Quick Checkbook vs Simple Register
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Checkbook
Manage your personal finances with this app that allows you to track multiple accounts, add transactions, and view financial reports. It offers features like recurring transactions, reconciliation, and various reporting options to help you understand your spending.
- Multiple account tracking
- Add/edit transactions
- Recurring transactions
- Transaction reconciliation
- Income/expense reports
- Split transactions
- Data backup and restore
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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 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. ⁃ Pass code protection. ⁃ Search transactions. ⁃ Send data by email in form of PDF, CSV or HTML. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ WiFi Backup & Restore. ⁃ iCloud Backup & Restore. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. ⁃ Supports migrate data to paid version. ⁃ Supports both iPhone and iPad. If you have any questions or suggestion, please mail to userfeed@vip.tom.com.
Simple Register
This app provides a digital checkbook register for tracking personal finances. It allows users to quickly record transactions, manage bills, and reconcile statements without connecting to bank accounts. Designed for privacy, it offers local-only mode and optional biometric security.
- Digital checkbook register
- Record payments, deposits, checks, transfers
- Bill planning and reminders
- Statement reconciliation
- Multiple register support
- Data export to CSV/PDF
- Optional biometric security
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Your checkbook register, exactly as you remember it. Simple Register brings the familiar paper checkbook register to your Apple devices. Open it, enter a transaction, see your balance, and close it. No bank connections, no complicated budgeting system, and no subscription. TRY IT FREE FOR 7 DAYS New customers can start a seven-day free trial with every feature. After the trial, unlock permanently with one purchase: US $9.99, with local pricing shown in the app. There is no subscription or automatic charge. Your existing records stay available to read and export after the trial. Customers who already own the paid app keep full access at no additional charge. FAST, FAMILIAR ENTRY • Record payments, deposits, checks, and transfers • Type 1254 and Simple Register enters $12.54 • A type-ahead payee list as you type, built from your own history • Save an entry and immediately add another • See your running and cleared balances at a glance • Move an entry to a different register when it landed in the wrong one RECONCILE WITH CONFIDENCE Enter your statement balance, check off cleared transactions, and watch the difference reach zero. Simple Register never changes your transaction amounts just from checking them off. Found something you forgot to enter, or a mistyped amount, while matching your statement? Add or fix it without losing your place — and if you need to step away, your checked items and statement amount are still there when you come back. SCHEDULED, ON ONE CALENDAR Set up anything that repeats — a paycheck, the mortgage, a bill whose exact amount isn't known yet — and see every register's upcoming entries on one monthly calendar. An entry that should post itself does; one you'd rather confirm yourself shows as a reminder until you say it's handled, or until a matching payment checks it off on its own. BIG ORDERS, HANDLED Enter a large order once at its full total — even if the bank bills it as several separate charges. List each charge under the entry as it posts, check them off one by one, and reconcile against your statement exactly the way the bank sees it. MADE FOR HOUSEHOLDS Keep as many registers as your household needs — checking, savings, a credit card, vacation fund, gift money — each with its own column labels so a savings register and a card balance never look like a checkbook. Transfers record both sides automatically and stay linked, and every entry shows who added it. YOUR REGISTER, YOUR STYLE Choose from familiar checkbook-inspired covers and ledger styles while keeping every number clear and readable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No bank logins • No Plaid or financial account linking • No ads • No analytics • No Simple Register account • Optional local-only mode • Optional Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode protection YOUR DATA STAYS USEFUL Export your register to CSV or PDF whenever you need it. Edit history and Recently Deleted help protect you from mistakes. BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES Use Simple Register on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with your private iCloud keeping your registers in step across your devices. Simple Register is for people who want to track their money themselves — without handing their financial history to another service. If you'd like to support development, an entirely optional one-time tip is available from Settings & Privacy — it never changes what the app unlocks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Register at 5.0 against Quick Checkbook's 4.3. Simple Register also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Quick Checkbook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 11). On price 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
Both are free to download. Simple Register sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Quick Checkbook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Register holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Checkbook has 1.4K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Quick Checkbook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Register's.
Quick Checkbook ships an update every 7 months, Simple Register every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Checkbook | Simple Register |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Jennifer Hendrickson |
Customer experience
Quick Checkbook
Simple Register
Bugs and requests
Quick Checkbook
Reported bugs
4 issues- Transactions disappearing or duplicating
- Balance calculation errors
- Language changes unexpectedly
- Recurring transactions not working as expected
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to edit account names
- More customizable category options
- Split transaction feature
- Running balance display
- Dark mode option
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- Export/print transaction history
Simple Register
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quick Checkbook
No in-app purchases
Simple Register
- 7-day TrialFree
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
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- Full Unlock$9.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
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