Comparison

PocketKnife Budget vs Settle

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

Head to head
About

PocketKnife Budget

Understand your spending without connecting accounts or signing up. Log income and expenses, track budgets, and visualize your finances with custom categories and charts. All data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Local data storage
  • No sign-up required
  • Offline functionality
  • Customizable categories
  • Yearly dashboard summary
  • Weekly spending budget
  • Interactive charts
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Your money. Your rules. PocketKnife Budget is a personal finance app built for people who want to understand where their money goes — without signing up, connecting a bank, or sharing personal information. Everything lives on your device. No cloud accounts, no syncing, no subscriptions. Just open the app and start budgeting. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See the full year at a glance on the Dashboard — total income, expenses, and net worth by month in one scrollable table. • Log income and expenses month by month, assign them to custom categories, and add optional notes. • Set up recurring expenses (subscriptions, rent, utilities) once — weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual — and they appear automatically every month. • Track a weekly spending budget and see exactly how much you've spent each week of the month. • Run a simple check register in the Ledger — log credits and debits, watch your running balance update live, and mark entries as cleared. • Understand your spending with four built-in charts: monthly income vs. expenses, spending by category (donut chart), monthly net trend, and weekly budget bars. • Tap any chart segment or bar to drill into the individual transactions behind it. • Create any number of custom categories, each with its own emoji and color. • Switch between dark and light mode with a single tap. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Zero sign-up. Open it and go. • Your data never leaves your phone. No server, no cloud backup by the app. • No ads. No upsells. No paywalls. • Works completely offline. • 15 categories pre-loaded so you can start entering data immediately. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Whether you're tracking a household budget, managing personal spending, or just want to stop wondering where your paycheck went, PocketKnife Budget gives you a clear, honest picture of your finances — no financial expertise required. Simple enough to start in two minutes. Detailed enough to last all year. FEATURES AT A GLANCE • Dashboard: yearly summary + month-by-month income / expense / net table • Monthly view: log income & expenses, recurring entries, weekly budget • Ledger: check register with starting balance and running totals • Categories: create, color-code, emoji-tag, and reorder your own categories • Charts: bar, donut, line, and weekly bar charts with tap-to-drill-down detail • Dark & light mode • All data stored locally — no account, no internet required, no ads

About

Settle

Features
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Track your money in seconds. Private, simple, and yours. Settle makes it easy to log expenses, set budgets, and see where your money goes. • Drag to log, or add in a couple of taps • Multiple accounts with multi-currency support • Transfers between your own accounts, and a spend can become one at any time • Budgets and monthly spending insights • Clean charts, light and dark themes • No sign-up, no ads, no tracking SETTLE PRO • Automation: pay with your phone and the expense lands in your budget on its own, with the phone locked and the app closed. A shop Settle knows goes straight to its category; anything new waits in Review, where one fix teaches it for good • Restore points: snapshots of your data you can roll back to, kept on the device and in your own iCloud Drive, so they survive a reinstall • Recurring rules: rent, subscriptions, and bills record themselves on schedule • monobank sync, for accounts in Ukraine: cards and jars import themselves, so the day is already logged WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES There is no Settle account and no Settle server. Your finances sit in a database on your phone. Bank data travels between your device and your own bank. Restore points go to your own iCloud Drive. We cannot see any of it. Available in English and Ukrainian. SUBSCRIPTION Settle Pro costs $2.99 per month or $19.99 per year, starting with a 14-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited if you subscribe before it ends. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://juisemad.github.io/settle-privacy/

Screenshots

PocketKnife Budget4 screens
Settle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PocketKnife Budget at none against Settle's 2. Settle's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Settle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. PocketKnife Budget asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PocketKnife Budget ships an update every 3 weeks, Settle every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PocketKnife Budget versus Settle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocketKnife BudgetSettle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAurum Creative Technologies, LLCEduard Kovtun

In-app purchases

None

PocketKnife Budget

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Settle

Subscriptions2
  • Settle Pro Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Settle Pro Annual14 Days trial$17.991 Year

Questions

Is PocketKnife Budget free?
PocketKnife Budget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Settle free?
Settle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PocketKnife Budget or Settle have ads?
Neither PocketKnife Budget nor Settle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PocketKnife Budget or Settle?
PocketKnife Budget ships an update every 3 weeks, and Settle every 5 days. Most recently, PocketKnife Budget was updated on October 10, 2026 and Settle on October 25, 2026.

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