Comparison

Arvio vs Budget Envelope

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

Head to head
About

Arvio

Manage your money with confidence using this personal budgeting app. Organize spending by category, track transactions, and plan your month. Features shared ledgers for collaborative budgeting and clear insights into your finances.

Highlights
  • Personal budgeting
  • Spending organization by category
  • Transaction tracking
  • Monthly financial planning
  • Shared ledgers via iCloud
  • Recurring transaction setup
  • Financial insights
Features
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Arvio is a powerful personal budgeting app built to help you manage money with confidence. Plan your month, organize spending by category, track transactions, and make adjustments as life changes. With shared ledgers through iCloud, Arvio makes it easy to budget together while keeping everything simple, clear, and in sync. Set up recurring transactions, monitor your progress throughout the month, and get a better view of your finances with clean insights designed for real life.

About

Budget Envelope

This app simplifies personal finance using the cash envelope budgeting method. Create virtual envelopes for spending categories and track your expenses by subtracting from each envelope. When an envelope is empty, you stop spending in that category for the period.

Highlights
  • Envelope budgeting method
  • No bank logins required
  • No subscriptions
  • Data stays on device
  • Simple setup
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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Take control of your money — one envelope at a time. Envelope Budget brings back the simplicity of the classic cash envelope method, rebuilt for your phone. No spreadsheets. No bank logins. No subscriptions. Just you, your budget, and a few taps. The idea is simple: decide how much you want to spend in each area of your life — groceries, dining out, gas, entertainment — and create an envelope for each one. Every time you spend, subtract it from that envelope. When the envelope is empty, you're done spending in that category for the month. That's it. No complexity. No learning curve. You'll have your first envelope set up in under a minute. Why Envelope Budget? -Most budgeting apps are overwhelming. They want to connect to your bank, sync across devices, send you notifications, and show you charts you'll never look at. Envelope Budget does none of that. It respects your time, your attention, and your privacy. -Everything you enter stays on your device. Always. There are no accounts to create, no passwords to remember, and no data ever leaving your phone. Your financial life is your business.

Screenshots

Arvio4 screens
Budget Envelope4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Arvio at 5.0 against Budget Envelope's 4.5. Budget Envelope's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Arvio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Budget Envelope asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arvio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Arvio versus Budget Envelope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArvioBudget Envelope
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTapTwice LLCTANNER HUNT FRANCIS

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Arvio

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$0.99
None

Budget Envelope

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arvio free?
Arvio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Budget Envelope free?
Budget Envelope is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Arvio or Budget Envelope?
Arvio is rated higher. Arvio averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Budget Envelope averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Arvio or Budget Envelope have ads?
Neither Arvio nor Budget Envelope shows ads.

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