Pluto Budgeting vs Track It
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pluto Budgeting
This app helps you manage your finances by budgeting based on your paycheck schedule, not calendar months. It calculates your safe spending amount and helps you save for irregular expenses, making financial planning simpler.
- Budgeting by paycheck schedule
- Real-time Safe to Spend calculation
- Incremental Savings for irregular expenses
- Smart transaction matching
- Pay Period Forecast
- Bank sync (Premium)
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Most budget apps tell you where your money went. Pluto tells you what you can safely spend today, and makes sure the big stuff is covered before you do. Budgeting by paycheck, not by month. Your bills don't care about calendar months. Rent is due on the 1st. Car insurance hits in March and September. Your paycheck lands every two weeks. Pluto works the way your money actually works. Tell Pluto your income schedule and your bills, and it creates a transaction for every upcoming occurrence (rent, utilities, subscriptions, insurance, all of it), organized by pay period. After setup it mostly runs itself: confirm a match and move on. You're comparing real transactions against your planned ones, not asking whether a coffee run counts as Shopping or Groceries. Safe to Spend: the number you actually need. Your bank balance doesn't know your rent is due in four days, or that your car registration lands next month. Safe to Spend does. It takes your current balance, your upcoming scheduled transactions, and what you've set aside for savings, then gives you one number per account, updated constantly. Never get blindsided by a big bill again. With Scheduled Savings, you tell Pluto about an irregular expense (car insurance, property taxes, holiday spending, an annual subscription) and it sets aside a little from each paycheck so the money is ready when the bill arrives. $600 car insurance due in six months? Pluto spreads it across your paychecks, roughly $46 at a time. By the time the bill hits, it's already funded. No scrambling, no overdraft. It works for anything outside a monthly rhythm: HOA dues, a family vacation, back-to-school shopping, a birthday you know is coming. Set it up once and stop thinking about it. Transactions that match themselves. When a bank transaction comes in, Pluto checks your planned transactions and suggests the match. You confirm or adjust, with no manual categorization and no month-end reconciliation. The Pay Period Forecast shows what's coming, so nothing lands as a surprise. A free tier you can actually run on. The free tier includes full scheduling, Scheduled Savings, and manual transaction entry. Premium adds automatic bank sync so transactions import themselves, plus priority support. Premium also connects Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Apple Savings. Pluto is $9.99 a month or $99 a year. No ads. No selling your data. Pluto exists because the alternatives were too simple to be useful, too complex to stick with, or too expensive to justify. What you get: • Safe to Spend, calculated per account in real time • Schedule-based budgeting by pay period, not calendar month • Scheduled Savings for irregular and annual expenses • Smart matching between bank transactions and your scheduled bills • Pay Period Forecast to see what's coming before it arrives • Bank sync via a secure, read-only connection (Premium) • Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Apple Savings support (Premium) Your money, finally making sense. Terms of Service: https://www.plutobudgeting.com/terms
Track It
Effortlessly manage your spending, track bills, and understand your finances with this intuitive expense tracker and budget planner. Gain control over your money through smart insights and simple logging.
- Fast expense tracking
- Monthly budget monitoring
- Recurring bill management
- Spending insights and reports
- Home screen widgets
- Data export to CSV
- App lock for privacy
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Track It is a simple expense tracker and budget planner designed to help you manage spending, track recurring bills, and understand your personal finances without clutter. Track daily expenses in seconds, monitor your monthly budget, manage subscriptions and recurring expenses, and view smart spending insights that help you stay in control of your money. Whether you are looking for an expense manager, spending tracker, bill tracker, or budget app, Track It gives you a fast and lightweight way to build better financial habits. Track expenses faster • Add expenses quickly with categories, notes, payment methods, and dates • Built for fast daily expense tracking with a clean and focused experience • Stay consistent with simple expense logging that takes only seconds Stay on top of your budget • Set monthly budgets and track spending progress • View your safe-to-spend amount anytime • Spot overspending early and improve your budgeting habits Understand your spending • View spending insights, category breakdowns, and monthly reports • Analyze spending patterns with clean charts and summaries • Understand where your money goes with smarter financial insights Manage recurring bills and subscriptions • Track recurring expenses including rent, subscriptions, EMIs, utility bills, and repeat payments • Get visibility into upcoming bills and payment schedules • Stay organized with recurring expense tracking and reminders Home Screen widgets • Check expenses, budgets, recurring bills, and spending summaries directly from your Home Screen • Monitor your finances quickly without opening the app Export and protect your data • Export expense history to CSV for backup and spreadsheet analysis • Keep your financial data organized and accessible Track It Premium includes • iCloud sync across devices • Advanced spending insights and monthly reports • CSV export • Unlimited expense entries • App lock for extra privacy Track It is designed to be fast, lightweight, and easy to use every day. No clutter. No complicated finance tools. Just simple expense tracking, budgeting, and recurring bill management that helps you stay in control of your spending. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://right-tanker-35d.notion.site/Track-It-Privacy-Policy-2b22378461d580538d29f25e3daabd67
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pluto Budgeting at 16.4 against Track It's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Pluto Budgeting sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Track It sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pluto Budgeting ships an update weekly, Track It every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pluto Budgeting | Track It |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pluto Budgeting LLC | Dhruv Pujara |
Customer experience
Pluto Budgeting
Track It
In-app purchases
Pluto Budgeting
- Pluto Premium$9.991 Month
- Pluto Premium (Annual)$99.001 Year
Track It
- Track It Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Track It Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year









