Comparison

Money Note vs Ldgr

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

Head to head
About

Money Note

Effortlessly track daily spending and income with customizable categories and offline recording. Visualize your financial habits with clear reports and charts. Set and monitor progress towards your savings goals with ease.

Highlights
  • Daily expense and income tracking
  • Customizable categories
  • Offline transaction recording
  • Spending reports and charts
  • Savings goal management
  • Multi-currency support
Features
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Know where your money goes. Track daily expenses, record income, and follow your savings goals with Money Note. Get started without signing up or connecting a bank. EVERYDAY EXPENSE TRACKING • Record expenses and income with categories, accounts, dates, and notes. • Create custom categories and filter your transaction history. • Record everyday transactions offline. CLEAR SPENDING REPORTS • See income, expenses, and cash flow at a glance. • Explore charts and category breakdowns. • Review your money by week, month, quarter, or year. SAVINGS GOALS • Save toward a trip, a special purchase, or an emergency fund. • Record contributions and withdrawals. • Follow your progress and review your savings history. ACCOUNTS AND CURRENCIES • Organize balances across your accounts. • Record transactions in different currencies. • View summaries in your chosen main currency. YOUR MONEY, YOUR STYLE Choose light or dark appearance, personalize your accent color, and pick your app icon. Start with today's spending.

About

Ldgr

This app encourages mindful spending by requiring manual entry of all transactions. It helps users stay aware of their remaining budget for various categories with visual progress indicators. Budgets can be shared with others for collaborative financial management.

Highlights
  • Manual transaction entry
  • Customizable budget periods
  • Visual spending progress bars
  • Home screen widgets
  • Shared budgets with collaborators
  • Private iCloud syncing
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Most budgeting apps want you to connect your bank. Every purchase lands in a feed you look through later, after the money's already gone. Ldgr is built for the moment right before you spend. There's no bank to connect and nothing to import, on purpose. You add every purchase yourself and watch the number drop, so you always know what's left. HOW IT WORKS • Make a budget for anything (groceries, date nights, coffee) with a spending limit that resets daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. • Add a purchase in a few seconds. An amount, a date, and a memo if you want one. • Watch what's left. The big number on every screen is what's left to spend, and the bars go from green to orange to red as you get close to the limit. • Look back when it resets. Each period starts fresh, and you can page back through the old ones to see how you did. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Add a widget for one budget or a summary of all of them, and see what's left without opening the app. Tap it and you're already adding a purchase. SHARE A BUDGET Share a budget with your partner, family, or roommates through iCloud. Anyone can add a purchase, and each one shows who added it. WHY I MADE IT At my day job, every spending budget gets its own virtual card. Each purchase still needs a memo from you, and that little moment keeps you in touch with how much is left in each one. No bank I could find offers that for personal budgets, and every budgeting app wants you to connect your bank so it can organize everything for you. That's the opposite of what makes the system work. So I built Ldgr for my wife, and once it had widgets and notifications, I put it in the store. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your budgets live in your own iCloud account and only sync between you and the people you invite. Nobody else can see them (not even me). No analytics, no ads, and no tracking. Ldgr is free.

Screenshots

Money Note4 screens
Ldgr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ldgr at every 9 days against Money Note's every 21 months. Money Note's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Money Note against 5.0 for Ldgr. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Money Note ships an update every 21 months, Ldgr every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Money Note versus Ldgr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoney NoteLdgr
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTien Dat NguyenTanner Mares

Customer experience

Money Note

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ldgr

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Money Note

No in-app purchases

None

Ldgr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Money Note free?
Money Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ldgr free?
Ldgr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Money Note or Ldgr?
Money Note and Ldgr are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Money Note or Ldgr have ads?
Neither Money Note nor Ldgr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Money Note or Ldgr?
Money Note ships an update every 21 months, and Ldgr every 9 days. Most recently, Money Note was updated on November 12, 2026 and Ldgr on November 14, 2026.

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