Budget Tracker vs Drip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Budget Tracker
This app provides a clear, real-time view of your disposable income after accounting for all bills and recurring expenses. It intelligently adjusts your budget based on your actual income, not just your bank balance, helping you avoid surprises and understand your spending habits.
- Real-time 'left to spend' calculation
- Automatic bill and recurring expense deduction
- Income-adaptive budgeting
- Planned expenses timeline
- Spending trend analysis
- One-tap expense entry
- Private, on-device data storage
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What's safe to spend right now? Not your bank balance. What's left after bills, subscriptions, and savings - before the next payday. No bank connection required. Ever. No account. No sign-in. Brim shows you one honest number, and it never leaves your iPhone. SET UP ONCE. KNOW EVERY DAY. Add your bills, subscriptions, and recurring expenses once. Brim deducts them automatically - that number on your home screen is what's actually yours to spend. No mental math. No guessing before you spend. NO BANK CONNECTION. STILL AUTOMATIC. Brim never connects to your bank. Set up an Apple Pay automation once, and every tap to pay logs itself as an expense - no manual entry, ever. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Salary on the 29th. Freelance month. Two paychecks at different times. Brim plans on what you actually expect to earn, and adjusts as reality unfolds. ASK SIRI AI Ask Siri what's left in your budget, or for any category, like "Ask Brim what I have left for Coffee Shops." Ask Siri to add a transaction, hands free. Search your transactions right from Spotlight. UNDERSTAND YOUR MONEY, AT A GLANCE Six charts, each with one job. • Spending Breakdown - watch your paycheck flow from income to every category • Spending Trend - is this month better or worse than your usual? • Top Spending - which categories are absorbing the most? • Saving Rate - are you on track? Benchmarks included, not a vague thumbs-up Tap any chart. Apple Intelligence tells you what it means, in one sentence, on your device. ONE TAP TO ADD AN EXPENSE Tap once inside the app. Pick a category. Done. Or set up an Apple Pay automation in iOS Shortcuts and let your purchases log themselves. Whichever feels less like work. Brim also suggests the right emoji when you create a new category - small touch, but it makes the app feel like yours. WORKS WHILE YOU'RE NOT LOOKING • 8 Home Screen widgets, plus Lock Screen widgets • Browse what's ahead in the new Upcoming calendar • A reminder before a recurring payment goes out • Apple Pay automation via Shortcuts • Recurring bills auto-deducted every month PRIVATE BY DESIGN. NO SIGN-IN, EVER. Open Brim and start. No account to create, no email, no password. Your financial data lives on your device. iCloud sync goes through your personal account - we never see it. The AI features run on-device too - your transactions never leave your iPhone. BUILT TO BE FAST Opens instantly. No loading screen. Just your number, right there. Logging an expense on the go takes three seconds. That's the whole point. DATA YOU OWN • CSV import from other budget apps • CSV export anytime • 180+ currencies supported BUILT WITH YOU Made by one indie developer who uses Brim every day. Vote on the roadmap, email feedback, help shape what comes next. - Lazare Privacy: https://getbrim.app/privacy Terms: https://getbrim.app/terms
Drip
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Your subscriptions cost more than you think. Drip shows you exactly where your money goes — every month, quarter, and year. The trick most subscription apps won't tell you: showing costs monthly hides the pain. That "just €9.99/month" streaming service is €120 a year. Drip shows both — because you deserve the full picture. KEY FEATURES - Annual cost always visible — every service displays its true yearly cost alongside the billing amount. No more mental math. - Spending dashboard — your total recurring spend broken down by month, quarter, and year, with the next 14 days of charges at a glance. Drip Pro adds the deeper analysis: the 12-month trend, seasonal patterns and the split by category. - Smart service catalog — 80+ popular services pre-built with icons and colors. Adding Netflix, Spotify, or iCloud takes seconds. Anything else, add it as a custom service with its own icon and color. - Your own categories (Drip Pro) — create as many as you need, pick the icon and color, and file each service where it actually belongs. - Payment tracking — know exactly when each service renews. By default a charge counts as paid on its date; if you pay some by hand, turn that off and mark each one with a swipe or a tick. - Every billing cycle — weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly, every six months, yearly, or any custom number of days. Drip calculates the monthly equivalent so you can compare like with like. - Free trials — track when a trial ends before it turns into a charge. - Monthly budget (Drip Pro) — set a limit and see how much of it your services already take. - Annual recap (Drip Pro) — once Drip has a few months with you, see what you've spent, your biggest drip, and what pausing services saved you. - Widgets (Drip Pro) — your total and your next charges on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, with the countdown always current. - Siri Shortcuts (Drip Pro) — ask for your monthly total or your next bill without opening the app. - Colour themes (Drip Pro) — Copper stays free; Ink, Petrol and Receipt recolour the whole app, day and night. - Pause, don't delete — paused services stay in your history without counting toward your totals. - Reminders — optional local notifications before each charge and a weekly summary. - iCloud sync — optional, on by default so your services follow you across devices. You can turn it off in Settings any time. - English, Spanish and French. DRIP PRO — ONE PURCHASE, FOR GOOD Drip is free, and the daily loop is free: unlimited services, the dashboard, reminders, every billing cycle, trials, pause, iCloud sync. Drip Pro is a single purchase — no subscription, shared with your family — and opens the annual recap, the deeper analysis, the monthly budget, your own categories, the widgets and Siri. Try it free for 30 days first, once per Apple ID: nothing is charged, and when the month ends the Pro features close again while whatever you created with them stays yours. There's also an optional tip jar, in case Drip earns its place on your phone and you feel like saying thanks. It unlocks nothing. No account, no ads. Your data stays on your device and in your iCloud. No gamification. No guilt trips. No judgmental copy telling you to spend less. Drip presents the facts clearly and lets you decide. You spend €2,340 a year on services — the number speaks for itself. Built by Seize — tools that empower people to take control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Drip at every 3 days against Budget Tracker's every 2 weeks. 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. Budget Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Drip sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Budget Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Drip every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Budget Tracker | Drip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lazare Kolebka | Sendoa Sola Osorio |
In-app purchases
Budget Tracker
- Brim Pro$4.991 Month
- Brim Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Brim Pro Lifetime$59.99
Drip
- 30-day TrialFree
- A coffee$2.99
- A meal$4.99
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- A dinner$8.99
- Drip Pro$8.99









