Comparison

Help Me Save vs BuyBye

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

Head to head
About

Help Me Save

This app helps children learn about saving money and achieving financial goals. Kids can set savings targets, track weekly contributions, and see how long it will take to reach their goals.

Highlights
  • Set savings goals
  • Track weekly contributions
  • Calculate time to reach goals
  • Interactive learning
  • Customizable target measurement (days, weeks, months)
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Help Me Save is designed to help children learn about saving and the rewards of reaching their financial goals. With our app, kids can set a money goal and determine how much they want to contribute towards it on a weekly basis. Our calculator will then show them how many days it will take to reach their goal based on their weekly contributions. For example, if a child's goal is £10 and they contribute £5 per week, it will take 14 days to reach their goal. This app is a fun and interactive way for kids to learn about budgeting and the importance of saving. Help Me Save allows you to set your preferences such as how you want to measure your savings target (days, weeks or months) and what the saving target is. Each day, week or month you then update the app to show what you've actually saved compared to your target - the app will then recalculate the time it will take to achieve your savings goal.

About

BuyBye

This app helps you curb impulse spending by showing the real cost of purchases in terms of work hours. It offers features to pause buying decisions and block shopping apps, encouraging intentional spending and savings tracking.

Highlights
  • Visualize purchase cost in work hours
  • Cooldown period for impulse buys
  • Block shopping apps
  • Savings tracking
  • 100 Envelope Savings Challenge
  • Milestone rewards
Features
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Budgeting is better with your pig. Meet Penny, your money buddy in BuyBye. She earns rewards when you make better money choices, helping budgeting feel more fun, motivating, and a little less overwhelming. BuyBye is the budgeting app that shows you the real cost of your spending. Not just in dollars, but in hours of your life. Most budgeting apps track your money. BuyBye helps you decide how to use it. Use BuyBye to: -Set a monthly budget and see what’s left to spend -Track income, expenses, savings, bills, and no-buy days -Use the Worth It? Analyzer to see what purchases cost in work time -See what your money could become if you invested it instead -Pause impulse buys with Cooldown -Temporarily block shopping apps with Shop Block using Apple’s built-in controls -Create savings goals for travel, an emergency fund, or anything else -Try the 100 Envelope Savings Challenge -Earn rewards with Penny as you build better money habits Subscription Information: Some features in BuyBye require an active subscription. This includes adding income and savings to your BuyBye budget. Subscription terms and pricing are available in the app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Help Me Save4 screens
BuyBye4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Help Me Save at none against BuyBye's 10. Help Me Save also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). BuyBye's advantage is ratings volume (1.8K vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BuyBye sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Help Me Save asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Help Me Save holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BuyBye has 1.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Help Me Save ships an update every 2 weeks, BuyBye fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Help Me Save versus BuyBye: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelp Me SaveBuyBye
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.5 (1.8K ratings)
Positive reviews—10.7% of reviews
Number of ratings11.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhil TrevorBuyBye Inc.

Customer experience

Help Me Save

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

BuyBye

All ratings1,724 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews215 reviews
Positive10.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative86.5%

Bugs and requests

Help Me Save

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

BuyBye

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Too many pop-ups

In-app purchases

None

Help Me Save

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

BuyBye

Subscriptions9
  • BuyBye Weekly Plan$3.997 Days
  • BuyBye Monthly Plan3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • BuyBye Quarterly Plan$9.993 Months
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  • BuyBye Yearly Winback7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$23.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$26.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • BuyBye Yearly Plan3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • BuyBye Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Help Me Save free?
Help Me Save is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BuyBye free?
BuyBye is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Help Me Save or BuyBye?
Help Me Save is rated higher. Help Me Save averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while BuyBye averages 4.5 from 1.8K ratings.
Do Help Me Save or BuyBye have ads?
BuyBye shows ads; Help Me Save does not.
Which is updated more often, Help Me Save or BuyBye?
Help Me Save ships an update every 2 weeks, and BuyBye fortnightly. Most recently, Help Me Save was updated on November 3, 2026 and BuyBye on November 5, 2026.

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