Comparison

MarkBuy vs beanviz

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

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About

MarkBuy

Easily track, analyze, and manage all your digital subscriptions in one secure place. Get a clear overview of your spending, receive timely renewal reminders, and gain insights into your financial habits with customizable settings and multi-currency support.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive subscription management
  • Spending overview and analytics
  • Calendar renewal reminders
  • Biometric data protection
  • Multi-currency support
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Smart app store lookup
Features
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MarkBuy — Your all-in-one subscription manager. Track, analyze, and manage all your subscriptions in one place. With smart features and flexible customization, MarkBuy helps you stay in control of your spending — easily, securely, and intuitively. Key Features • Comprehensive Subscription Management Add, edit, and delete digital subscriptions with ease. Customize names, categories, billing cycles, and amounts to match your needs. • Spending Overview View total monthly and yearly subscription costs at a glance to better manage your finances. • Calendar Reminders Visual calendar shows upcoming renewals and payments so you never miss a charge. • Detailed Analytics Understand your spending patterns and discover saving opportunities through visual charts and insights. • Biometric Protection Secure your data with Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode. • Multi-Currency Support Manage subscriptions in multiple currencies or token systems with smart rate conversion. • Payment History Keep track of every payment — clear, complete, and organized. • Customizable Settings Personalize notifications, renewal options, default pages, and more. • iCloud Sync Sync data across devices — manage anywhere, anytime. • Smart App Store Lookup Search for apps directly while adding a subscription, with auto-filled names and icons. • Local Data Storage Your data stays on your device by default. iCloud sync is optional — privacy first. • Clean, Native Interface Designed with iOS in mind — smooth, intuitive, and user-friendly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

beanviz

Features
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BeanViz turns your Beancount ledger into beautiful, instant insights — right on your iPhone or iPad. Built for people who already trust plain-text accounting (Beancount, double-entry bookkeeping), BeanViz adds the one thing that's been missing: a fast, native, gorgeous mobile visualizer. No web server. No syncing your finances to someone else's cloud. Just open the app and see your money. WHAT YOU GET • Dashboard — Net worth at a glance, with month-over-month change, asset/liability breakdown, cash flow trend, and top expenses for the year. • Assets — Sunburst chart showing your full asset allocation, plus a per-account bar chart that drills down to leaf accounts. • Expenses — Pie chart by category, monthly and daily trend bars, transactions grouped by day, and a "By Tag" view for project- or trip-based tracking. • Income — Income vs. expenses, savings rate, and a breakdown of income sources. • Multi-currency — Auto-converts using the price directives already in your ledger. Switch your base currency between USD, CNY, and SEK on the fly. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN BeanViz truly values your privacy. Your ledger never leaves your device. There is no account to create, no analytics SDK, no remote logging. The only network calls the app makes are the ones you explicitly trigger, to the data sources you choose: • Your own iCloud Drive folder • A private GitHub repository, using a Personal Access Token you control Everything else stays in the app's sandboxed storage. Your originals are never modified. GETTING STARTED New to BeanViz? Tap "Try Demo Ledger" on the welcome screen to load a sample ledger from GitHub. It shows exactly how a valid Beancount folder is structured — main.bean as the entry point, include directives for splitting files, and standard double-entry transactions. When you're ready, re-import your own ledger anytime from the Settings tab. LEDGER REQUIREMENTS • A main.bean file as your entry point. • Standard Beancount syntax is supported, including include directives, price directives, account hierarchies, transactions, and tags. WHO IT'S FOR If you already use Beancount, Ledger CLI, hledger, or any plain-text double-entry accounting tool, you know the trade-off: total control over your data, but no good way to glance at it on the go. BeanViz fixes that. Open it, see your numbers, close it. No friction. Made by a fellow Beancount user. Feedback and feature requests welcome — tap Contact in Settings.

Screenshots

MarkBuy4 screens
beanviz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MarkBuy at Free against beanviz's $1.99. MarkBuy also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). beanviz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

MarkBuy is free to download; beanviz costs $1.99 up front. MarkBuy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. beanviz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MarkBuy ships an update fortnightly, beanviz every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MarkBuy versus beanviz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarkBuybeanviz
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer舟 徐怀峰 张

In-app purchases

4 purchases

MarkBuy

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$3.993 Months
  • Annual Subscription$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • MarkBuy 高级功能$6.99
None

beanviz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MarkBuy free?
MarkBuy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is beanviz free?
beanviz costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do MarkBuy or beanviz have ads?
Neither MarkBuy nor beanviz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MarkBuy or beanviz?
MarkBuy ships an update fortnightly, and beanviz every 3 months. Most recently, MarkBuy was updated on October 3, 2026 and beanviz on October 1, 2026.

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