Comparison

The Smart Budget vs محفظة Mihfadah

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

Head to head
About

The Smart Budget

Effortlessly track your spending with an AI-powered expense logger that works entirely on your device. It automatically captures, cleans, and categorizes transactions from your bank texts, flagging anything unusual without needing bank logins. Log manually, snap receipts, or use voice commands for a private, secure financial overview.

Highlights
  • Automatic expense capture from bank texts
  • On-device AI for data cleaning and categorization
  • Anomaly detection for unusual spending
  • Manual transaction logging with receipt snapping
  • Unlimited transactions, budgets, and goals
  • Smart Insights with AI-narrated forecasts
  • Household sharing with family
Features
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The Smart Budget does the work for you. Set it up once and your spending logs itself — captured, cleaned up, categorized, and checked for anything odd. You open the app to review, not to type. Private, built on Apple Intelligence — and free to start. Smart Budget reads the merchant, amount, currency, and date — on your iPhone or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute — cleans up the messy bank text, picks the right category, and quietly flags anything unusual. No bank login. No third party, ever. Prefer to add one by hand? Log it in seconds, snap a receipt, or say it out loud. Your data stays yours. No accounts to create. No bank-linking required. No data sold or shared. iCloud sync is optional and runs through your own Apple ID — your transactions never reach us. — FREE FOREVER — • Hands-off capture — set it up in seconds and your bank texts and notifications log themselves • Import a bank statement — PDF or CSV, read by Apple Intelligence (iOS 27) • Automatic cleanup + categorization — messy bank merchant strings become clean, sorted entries • Anomaly detection — the Notable card flags spending that doesn't match your patterns • Add transactions by hand too — type in seconds, dictate, or snap a receipt • Unlimited logging, budgets, goals, and incomes • Dashboard with "available this month" hero • "Tell it once, learn forever" merchant aliases — name a merchant once, it's applied forever • Reports: Spending by category, Income vs spending, All transactions, Anomalies & alerts • Lock Screen + Home Screen widgets • Spotlight search for any transaction • Siri Shortcuts for quick logging • Multi-currency with automatic FX conversion • Full VoiceOver, WCAG AA contrast — SMART BUDGET PRO — The intelligence layer, optional, shareable with your family: • Full history — every month, not just the last 15 days • Smart Insights — LLM-narrated story cards on the Insights tab: looking-ahead pace forecasts, goal coaching, category-mix shift detection, recurring-charge audit, what-if scenarios, savings opportunities, period summaries • All Reports — Top merchants, Largest transactions, Recurring charges, Merchant frequency, Budget history, Goal progress, Savings, By account, Year in review, plus per-member household reports Pro pricing: • Monthly: $2.99 • Yearly: $24.99 (3 months free vs paying monthly) • Lifetime: $49.99 (one-time payment, never expires) — SMART BUDGET HOUSEHOLD — Everything in Pro, for your whole household on one shared ledger: • Household Sharing — invite a partner; share budgets, goals, and reports through a private CloudKit Share you control • Members don't pay — the owner's plan covers everyone in the household Household pricing: • Monthly: $4.99 • Yearly: $49.99 (2 months free vs paying monthly) • Lifetime: $99.99 (one-time payment, never expires) Bought Pro before version 2.0? Household sharing stays included in your plan. All Pro and Household plans support Apple Family Sharing — one purchase covers up to six family members at no extra cost. Cancel a subscription anytime in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. — PRIVACY — The Smart Budget runs on Apple Intelligence — on your iPhone or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, Apple's own hardened servers. Nothing is stored, and no third party is ever involved. No accounts to sign up for. Anonymous app analytics help us improve — never your transactions, amounts or merchants — and you can turn them off in Settings → Privacy. Read the full privacy policy at zaatarlabs.com/privacy-policy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

محفظة Mihfadah

Features
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Mihfadah (محفظة) is a bilingual personal finance app built for Arabic speakers worldwide. FEATURES: • Dashboard — see your full financial picture at a glance • Income & Expenses — track what comes in and goes out • Budget Planner — set category targets and monitor spending • Financial Goals — Hajj, emergency fund, car, retirement and more • Investments & Savings — cash, gold, Jam'iyah (جمعية), stocks • Loans & Instalments — track monthly payments and balances • Zakat Calculator — calculate your annual Zakat with nisab check • Net Worth — assets minus liabilities with 6-month trend • Yearly View — 12-month income and savings summary PRIVACY FIRST: All your financial data is stored encrypted on your device only. Nothing is sent to any server. No account required. BILINGUAL: Full Arabic and English support with right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

The Smart Budget4 screens
محفظة Mihfadah4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: محفظة Mihfadah at none against The Smart Budget's 6. محفظة Mihfadah also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.4). On price, 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. The Smart Budget sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. محفظة Mihfadah asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Smart Budget ships an update weekly, محفظة Mihfadah daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
The Smart Budget versus محفظة Mihfadah: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Smart Budgetمحفظة Mihfadah
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOmar Al HomaidiMohanad Al-Shabibi

In-app purchases

6 purchases

The Smart Budget

Subscriptions4
  • Smart Budget Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Budget Household — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Smart Budget Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
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  • Budget Household — Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Smart Budget Pro — Lifetime$49.99
  • Budget Household — Lifetime$99.99
None

محفظة Mihfadah

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Smart Budget free?
The Smart Budget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is محفظة Mihfadah free?
محفظة Mihfadah is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Smart Budget or محفظة Mihfadah have ads?
Neither The Smart Budget nor محفظة Mihfadah shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Smart Budget or محفظة Mihfadah?
The Smart Budget ships an update weekly, and محفظة Mihfadah daily. Most recently, The Smart Budget was updated on October 31, 2026 and محفظة Mihfadah on October 31, 2026.

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