Arvio vs Budget Envelope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Personal budgeting
- Spending organization by category
- Transaction tracking
- Monthly financial planning
- Shared ledgers via iCloud
- Recurring transaction setup
- Financial insights
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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.
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.
- Envelope budgeting method
- No bank logins required
- No subscriptions
- Data stays on device
- Simple setup
- Privacy-focused
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Arvio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Budget Envelope asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Arvio | Budget Envelope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TapTwice LLC | TANNER HUNT FRANCIS |
In-app purchases
Arvio
- Lifetime Access$0.99
Budget Envelope
No in-app purchases









