Owe vs Stack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Owe
This app helps you manage personal finances by tracking who owes you money and who you owe. It simplifies budgeting and ensures you never miss payment deadlines. Visualize your finances with list or calendar views and stay informed with a convenient homepage widget.
- Track one-off payments
- Manage recurring payments
- Filter payments by status/type
- Customizable date and currency formats
- List and calendar payment views
- Homepage widget for upcoming payments
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Missed a payment again? Not sure where the month is heading? Owe keeps every bill, loan and IOU in one place, reminds you before anything is due, and shows your balance for the whole month at a glance. No bank logins, no sign-up, no spreadsheets. NEVER MISS A PAYMENT • A reminder on the day a payment is due • Overdue, upcoming and paid, clearly split so nothing slips • Mark anything paid with a single tap SEE YOUR MONTH COMING • What you owe and what you're owed, front and centre • Week and month views with a balance graph, so there are no end-of-month surprises • A Home Screen widget with your next payment and your totals ANY KIND OF PAYMENT • One-offs: dinner, tickets, borrowed cash • Recurring: rent, bills and subscriptions, weekly or monthly, even every second Friday • Part payments: record what's been paid back and see what's left OWE PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Multiple accounts: keep Personal, Business and Joint separate and switch in a tap • Transfers: move money between your accounts and both sides stay in step • Reminder options: get reminded days before, at a time that suits you • Face ID lock: keep your balances private • Export to CSV: open every payment in Numbers or Excel • No ads Already bought Remove Ads? It includes Owe Pro. Just tap Restore Purchase. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your payments stay on your device. No account, no bank connection, and Owe never sees your financial information. Choose your currency (£, $, €, ¥, ₹, ₽) and date format. Download Owe and stay on top of what you owe, and what's owed to you.
Stack
Easily track and manage personal finances by categorizing credit and debt across multiple devices. Create separate spaces for different financial situations, share summaries, and use the built-in calculator for complex calculations.
- Categorize credit and debt
- Create multiple financial spaces
- Share debt summaries
- Integrated value calculator
- Split expenses easily
- App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
- Apple Watch app for on-the-go management
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Stack is the fastest debt management app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. It enables you to categorize money you are owed and money you owe, and conveniently track and manage your finances across multiple devices. Stack offers the following features: • Spaces: Create multiple Spaces to categorize your debt. For example, you can create a Space for each friend who owes you money. • Add Entries: Add an entry to a Space with one tap. Give each entry a name, quantity, and value. Use a positive value for money you are owed and a negative value for money you owe. Entries in Spaces can be sorted by date, value, or name. • Remove Debt: Removing debt is also straightforward. Tap on the circle on the left side of a debt entry to remove it. If you accidentally removed an entry, you can restore it later, similar to the Reminders app. • Share Debt: You can choose to share the debt of a Space, which generates a list of all debt and the total sum. You can choose if you want to include entries previously marked as complete, and you can choose to include the date of the entry. The date can also be edited. • Value Calculator: You can use the integrated calculator to perform complex calculations and then transfer them directly to the value field. • Split Sum: With this feature, sharing expenses is easy. Just choose the number of parts you want to split a Space's total into, and Stack will automatically calculate the amount of each part. • App Lock: Stack offers Face ID or Touch ID to lock the app, ensuring that only you can access it. • Apple Watch App: You can view, edit, and add new entries on your Apple Watch. No connection to your iPhone is required. • iCloud Sync: All your data is synced between your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. • Privacy: Your data is stored only on your device and in iCloud. The app does not collect any user data, and the developer has no access to it. • Text Field Sizes: You can adjust the name field and the value field sizes to your preference.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stack at 100% against Owe's 50%. Stack also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.8) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Owe sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stack holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Owe's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stack's.
Owe ships an update every 2 months, Stack every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Owe | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andy Dobson | Leon Boettger |
Customer experience
Owe
Stack
In-app purchases
Owe
- Remove Adverts$3.99
- Owe Pro$4.99
Stack
- Stack+$0.99









