Pave vs FinApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pave
This app offers a private and secure way to track expenses and manage budgets without linking to bank accounts or selling user data. It provides tools for quick transaction logging, clear budget visualization, and insightful financial reports, all while keeping data on the user's device.
- Private expense tracking
- Offline budget planning
- No bank account linking
- Fast transaction logging
- Customizable categories
- Monthly budget overview
- Recurring transaction management
- Financial insights and charts
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Pave is the private expense tracker and budget planner built for people who want real control of their money — not another app that links your bank account and sells your data. Track every dollar. Build smarter habits. Watch your savings grow. Everything stays on your device — always. WHY PAVE IS DIFFERENT Most budgeting apps are cluttered, slow, and demand your banking login. Pave is the opposite: fast, private, and genuinely beautiful. No account. No cloud. No bank connection. No data selling. Just you and your money. TRACK SPENDING IN SECONDS Logging an expense or income is faster than unlocking your phone. A big, thumb-friendly keypad, one-tap categories, optional notes — done. Add your own custom categories with any icon and color. ONE CLEAR MONTHLY BUDGET See exactly how much you have left to spend this month at a glance. Set an overall budget plus per-category limits (Groceries, Transport, Eating Out, anything), and Pave tracks your pace automatically so you know if you're on track or overspending. BUDGET ALERTS Get a heads-up notification when you're nearing or passing a budget — so you adjust before the month gets away from you. RECURRING & SUBSCRIPTIONS Set rent, salary, Netflix or any repeating transaction once and Pave logs it for you. A dedicated screen shows everything you pay on repeat and your total monthly recurring cost. INSIGHTS THAT ACTUALLY HELP Beautiful, interactive charts for any period — day, week, month, year, or a custom range. See where your money goes by category, income vs. expenses over time, your biggest expense, top spending category, savings rate, and your spending pattern by day of the week. SMART SEARCH & FILTERS Find any transaction instantly. Filter your full history by date, custom range, amount, category, type, or recurring status. MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS Keep Personal, Business, Cash, or Family budgets cleanly separated — each with its own currency, budget, and transactions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Protect everything with Face ID / Touch ID. Your financial data never leaves your iPhone. No sign-up, no tracking, no ads. YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL Full backup & restore in one tap, plus CSV export for spreadsheets and tax season — and CSV import to bring your history with you. BUILT FOR EVERYONE Available in English, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, with full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support. PRIVACY FIRST — ALWAYS Pave works completely offline. We never collect, store, or sell your financial information. Your money is your business. Download Pave today and finally feel in control of where your money goes.
FinApp
This personal finance app keeps your financial data private by storing it solely on your device. It offers automatic transaction categorization, spending insights, and recurring bill tracking, all without requiring an account or sending data to external servers.
- On-device data storage
- Automatic transaction categorization
- Net worth tracking
- Spending insights and trends
- Recurring bill detection
- Searchable transaction history
- Customizable account grouping
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FinApp is a personal-finance app built around one idea: your money data should stay on your phone. Connect your bank through SimpleFin and FinApp pulls in your accounts and transactions, then organizes them into a clear picture of where your money goes — without sending your financial data to any server we run. There's no account to create and nothing to track. WHAT YOU GET • Net worth at a glance — every account in one balance, with a history graph you can scrub through across time ranges from a month to all time. • Automatic categories — transactions are sorted into Groceries, Dining, Transport, Subscriptions, and more, with rules you can tune and a Dashboard list that curates itself around where you actually spend. • Spending insight — see your top categories each month and a six-month trend. • Budgets — set a monthly limit per category and track it right on your Dashboard, with an alert the moment you go over. • Quick review — file uncategorized charges in seconds with a swipe-to-categorize flow that suggests the right category for you. • Recurring bills — FinApp spots subscriptions and repeating charges, flags price increases, and a calendar view shows what's due when. • Transactions, searchable — one filter for category, month, and income vs. spending, with active filters shown as chips; attach your own notes to any charge and export everything to CSV. • Accounts, your way — group by type, collapse and sort sections, rename accounts, and add manual accounts (property, loans, cash) alongside synced ones. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your data is stored only on your device, in an encrypted local database. • No analytics, no ads, no third-party tracking SDKs. • The only network connection is to SimpleFin Bridge, to fetch the data you ask for. • Lock the app behind Face ID or your passcode. • Clear all local data anytime, right from Settings. JUST LOOKING? Tap "Preview with sample data" in Settings to explore the whole app with realistic example data — no bank connection needed. FinApp requires a SimpleFin account to connect your bank. SimpleFin is a separate service; see https://simplefin.org. Instructions on how to setup SimpleFin with the FinApp app can be found here: https://normanhoang.github.io/fin_app/simplefin-setup
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FinApp at 5.0 against Pave's 3.7. Pave's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FinApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Pave ships an update every 3 days, FinApp weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pave | FinApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nugzar Kinadze | Nha Hoang |
In-app purchases
Pave
No in-app purchases
FinApp
No in-app purchases









