app stability and performance

SaveSpend3

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Citizens Pay

No in-app purchases

None

SaveSpend3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Citizens Pay free?
Citizens Pay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SaveSpend3 free?
SaveSpend3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Citizens Pay or SaveSpend3 have ads?
Neither Citizens Pay nor SaveSpend3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Citizens Pay or SaveSpend3?
Citizens Pay ships an update every 6 weeks, and SaveSpend3 every 9 days. Most recently, Citizens Pay was updated on October 20, 2026 and SaveSpend3 on October 14, 2026.

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