Checkbook vs Keepbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkbook
Manage all your financial accounts in one place. Track balances, categorize transactions, and gain insights into your spending with secure local storage. Offers multi-currency support and automatic balance calculations.
- Unlimited account tracking (Pro)
- Multi-currency support
- Automatic balance calculations
- Secure local data storage
- Intuitive interface
- Transaction categorization
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Your money, in a checkbook you control. Checkbook brings your accounts, transactions, bills, receipts, and monthly budget together. Record what happened, see what’s coming, and make a plan for what’s next. Keep track of your money • Manage up to 2 accounts for free • See cleared and pending transactions and running balances • Record income, expenses, and transfers • Attach receipt photos to transactions • Search and organize entries with categories and payees Plan your month with Budget Set your monthly income, add planned expenses, and see what remains. Organize your plan by category and account, or bring eligible bills and recurring schedules into your budget. Your budget is a planning tool separate from your recorded transactions. Stay ahead of bills See bills and recurring entries together, review upcoming activity in Calendar, and manage paid and pending entries without losing posted payment history. Go Pro with a one-time purchase • Add unlimited accounts • Get access to budget planner No subscription. Checkbook helps you record and organize your finances; it does not connect to your bank or send bill payments for you.
Keepbook
Manually track your finances with a digital checkbook register. It accurately calculates your balance after each entry and offers robust backup and security features. Manage multiple accounts and reconcile statements with ease.
- Manual transaction entry
- Real-time balance calculation
- Daily backups to iCloud
- Multiple account management
- Bank statement reconciliation
- Recurring entry scheduling
- Biometric security lock
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Keepbook is a checkbook register for people who enter their own transactions and want the balance to be right. Every row shows the balance after it, the way a paper register does. Amounts are kept in whole cents, so the balance is never off by a penny. YOUR ENTRIES ARE KEPT SAFE - A backup file is written every day you use the app and kept for 30 days. - Backups are plain files in your own iCloud Drive. Restore any of them with two taps. - Restoring saves your current register first, so a restore can be undone. WHAT IT DOES - As many accounts as you need: checking, savings, credit cards, cash. - Reconcile against your bank statement and see the difference as you tick entries off. - Recurring entries: weekly, every 2 weeks, every 4 weeks, twice a month, monthly, quarterly, twice a year, yearly. - Transfers between accounts, shown in both registers. - Search by description, amount, check number or memo. - Lock with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. - Dark mode and large text. COMING FROM ACCOUNTS 2 OR ACCOUNTS 3 Export each account as CSV and import it. You see the entry count and the ending balance before anything is saved. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No ads. No bank linking. No account to create. Nothing leaves your devices except through your own iCloud. PRICE Free: one account, 50 entries, and a backup every day. One payment of $9.99 adds unlimited accounts and entries, sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud, export to CSV, and print. There is no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Checkbook at 4 against Keepbook's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Checkbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Keepbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Checkbook against 5.0 for Keepbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Checkbook ships an update every 4 days, Keepbook every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkbook | Keepbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | McKittrick LLC | Bruce Johnson |
Customer experience
Checkbook
Keepbook
In-app purchases
Checkbook
- Checkbook Pro$5.99
Keepbook
- Keepbook Full Unlock$9.99
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