Comparison

Budget App | Expense Tracker vs Ant

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

Head to head
About

Budget App | Expense Tracker

Manage your finances with ease. Track expenses, income, budgets, and payments. Get reminders for bills and subscriptions, and analyze your spending habits with advanced statistics. Supports multiple currencies and iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Expense and income tracking
  • Customizable budgets
  • Payment and subscription reminders
  • Advanced spending statistics
  • Multi-currency support
  • iCloud synchronization
  • CSV export
Features
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All the necessary features to manage your expenses, income, budgets, payments, and subscriptions in a single app. KEY FEATURES: · Easy expense and income tracking. · Budgets (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, advanced). · Payment or subscription reminders. · Customizable categories. · Advanced statistics to understand your spending habits. · Grouping of expenses and income by accounts (debit, credit, or cash). · Support for currencies from around the world. · Export to CSV files. · iCloud synchronization across multiple devices. · Trash bin. · Widgets for: budgets, savings, income and expenses. · No registration or login required. · Simple, intuitive, and easy-to-understand design. · Support for large text size. Download now and take control of your finances. Privacy Policy: https://kaptaz.com/monesya/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Website: https://kaptaz.com/monesya/

About

Ant

Features
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Ant is your expense tracker and money notebook, on your own, as a couple or with family: log an expense in seconds, see how much you can spend today, and close each month knowing what you saved. No accounts, no sign-ups and no ads. Your data lives on your iPhone and in your iCloud. — TYPE YOUR EXPENSE — Type "tacos 145" or "uber yesterday 80" and Ant fills in the amount, category, type and date. With Apple Intelligence, it understands even more. — AVAILABLE TODAY — Log your income and your savings goal, and Ant tells you how much you can spend today and stay on track for the month. Go over, and tomorrow adjusts on its own. — AS A COUPLE OR A FAMILY — Keep the household budget with your partner or family, or split a trip with friends. Each space is a card: tap to switch. Invite with a link, no one needs to create an account. — THREE STYLES — Pick the style of the whole app for each space: Classic (the app you know, with Liquid Glass), Diary (torn paper, washi tape and dried flowers) or Terminal (green on black). — YOUR NOTEBOOK — In Diary and Terminal, one page per day with your expenses on lines, the day's total and a note about how it went. — ESSENTIAL OR TREAT — Mark each expense as Essential, Treat, Growth or Unexpected, and see how much went to treats without guessing. — MONTH CLOSE — Four questions to close the month: how much you had, how much you wanted to save, how much you spent and how you can do better. Then seal it and share your month as an image, without amounts. — RECEIPT PHOTO — Keep a photo of the receipt with the expense. Ant reads the total for you. — BUDGETS AND ANALYSIS — Set a monthly or per-category budget and get a heads-up as you get close. See spending by category, by kind and the trend over recent months. — WIDGETS AND APPLE WATCH — Your available-today amount on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and your wrist. Log an expense from the Watch without taking out your phone. ANT PREMIUM (one-time purchase, forever) Type your expenses and Ant fills them in, receipt total reading, unlimited categories, recurring expenses (rent, subscriptions), PDF and CSV export, and app icons. Try it free before buying. One payment, no subscription. Start free today.

Screenshots

Budget App | Expense Tracker4 screens
Ant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ant at none against Budget App | Expense Tracker's shown. Ant also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Budget App | Expense Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Budget App | Expense Tracker sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Ant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Budget App | Expense Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Ant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Budget App | Expense Tracker versus Ant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBudget App | Expense TrackerAnt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB9 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperKAPTAZ SpASamuel Rangel

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Budget App | Expense Tracker

Subscriptions7
  • Basic monthly$0.991 Month
  • Premium monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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  • Premium yearly3 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Premium monthly$6.991 Month
  • Premium yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Exclusive annual access7 Days trial$99.991 Year
1 purchases

Ant

One-time1
  • Ant Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Budget App | Expense Tracker free?
Budget App | Expense Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ant free?
Ant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Budget App | Expense Tracker or Ant have ads?
Budget App | Expense Tracker shows ads; Ant does not.
Which is updated more often, Budget App | Expense Tracker or Ant?
Budget App | Expense Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and Ant every 4 days. Most recently, Budget App | Expense Tracker was updated on October 8, 2026 and Ant on October 13, 2026.

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