Comparison

Cashew vs Moneylock

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

Moneylock

Features
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Moneylock gives you a calm, private place to plan your money. Your plans, purchases, goals, and Vector conversations stay on your device—not in an advertising or analytics cloud. Build a budget that fits your rhythm: weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Set spending caps for the categories that matter, add income, and see exactly what is safe to spend in the current plan period. Capture purchases your way. Add them manually, use your voice, or scan a receipt. Review history, correct an entry, track subscriptions, and protect a savings goal. Meet Vector, your on-device financial assistant. Vector can add, find, edit, and remove local records; update plans, categories, subscriptions, and savings goals; and provide a concise financial check-in. It focuses on Moneylock and financial education, asks for confirmation before saving changes, and works offline once its local model is installed. MONEYLOCK FEATURES • Weekly, biweekly, and monthly budgets • Category caps and current-period budget health • Expense history, editing, and deletion • Savings goals and subscription reminders • Receipt scanning and voice entry • Vector: fast local AI for your Moneylock data • CSV backup and restore • Optional private-server sync, controlled by you Moneylock provides educational information only, not investment, legal, tax, insurance, credit, or other professional financial advice.

Screenshots

Cashew4 screens
Moneylock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moneylock at none against Cashew's 3. Moneylock also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Cashew sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Moneylock asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cashew versus Moneylock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCashewMoneylock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (534 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews97.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings534 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames KokoskaDiego Alexander Lopez Ramirez

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

Moneylock

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
None

Moneylock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cashew free?
Cashew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moneylock free?
Moneylock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cashew or Moneylock have ads?
Neither Cashew nor Moneylock shows ads.

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