Comparison

Stack vs Trimtab

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

Head to head
About

Stack

Easily track and manage personal finances by categorizing credit and debt across multiple devices. Create separate spaces for different financial situations, share summaries, and use the built-in calculator for complex calculations.

Highlights
  • Categorize credit and debt
  • Create multiple financial spaces
  • Share debt summaries
  • Integrated value calculator
  • Split expenses easily
  • App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
  • Apple Watch app for on-the-go management
Features
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Stack is the fastest debt management app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. It enables you to categorize money you are owed and money you owe, and conveniently track and manage your finances across multiple devices. Stack offers the following features: • Spaces: Create multiple Spaces to categorize your debt. For example, you can create a Space for each friend who owes you money. • Add Entries: Add an entry to a Space with one tap. Give each entry a name, quantity, and value. Use a positive value for money you are owed and a negative value for money you owe. Entries in Spaces can be sorted by date, value, or name. • Remove Debt: Removing debt is also straightforward. Tap on the circle on the left side of a debt entry to remove it. If you accidentally removed an entry, you can restore it later, similar to the Reminders app. • Share Debt: You can choose to share the debt of a Space, which generates a list of all debt and the total sum. You can choose if you want to include entries previously marked as complete, and you can choose to include the date of the entry. The date can also be edited. • Value Calculator: You can use the integrated calculator to perform complex calculations and then transfer them directly to the value field. • Split Sum: With this feature, sharing expenses is easy. Just choose the number of parts you want to split a Space's total into, and Stack will automatically calculate the amount of each part. • App Lock: Stack offers Face ID or Touch ID to lock the app, ensuring that only you can access it. • Apple Watch App: You can view, edit, and add new entries on your Apple Watch. No connection to your iPhone is required. • iCloud Sync: All your data is synced between your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. • Privacy: Your data is stored only on your device and in iCloud. The app does not collect any user data, and the developer has no access to it. • Text Field Sizes: You can adjust the name field and the value field sizes to your preference.

About

Trimtab

Features
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Trimtab keeps track of money that several people spend together — a sailing week with friends, a shared flat, or a boat or aircraft owned in partnership. Log who paid what. Trimtab works out who owes whom, and the shortest set of payments that settles everyone up. EQUAL — OR BY OWNERSHIP SHARE Split a restaurant bill evenly between the people who were there. Or divide a berth fee, an insurance premium or an annual inspection by ownership: a 50% owner pays half, a 12.5% owner pays an eighth. Shares are renormalised inside each expense, so a cost carried by only two of four co-owners still lands in the right proportion. EXACT TO THE CENT Every division is calculated in whole cents, leftover remainders included. Balances always add up to exactly zero — no drifting rounding errors, no cent that belongs to nobody. HISTORY THAT STAYS TRUE Each expense remembers the people and the shares it was created with. Adding someone to the group next month never rewrites what already happened. SHARED LISTS Send a link to the people you travel or co-own with. They open the same list on their phone, and every expense anyone adds shows up for everyone else. No account needed on either side — the link is the invitation. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No sign-up, no advertising, no tracking, no analytics. A group stays on your device unless you choose to share it. ALSO • Its own currency for each group — 12 to pick from • Settle up with the fewest transfers possible • Send the final summary to any chat as plain text • English, German, Spanish, French, Croatian, Italian and Russian Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Stack4 screens
Trimtab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trimtab at none against Stack's 1. Trimtab also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Stack's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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. Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trimtab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack ships an update every 6 weeks, Trimtab fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stack versus Trimtab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStackTrimtab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeon BoettgerNikita Pushkar

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stack

One-time1
  • Stack+$0.99
None

Trimtab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack free?
Stack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trimtab free?
Trimtab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stack or Trimtab have ads?
Neither Stack nor Trimtab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack or Trimtab?
Stack ships an update every 6 weeks, and Trimtab fortnightly. Most recently, Stack was updated on October 15, 2026 and Trimtab on October 10, 2026.

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