Finance vs Accounts 3 Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Finance
Track checking, savings, and credit card transactions, and create budgets. Syncs data across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices via iCloud. Offers time-saving features like custom descriptions, labels, and transaction duplication.
- Transaction tracking
- Budget creation
- iCloud data sync
- Custom descriptions and labels
- Transaction duplication
- Balance reconciliation
- Transaction filtering and searching
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Finance enables you to enter and keep track of your checking, savings, and credit card transactions and create and manage a budget. It uses iCloud to sync your data across all of your macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices, subtly indicating when a sync is in progress while ensuring uninterrupted productivity. Transaction forms adapt to request only pertinent info based on the account and transaction type. They are designed for consistency across all of your devices and organized to make data entry a breeze with time-saving custom descriptions and labels. You can enter an amount or optionally create an itemized list with multiple amounts that total as they are entered. Additionally, Finance can generate a credit transaction in another account (with the same currency format) from any debit transaction and establish a link between them (e.g., for balance transfers or bill payments). Changes made are reflected in the associated transaction. If a linked transaction is deleted, both are removed. However, if an account is deleted, Finance preserves the transaction in the remaining account, ensuring the history and account balance remains accurate. For new transactions similar to those already created, you can save even more time by simply creating a duplicate with the current date, making any necessary modifications, and then saving it. Beneath the transactions list, a convenient section displays your current balance including color-coded status dots to alert you to issues. Easily reconcile your checking or savings balance with your bank statement or website by checking off cleared items. You can also check off credit card transactions as you pay for them, allowing you to keep track of pending purchases. Use the filter popup menu to display only those transactions that have not been cleared, those within a specified number of days, or those assigned to a particular category. You can also combine the options for even greater control and change the preference for if the filters will be maintained as you move between accounts and search all. Search one or all of your accounts to find what you’re looking for. When searching all, the results will be grouped by account. If your list is filtered, Finance will search only the transactions that have already met your specified criteria. Finance enables you to easily create a budget linked to a checking or saving account to help you manage your money. When you do so, it generates a “General Funds” budget item and places the current total into it. You can create funds and enter the amounts for monthly bills. Use the divide by feature to take out a smaller portion of your income as you build toward the total due. Once you cover your expenses, you can also set up funds to take out a percent of what remains if you're saving up for something special. You can also set goals and even cap the total the funds can hold. Once your budget is set up, the rules you created run in the order they appear (drag them to rearrange the order). When you add to your linked account and choose to apply to budget it distributes the money. If you don't apply to your budget, the total goes into “General Funds”. When deducting from your linked account, you can choose which funds the money will come from. The budget chart and overview list provides an up-to-date status of your funds at all times. Your budget is not set in stone. You can easily transfer money from one fund to another. You can edit your funds, delete funds that are no longer needed (remaining money will be placed in “General Funds”), and set up new funds. Changes take effect next time you add to the linked account.
Accounts 3 Lite
Manage your personal finances with this intuitive checkbook replacement app. Track daily transactions, schedule recurring payments, and capture photo receipts. Visualize your spending with detailed reports and graphs, and export your data for desktop use.
- Schedule recurring transactions
- Capture photo receipts
- Generate financial reports and graphs
- Reconcile transactions with bank statements
- Export data in CSV, QIF, and HTML
- Supports Touch and Face ID
- Split transactions across categories
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Accounts 3 Lite is an easy to use application to replace your paper checkbook. With the Accounts 3 Lite application, you will have a quicker and more convenient way to track your daily finances. You can schedule transactions, transfer funds, capture photo receipts, reconcile, export data, view reports, graphs, and much more. * If you like this app, then please support us with a positive rating. Thank you! FEATURES * Touch and Face ID Support Use Touch ID to authenticate and launch the app quicker and more conveniently. * Optimized for Multitasking and Retina Display Supports fast app switching and higher resolution Retina display. * Universal Binary Designed for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. No need to buy separate apps for each device. * Graphs and Reports Review your monthly income vs. expense, spending by category, or income by category summaries with beautiful graphs and reports. * AirPrint Support Print reports directly from your iPhone or iPad (that have multitasking capability) to any AirPrint-enabled printer. * Photo Receipts Capture and store photo receipt as part of a transaction. * Search Quickly search for transactions and edit them from the same screen. * Recurring Transactions Schedule transactions to repeat weekly, biweekly, monthly, semimonthly, quarterly, biannually, or yearly on a start date that you choose. * Reconcile Transactions Reconcile by checking off cleared transactions and comparing the actual and outstanding balances against a bank statement. Accounts 3 now includes a running total for even easier reconciliation. * Split Transactions Split a transaction among several categories for more precise tracking. * Transfers Make a one-time transfer between accounts or set up recurring transfers to automatically repeat. * Multiple Accounts Track as many accounts as you need. * Export in CSV, QIF & HTML Formats Export transactions via email attachments for used with desktop applications such Numbers, Excel, or MS Money. * Description, Category, Memo, and Check # Fields All the necessary fields to track your transactions. * Smart Autocomplete As you type, a list will show you your previously entered descriptions and corresponding category. Selecting an entry from the list will fill both fields of the transaction. * Auto-increment Check # Field Accounts 3 will suggest the next check number for you based on the previously entered number. If you replace your checkbook, just enter the new starting number and Accounts 3 will auto-increment from there. * Customization Settings & Themes Configurable settings and themes to customize the Accounts 3 application based on your preferences. * Transaction Sorting/Hiding Sort transactions by date in either ascending or descending order. You can also hide reconciled transactions to keep your current list from being cluttered. * Accounts Reordering Reorder the accounts from the account list in any order you choose. * Accounts Delete Lock Prevents accidental deletion of all the transactions under an account. * Backup / Restore Backup your data to your computer for safekeeping. Then restore it to your device when you need to via email or iTunes file sharing interface. * Passcode Security Keep your accounts information private. * Sync Data via iCloud Sync your data across iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices (available when upgraded to full version) * Accounts 3 Lite is limited to 100 transactions. At anytime, you can transfer all your data to the Full version by touching on the 'Export to Full Version' button from the Settings screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Accounts 3 Lite at 47% against Finance's 0%. Accounts 3 Lite also leads on price (Free vs $18.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On ads, 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
Accounts 3 Lite is free to download; Finance costs $18.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Finance ships an update every 5 months, Accounts 3 Lite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Finance | Accounts 3 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $18.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (214 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 214 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | YENCO.COM | SVT Software |
Customer experience
Finance
Accounts 3 Lite
Bugs and requests
Finance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Accounts 3 Lite
Reported bugs
4 issues- Pop-ups for paid versions
- Sync issues deleting transactions
- Recurring transaction memos not updating correctly
- Recurring screen starting date/time squished
Requested features
15 requests- Add total outstanding balance with recurring charges
- Import PDF files for checks
- Add sub-accounts
- Add PDF support for checks
- Add recurring transfers between accounts
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- Schedule recurring transactions on a specific date
- Hide specific accounts from main view
- Clear delineation between past and future transactions
- Option to turn off auto check number
- Fix recurring screen starting date/time issue
- Import QIF or CSV files
- Allow changing memo on recurring transfers without re-creation
- Manually pay monthly bills instead of automatic
- Recurring transactions that shift date for weekends/holidays
- Option to select app icon color
In-app purchases
Finance
No in-app purchases
Accounts 3 Lite
No in-app purchases
Questions
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