Comparison

Cashew vs Twally

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

Twally

Features
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Twally is a shared expense tracker designed for couples, partners, and roommates. Say goodbye to tedious manual bill splitting. With back-tap screenshot logging, on-device intelligence, secret surprise protection, and interactive transaction dialogues, managing shared living costs becomes effortless, transparent, and meaningful. Whether you are grocery shopping, dining out, planning a vacation, or splitting household bills, Twally keeps your shared finances organized. [Key Features] Zero-Touch Back Tap Entry Integrate with iOS Back Tap and Shortcuts to capture payment confirmation screens with a double tap on the back of your iPhone. Powered by the Apple Vision framework, amounts and merchants are extracted on-device in milliseconds without manual typing. Real-Time Couple Sync Built on Apple native iCloud CloudKit technology, both partners can record expenses independently while data merges instantly into a single shared ledger. Clearly separate shared expenses, your spending, and your partner's spending. One upgrade covers both partners. Secret Gift Protection Planning a surprise birthday gift or anniversary dinner? Enable Surprise Protection with one tap. Your partner will see a placeholder notice without revealing the merchant, category, or note, keeping your romantic gesture secret while keeping accounts balanced. Transaction Dialogues and Live Activity Finances can be warm and communicative. Leave comments, reactions, and interactive stickers on any transaction. Stay connected through real-time notifications on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen Live Activities. Smart Voice and Text Parsing Speak naturally to record expenses instantly with automatic speech recognition and smart categorization. Copy and paste payment confirmation notices to extract details with built-in knowledge across hundreds of popular merchant brands. Shared Wishlist Add desired items to your shared wishlist first to encourage thoughtful spending. Save together, coordinate budgets, and convert fulfilled wishes into active expenses with one tap. Financial Analytics Dashboard Track contributions at a glance using the Duo Ratio comparison bar. Monitor spending habits with 6-month stacked trend charts, category donut breakdowns, and month-over-month comparisons. Installments, Recurring Schedules, and Refunds Spread large purchases across 2 to 60 monthly installments. Schedule recurring expenses such as rent and subscriptions. Match refunds directly against original transactions to prevent duplicate or conflicting entries. [Privacy and Security Commitment] • Zero Ads: Twally contains no third-party advertisements or behavioral tracking SDKs. • Native iCloud Sync: All financial details reside securely on your local device and your private Apple iCloud database. Our servers never receive, inspect, or store your transaction amounts, notes, or photos. • On-Device Vision Processing: Optical character recognition runs completely offline via local hardware neural engines. Screenshots are never uploaded to any remote server. [Pricing and Terms] • Single-User Mode is Free: All local personal bookkeeping features, categories, dashboards, wishlists, and data export tools remain completely free. • Twally Together includes a 14-day free trial upon pairing. No pre-authorized payment is required, and no automatic charges occur when the trial ends. • Together access is available as an auto-renewing yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. A single purchase unlocks shared sync for both partners. Terms of Use: https://gobefar.com/twally/terms Privacy Policy: https://gobefar.com/twally/privacy

Screenshots

Cashew4 screens
Twally4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cashew and Twally are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Twally sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cashew versus Twally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCashewTwally
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (533 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews97.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings533 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames Kokoska晓灵 潘

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

Twally

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
2 purchases

Twally

Subscriptions1
  • Twally Duo Annual$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Twally Duo Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Cashew free?
Cashew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Twally free?
Twally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cashew or Twally have ads?
Neither Cashew nor Twally shows ads.

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