Cribnote Accounting vs Counted
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cribnote Accounting
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Cribnote is an AI-powered bookkeeping companion designed exclusively for registered Cribnote users. This app streamlines financial processes by capturing documents and integrating seamlessly with QuickBooks, helping businesses and accountants manage their records effortlessly. Key Features: AI-powered OCR for accurate data extraction from invoices, receipts, and bills Seamless QuickBooks integration for real-time data synchronization Bank statement extraction to simplify reconciliation Cloud-based document management for secure storage and access Automated transaction categorization to save time Custom workflows to match unique business needs Multi-user collaboration for improved team efficiency How Cribnote Works: Capture financial documents using AI-powered OCR Automatically extract & categorize data for accounting Sync records with QuickBooks via the Cribnote web platform Securely store documents in encrypted cloud storage Important: This app is for existing Cribnote company users only. All account management and purchases are handled externally through the Cribnote web portal. This app does not offer standalone signup, subscription management, or in-app purchases.
Counted
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Counted is the expense-splitting app for friends: 100% European, private by design, with an environmental mission. Holiday, flat share, weekend, group gift: log your expenses and Counted tells you who owes how much to whom, in the fewest transfers. No account needed Create a project, send the link. That is it. Your friends join and take part without signing up. An account? Never required. It is for finding your projects on another device, inviting friends from the app and sharing your payment details. Encrypted on your phone Names, amounts, projects, history: everything is encrypted on your phone. Only you hold the key. Nobody can read your books, not even us. Your password, too, never leaves your phone. Receipt scanning, on your phone Take a photo of the receipt: amount, date and category fill in on their own. Everything happens on your phone. The photo is not kept. 100% European Servers in Germany, emails sent from France. Your projects never leave the European Union. Free, really No ads, no trackers, no subscription, no paid version, no cap on expenses or participants. We collect nothing, we do not sell your data. That is not our model. Everything for shared expenses • Expenses, transfers and gains, with several payers and several beneficiaries • Split equally, by shares or by exact amount, checked to the cent • The fewest transfers to settle the group • Recurring expenses like rent or subscriptions: entered once, added every time they fall due • Over 150 currencies, converted at the European Commission's monthly rate • Statistics by category, by person and month by month • History of who added, edited or deleted what • Search by name, note or category, run on your device • With an account, a personal “My expenses” project: what you spend alone plus your share of your groups, month by month • Move an expense from one project to another • Monthly budgets per category on your real share, with an 80 % warning worked out on your device • Offline: browse and enter with no network • CSV and JSON export in one tap • Payment details (IBAN, PayPal, Wero, Lydia, Revolut…) encrypted like everything else • Tricount import: paste the share link, everything comes across • On iPhone and on the web: the same project everywhere, with the same link • 32 languages, including all 24 official EU languages A mission Counted is built to be efficient and simple: no ads, no trackers. The maths runs on your device. We commit to giving a share of our revenue to environmental causes. How does it actually work? counted.fr/en/privacy Verify the code you run yourself: counted.fr/en/verify
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Counted at weekly against Cribnote Accounting's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cribnote Accounting ships an update every 3 months, Counted weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribnote Accounting | Counted |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cribnote | Bosi Jonathan |
In-app purchases
Cribnote Accounting
No in-app purchases
Counted
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Cribnote Accounting free?
Is Counted free?
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