Comparison

Payday Buckets vs Kashla

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

Head to head
About

Payday Buckets

This app helps you manage your finances by calculating exactly how much to set aside from each paycheck for bills, savings, and irregular expenses. It simplifies budgeting by focusing on 'buckets' rather than detailed transaction tracking, ensuring you know your financial plan each payday.

Highlights
  • Paycheck-based financial planning
  • Bucket and sinking fund management
  • Customizable pay schedules
  • Bill and savings goal tracking
  • Local data storage
  • iCloud sync for iPhone and iPad
  • CSV export and JSON backup
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Tired of spreadsheets, sticky notes and paycheck guesswork? Payday Buckets answers one simple question: “What do I move this payday?” Set up the bills, savings goals and irregular expenses you want to plan for. Tell Payday Buckets when you get paid, and it calculates what to set aside in each bucket every payday. Use it for sinking funds, envelope budgeting, sub-savings accounts, bill planning, subscriptions, yearly expenses, savings goals and everyday categories. WHY PAYDAY BUCKETS • Plan around your real pay cycle — weekly, biweekly, monthly, twice monthly, or a custom interval. • Built for buckets and sinking funds, not endless transaction tracking. • Know what to move each payday before the money disappears. • No bank login required. • Your data is stored locally on your device. • iCloud sync keeps your iPhone and iPad up to date using your private iCloud account. • Designed for people who already use separate accounts, buckets or savings spaces and want a simple way to manage them. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create the buckets that matter — bills, savings goals, subscriptions, irregular expenses and everyday categories. 2. Choose how each bucket should be funded — by due date, fixed amount, top-up to target, or manual. 3. On payday, run your payday plan. 4. Payday Buckets shows exactly what to move into each bucket. 5. Mark bills as paid and keep your bucket balances up to date. FEATURES • Guided Simple Mode for quick bucket setup • Advanced editor for detailed bucket planning • Weekly, biweekly, monthly, twice-monthly and custom pay schedules • Smart payday plans for bills, savings goals, subscriptions and irregular expenses • Scheduled transactions for recurring bills, income and transfers • Upcoming bills view with overdue, 7-day, 30-day and later sections • Insights for bucket forecasts, monthly outlook and budget balancing • Payday plan history • Local reminders for payday, bills, transfers and underfunded buckets • Rename, recolor and organize categories • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad • Light, Dark and System themes • Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support • CSV export and JSON backup PREMIUM Payday Buckets is free to try with up to 5 active buckets. Upgrade to Premium for: • Unlimited active buckets • Unlimited scheduled transactions PRIVACY Payday Buckets does not require bank access. Your budgeting data is stored locally on your device. If you turn on iCloud sync, your data syncs through your private iCloud account, not through a Payday Buckets budgeting server. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Get in touch from Settings → About inside the app. Stop guessing what to set aside. Start every payday with a clear plan. What’s New 1.0 First release of Payday Buckets! Plan each payday around your bills, savings goals, subscriptions and sinking funds. • Create buckets for the things you need to fund • Set your pay schedule • Run a payday plan to see what to move into each bucket • Track scheduled bills and recurring transactions • View upcoming bills and bucket forecasts • Sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync • Export your data with CSV and JSON backup Thanks for trying Payday Buckets — your feedback will help shape what comes next.

About

Kashla

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Kashla answers one question: what's left until payday? Say "coffee 5 dollars and gas 45" and both expenses are logged, categorised, and counted in about three seconds. No forms, no bank login, no spreadsheet. WHAT'S LEFT Kashla runs on your salary cycle, not the calendar month. Tell it your payday once, and the home screen shows how much you can still spend, what's safe per day, and where the week is headed. LOG IT YOUR WAY: • Voice: say it • Type it on a keypad built for one-handed entry • Snap a receipt, in any currency • Paste a bank text message • Apple Pay: a Shortcut logs the charge as you leave the shop • Siri and the Action button SUBSCRIPTIONS, CAUGHT: Kashla spots recurring charges in your own spending: Netflix, Spotify, iCloud, the gym, and reminds you before they renew. Cancel one, and Kashla confirms the charge stopped. BUDGET TOGETHER: Invite your partner or roommate with a QR code or a link. Both phones log in, both see every expense, and one shared number for the cycle. No email, no password, just a name and an emoji. Goals and subscriptions stay yours. GOALS THAT FUND THEMSELVES: Set aside a slice of every payday for the car, the trip, the emergency fund. Kashla keeps the score and tells you the month you'll get there. YOUR LEDGER, YOURS ALONE: No bank link. No account. Your ledger stays on your phone. Your speech becomes text to log the expense and nothing is stored. Only a budget you choose to share reaches our server, and only for the people you invited. Delete it, and it's gone. Works in English and Arabic, with 11 currencies. KASHLA PLUS: Voice, receipts, bank messages, Apple Pay, Split the bill, and starting a shared budget. Free: manual entry, the budget, the calendar, goals, subscription reminders, and joining someone else's budget. Plus is billed to your Apple ID monthly or yearly and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Privacy policy: https://kashla.com/privacy Terms: https://kashla.com/terms

Screenshots

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Kashla4 screens

Verdict

The call

Payday Buckets and Kashla are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Payday Buckets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Kashla sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Payday Buckets ships an update fortnightly, Kashla weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Payday Buckets versus Kashla: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPayday BucketsKashla
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathan BoothEXPENSEAR LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Payday Buckets

One-time1
  • Payday Buckets Pro$12.99
2 purchases

Kashla

Subscriptions2
  • Kashla Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • kashla Plus Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Payday Buckets free?
Payday Buckets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kashla free?
Kashla is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Payday Buckets or Kashla have ads?
Neither Payday Buckets nor Kashla shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Payday Buckets or Kashla?
Payday Buckets ships an update fortnightly, and Kashla weekly. Most recently, Payday Buckets was updated on November 10, 2026 and Kashla on November 6, 2026.

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