Help Me Save vs BuyBye
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- Visualize purchase cost in work hours
- Cooldown period for impulse buys
- Block shopping apps
- Savings tracking
- 100 Envelope Savings Challenge
- Milestone rewards
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Help Me Save | BuyBye |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 10.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phil Trevor | BuyBye Inc. |
Customer experience
Help Me Save
BuyBye
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
Help Me Save
No in-app purchases
BuyBye
- 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
- BuyBye Lifetime$29.99









