Comparison

Money Note vs Pocket Clear

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

Pocket Clear

A straightforward, privacy-focused expense tracker that helps you monitor your spending. It offers offline functionality, custom categories, and insightful reports. Optional pro features unlock cloud backup, shared accounts, and advanced budgeting tools.

Highlights
  • Offline expense tracking
  • Customizable spending categories
  • Spending reports and charts
  • Cloud backup and sync (Pro)
  • Shared expense management (Pro)
  • Multi-currency support (Pro)
  • CSV/PDF transaction export (Pro)
Features
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Pocket Clear is a simple expense tracker with no ads and no bank linking. Log an expense in five seconds, see your month on a calendar, and let Apple Pay taps and bank texts log themselves — you check every entry, nothing is hidden from you. AUTOMATIC LOGGING — NO BANK LINKING On-Device AI (Beta, opt-in) • Apple Pay taps log themselves — set up a Shortcuts automation once and every tap is added in the background • Bank texts log themselves too — debit and card-spend SMS become entries the moment they arrive • Share a bank message, receipt photo, or card email to Pocket Clear and it's logged for you • Quick Log on Home — paste, type, scan, or choose a photo — or tell Siri "Log an expense in Pocket Clear" • Ask — "How much on food this month?" — and get exact answers from your own transactions • Everything logged for you waits under Recent captures to check, edit, or undo • Read on your iPhone — nothing you share or ask is uploaded to Pocket Clear or any AI company; off until you switch it on SIMPLE & FAST • Add expenses in seconds with "Money In" and "Money Out" • Smart Suggestions turn a repeat expense into one tap • Custom categories with 95 searchable icons, plus subcategories • Split a transaction across categories, and search your whole history by note, amount, or payee • Dark mode, text size, decimal places, and 10+ languages BUILD THE HABIT • A daily reminder that learns the hour you usually log — and only nudges on days you haven't • Catch-up week — see the last seven days side by side and fill in the ones you missed • Road to 50 — rewards at 10, 25 and 50 entries; log 50 and invite one friend who logs an entry for 3 months of Pro if you've never paid • Invite friends — share your link in one tap • Power score — one number for your money habit, with a nightly rank and what to do next • Daily rings — close Log, Budget and Grow every day • A projection of where your month will land • Today's tip — one feature, illustrated, each day PRIVACY FIRST • Works offline once you're signed in • Your entries stay on your phone unless you use Cloud Sync • Synced entries are encrypted with AES-256 • Tap the eye on Home to hide every amount • No ads, no tracking, no data selling BUILT AROUND YOUR PAY CYCLE • Weekly, fortnightly, semi-monthly, monthly or yearly periods • Start your month on payday instead of the 1st • Carry a balance over from one period to the next REPORTS & INSIGHTS • Calendar view — each day's spending on a month grid; tap a day to see its entries • Insights — this week's spending at a glance, every Sunday • Spending and money in by category, with percentages on the chart • Tap a payment type to see every transaction behind it • Monthly and yearly trends, and a running "Spent today" total • An optional Account balances card on Home for each payment type • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, day streaks and milestones PRO FEATURES • Pro Insights — what's creeping up, your repeat charges, and where to cut back • Cloud backup & sync — change phones and everything is there the moment you sign in • Partner Mode — one shared view of your money with your significant other • Groups and Trips — split shared costs, and see what one trip actually cost • Receipt photos on any transaction, backed up with your data • Pocket Clear on the web — read, sort and export on a full screen • Payees — track who you paid, not just what for • Per-category budgets with alerts and rollover • Savings goals and recurring transactions • Tags and inter-account transfers • Secondary currency and Travel Mode for spending abroad • Export transactions to CSV/PDF Pro is available monthly or yearly. PERFECT FOR • Couples managing shared expenses • Expats and travellers tracking in multiple currencies • Anyone who values privacy and simplicity • Anyone leaving an ad-supported money manager or bank-linked app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Money Note4 screens
Pocket Clear4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Money Note at none against Pocket Clear's 3. Pocket Clear's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (165 vs 7). 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. Pocket Clear sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Money Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Money Note against 4.9 for Pocket Clear. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Clear has 165 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Money Note's written reviews are positive against 93% of Pocket Clear's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Money Note ships an update every 21 months, Pocket Clear weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Money Note versus Pocket Clear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoney NotePocket Clear
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.9 (165 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better93.3% of reviews
Number of ratings7165 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTien Dat NguyenAravind Srinivas C V

Customer experience

Money Note

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

Pocket Clear

All ratings161 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

None

Money Note

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Pocket Clear

Subscriptions3
  • Pocket Clear Pro Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Pocket Clear Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Pocket Clear Pro Annual1 Month trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Money Note free?
Money Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Clear free?
Pocket Clear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Money Note or Pocket Clear?
Money Note is rated higher. Money Note averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Pocket Clear averages 4.9 from 165 ratings.
Do Money Note or Pocket Clear have ads?
Neither Money Note nor Pocket Clear shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Money Note or Pocket Clear?
Money Note ships an update every 21 months, and Pocket Clear weekly. Most recently, Money Note was updated on November 12, 2026 and Pocket Clear on November 9, 2026.

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