Monthly Check Register vs Calculator Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monthly Check Register
Easily record income and expenses with a spreadsheet-like interface. Track financial transactions, deadlines, appointments, and important dates. Prioritize events and create separate calendars for different needs.
- Record income and expenses
- Running balance calculation
- Monthly calendars with multi-day view
- Yearly template with memo sheet
- Prioritize events with checkmarks
- Separate calendars for different categories
- Local file saving and editing
- Email sharing of calendars
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Monthly Check Register is a simple digital checkbook for tracking checks, deposits, and withdrawals with a running balance. Organize entries by month, review a yearly overview, and keep your personal or business finances reconciled - all offline. Key features: Track checks, deposits, and withdrawals with a live running balance Month-by-month register sheets with a yearly overview Carry-over balances across months for continuous reconciliation Save, print, share, and export registers as PDF or CSV Works fully offline with no account required
Calculator Notes
This app combines a calculator with spreadsheet functionality, allowing users to automatically sum item values. It supports unlimited folders and notes, with features like goal setting and batch operations. Widgets are available for home and lock screens.
- Automatic total value calculation
- Unlimited folders, notes, and items
- CSV output and sharing
- Goal setting and progress tracking
- Batch operations (copy, duplicate, color coding)
- Home & lock screen widgets
- Dark mode
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It is a calculator notepad that automatically calculates the total value. A simple spreadsheet application. Widget compatible. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited folders/notes/items - Automatically calculate the total value of items - CSV output / save file / share to SNS - Set goals and deadlines and display percentages - Batch operations such as copy/duplicate/color coding - filter and sort - Consumption tax calculation and fixed cost settings - Easy input from history - Home & lock screen widget support - dark mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calculator Notes at 100% against Monthly Check Register's 0%. Calculator Notes also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 1.0). Monthly Check Register's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 12 months). On ratings volume 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
Calculator Notes is free to download; Monthly Check Register costs $0.99 up front. Monthly Check Register sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Calculator Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calculator Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Monthly Check Register's written reviews are positive against 100% of Calculator Notes's.
Monthly Check Register ships an update every 4 months, Calculator Notes every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monthly Check Register | Calculator Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manu Gupta | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Monthly Check Register
Calculator Notes
In-app purchases
Monthly Check Register
- 25 times Save as, Print and Email$0.99
- Export 10 PDFs$0.99
- Share 10 PDFs via Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and SMS$0.99
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- Save 10 files to server$0.99
- Email 10 PDFs via Gmail$0.99
- 500 times Save as, Print and Email$0.99
- Export 25 PDFs$1.99
- Export 50 PDFs$2.99
- Export 100 PDFs$3.99
- 1000 timees Save as, Print and Email$6.99
Calculator Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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