Comparison

Pico Spend vs Best Budget Pro

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

Head to head
About

Pico Spend

Easily track your daily expenses with a calculator-like interface and detailed reports. Analyze spending by category, view summaries, and export data. Includes an Apple Watch app for on-the-go tracking.

Highlights
  • Quick expense entry
  • Detailed spending reports
  • Category-based analysis
  • Apple Watch app
  • iCloud backup
  • Passcode protection
Features
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Pico Spend is a simple, intuitive expense tracker with robust reporting and drill-down capabilities for everyday spending analysis. Pico Spend is a private expense tracker that stores all spending data on your iPhone. It doesn’t require external servers, account creation, or any helper apps. Data connection is unnecessary for expense entry and reporting, as Pico Spend works completely offline. There are no subscriptions or in-app purchases with Pico Spend. It comes as a one-time purchase with an Apple Watch app included. You can also try Pico Spend Lite - a free version with limited functionality. FEATURES • Track your expenses right after the app launch - no servers or accounts needed • Calculator-like screen for quick expense entry • Expense categories are pre-populated, but fully customizable • Dashboard with up to four configurable periods for quick spending overview • List of your expenses day by day, searchable and editable • Summary reports of your data - daily, weekly, monthly, or by expense category • Option to define a comparison period for parallel analysis with the current reporting period • Reports can be presented in drill-down tables, bar graphs, pie charts, or PDF documents • Print, email, or share PDF reports directly from within the app • Spending data can be exported in CSV format, which is convenient for use in various spreadsheet programs • Backup and restore all spending data to iCloud • Optional passcode protection upon launch • Foreign currency conversion • Bundled Apple Watch app for a quick overview of your spending for the current day

About

Best Budget Pro

Manage your personal finances with this intuitive budgeting app. Create unlimited income and expense budgets, track transactions, and gain insights into your spending habits. Become your own financial expert with customizable features and helpful reminders.

Highlights
  • Unlimited income/expense budgets
  • Track transactions
  • Customizable budget settings
  • Budget rollover option
  • Transfer between budgets
  • Transaction search
  • Passcode protection
Features
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Best Budget is an easy to use app to help you keep to a budget, as a personal finance application, you can create unlimited income and expense budgets with or without recurring, and track the transitions of each budget. With Best Budget, you can check your income and expense at a glance, and monitor which transactions are going on a budget. Best Budget is help you to become your own financial expert. Features: ⁃ Create unlimited expense or income budgets. ⁃ Set budget name, amount, type, category, date range and if no cycle or cycle by a specific date range etc. ⁃ Set if budget available amount is rollover or not. ⁃ Transfer available amount from one budget to another. ⁃ Add transactions to each budget. ⁃ View history of past circular budget. ⁃ Time marker to show the status of current date at each budget. ⁃ Custom reminders to help you manage budgets. ⁃ Report to show your income and expense proportion of a date range. ⁃ Report to show percentage of each budget of a date range. ⁃ Export your budgets in form of HTML, CSV or PDF. ⁃ Custom date range of budgets to be exported. ⁃ Search transactions by name, amount and note. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID passcode. ⁃ Clean and tidy user interface. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports iCloud backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. If you have any question or suggestion, please email to userfeed@vip.tom.com.

Screenshots

Pico Spend4 screens
Best Budget Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pico Spend at none against Best Budget Pro's 3. Best Budget Pro's advantage is ratings volume (108 vs 3) and chart position (#105 vs unranked). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pico Spend costs $1.99 and Best Budget Pro $0.99 up front. Best Budget Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Pico Spend asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Pico Spend against 4.3 for Best Budget Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Budget Pro has 108 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Pico Spend's written reviews are positive against 80% of Best Budget Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pico Spend ships an update every 7 months, Best Budget Pro every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Pico Spend versus Best Budget Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPico SpendBest Budget Pro
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better4.3 (108 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better80.1% of reviews
Number of ratings3108 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#105 — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDejan Petrovski倩 赵

Customer experience

Pico Spend

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral18.2%
Negative0.0%

Best Budget Pro

All ratings108 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative13.6%

In-app purchases

None

Pico Spend

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Best Budget Pro

Subscriptions3
  • Premium - 1 month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium - 6 months1 Month trial$5.496 Months
  • Premium - 1 year3 Months trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Pico Spend free?
Pico Spend costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Best Budget Pro free?
Best Budget Pro costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pico Spend or Best Budget Pro?
Pico Spend is rated higher. Pico Spend averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Best Budget Pro averages 4.3 from 108 ratings.
Do Pico Spend or Best Budget Pro have ads?
Neither Pico Spend nor Best Budget Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pico Spend or Best Budget Pro?
Pico Spend ships an update every 7 months, and Best Budget Pro every 6 months. Most recently, Pico Spend was updated on November 1, 2026 and Best Budget Pro on November 1, 2026.

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