BillLog vs Harubi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BillLog
This app allows detailed tracking of income and expenses by breaking down each transaction into itemized details, quantities, and prices. It supports receipt scanning, flexible categorization, and visual summaries to understand spending habits. Recurring bills and multi-device sync are also available.
- Itemized bookkeeping
- Receipt scanning
- Flexible categories and tags
- Spending charts and summaries
- Recurring bill management
- Multi-device sync
- Face ID protection
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BillLog is a personal finance app built around itemized records, tags, and custom boards. Instead of saving only a total, you can break a bill into individual items and record quantities, unit prices, categories, and prices after discounts—so you can see where your money actually went. Categories answer “What kind of expense was this?” Tags connect expenses to real-life contexts. Group bills for a trip, home project, household, or subscription with tags, then use custom boards to follow spending, income, trends, and budget progress over time. Key features: - Receipt-assisted entry: scan a receipt or import an image from Photos to create an editable draft - Itemized records: split one bill into multiple items with names, quantities, unit prices, and categories - Discount allocation: distribute an order-level discount across items for more accurate totals and reports - Tag organization: attach multiple tags to a bill and organize spending by household, trip, project, or any context you choose - Custom boards: combine tags into focused boards for spending, income, trends, and budget progress - Flexible insights: review your finances by date, category, and tag - Recurring bills: manage daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly expenses and get reminders before they are due - Data control: sync with iCloud, import or export JSON and Excel files, and protect access with Face ID - Local web access: open the Web service to view bills, dashboards, and boards from a browser on the same network Useful for: - Grocery shopping: save individual items and keep categories accurate after discounts - Travel and home projects: group expenses with tags and monitor the budget on a dedicated board - Subscriptions and fixed expenses: track recurring charges and see what is coming up - Household and project finances: review income and spending together in one context From quickly saving a purchase to understanding a long-running project, BillLog turns everyday transactions into records you can actually review. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://myqonnt.github.io/BillLog/privacy-policy.html
Harubi
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Snap it, and it fills itself in. You just check. Receipts, payment text alerts, the transaction list inside your banking app — photograph or screenshot them, and Harubi reads the date, amount and merchant and fills the entry in for you. No ads, no account, no bank login. ■ Why photos instead of a bank connection? Harubi never asks for your bank credentials. · Cash never shows up in a bank feed. A photo of the receipt catches it. · You never hand your bank login to a third party — there is nobody to hand it to. · Nothing to sign up for. Open the app and start. ■ Three kinds of images, sorted out automatically · Paper receipts — merchant, total and date, read straight off the slip. · Payment and card alert messages — screenshot the alert and it becomes one transaction. · Bank and card statement lists — screenshot the transaction list in your banking app and every row is read at once. Whatever you send, a review screen comes first. Correct a misread figure, untick a row you don't want, then save. ■ Several screenshots, stitched into one list A statement never fits on one screen. Scroll, take as many screenshots as you need, and hand them over together. · Overlapping stretches are matched up by running balance, so nothing is imported twice. · If a date header was cut off at the top of a shot, the date is carried across from the neighboring shots. · Transactions you have already saved come back pre-unticked. ■ Share now, sort it out later Send images to Harubi from Photos or Messages with the share sheet. iOS won't let an app launch itself, so nothing happens at that moment — but the next time you open Harubi, everything you shared is waiting and gets sorted in one go. ■ Private by construction · Text recognition runs on your iPhone, through Apple's Vision framework. Photos are not uploaded for processing. · Your transaction records stay on this device. · No account, no login, no bank connection. · No ads, no tracking. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected". · Not a single analytics or advertising SDK, and no third-party libraries at all. ■ The budgeting part · Income, expense and transfer entries with a large number keypad · Daily, calendar, weekly, monthly, summary and memo views · Transaction search — by details, category or asset, narrowed to a period, with your recent searches kept · Category statistics (pie chart) with period and account filters · Per-category budgets with remaining amount and spending pace · Event budgets — keep a trip, a holiday or a move on its own named budget, apart from your monthly one · Trend tab — your daily balance, and the transactions behind any day · Balance trend graph per account · Double-entry asset tracking — cash, bank and card balances kept in step · Recurring expenses — rent, subscriptions, anything that leaves on the same day each month · Automatic insights — budgets nearly spent, too much in Other, month-over-month jumps · Backup and restore to a JSON file (photos and videos attached to memos, and recurring-expense rules, are not included in the backup) · On-device AI — a summary of your month and category suggestions for Other (iOS 26 on Apple Intelligence devices) · Light / dark mode and theme colors ■ Receipts we read Korea, Japan, the United States, Germany and the Philippines. Budgeting is all about consistency. Start light — just today's spending. iPhone only. Requires iOS 17 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harubi at none against BillLog's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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. BillLog sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Harubi asks for nothing beyond the download.
BillLog ships an update weekly, Harubi every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BillLog | Harubi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 章铭 李 | MJ KONG |
In-app purchases
BillLog
- Premium$0.991 Month
Harubi
No in-app purchases









