Best Budget vs Flowy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Budget
This personal finance app helps you manage your money by creating unlimited income and expense budgets. Track transactions, monitor spending against your budgets, and gain insights into your financial habits. It offers robust reporting and data management features to help you become your own financial expert.
- Create unlimited budgets
- Track income and expenses
- Set budget details (name, amount, category)
- Rollover budget amounts
- Transfer funds between budgets
- View transaction history
- Generate income/expense reports
- Export budgets (HTML, CSV, PDF)
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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 will 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 a reminder 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. ⁃ Clean and tidy user interface. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Support migrating data to pro version. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. If you have any question or suggestion, please email to userfeed@vip.tom.com.
Flowy
Easily monitor your income and expenses with this intuitive finance app. Organize transactions across multiple wallets, view spending by category, and filter by date. Personalize your experience with themes and ensure your data is safe with backup and recovery options.
- Multiple wallet creation
- Transaction tracking
- Category spending overview
- Date-based filtering
- Customizable themes
- Backup and recovery
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Flowy is a simple spending tracker that allows you to: - Create multiple wallets - Keep track of your transactions - View how much you spent/received for each category - Filter transaction/overview by date - Choose from different themes to suit your style - Backup & Recover your transactions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Best Budget at Free against Flowy's $0.99. Best Budget also leads on ratings volume (68 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Flowy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Best Budget is free to download; Flowy costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flowy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Budget has 68 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Best Budget's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flowy's.
Best Budget ships an update every 6 months, Flowy every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Budget | Flowy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Chiew Carol |
Customer experience
Best Budget
Flowy
Bugs and requests
Best Budget
Reported bugs
3 issues- Transactions not saving properly
- Budgets disappearing without explanation
- Incorrect calculations and balance display
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to link accounts and sync data
- More detailed reporting and analytics
- Recurring income and expense options
- Improved user guide and tutorials
Flowy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Budget
No in-app purchases
Flowy
No in-app purchases
