Comparison

Maple Budget vs Wally

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Maple Budget

This app helps you track your spending, view monthly financial summaries, and share your budgeting progress. It's designed for mindful spending and celebrating financial wins.

Highlights
  • Effortless expense tracking
  • Monthly financial summaries
  • Shareable budgeting milestones
  • Goal reflection
  • Mindful spending focus
Features
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Maple Budget: Track Your Money, Celebrate Your Wins! Take control of your finances with Maple Budget, the ultimate app for tracking your spending, celebrating progress, and sharing your journey. Maple Budget is completely free to use with no subscriptions. Features to Love: - Effortless Expense Tracking Log every expense with ease and keep a clear view of your spending habits on Maple. - Monthly Maple Wrapped Get a personalized monthly summary that highlights your financial journey—your wins, trends, and more. - Share Your Story Turn your budgeting milestones into shareable moments with friends and loved ones in DMs or on social media. With Maple Budget, you don’t just manage your money—you own your story. Reflect on your goals, celebrate your progress, and inspire others to do the same. All on Maple Budget. Download Maple Budget now and start your journey to mindful spending. Terms of Use: https://maplebudget.com/policies/terms-of-service

About

Wally

Manage your finances by tracking income, expenses, and bills. Visualize spending habits with charts and get AI-powered budgeting advice. Keep all your financial accounts in one place without needing bank connections.

Highlights
  • Paycheck schedule setup
  • All financial accounts in one place
  • Bill due date scheduling
  • Expense tracking and insights
  • Income vs. expenses comparison
  • AI budgeting assistance
Features
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Wally keeps your budget on your phone. There's no bank login and nothing to sync. Tell it when you get paid and how much, and your balance moves on payday without you touching it. Add the accounts you actually use, checking or savings or cash, set the opening balance once, and Wally keeps it current as you log what you spend. Put your monthly bills in with their due dates and it reminds you before they land. Spending goes into categories you make yourself. Three questions and the category exists; the fiddly settings are there when you want them and out of the way when you don't. The charts show what came in against what went out, and how fast a budget is running down rather than only how much is left. Pay with your phone and Wally can pick the purchase up on its own, ready for you to check or already filed. If you share money with someone, a household budget puts the same categories in front of both of you. There's an assistant built in that reads your own numbers and answers questions about them: How much can I save this month? Where am I overspending? What should I cut first? You can lock the whole app behind Face ID. Wally speaks English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Terms of Use: https://wallybudgeting.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://wallybudgeting.app/privacy

Screenshots

Maple Budget4 screens
Wally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wally at Free against Maple Budget's $0.99. Wally also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). Maple Budget's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 42%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.1). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wally is free to download; Maple Budget costs $0.99 up front. Maple Budget sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Wally sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wally holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wally has 20 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Maple Budget's written reviews are positive against 42% of Wally's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maple Budget ships an update every 11 days, Wally weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Maple Budget versus Wally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaple BudgetWally
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)4.8 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings320 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.4 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaple Ventures Core Inc.Salman Lartey

Customer experience

Maple Budget

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Wally

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Maple Budget

Subscriptions1
  • Maple Finance$4.991 Month
2 purchases

Wally

Subscriptions2
  • All Access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • All Access7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Maple Budget free?
Maple Budget costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Wally free?
Wally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Maple Budget or Wally?
Wally is rated higher. Maple Budget averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Wally averages 4.8 from 20 ratings.
Do Maple Budget or Wally have ads?
Maple Budget shows ads; Wally does not.
Which is updated more often, Maple Budget or Wally?
Maple Budget ships an update every 11 days, and Wally weekly. Most recently, Maple Budget was updated on October 13, 2026 and Wally on October 20, 2026.

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