Cashew vs Fint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Fint
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Fint is a privacy-first spending tracker built for people who want to understand their finances without giving up their data. No account required. No servers. No third parties. Everything you log stays on your device, and your device alone. Track your spending Log receipts by scanning them with your camera or entering them manually. Fint reads the store name, total, and date automatically using on-device OCR. You can always edit before saving. Every receipt is categorized, searchable, and stored locally. Set budgets that work Set a daily, weekly, or monthly spending cap. Break it down by category and get alerts at 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% of your budget so you always know where you stand. Budget statuses update in real time so you are never caught off guard. Never miss a bill Add your subscriptions and recurring bills once. Fint records them automatically on their due date and reminds you two days before. Fixed bills record themselves. Variable bills prompt you to update the amount before the due date. See where your money goes The Insights tab gives you a spending breakdown by category, daily and weekly spending charts, and a 30-day summary with your total and daily average. Every chart is toggleable so you only see what matters to you. Fint Wrapped On December 31st, Fint gives you a full year in review. Your top category, most visited store, biggest purchase, busiest month, best streak, and more. Streaks Stay within your weekly budget consistently and build a streak. Hit 8 weekly streaks and unlock monthly streaks. Fint tracks your longest streak and keeps you motivated without punishment messaging. iCloud sync, your way iCloud backup is off by default. Turn it on in Settings and your spending data syncs across all your Apple devices using your personal iCloud. Nothing passes through any server we own or operate. Open source and MIT licensed so you can verify exactly how it works. Privacy by design Most finance apps ask you to create an account. Fint does not. Your device is your account. There is no database to breach, no server to hack, and no data to sell. Your spending history belongs to you. Fint is free, open source, and built for iOS 18.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fint at none against Cashew's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cashew sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Fint asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Cashew | Fint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (534 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 97.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 534 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Kokoska | CHUKWUKA WILLIAM UWEFOH |
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
Fint
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cashew
- Cashew Pro Monthly$1.491 Month
- Cashew Pro Yearly$11.991 Year
- Cashew Pro Lifetime$19.99
Fint
No in-app purchases









