Moneydance vs GnuCash Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moneydance
Manage your personal finances on the go with this mobile companion app. It allows for quick transaction entry and account balance updates, syncing securely to your desktop software. Keep your financial data protected with robust encryption.
- Mobile account balance updates
- Portable transaction entry
- End-to-end encrypted syncing
- Dropbox and iCloud sync options
- AES encryption for data protection
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Moneydance helps you take your finances mobile by making account balance updates and transaction entry portable. Moneydance is designed to enable quick and painless entry of receipts and transactions while you are out and about, with immediate, end-to-end encrypted syncing (via Dropbox or iCloud) to Moneydance on your Mac or PC. The desktop version of Moneydance is required to use this app, which can be downloaded for Mac, Windows, or Linux from moneydance.com Moneydance uses strong AES encryption in addition to Dropbox and iCloud's built-in security to ensure your finances are heavily protected while syncing.
GnuCash Mobile
Record GnuCash transactions on your mobile device. This companion app allows for easy transaction entry and export in a GnuCash-compatible CSV format, facilitating seamless integration with your desktop GnuCash instance.
- Record transactions on the go
- GnuCash-compatible double-bookkeeping
- Export transactions in CSV format
- Import GnuCash account trees
- Pre-populate transaction fields
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An application for keeping track of GnuCash transactions on the go. Note: this app is not meant to be a standalone implementation of GnuCash. Rather, it's a simple tool for recording transactions as they happen that also allows you to export in a GnuCash-compatible format (CSV). Capabilities: - Import a set of accounts (these should be exported from a valid GnuCash instance; `File > Export > Export Account Tree to CSV...`) - Create transactions in GnuCash-compatible, double-bookkeeping fashion. - Export said transactions for import into a standalone GnuCash instance (`File > Import > Import Transactions from CSV...`). Use the "GnuCash Export Format". - Set favorite debit and credit accounts for pre-populating transaction fields.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Moneydance at 4.7 against GnuCash Mobile's 2.7. Moneydance also leads on ratings volume (979 vs 13). GnuCash Mobile's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Moneydance holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moneydance has 979 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Moneydance's written reviews are positive against 47% of GnuCash Mobile's.
Moneydance ships an update every 6 weeks, GnuCash Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moneydance | GnuCash Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (979 ratings) — better | 2.7 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.1% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 979 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Infinite Kind Limited | Nick Tyler |
Customer experience
Moneydance
GnuCash Mobile
Bugs and requests
Moneydance
Reported bugs
3 issues- Transactions sometimes get corrupted during sync
- App crashes when entering certain transaction details
- Inconsistent behavior when dealing with split transactions
Requested features
5 requests- Add tags/categories support
- Improve transaction entry experience
- Implement manual sync option
- Display account balances and future transactions
- Integrate with mobile banking/financial services
GnuCash Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Moneydance
No in-app purchases
GnuCash Mobile
No in-app purchases
