BillPlex vs Faro Wealth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BillPlex
This app helps individuals and households track income, expenses, and split bills privately. It offers detailed financial insights, smart predictions, and receipt scanning without requiring accounts or bank logins. Everything is stored locally on your device for maximum privacy.
- Split bills with partners or household members
- Track income and expenses
- See who owes whom
- Smart financial predictions
- Receipt scanning and logging
- Manage subscriptions
- Private, local data storage
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BillPlex is the private money tracker for two — or the whole household. Split the bills, track what comes in, and see who owes who — without an account, a bank login, or anything ever leaving your phones. Partners, roommates, or a whole household: one home, three different memories of who paid for the groceries. BillPlex ends the argument. Who paid for what, settled in seconds Assign every expense to a person, see exactly who owes who, and settle up in seconds — not on the back of an envelope. Your personal coffee stays yours and the shared groceries stay shared, so your morning latte never blows up the joint budget. No account. No bank login. No servers. No sign-up wall, no email, no password to forget — install, open, and start in five seconds. When you sync, it happens directly between your phones over your own Wi-Fi: someone adds the supermarket run while you're still at the till, and it lands on everyone's screen before you finish bagging. Even your safety net stays yours: switch on automatic backup and BillPlex quietly keeps an encrypted copy up to date in a spot you choose, locked with your password. Nothing touches a cloud, because there is no cloud. Now it counts what comes in, too: Log your income next to your spending and BillPlex shows the whole picture — money in, money out, and what's actually left. It's your own private household money manager, minus the bank logins: a real view of where your money goes and where it stands. Just you? That works too No one to split with? BillPlex is a clean, private budget tracker for one — all the tracking, charts and predictions, just none of the splitting. The sharing is there the day you need it. See the bad month coming Smart predictions read how you've been spending and earning, then tell you where the month and the year are heading — so you see the wall before you hit it, not after. And the everyday stuff, handled: Snap a receipt and BillPlex pulls the merchant, date and amount — then you bin the paper. Hands full walking home? Say "two coffees and a taxi" and they're logged before you reach the door. Every subscription in one list — catch the free trial you forgot to cancel and the auto-renew that snuck through. Overdue bills stay pinned at the top, bright and impossible to miss, so a late fee never catches you again. Our privacy promise No cloud. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. No analytics. Everything lives on your device, and backups are encrypted on your terms. We don't have your data — because we never wanted it. Your money is your business, full stop. No account, nothing to lose. Open BillPlex and start in five seconds.
Faro Wealth
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Faro shows your whole financial life in one place: what you own, what you owe, what you can safely spend today, and where you are heading long term. Your financial data stays on your iPhone. No bank connection, no account to create, no ads. EVERY DAY • Safe-to-Spend — what you can spend today and for the rest of the month, with committed money kept separate from what is actually free • Quick entry in plain language: type "groceries 42" and Faro fills in the amount and category • Scan a receipt: photograph it and Faro reads the merchant, total and date — all on device, and the photo is never stored • Import transactions from your bank's CSV or Excel file, with a review step before anything is saved — no bank connection and no credentials • A calendar that puts every payment on its own day • Upcoming bills and subscriptions: Faro spots your recurring charges and alerts you when a price goes up • A weekly review of what changed in your spending, savings and goals • Log an expense from Shortcuts or with Back Tap, without opening the app BUDGET • Monthly income, spending and saving, with categories and subcategories • Savings and investments count as allocations, not spending — so your savings rate is right • Recurring rules for salary, bills, transfers and automatic investing, with per-occurrence exceptions: move, change the amount, or skip ACCOUNTS AND NET WORTH • Bank accounts, cash, cards and loans, with transfers and a full per-account history • Net worth in a single number: accounts, investments, property and liabilities • A cash-flow forecast for the months ahead • Cash runway: how many months your available money lasts at your current spending INVESTMENTS • A portfolio of stocks, ETFs and crypto, with average cost and per-position return • End-of-day market prices • Compare each holding with the index it tracks • Markets: indices from the Americas, Europe and Asia • Multi-year portfolio projection with recurring buys and scenarios PLANNING • A financial health score, broken down by area, with concrete next steps • Goals with a completion forecast • FI Planner: when you reach financial independence, with scenarios ON YOUR DEVICE • Three home screen widgets • Hide every amount with one toggle • Face ID lock • 12 base currencies, using ECB rates • Backup and restore to a file you control PRIVACY Your transactions, accounts and balances are stored locally on the device. Faro never connects to your bank, never asks for credentials, and does not track you. To show share prices and exchange rates it requests market data from the Faro service, and company logo images from Logo.dev — without sending your financial details. FARO PREMIUM Free: up to 50 transactions per month, 3 accounts, 3 recurring rules, 1 investment, 1 goal, and the last month of history when importing a bank file. Premium: unlimited transactions, accounts, recurring rules, investments and goals, import of your full history, automatic investing, a daily spending chart, portfolio and cash-flow forecasts, wealth summary, financial health improvement steps, FI Planner, every weekly insight, runway scenarios, a 90-day bills timeline, your choice of benchmark index, annual reports, CSV export and the premium widgets. Monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription, billed to your Apple Account. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your account settings. Company logos provided by Logo.dev. Terms of Use (EULA): https://farowealth.app/faro_terms_eula_bilingual Privacy Policy: https://farowealth.app/faro_privacy_policy_bilingual
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BillPlex at none against Faro Wealth's 2. BillPlex also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Faro Wealth's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, ads 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. Faro Wealth sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. BillPlex asks for nothing beyond the download.
BillPlex ships an update every 4 days, Faro Wealth daily. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | BillPlex | Faro Wealth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nexus Software Systems L.P. | Maria Esmeralda Papagiannopoulou |
In-app purchases
BillPlex
No in-app purchases
Faro Wealth
- Faro Premium Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Faro Premium Annual14 Days trial$24.991 Year









