7th Tradition vs Chamasoft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
7th Tradition
This app simplifies treasury management for meetings, allowing easy recording of collections, rent payments, and group conscience tracking. It provides at-a-glance financial reports and facilitates contributions to service bodies with customizable percentages.
- Record collections and rent payments
- Track group conscience payments
- Configurable service body support percentages
- At-a-glance treasurer's report
- Date-filtered data export
- Support for single or multiple meetings
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This application will greatly simplify your treasury service. 7th Tradition has a simple, intuitive interface. It is designed to be used in your meeting as easily as a timer! Setup is quick and simple. Collections are a snap to record. Easily enter rent payments, with room to note who made the payment, and how it was made. Your single-screen Treasurer’s Report, with all needed balances, is one click away. You can share everything that your fellows need to know about the group’s financial status in seconds. Beginning Balance and Prudent Reserve are taken into account for the calculations. The report can show all data, or be filtered by a date range. When your meeting decides on a Group Conscience, enter it into 7th Tradition, and then optionally track its payments. 7th Tradition facilitates contributions to service bodies. You can customize Metro, Regional and World percentages; mix and match; or create your own. Payment records can be auto-generated, with amounts calculated on-the-fly based on the support percentage and the current treasury balance. You can export your data in JSON format for transfer to a different device, or to be imported into the data analysis tool of your choice. While specifically designed to support the Seventh Tradition, this program is not officially endorsed by any 12-step group. Features: - Keep records for just one or multiple meetings - Set Beginning Balance and Prudent Reserve - Track collections and rent payments - Record Group Conscience and associated payments - Fully configurable Service Body Support percentages, with auto-generated payment amounts - At-a-glance treasurer’s report with all relevant totals, filterable by start/end date - Date-filtered export for use in other software
Chamasoft
This app automates financial bookkeeping for investment groups, replacing manual methods. It manages member invoicing, payments, and provides online access to financial statements. Features include an e-wallet, expense tracking, and financial reporting.
- Automated member invoicing
- Online member financial statements
- E-Wallet for payments and withdrawals
- Expense and project tracking
- Financial reporting
- Loan management
- Penalty management
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Chamasoft is a book keeping tool for Investment Groups ( Chama ), commonly known as Chamas. Chamasoft automates the operations of these groups, eliminating the need for complex Excel sheets and bulky write up, thereby making the work of financial book keeping within the group easier. It achieves this in the following way: 1. It automates member invoicing, 2. Keeps an updated statement for each member, 3. Members can login to view their financial position within the group, 4. Reminds members to make payments, stores group data on the cloud (available 24/7 anywhere in the world) and 5. A cash book module for use by the Treasurer. FEATURES: - Chamasoft E-Wallet Chamasoft provides an online E-Wallet that chamas can use to manage their finances by making payments via M-Pesa and withdrawals to M-Pesa or any bank account. - Financial Management Chamasoft acts as an online treasurer. All one does is record payments and Chamasoft reconciles the records. - Membership Management Chamasoft allows one to register all members on the system where they access to their chama records online. - Bank Account Management Chamasoft records withdrawals, transfers and deposits that are performed on the bank accounts. - Expense Management Chamasoft allows users to track expenses as they occur, be it for land purchases or payments for services. - Project Management One can track projects e.g. Expenses regarding purchase of land, and the contributions needed to carry out the project. - Loan Management For chamas that do internal lending, Chamasoft provides a platform for recording these loans. - Financial Reports Chamasoft generates the following reports; Member Statements, Loan Summaries, Expense Summary and Transaction Statements. - One Time Penalty Management One can penalise members for issues such a late coming and this will be reflected on the members' statement. CHAMASOFT Focus on your Group Investments (chama, sacco) as we handle your group financial administration. Do not wait — Download and automate your group, chama or sacco now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 7th Tradition at 4.3 against Chamasoft's 1.0. 7th Tradition also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Chamasoft's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
7th Tradition holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
7th Tradition ships an update every 4 months, Chamasoft every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 7th Tradition | Chamasoft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Kaden | Digital Vision East Africa |
Customer experience
7th Tradition
Chamasoft
In-app purchases
7th Tradition
No in-app purchases
Chamasoft
No in-app purchases
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