Subscription Manager vs Sbu Subscriptions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Subscription Manager
Easily track all your recurring payments and subscriptions in one place. Get notified before your next billing date and understand your monthly spending. Decide which services are worth keeping based on usage.
- Track all subscriptions
- Payment reminders
- Usage tracking
- Spending overview
- Custom categories
- Minimalist design
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This subscription tracker helps you keep track of all your subscriptions and recurring payments in one simple place. From streaming services to apps and memberships, know exactly what you’re paying for and when the next payment is due. Never forget a subscription again. FEATURES Track subscriptions easily Add streaming services, apps, memberships, or any recurring payment. Payment reminders Get notified before your next billing date. Know what you actually use Track whether you've used a service today so you can decide if it’s worth keeping. Clear spending overview Understand how much you spend on subscriptions each month. Custom categories Organize subscriptions like Entertainment, Work, Utilities, and more. Clean and minimal design Fast, simple, and distraction-free. Perfect for tracking • Netflix • Spotify • YouTube Premium • SaaS tools • Gym memberships • Mobile apps • Utilities Stop losing money on forgotten subscriptions. Stay organized and never miss a payment.
Sbu Subscriptions
Track all your recurring expenses in one place. Get timely reminders before renewals and trial periods end. Visualize your spending with a payments calendar and export your data.
- Unlimited subscription tracking
- Customizable renewal cycles
- Spending overview and currency conversion
- Free trial reminders
- Payments calendar
- Data export and import
- iCloud sync
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Add your subscriptions and at the top you see what you spend a year, or a month. Before each renewal a reminder tells you the day and the amount. - Unlimited subscriptions, from a list of known services or your own - Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly cycles, every N days, weeks, months or years, one-off or in instalments - What you spend in one figure, with other currencies converted at the ECB rates included in the app, or at your own - Free trials with the days left and the price after the trial - Reminders before each renewal and before a trial ends, at the time you choose - Payments calendar with the month's total and what's still to pay - Price changes from a date, payment history and Mark as paid - Categories, lists and payment methods; sort, group, filter and search - Pause, cancel and reactivate without losing anything - Help to cancel: the service's website or your App Store subscriptions - Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen - Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight - Export and import as CSV, from a spreadsheet too - iCloud stays off until you turn it on: then your subscriptions sync across your devices, through your own iCloud - Share a list with anyone, through iCloud and only when you choose: they see it read only, with its total - Light and dark, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver Sbu does one thing: it tells you what your subscriptions cost, so no renewal takes you by surprise. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account. No ads. No tracking. Data stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sbu Subscriptions at none against Subscription Manager's 1. Subscription Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Subscription Manager sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sbu Subscriptions asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Subscription Manager against 5.0 for Sbu Subscriptions. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Subscription Manager ships an update every 3 days, Sbu Subscriptions every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Subscription Manager | Sbu Subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vidisha Srivastava | Matteo Giuditta |
Customer experience
Subscription Manager
Sbu Subscriptions
In-app purchases
Subscription Manager
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Sbu Subscriptions
No in-app purchases
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