Comparison

Budgi vs Tick

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

Head to head
About

Budgi

Features
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Easily record income and expenses, organize them by categories, and keep your financial data structured and accessible. Key features - Easy expense & income tracking - Daily, weekly, monthly charts - Multiple accounts (Cash, Card, Bank) - Transfer between accounts - Smart spending insights - Data export & backup - Secure & private – no bank connection required Pro - Data export & backup - Smart spending insights - Overall & category budgets Pricing - Pro: $2.99/week, $4.99/month or $29.99/year - Subscriptions auto-renew; cancel at least 24 hours before the the end of the period in App Store settings Privacy - We do not collect data. Your data stays on your device. Privacy Policy: https://budgi.notion.site/Budgi-Money-Manager-30a3be713f3280e8a77bc8054907056d?source=copy_link Terms of Service: https://budgi.notion.site/Budgi-Money-Manager-30a3be713f3280c88a24c34271773d90?source=copy_link

About

Tick

Features
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Tick is an expense tracker built around one number: five seconds. That is how long it should take to open the app, log what you just spent, and put the phone back in your pocket. FAST BY DESIGN Type an amount, tap save. Everything else - place, category, note, tags, a photo of the receipt - is optional and can be added later. A template fills in the category, the place and the currency, and a home screen shortcut opens straight into a new expense. READY FOR DAILY LIFE Forty-three categories are switched on the first time you open Tick. Groceries, Pharmacy, Fuel, Car Repair & Service, Rent, Electricity, Office Rent, Office Bills, Public Transit, Travel & Hotel, Taxes and more are there the moment you install. Another thirty-three wait in the list switched off, seventy-six across eleven groups in all. Add your own, and hide the ones you never use. MULTIPLE CURRENCIES, DONE PROPERLY Log in any currency. Rates for thirty currencies come from the European Central Bank's daily reference feed and are frozen onto each expense at the moment you save it, so last year's report never changes because a rate moved this morning. Using a currency outside those thirty? Type the rate in yourself - the app will not guess one. WORKS OFFLINE, WITH NO SIGNAL Everything is stored on the phone first and syncs when there is a connection. A plane, a basement, a bad line - none of it stops you logging an expense. REPORTS THAT ANSWER A QUESTION Narrow the expense list by date, category, currency or amount, or search it by place and note. Then see where the money went by category, by place, or over time. WHAT YOU CAN TAKE OUT Export to CSV for a spreadsheet, or to PDF for something you can send or file. Export from a report and the date range you are looking at comes with it; export from Settings and everything does. Your data leaves in a format you can open without Tick. WHO IT IS FOR People who hold more than one currency and are tired of a tracker that quietly rewrites last month when a rate moves. People who log what they spend where there is no signal. People who want the entry typed, not imported. MANUAL ENTRY, NO BANK SYNC Tick does not connect to your bank. No account linking, no transaction import, no receipt scanning that reads your card number. It has no approval workflows and no team accounts. Every expense in Tick is there because you typed it. SUBSCRIPTION Tick Pro Monthly - 1 month - USD 2.99 Tick Pro Yearly - 1 year - USD 19.99 Other regions are charged the store's local equivalent. The first 14 days are free and ask for no card. After that, adding new expenses needs a subscription. Viewing, reporting and exporting keep working without one, permanently - your records stay yours whether you subscribe or not. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tickexpense.com/privacy The app interface is in English and Turkish.

Screenshots

Budgi4 screens
Tick4 screens

Verdict

The call

Budgi and Tick are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Budgi sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Tick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Budgi ships an update every 8 days, Tick weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Budgi versus Tick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBudgiTick
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDovran MuhammetrustemovFIRAT KONYALIOGLU

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Budgi

Subscriptions3
  • Access Budgi pro weekly$2.997 Days
  • Access Budgi pro monthly$4.991 Month
  • Access Budgi pro yearly$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Tick

Subscriptions2
  • Tick Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tick Pro Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Budgi free?
Budgi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tick free?
Tick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Budgi or Tick have ads?
Neither Budgi nor Tick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Budgi or Tick?
Budgi ships an update every 8 days, and Tick weekly. Most recently, Budgi was updated on October 24, 2026 and Tick on October 24, 2026.

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