Comparison

Budgetary vs Clanfolio

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

Head to head
About

Budgetary

Manually track your expenses, create budgets, and split bills with friends. This private money tracker offers detailed loan calculations and savings goal planning, all stored securely on your device. It includes numerous built-in finance calculators and supports multiple currencies and languages.

Highlights
  • Manual expense logging
  • Category-based budgeting
  • Bill splitting and settlement
  • Loan tracking with EMI math
  • Savings goal planning
  • Multi-currency support
  • 21 built-in finance calculators
Features
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Budgetary is a private, manual-first money tracker. Log spending yourself, budget by category, split bills with friends, track loans with real EMI math and save toward goals — all stored on your phone, never linked to your bank. Track, budget, split, settle. No bank login. No automatic imports. No ads, no tracking. Every entry is yours, made in seconds with a keypad calculator, tags, line items, receipts and unlimited categories. TRACK EVERY RUPEE, DOLLAR AND EURO • Home shows income, expenses and net cashflow for any day, week or month • Wallet, card, bank and app accounts as manual containers with live balances • Unlimited categories and subcategories with their own icon and colour • Tags, line items and attachments (photos and documents) on any transaction • Multi-currency: 40 currencies, live or manual exchange rates, one display currency • Recurring income and expenses, daily to yearly, held in a Pending Approvals queue so nothing posts without you • Due Soon card for bills due today, tomorrow or in the next few days BUDGETS THAT KEEP PACE • Per-category caps for weekly, monthly, yearly or custom periods • Live progress, on-track or behind indicator and a month-end projection SPLIT BILLS, SETTLE SIMPLY • Split any expense equally or by custom shares across your contacts • Per-person balances, payment history and simplified settle-up that reduces who-owes-who to the fewest payments • Import people from your address book. Splits stay local — your friends don't need the app LOANS WITH REAL EMI MATH • EMI loans in the Debts tab: full amortisation schedule, interest accrual, record each payment, close when it's paid • Manual loans and IOUs: money you've lent or borrowed, with optional reminders SAVE AND PLAN • Savings goals with a target, optional deadline, progress ring and what you need per day, week or month • Projects: budget a trip or any plan with its own limit and dates, then settle the whole thing • Sheet view: spreadsheet-style entry with text, number, date and formula columns 21 FINANCE CALCULATORS BUILT IN Free: EMI, Simple and Compound Interest, FD, RD, SIP, Savings Goal, GST, VAT, Split with tip, Inflation, Emergency Fund, Home Affordability. Plus: Debt Payoff, Early Payoff, Step-up SIP, SWP, FIRE, Rent vs Buy, Debt vs Invest, Retirement Stress Test. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your ledger lives in an on-device database and is never sent to our servers • No bank linking, no account aggregation, no ad tracking, no usage analytics • Local .bdg backup to Files (optionally password-protected) and CSV export • Optional Cloud Backup (Plus) is end-to-end encrypted on your phone before upload — we never hold the key 12 LANGUAGES English, Hindi, Tamil, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. BUDGETARY PLUS Budgetary is free to use with unlimited transactions, categories and history. Plus unlocks: • Insights — monthly Recap, spending forecast, trends, net worth, cash-flow diagram, budget health score, merchant and subscription analytics • End-to-end encrypted Cloud Backup • Unlimited accounts, budgets, projects, recurring rules, savings goals and EMI loans • 8 advanced calculators, custom date ranges, whole-project settle-up, all-scope CSV export, push reminders and live exchange rates Budgetary Plus is an optional auto-renewable subscription, offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency. Terms of Service: https://budgetary.in/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://budgetary.in/privacy-policy Sign in with Apple, Google or your phone number to get started. Engineered by Vynnter.

About

Clanfolio

Features
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Your family's money lives in a dozen places: a pension here, an ISA there, a mortgage, the car finance, the house itself. Clanfolio gathers all of it into one picture — what you own, what you owe, and which way it's heading. Add an account, type in its balance, and you're tracking it. There's no bank to connect and no permissions to grant, so the only figures in Clanfolio are the ones you put there. ONE PICTURE, THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD Your net worth, what you own and what you owe, each with a chart for the last month, 3 months, 12 months or since you started. Tap any figure to see what's behind it. The By person view shows who holds what, including anything joint. EVERY KIND OF ACCOUNT Current accounts, savings, ISAs, Premium Bonds, pensions, investments, property, credit cards, loans, car finance and mortgages. Hold them in other currencies and Clanfolio converts them to yours. FIVE MINUTES A MONTH Update balances is one screen with every account on it, so a month's admin takes one pass. Anything you haven't touched in a while is flagged, so nothing quietly goes stale. Log individual transactions when they matter, and skip them when they don't. EVERYONE ON THE SAME NUMBERS Invite your partner or your parents with a link. They see the same household, so nobody is working from a figure they half-remember. ASK ABOUT YOUR OWN MONEY The built-in assistant answers questions like "what's our biggest liability?" or "how much is in pensions?" using your household's real figures. It has nothing else to draw on, so it can't invent a number. YOUR DATA, YOUR COPY Export everything to Excel or CSV whenever you want, or download a full backup to keep. Delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. Clanfolio doesn't sell your data and carries no ads. It isn't a budgeting app, and it doesn't give financial advice — it shows you your own numbers, clearly, and leaves the decisions to you. On iPhone and iPad, in light or dark. CLANFOLIO FAMILY Try everything free for 14 days, with no card needed. After that, Clanfolio Family is one subscription that covers everyone in your household, on every device, billed monthly or yearly. Exporting and backing up your data stays free, subscribed or not. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.clanfolio.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.clanfolio.com/privacy

Screenshots

Budgetary4 screens
Clanfolio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clanfolio at none against Budgetary's 2. Clanfolio also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Budgetary's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). 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. Budgetary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Clanfolio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Budgetary ships an update weekly, Clanfolio fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Budgetary versus Clanfolio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBudgetaryClanfolio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVishvanath EshwerChasura Solutions Limited

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Budgetary

Subscriptions2
  • Budgetary$2.491 Month
  • Budgetary$22.491 Year
None

Clanfolio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Budgetary free?
Budgetary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clanfolio free?
Clanfolio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Budgetary or Clanfolio have ads?
Neither Budgetary nor Clanfolio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Budgetary or Clanfolio?
Budgetary ships an update weekly, and Clanfolio fortnightly. Most recently, Budgetary was updated on October 3, 2026 and Clanfolio on October 11, 2026.

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