Balance Guide Lite vs CheckPlease!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Balance Guide Lite
Easily manage your finances and plan your budget. This app helps you track your account balance, upcoming bills, and spending habits. It offers forecasting for future finances and allows for quick correction of your balance without needing to enter every transaction.
- Dark mode
- Recurring transaction setup
- Financial forecasting
- Pie charts and graphs
- Customizable categories
- PIN security
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HOW MUCH MONEY WILL YOU SAVE ? A guide to your account balance, simple to use and not aimed at accountants. Makes it easy to plan a budget and see the status of your account with upcoming bills and see where your money is going. With Balance Guide you can quickly setup your recurring bills and deposits and produce a forecast of your finances for the months ahead. Later, you don't have to worry about entering all your transactions from your bank statement with the added bonus that you can easily correct your balance at any time. FEATURES - Dark mode - NEW - Multiple Accounts, transfer between account (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Setup recurring transactions for forecasting - Forecast calendar (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Now includes optimisation for iPhone X, XR and XS Max. - Clear / light colour scheme - All accounts summary information (not available for iPhone 4s / ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Pie charts / graphs to show your financial status - Backup / Restore with Dropbox (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Simple customisable of categories to group your transactions e.g. "Utility Bills" - Tutorial / walk through showing you how to get started - Help pages, if you need to read about functionality in more depth - Correct balance at any time, so you don't need to enter all your transactions - PIN security, to protect your information from prying eyes REVIEWS This App is so good! ***** Really easy to use, looked at loads of others, but this has all you need. Your income v outgoings and lets you know where you stand on a monthly basis! I will and do recommend! Great App. Excellent tool ! ***** I have been looking for a handy app to organise my finances for ages. This is simple to use & very helpful when planning ahead. Would highly recommend Checkout our Demo video - http://youtu.be/3NrxZE_yFag SUPPORT Balance Guide uses the default currency set on your device, so there’s no complicated setup / installation. If you need help there are several methods available. Firstly, the tutorial, which is a kind of walkthrough. There’s also helps pages, providing in depth information. How to ask questions and contact us - - Use the contact form via my website, I'm happy to help. - Follow the app on twitter http://twitter.com/BalanceGuideApp - Like the app on facebook https://www.facebook.com/balanceguideapp NOTE: I'm unable to respond to bug reports left in reviews. Each new version wipes out all old reviews so please take the time to leave a review for the new version. As it’s not possible to reply to reviews on the app store, please use the new feedback features to tell us what you think. You can also join our beta programme and gain access to new features early.
CheckPlease!
Easily manage shared expenses and debts among groups. Track who paid for what and calculate individual balances. Settle up debts efficiently with clear reports sent via email.
- Register bills and assign payers
- Calculate individual balances
- Track debt settlement
- Email balance reports
- Email settlement details
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Settle up your depts when being in a group of different payers. Register the bills and who they are valid for. The App calculates balances and how to settle up. Email of balance report and settlement is available inside the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CheckPlease! at 5.0 against Balance Guide Lite's 4.2. CheckPlease! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Balance Guide Lite's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 38 months). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Balance Guide Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CheckPlease! asks for nothing beyond the download.
CheckPlease! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Balance Guide Lite has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Balance Guide Lite's written reviews are positive against 50% of CheckPlease!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Balance Guide Lite ships an update every 5 months, CheckPlease! every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Balance Guide Lite | CheckPlease! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mindwarp Consultancy Ltd | Tore Stigbrand |
Customer experience
Balance Guide Lite
CheckPlease!
In-app purchases
Balance Guide Lite
- No Ads, Multiple Accounts + Dropbox backup$2.99
CheckPlease!
No in-app purchases
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