Comparison

Finance vs Quick Checkbook for iPad

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Transaction tracking
  • Budget creation
  • iCloud data sync
  • Custom descriptions and labels
  • Transaction duplication
  • Balance reconciliation
  • Transaction filtering and searching
Features
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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.

About

Quick Checkbook for iPad

Manage your personal finances with this app, allowing you to track multiple accounts, record income and expenses, and view financial reports. It helps you stay on top of your balances, recurring transactions, and reconcile your accounts with ease.

Highlights
  • Track multiple accounts
  • Record income, expense, and transfers
  • Manage recurring transactions
  • Reconcile transactions
  • View financial reports
  • Split transactions
  • Search transactions
Features
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Quick Checkbook is a smart personal finance management app, you can track multiple accounts info easily and conveniently. With Quick Checkbook, you will manage your accounts at a glance. You can see clearly about balance of all your accounts and each account, add recurring or no cycle transactions, mark transaction as cleared or not, transfer between accounts, and reconcile transactions etc. In reports page, you will see visually where your money comes and goes. Key Features: ⁃ Create multiple accounts, such as checking, saving, credit and cash etc. ⁃ Add/Edit income/expense/transferring transactions. ⁃ Add/Edit recurring transactions with different cycle. ⁃ Mark transaction as cleared or not. ⁃ Add payee info for a transaction. ⁃ Reconcile transactions. ⁃ Check balance of all accounts and each account. ⁃ Check total cleared of all accounts and each account. ⁃ Pie reports for categories of income and expense. ⁃ Histogram reports to compare income and expense. ⁃ Supports the split transactions. ⁃ Supports more comprehensive cycle types. ⁃ View the daily expenses in calendar. ⁃ Supports reconcile account after each transaction. ⁃ Supports different currencies & Running Balance for each account. ⁃ Supports managing Payers and Payers. ⁃ Supports more function chart statistics. ⁃ Adds the function of closing useless accounts and archiving data. ⁃ Set your own currency. ⁃ Search transactions. ⁃ Send data by email in form of PDF, CSV or HTML. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ WiFi Backup & Restore. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Support both portrait and landscape mode. ⁃ Supports migrate data to paid version. If you have any questions or suggestion, please mail to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.

Screenshots

Finance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Checkbook for iPad at 71% against Finance's 0%. Quick Checkbook for iPad also leads on price (Free vs $18.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Finance's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence and in-app purchases 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

Quick Checkbook for iPad is free to download; Finance costs $18.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Finance ships an update every 5 months, Quick Checkbook for iPad every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Finance versus Quick Checkbook for iPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinanceQuick Checkbook for iPad
Price$18.99Free — better
Rating—4.2 (185 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews71.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—185 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPad
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB44 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperYENCO.COM倩 赵

Customer experience

Finance

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Quick Checkbook for iPad

All ratings185 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral7.0%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive71.1%
Neutral8.4%
Negative20.5%

Bugs and requests

Finance

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Quick Checkbook for iPad

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Recurring payments duplicating or appearing haphazardly
  • App crashes causing data loss
  • Deposits recorded as withdrawals
  • Balance calculations incorrect
  • Recurring transactions not automatically entering on set dates
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  • Ads preventing app usage and locking users out
  • Multiple duplicate charges within days
  • Transactions not syncing between devices
  • Auto-payment setup issues with next month carryover
  • Calendar date picker being overly complicated and slow

Requested features

12 requests
  • Bank account sync/auto-import functionality
  • Running balance display for each transaction
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Expanded category customization options
  • Loan and net worth tracking
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  • Payee auto-complete or saved payee list
  • Future transaction forecasting
  • iPhone version with data sharing
  • Ability to minimize summary information
  • Cleared balance display on main account list
  • More icon options for accounts
  • Dark mode option

In-app purchases

None

Finance

No in-app purchases

None

Quick Checkbook for iPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Finance free?
Finance costs $18.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quick Checkbook for iPad free?
Quick Checkbook for iPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Finance or Quick Checkbook for iPad have ads?
Quick Checkbook for iPad shows ads; Finance does not.
Which is updated more often, Finance or Quick Checkbook for iPad?
Finance ships an update every 5 months, and Quick Checkbook for iPad every 7 months. Most recently, Finance was updated on September 2, 2026 and Quick Checkbook for iPad on September 22, 2026.

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