Mochi vs Halvy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mochi
This app offers a calm and minimal way to track your spending without overwhelming features. It focuses on simple awareness, allowing you to quickly log expenses and gain insights into your spending habits. Designed for privacy, your data stays on your device.
- Fast manual expense logging
- Recurring expenses
- Clean, distraction-free interface
- Refined insights and spending history
- Search and filters for past entries
- Home screen widgets
- Privacy-first design
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Mochi is a calm, minimal way to track your spending. Most expense apps try to do too much — budgets, charts, alerts, goals, and endless setup. Mochi takes a different approach. It focuses on simple awareness, so you can log what you spend and move on with your day. There’s no pressure to optimize. No accounts to connect. No dashboards to manage. Just open, log, and close. FEATURES • Fast manual expense logging • Recurring expenses • Clean, distraction-free interface • Refined insights and spending history • Search and filters for past entries • Daily and weekly spending reflections • Custom payment methods • Home screen widgets • Light, Dark, and OLED themes DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM Mochi is built to stay out of your way. There are no ads, no data selling, and no tracking across apps. Your data stays on your device. WHO IT’S FOR Mochi is for people who want to stay aware of their spending without turning it into a project. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by budgeting apps, Mochi might be a better fit. SUBSCRIPTIONS Mochi offers optional subscriptions and a lifetime purchase to unlock additional features. You can manage or cancel subscriptions anytime in your App Store account. Privacy-first. Simple by design. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Halvy
Effortlessly track and split shared expenses with friends, roommates, or partners. Offers flexible splitting methods, real-time balance updates, and convenient settlement options. Advanced features for budgeting, receipt scanning, and business use are available via subscription.
- Flexible expense splitting (income, percentage, shares)
- Real-time balance tracking
- Group creation for various relationships
- Multiple payment app integrations for settlement
- Receipt scanning and item extraction (Pro)
- Budgeting and recurring expense management (Pro)
- Business expense tracking and reporting (Pro)
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Split expenses with your partner, with roommates, or on a group trip, and always know who owes who. No ads, no daily limits, no bank login required. COMING FROM SPLITWISE? Import your existing history in one tap and pick up where you left off. Add an expense in seconds, choose how to split it, and your balance updates instantly. When it's time to settle up, Halvy shows exactly who pays whom. Pay through your favorite app and mark it settled. WHAT'S FREE, ALWAYS • Unlimited expenses, no daily cap • Every split method, including split-by-income • No ads, ever • Import your Splitwise history • Works offline; no bank connection asked for SPLIT FAIRLY, NOT JUST 50/50 • Split by income: shares that match what each of you earns • When an income changes, future splits update automatically • Only your split % is ever shown. Your income amount stays private • Or split equally, by percentage, shares, or exact amounts • Fairness is never paywalled: every split method is free ALWAYS KNOW THE BALANCE • Home screen and lock screen widgets: your balance at a glance • Get notified when your partner adds an expense or settles up • Groups for couples, roommates, or trips • A clean activity feed of everything you've shared SETTLE UP, YOUR WAY • Pay via Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, UPI, Pix, PayNow, and more • Save your payment method once, and your partner sees how to pay you • Or keep it simple and just mark it settled YOUR MONTHLY MONEY DATE • A recap on the 1st: what you spent together and who owes who • Settle up right from the recap, share it with your partner • Pro adds the deep-dive: category breakdown, who paid what, trends TRIPS GET THEIR OWN LEDGER • Give a trip its own balance, separate from everyday life • Set the dates and Halvy counts it down, then counts the days you are on it • See the whole trip total, and who owes who at the end • Its own currency, converted automatically • Nothing about a trip clutters your normal month SCAN RECEIPTS (Pro) • Snap a receipt and the items are extracted automatically • Assign each line to me, them, or shared; tax and tip prorated • Add a whole stack of receipts in one go STAY ON TRACK (Pro) • Monthly budgets per category with live progress • Recurring expenses (rent, subscriptions) posted automatically • Multiple currencies, converted automatically • Custom categories, trip plans and trip budgets • Export to CSV or PDF NOW FOR BUSINESS (Pro) • Create a Business group and run work expenses on the same offline-first engine • Capture sales tax with your own rate & label (Tax, GST/HST, VAT) • Tag expenses by client and see per-client totals • Log mileage: enter the distance and Halvy computes the amount • Track vendors, auto-filled when you scan a receipt • Accountant-ready CSV & PDF exports for any month, quarter, or year PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Works offline and syncs across your devices • Your data stays yours Halvy Pro unlocks the insights deep-dive, budgets, recurring expenses, receipt scanning, multi-currency, trip plans, exports, and business mode via subscription. Core expense splitting is always free. Halvy Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. • Plans: Monthly and Annual (auto-renewing), plus a one-time Lifetime option. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Halvy Privacy Policy: https://usehalvy.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mochi at every 3 days against Halvy's weekly. Halvy's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Mochi sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Halvy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mochi ships an update every 3 days, Halvy weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mochi | Halvy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harsha Chaganti | Amboyance Inc. |
Customer experience
Mochi
Halvy
In-app purchases
Mochi
- Mochi+ Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Mochi+ Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Mochi+ Lifetime$39.99
Halvy
- Halvy Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Halvy Pro - Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Halvy Pro - Lifetime$29.99





