Budget Brief vs Costs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Budget Brief
Log all your financial transactions to gain insightful breakdowns of your spending. This app helps you understand where your money goes with various helpful financial summaries.
- Transaction logging
- Financial breakdowns
- Spending summaries
- Multiple device support
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Get a variety of helpful breakdowns of your finances by logging all your transactions
Costs
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The application allows you to enter your expenses, set categories and currencies, and receive detailed spending analytics with graphs for a specified period of time - you can set your own expense categories and currencies - cost analytics - currency converter (coming soon)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Budget Brief at none against Costs's shown. Budget Brief also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Costs's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Budget Brief ships an update weekly, Costs every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Budget Brief | Costs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yannik Bloscheck | Alexandr Pogorelov |
In-app purchases
Budget Brief
No in-app purchases
Costs
No in-app purchases
