Coins vs Subscription Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coins
Effortlessly manage your personal finances by quickly logging expenses and income. Understand your spending habits with insightful reports and stay within budget with smart alerts. Automate tracking and personalize your experience with advanced features.
- Fast expense and income logging
- Home screen widgets for at-a-glance finance overview
- Insightful budget reports and alerts
- Smart transaction suggestions
- iOS Shortcuts integration for automation
- iCloud sync for cross-device access
- Privacy-focused data storage
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Free to use forever, with advanced features available through a Pro subscription. Coins is the simple, smart expense tracker that makes personal finance effortless — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Quickly log expenses and income, stay on top of your budget, and understand exactly where your money goes. Whether you want to save more, control daily spending, or track income, Coins is the budgeting app that fits into your life in just 30 seconds a day. Key Features • Fast & Easy Expense Tracking Log expenses or income in seconds. Just enter an amount—no complicated setup. Built-in calculator makes it easy to add up receipts on the fly. • Pull-to-Add Gesture Pull down on the home screen of your iPhone to instantly add a transaction — keep holding and move your finger left or right to pick yesterday or tomorrow. • Beautiful Home Screen Widgets Stay on top of your finances at a glance with stunning widgets right on your home screen. See your budget progress and recent spending without opening the app. • Beautiful Budget Reports See your spending at a glance with clear, insightful charts. Set monthly budgets and get alerts before overspending. • Financial Health Score Get a monthly score across savings, essentials, budgeting, and stability, with a clear breakdown and a personalized tip each month to help you improve. • Custom Month Start Day Set which day your budgeting month begins so it matches your pay cycle. • Smart Transaction Suggestions Coins remembers your frequent transactions so you can add new ones with just two taps. • iOS Shortcuts Integration Automate your money tracking! Use the Shortcuts app to add expenses or income hands-free—perfect for quick logging with Siri or custom workflows. • Sync with iCloud Access your data seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Always private, always secure. • Apple Watch App Log expenses and income from your wrist in seconds, with one-tap suggestions and complications for your budget, spending, income and Financial Health. • Native Mac App Enjoy the full Coins experience on macOS with a beautiful three-column layout, keyboard shortcuts, and desktop-optimized interactions. • Made for iPhone Duo Enjoy Coins on both the folded and unfolded displays of iPhone Duo. • Privacy First Your data stays on your device and your iCloud. Add a PIN for extra protection. Go Pro to Unlock More • Financial Forecast – Predict your future spending and income based on your history. • Retire Planner – Map out your retirement on an interactive timeline and instantly see how long your savings will last. • Multi-Currency Support – Ideal for travel and international expenses. • Receipt Scanning – Snap a photo or pick from your library and let AI auto-fill your transactions. • Repeat Transactions – Automate recurring bills and income. • Background Themes – Personalize your home screen with beautiful animated backgrounds. Coins is your simple budgeting companion—helping you save money, track spending, and stay in control of your finances with ease. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Subscription Manager
Effortlessly track all your recurring bills and subscriptions in one place. Get smart reminders for renewals, view clear spending insights, and manage your services to avoid unwanted charges. Supports multiple currencies and custom billing cycles.
- Track subscriptions and recurring bills
- Smart renewal reminders
- Custom billing cycles
- Multi-currency support
- Spending insights and trends
- Private and secure data storage
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Reko is the simple way to track subscriptions and recurring bills. Add Netflix, Spotify, gym, apps—anything—and Reko keeps renewals in check, totals clear, and surprises away. Why Reko Smart reminders so you never miss a renewal Custom billing cycles (weekly, yearly, quarterly, yearly—anything) Multi-currency support for global tracking Custom icons to spot subscriptions at a glance Dark Mode for comfy, battery-friendly use Clear insights: monthly/annual totals & trends Private & secure—your data stays on your device Cancel unused subscriptions in time Available in 30+ languages Clean, minimal UI designed to make tracking effortless Use Reko to • Add any recurring cost in seconds • Get alerts before due dates • See what you really spend each month • Keep the services you love and drop the rest Examples only: Netflix, Spotify, Prime, Disney+, gym memberships, apps, phone plans, cloud storage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Coins at none against Subscription Manager's shown. Coins also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 68%) and ratings volume (662 vs 97). Subscription Manager's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Coins sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Subscription Manager sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Coins against 4.6 for Subscription Manager. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coins has 662 ratings behind it against 97, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Coins's written reviews are positive against 68% of Subscription Manager's.
Coins ships an update every 2 weeks, Subscription Manager weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coins | Subscription Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (662 ratings) | 4.6 (97 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better | 68.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 662 — better | 97 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 148 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yuzhou Zhu | PLAYGROUND STUDIO LLC |
Customer experience
Coins
Subscription Manager
User reviews
Coins
From 662 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
- 💡 Useful for tracking expenses
- 🚀 Convenient for daily expense entry
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and crashes after updates
- 🐛 Losing data after updates
- 🐛 Inability to edit or delete entries
- 💡 Lack of features like budgeting, recurring expenses, and multiple accounts
Subscription Manager
From 97 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Highly recommended
- 🚀 Rocket speed bug fix time
- 👍 Best developer
- 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
- 👍 Neatly organized subscription tiles
Room to improve
- 🐛 App freezing when adding subscriptions
- 🐛 Crashes when creating new subscriptions
- 🔍 Limited cloud backup options (only Google and Apple)
- 🔍 Forced to add subscription before using app
- 🔍 Cannot enter decimal values for subscriptions
Bugs and requests
Coins
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashing on launch after updates
- Losing all expense data after updates
- Incorrect date display on expense entries
- Inability to add expenses to future dates
Requested features
7 requests- Add ability to edit and delete entries
- Implement recurring expense tracking
- Allow multiple account support
- Provide budgeting and analytics features
- Add option to change currency
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- Implement iCloud or cloud sync
- Add option to attach receipts to expenses
Subscription Manager
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezing when adding subscriptions
- Crashes when creating new subscriptions
- FormatException: Invalid unicode escape (at line 397, character 11)
Requested features
4 requests- Add more cloud backup options (Dropbox, etc.)
- Allow custom date and quarter options
- Add ability to upload category icons
- Add subscription options like half-yearly or quarterly
In-app purchases
Coins
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$9.991 Year
- Yarn Ball of Gratitude$0.99
- Teaser Wand of Joy$1.99
- Fish Can of Appreciation$4.99
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- Cat Tree of Honor$8.99
Subscription Manager
- Unlock Insight$0.99
- 50% Off For Lifetime$4.99
- Reko - Pro Saver$4.99
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- Lifetime Access$8.99
- Reko-Pro$9.99









