Comparison

Quick Checkbook for iPad vs Accounts 3 Checkbook

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Quick Checkbook for iPad

Manage your personal finances with this app, allowing you to track multiple accounts, record income and expenses, and view financial reports. It helps you stay on top of your balances, recurring transactions, and reconcile your accounts with ease.

Highlights
  • Track multiple accounts
  • Record income, expense, and transfers
  • Manage recurring transactions
  • Reconcile transactions
  • View financial reports
  • Split transactions
  • Search transactions
Features
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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 about 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. ⁃ Search transactions. ⁃ Send data by email in form of PDF, CSV or HTML. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ WiFi Backup & Restore. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Support both portrait and landscape mode. ⁃ Supports migrate data to paid version. If you have any questions or suggestion, please mail to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.

About

Accounts 3 Checkbook

Manage your personal finances and replace your paper checkbook with this intuitive application. Track daily transactions, schedule recurring payments, and capture photo receipts. Generate insightful reports and export your data in various formats for easy analysis.

Highlights
  • Schedule recurring transactions
  • Capture photo receipts
  • Generate graphs and reports
  • Sync data via iCloud
  • Export data in CSV, QIF, HTML
  • Touch and Face ID support
  • AirPrint support
Features
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Top Selling Checkbook App Accounts 3 is an easy to use application to replace your paper checkbook. With the Accounts 3 application, you will have a quicker and more convenient way to track your daily finances. You can schedule transactions, transfer funds, capture photo receipts, reconcile, view reports, export data, print, and much more. All features of the Accounts 3 app are designed to be quick, clean, intuitive, and easy to use. FEATURES * Touch and Face ID Support Use Touch or Face ID to authenticate and launch the app quicker and more conveniently. * Sync Data via iCloud Sync your data across iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices * Universal Binary Designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. No need to buy separate apps for each device. * Graphs and Reports Review your monthly income vs. expense, spending by category, or income by category summaries with beautiful graphs and reports. * Photo Receipts Capture and store photo receipt as part of a transaction. * AirPrint Support Print reports directly from your iPhone or iPad to any AirPrint-enabled printer. * Recurring Transactions Schedule transactions to repeat weekly, biweekly, monthly, semimonthly, quarterly, biannually, or yearly on a start date that you choose. * Split Transactions Split a transaction among several categories for more precise tracking. * Search Quickly search for transactions and edit them from the same screen or export your search results. * Reconcile Transactions Reconcile by checking off cleared transactions and comparing the actual and outstanding balances against a bank statement. * Smart Autocomplete As you type, a list will show you your previously entered descriptions and corresponding category. Selecting an entry from the list will fill both fields of the transaction. * Auto-increment Check # Field Accounts 3 will suggest the next check number for you based on the previously entered number. If you replace your checkbook, just enter the new starting number and Accounts 3 will auto-increment from there. * Transfers Make a one-time transfer between accounts or set up recurring transfers to automatically repeat. * Export in CSV, QIF & HTML Formats Export transactions via email attachments for used with desktop applications such Numbers, Excel, or MS Money. * Customization Settings & Themes Configurable settings and themes to customize the Accounts 3 application based on your preferences. Themes are now also available in dark mode. * Transaction Sorting/Hiding Sort transactions by date in either ascending or descending order. You can also hide reconciled transactions to keep your current list from being cluttered. * Accounts Reordering Reorder your accounts from the account list in any order you choose. * Accounts Delete Lock Prevents accidental deletion of all the transactions under an account. * Backup / Restore Backup your data for safekeeping via iCloud, Dropbox, or email. Then restore it to your device whenever you need to. * Passcode Security Keep your accounts information private. * FREE Accounts 3 Lite version Please download the Accounts 3 Lite version to try before you buy.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Quick Checkbook for iPad at Free against Accounts 3 Checkbook's $4.99. Quick Checkbook for iPad also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Accounts 3 Checkbook's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). On review sentiment, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Quick Checkbook for iPad is free to download; Accounts 3 Checkbook costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Accounts 3 Checkbook holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Accounts 3 Checkbook has 3.2K ratings behind it against 197, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Quick Checkbook for iPad's written reviews are positive against 63% of Accounts 3 Checkbook's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Checkbook for iPad ships an update every 7 months, Accounts 3 Checkbook every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Quick Checkbook for iPad versus Accounts 3 Checkbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick Checkbook for iPadAccounts 3 Checkbook
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.1 (197 ratings)4.5 (3.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.1% of reviews — better63.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1973.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#19 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵SVT Software

Customer experience

Quick Checkbook for iPad

All ratings185 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral7.0%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive71.1%
Neutral8.4%
Negative20.5%

Accounts 3 Checkbook

All ratings3,169 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral4.5%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews667 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral12.4%
Negative24.1%

User reviews

Quick Checkbook for iPad

From 197 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
  • 💰 Free or affordable pricing compared to competitors
  • 📊 Easy expense and transaction tracking
  • 🎨 Colorful and attractive design
  • 📱 Convenient mobile access to finances

Room to improve

  • 📺 Intrusive and excessive ads
  • 🐛 Recurring transaction bugs and duplicates
  • 🔄 Sync issues across devices
  • 😕 Confusing navigation and layout
  • ⚠️ Balance discrepancies with bank statements

Accounts 3 Checkbook

From 3.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Helpful features
  • 🔒 Secure data storage
  • 💡 Recurring transactions
  • 🚀 Smooth syncing between devices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues
  • 🐛 Incorrect transaction recording
  • 🐛 Crashing and freezing
  • 💡 Limited customization options
  • 🔒 Lack of customer support

Bugs and requests

Quick Checkbook for iPad

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Recurring payments duplicating or appearing haphazardly
  • App crashes causing data loss
  • Deposits recorded as withdrawals
  • Balance calculations incorrect
  • Recurring transactions not automatically entering on set dates
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  • Ads preventing app usage and locking users out
  • Multiple duplicate charges within days
  • Transactions not syncing between devices
  • Auto-payment setup issues with next month carryover
  • Calendar date picker being overly complicated and slow

Requested features

12 requests
  • Bank account sync/auto-import functionality
  • Running balance display for each transaction
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Expanded category customization options
  • Loan and net worth tracking
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  • Payee auto-complete or saved payee list
  • Future transaction forecasting
  • iPhone version with data sharing
  • Ability to minimize summary information
  • Cleared balance display on main account list
  • More icon options for accounts
  • Dark mode option

Accounts 3 Checkbook

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Incorrect transaction recording
  • Crashing and freezing
  • Inability to change time of recurring transactions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to view future recurring transactions
  • Option to duplicate transactions
  • Customizable report generation
  • Improved syncing between multiple devices
  • Direct contact with developer for support

In-app purchases

None

Quick Checkbook for iPad

No in-app purchases

None

Accounts 3 Checkbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Checkbook for iPad free?
Quick Checkbook for iPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Accounts 3 Checkbook free?
Accounts 3 Checkbook costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quick Checkbook for iPad or Accounts 3 Checkbook?
Accounts 3 Checkbook is rated higher. Quick Checkbook for iPad averages 4.1 out of 5 from 197 ratings, while Accounts 3 Checkbook averages 4.5 from 3.2K ratings.
Do Quick Checkbook for iPad or Accounts 3 Checkbook have ads?
Quick Checkbook for iPad shows ads; Accounts 3 Checkbook does not.
Which is updated more often, Quick Checkbook for iPad or Accounts 3 Checkbook?
Quick Checkbook for iPad ships an update every 7 months, and Accounts 3 Checkbook every 2 weeks. Most recently, Quick Checkbook for iPad was updated on October 26, 2026 and Accounts 3 Checkbook on October 28, 2026.

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