SubWatch vs Mieru
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SubWatch
Easily monitor all your recurring payments in one place. Get timely alerts before renewals to avoid unexpected charges and manage free trials effectively. Visualize your spending habits with insightful charts and organize subscriptions by category.
- All subscriptions in one place
- Renewal reminders
- Free trial tracking
- Categorization
- Spending charts
- Multiple currency support
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Subscriptions are quietly draining your bank account. SubWatch shows you exactly where every dollar goes — and warns you before the next charge hits. People who track their subscriptions typically find $200+ a year they were wasting on services they forgot about. WHY SUBWATCH • See every subscription and your true monthly + yearly total in one glance • Get reminded BEFORE a free trial converts to a paid charge • Know what renews this week, color-coded by urgency • Break spending down by category — streaming, music, cloud, fitness & more • 100% private: no account, no bank login, no tracking. Your data stays on your iPhone. NEVER GET SURPRISE-CHARGED Set a reminder for each subscription — same day, or 1, 3, or 7 days before it renews. Cancel trials in time, every time. BUILT FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the SubWatch widget to see your monthly total and next renewal without opening the app. SUBWATCH PRO — one-time purchase, no recurring fee • Unlimited subscriptions (free tracks up to 5) • Home-screen widgets • Face ID / Touch ID app lock • Unlimited CSV export Pay once. Own it forever. No ads, ever. Download SubWatch and take back control of your subscriptions today.
Mieru
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See your money clearly, without handing over your bank login. Many expense trackers make you choose between linking your bank and entering each purchase by hand. Mieru offers another path. Choose a supported CSV or PDF statement. Mieru finds transaction rows on your device, suggests categories when it finds similar entries in your ledger, and lets you review every proposed change before it updates your ledger. On compatible devices, on-device AI helps Mieru read PDF statements. CSV imports work locally without a bank connection. Mieru never connects to your bank. You provide no bank credentials and maintain no bank feed. After you set up Mieru’s payment shortcut, an Apple Pay payment can open a prefilled expense for review. Your Shortcut passes the amount, merchant, and selected card to Mieru. You confirm before saving. Built for real life: • Track spending across cards, cash, and other accounts in their original currencies • Add transactions with categories, tags, dates, places, and recurring schedules • See spending charts and category breakdowns across the periods you choose • Review active and paused recurring costs • Share an encrypted ledger with a partner through a shared iCloud Drive or Google Drive folder • Export your data as CSV or an encrypted backup Private by design: Store your ledger only on this iPhone, in iCloud Drive, or in Google Drive. Backups and cloud copies are encrypted with your passphrase. Mieru has no ads, trackers, or in-app analytics that send your financial activity to us. Manual tracking stays private. Statement import adds automation when you want it. Why Mieru: Mieru comes from 見える (mieru), a Japanese verb meaning “to be visible.” We’re a married couple, both engineers, and we built Mieru for our own lives: to keep shared money clear and calm without handing our bank logins or financial records to a personal-finance company. Nothing else fit, so we made it. See your money clearly. Keep it yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mieru at every 2 weeks against SubWatch's every 2 months. SubWatch's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. SubWatch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mieru sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SubWatch ships an update every 2 months, Mieru every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SubWatch | Mieru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Md HASAN | Vitaly Danilov |
In-app purchases
SubWatch
- SubWatch Pro$4.99
Mieru
- Espresso shot$1.99
- Vanilla latte$2.99
- Caramel macchiato$4.99








