Talea vs Blocks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Talea
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Keep track of monthly income and expenses to see the available remaining budget. View statistics about categories with the most expenses.
Blocks
This app helps you manage your personal finances without subscriptions or ads. It automates bill payments, tracks income, and provides a clear overview of your spending and savings. Your data is kept private and stored locally or synced via iCloud.
- Automated bill payments
- Income tracking
- Private data storage
- Customizable paychecks
- Variable bill reminders
- Automatic savings sweeps
- Quick purchase logging
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I built Blocks for myself. I get paid every two weeks. Most of my bills are monthly. Every budget app I tried wanted a subscription, my bank login, or both. So I made the app I actually wanted, and now I'm sharing it. Blocks is truly free. No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions. No locked features. No "premium" tier. New features ship to everyone, free, forever. Blocks collects nothing. No sign-up, no analytics, no tracking. Your budget lives on your device and syncs through your own private iCloud. Nobody else can see it, including me. Blocks does the work for you. • Paychecks appear automatically on payday, whether weekly, biweekly, or monthly, including 3-paycheck months • Recurring bills post themselves, labeled with who was paid • Variable bills (like electricity) remind you and carry an off-season cushion for expensive months • Month-end surplus can sweep to savings automatically, and the app tells you exactly how much to move at your bank • One glance shows what you can actually spend, with upcoming bills already set aside Blocks stays out of your way. • Whole dollars only, with no cents and no clutter • Log a purchase in two taps with a swipe, the Action button, or "Hey Siri, log groceries in Blocks" followed by "50 tacos" • Payee suggestions learn from your own history • An annual view shows income, spending, and savings across the year • Clean black-and-white design, native to iOS, beautiful in dark mode I keep improving Blocks for my own budget, and every update ships to you too. If it helps you, that genuinely makes me happy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Blocks at weekly against Talea's every 2 months. Talea's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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.
Talea ships an update every 2 months, Blocks weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Talea | Blocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maximilian Fiedler | Hirthik Bhojwani |
In-app purchases
Talea
No in-app purchases
Blocks
No in-app purchases









