Comparison

CutCut vs Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker

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

Head to head
About

CutCut

Features
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CutCut helps you track personal expenses and split shared bills for trips, dinners, and home life. PERSONAL EXPENSE TRACKING Record income and expenses, choose categories, and review monthly spending trends. GROUP EXPENSE SPLITTING Create a group for a trip, dinner, or shared home. Track who paid and see who owes whom. Split expenses equally or enter custom amounts and shares. SMART CATEGORIES Request an optional AI category suggestion to help organize a transaction. MONTHLY BUDGET Set a monthly spending target and track your progress. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Check your monthly balance and recent expenses from your home screen. USE ACROSS DEVICES CutCut is available on iOS, Android, and the web. Sign in with the same linked account to sync across devices. Guest expenses are stored in Firebase, but guest access is tied to the original app installation or browser. Link a Google or Apple account before changing devices, reinstalling, or clearing browser data to keep access. CutCut supports English and Traditional Chinese. CutCut Pro adds higher group limits, CSV export, and foreign-currency expense entry. SUBSCRIPTIONS CutCut Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account subscription settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cutcut-7a9eb.web.app/privacy

About

Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker

Features
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One book, shared with the people in your life. Budget+ helps you organize everyday spending, household costs and travel expenses. Track on your own or together, and see where your money goes. 【Track together】 • Sign in to create or join a book. Invite family, a partner or friends by link. Shared records sync while online. 【Different phones, one book】 • Everyone records on their own phone, with shared household and travel spending in one place. 【Speak instead of typing】 • Hold the mic and say an item and amount, such as “Lunch 12”, then check the result, choose a category and save. Requires mic and speech recognition permissions and device speech support. 【Keep frequent items on your Home Screen】 • iOS 17+: save up to 5 items from the past 30 days, then add a Home Screen widget and select your preset. Medium shows up to 3; large up to 5. Tap to open its book with the category and note filled in, then enter the amount. 【Categories that fit your life】 • Add, rename, delete and drag to reorder income and expense categories, subject to book permissions. 【See where your money goes】 • Review income, expenses and balance. Bar and pie charts show category totals and shares. 【From totals to details】 • Switch between all records and categories. Open a category for details; swipe to view another. 【Track together, view separately】 • Filter the overview and search by who recorded each entry, or view everyone's records. 【Choose how you collaborate】 • Book owners can remove members and decide whether members may edit the book name, categories, currency and all records. 【Pick your period】 • View today, this week, this month, last month or a date range. Overview ranges over one month require Premium. 【Find that expense】 • Search notes or categories; filter by income, expense, category and author. Free search covers the past month; Premium adds more date ranges. 【Sort by date or amount】 • Sort category details to see recent records or larger expenses first. 【Batch entry (Premium)】 • Set a start date, an interval in days, weeks or months, and 2–30 entries. Create rent, subscription or regular income records in one batch. 【Adjust a batch (Premium)】 • Edit or delete one entry, or apply the change to that entry and later ones in the same batch. 【A book for each part of life (Premium)】 • Separate personal, household and travel spending. Create or join up to 10 books in total. 【Reuse your categories (Premium)】 • Copy an existing book's income and expense categories when creating a new book. 【Choose your book currency】 • Search by currency name or code and pin favorites. Changing a book's currency does not convert saved amounts. 【Automatic currency conversion (Premium)】 • Automatically convert between your book and preferred currencies as you enter amounts. Switch the overview's display currency for a familiar view of travel costs. Online rates are for reference and may differ from bank or card rates. If a rate is unavailable, record in the book currency. 【Review longer periods (Premium)】 • Review more than a month at once. Search the past 6 months, past year or a custom period. 【Export your selected period】 • Export all records in the period as CSV for Excel, including date, note, amount, type, category and author. 【Make it your own】 • Choose free themes such as Milk Tea, Warm Tones of Dusk and Countryside. 【Custom colors (Premium)】 • Unlock more themes, make a palette with the color picker or Hex codes, preview it and share its link. 【Free and Premium】 • Free includes ads and one book you create or join, for solo or shared tracking. • Premium removes ads and adds up to 10 books in total, batch entry, currency conversion, more themes, custom colors and longer review and search periods. See the app for plans and prices. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CutCut4 screens
Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CutCut at none against Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CutCut sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CutCut ships an update every 3 days, Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
CutCut versus Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCutCutBudget+ Shared Expense Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB99 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHING LINKevin Chiu

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CutCut

Subscriptions2
  • CutCut Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • CutCut Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
5 purchases

Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Budget+ Premium$1.991 Month
  • Budget+ Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Budget+ Premium1 Year trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Budget+ Premium$19.99
  • Budget+ Premium$29.99

Questions

Is CutCut free?
CutCut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker free?
Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CutCut or Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker have ads?
Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker shows ads; CutCut does not.
Which is updated more often, CutCut or Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker?
CutCut ships an update every 3 days, and Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker weekly. Most recently, CutCut was updated on November 5, 2026 and Budget+ Shared Expense Tracker on November 15, 2026.

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