Comparison

buyFSA vs Budly!

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

Head to head
About

buyFSA

Easily shop for FSA and HSA eligible health and wellness products. Discover a curated selection of approved items, from first-aid to personal care, and use your card for a stress-free checkout. Make your healthcare funds work for you.

Highlights
  • Shop FSA/HSA eligible products
  • Curated health and wellness selection
  • Instant checkout with FSA/HSA card
  • Order tracking
  • Exclusive deals
Features
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Shop 100% FSA + HSA Eligible Products buyFSA makes it simple to spend your FSA or HSA dollars on approved health and wellness essentials. Browse a curated selection of products that are guaranteed eligible—no guesswork, no denials, no stress. Everything You Need in One Place From first-aid and pain relief to skincare, health devices, personal wellness, and family essentials, buyFSA helps you find the items you actually want while staying compliant with FSA/HSA rules. Fast, Easy, and Hassle-Free Check out instantly with your FSA or HSA card, track orders, and discover exclusive deals. Whether you’re planning ahead or using leftover funds before they expire, buyFSA makes every dollar count.

About

Budly!

This app helps you nurture your relationships by visualizing friends as plants. Log time spent together to help them bloom, and receive gentle reminders for those who need attention. Organize friends into groups and track your shared activities.

Highlights
  • Visualize friends as plants
  • Log shared activities
  • Group friends into beds
  • Set custom check-in cadences
  • Pause growth with Greenhouse Mode
  • Private, offline functionality
Features
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Budly turns your friendships into a garden you actually want to tend. Every friend is a plant. Spend time together and they bloom. Let too much time slip by and they get thirsty, then start to wilt — so you always know exactly who could use a call, a text, or a coffee. PLANT YOUR PEOPLE Add friends by hand or import them from Contacts. Each bud gets its own plant — its shape and color are unique to them, or pick your own in the appearance editor. BEDS FOR YOUR CIRCLES Group friends into garden beds — Close Friends, Work, or any bed you create — and see the health of each circle at a glance. LOG YOUR HANGS Coffee, calls, game nights: log a hang in seconds, tag everyone who was there, and watch the whole group perk up. Your Activity tab becomes a little journal of time well spent. SET YOUR OWN PACE Choose a check-in cadence per friend — weekly for your inner circle, monthly for far-flung friends. Watering reminders arrive as a gentle daily digest, never a guilt trip. GREENHOUSE MODE Life gets busy. Flip on Greenhouse Mode to pause the clock for everyone while you catch your breath — no wilting, no ghosting. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no feeds, no followers. Your garden lives on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. Works fully offline. Friendships grow when you show up. Budly helps you show up.

Screenshots

buyFSA4 screens
Budly!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Budly! at none against buyFSA's shown. Budly! also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). buyFSA's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (846 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

buyFSA holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: buyFSA has 846 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
buyFSA versus Budly!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbuyFSABudly!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (846 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings846 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuyFSADaniel Luo

Bugs and requests

buyFSA

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App freezes and crashes
  • Login authentication failures on app
  • Password reset link not functional
  • Discrepancy between app and website product listings
  • Excessive push notifications
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  • Refund processing not working properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Save payment information for faster checkout
  • Sync app inventory with website inventory
  • Reduce frequency of notifications/alerts
  • Improve password reset functionality

Budly!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

buyFSA

No in-app purchases

None

Budly!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is buyFSA free?
buyFSA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Budly! free?
Budly! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, buyFSA or Budly!?
buyFSA is rated higher. buyFSA averages 4.9 out of 5 from 846 ratings, while Budly! averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do buyFSA or Budly! have ads?
buyFSA shows ads; Budly! does not.

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