Comparison

Cashew 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

Cashew

This app helps you understand your spending habits by allowing you to set flexible budgets and visualize your financial progress with charts. Track subscriptions, recurring transactions, and manage finances across different currencies with a personalized interface.

Highlights
  • Flexible budgeting (monthly, weekly, custom)
  • Visual spending reports (pie charts, bar graphs)
  • Subscription and recurring transaction tracking
  • Personalized interface (dark mode, accent colors)
  • Multi-currency support with conversion rates
  • Timely reminders for transactions
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Take control of your money with Cashew, a free all-in-one expense tracker, budget planner, and personal finance manager. Track spending, manage budgets, understand where your money goes, and build better financial habits with a fast, flexible experience you can customize to fit your life. Flexible Budgeting: Create a budget that fits your life. Plan by week, month, year, or any custom period, adjust as your needs change, and stay on top of your spending without rigid rules. Clear Spending Insights: Turn everyday transactions into useful insights with interactive line charts, pie charts, and bar graphs. Spot spending trends, compare periods, and make more informed financial decisions. See Where Your Money Goes: Review your spending history, understand your habits, find unnecessary expenses, and uncover more opportunities to save. Fast Daily Expense Tracking: Add expenses and income in seconds with an intuitive interface built for quick, everyday use. Less friction makes it easier to keep your finances up to date. Stay Ahead of Bills: Track subscriptions, recurring expenses, and upcoming payments in one place, with automatic reminders to help you avoid missed bills. Make It Yours: Customize colors, themes, layouts, categories, and settings so your budget tracker feels personal and works the way you do. Multi-Currency Money Management: Track money across multiple currencies with automatic exchange rates plus accurate balance and net worth calculations. Private & Secure: Your financial data stays on your device. Your data is never collected, shared, or sold. Start building better money habits today. Download Cashew to track expenses, plan your budget, monitor spending, and manage your personal finances with confidence. Privacy Policy: https://cashewapp.web.app/policy.html#policy Terms of Service: https://cashewapp.web.app/policy.html#terms

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

Cashew4 screens
Pocket Clear4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pocket Clear at weekly against Cashew's every 3 weeks. Cashew's advantage is ratings volume (542 vs 165). 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. Cashew sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Pocket Clear sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cashew against 4.9 for Pocket Clear. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 542 and 165 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Cashew's written reviews are positive against 93% of Pocket Clear's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cashew ships an update every 3 weeks, Pocket Clear weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cashew versus Pocket Clear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCashewPocket Clear
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (542 ratings) — better4.9 (165 ratings)
Positive reviews97.6% of reviews — better93.3% of reviews
Number of ratings542 — better165
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames KokoskaAravind Srinivas C V

Customer experience

Cashew

All ratings533 ratings
Positive99.1%
Neutral0.6%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews334 reviews
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.2%

Pocket Clear

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

Bugs and requests

Cashew

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Recurring transactions not generating properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when configuring past installments

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add widgets for quick access
  • Implement shared budgets and family access
  • Improve recurring transaction management
  • Export data to Excel/CSV

Pocket Clear

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cashew

Subscriptions2
  • Cashew Pro Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Cashew Pro Yearly$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cashew Pro Lifetime$19.99
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 Cashew free?
Cashew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Clear free?
Pocket Clear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cashew or Pocket Clear?
Cashew is rated higher. Cashew averages 4.9 out of 5 from 542 ratings, while Pocket Clear averages 4.9 from 165 ratings.
Do Cashew or Pocket Clear have ads?
Neither Cashew nor Pocket Clear shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cashew or Pocket Clear?
Cashew ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pocket Clear weekly. Most recently, Cashew was updated on November 7, 2026 and Pocket Clear on November 5, 2026.

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