Comparison

SubHelm vs Subby Subscription Tracker

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

Head to head
About

SubHelm

This app centralizes all your recurring payments, helping you avoid unexpected charges. It offers smart reminders for renewals and free trials, receipt scanning for easy entry, and multi-currency support to track your spending.

Highlights
  • Centralized subscription management
  • Renewal and free trial reminders
  • Receipt scanning for data extraction
  • Multi-currency support
  • Profile organization
  • AI-powered assistant
Features
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SubHelm helps you see every subscription you pay for, what it costs you each month, and what's about to renew — so a forgotten free trial never becomes a surprise charge. It's built for people who've lost count: anyone juggling streaming, software and AI subscriptions, freelancers keeping work and personal spending apart, and households sharing plans across a family. SET UP IN UNDER A MINUTE Pick from a catalogue of 200+ popular services, scan a receipt, or import a bank statement. SubHelm fills in the price and the renewal date, so you're not typing everything in by hand. KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY PAYING See one real monthly total, converted into your own currency, with a breakdown of where the money goes by category. A six-month forecast shows you which months spike — so the annual renewal you'd forgotten about doesn't land as a shock. NEVER GET CHARGED BY SURPRISE Get a reminder days before every renewal, and before each free trial converts to a paid plan. See the whole month laid out in a calendar, and check what's charging next from your Home Screen or Lock Screen without opening the app. CANCEL BEFORE THEY CHARGE YOU When you want out, SubHelm walks you through cancelling that particular service step by step, links you straight to the right page, and stops the reminders once it's done. ASK ABOUT YOUR OWN SPENDING A built-in assistant answers questions about your subscriptions, entirely on your device: • "How much do I spend per year?" • "What's my most expensive subscription?" • "What renews in the next 7 days?" • "Where could I cut back?" ALSO INCLUDED • Profiles — keep personal and work subscriptions apart. • Price-change tracking — spot it when a service quietly puts its price up. • Monthly recap — a summary of what you spent and what changed. • iCloud sync — your subscriptions on all your devices, privately. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No ads, no tracking, and no bank login required. Receipts are read on your device and never uploaded. Your subscriptions stay on your device and sync only through your own private iCloud — we can't see them. Take control of your recurring spending with SubHelm. Privacy Policy: https://subhelm.app/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Subby Subscription Tracker

Features
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Subby remembers every subscription and bill you have, and reminds you before they charge you. No bank login. No account. Nothing to connect. You add each subscription yourself, in about twenty seconds, and it stays on your iPhone. A subscription manager, a bill organizer and a renewal reminder in one app. WHAT SUBBY DOES • Track every subscription and recurring bill: streaming, music, gym, insurance, cloud storage, software, anything that renews. • Get a reminder before every renewal, on your schedule: same day, a few days ahead, a week ahead, or a custom lead time. • Mark a payment as paid straight from the notification. • See one clear total for the month and for the year. • Keep a full payment log with monthly totals, filtered down to any single subscription. • Sort into categories and payment methods, pause what you are not using, archive what you cancel. REMINDERS THAT LAND One heads-up per charge and nothing else. If a payment goes unpaid, Subby keeps reminding you for up to a week, so a forgotten free trial does not quietly become a yearly charge. Cancel in time, or decide to keep it. Either way, you knew it was coming. INSIGHTS Due, paid and total, by month or by year, broken down by category or payment method, with a six-month trend. Your real monthly spending, on one screen, instead of a number you are guessing at. HOME SCREEN WIDGET (PRO) Your next payments and their countdowns, one glance from the Home Screen, with one-tap mark as paid. BUILT FOR REAL BILLING Weekly, every two weeks, every four weeks, monthly, every two months, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly, or a custom cycle up to every three years. 46 currencies with up-to-date exchange rates, so a subscription billed in another currency still lands in your main total. 600+ BRANDS READY TO GO Logos and brand colors are built in, so adding a service takes a couple of taps. Missing one? PRO members can request it and we add it for everyone. ADD FROM A SCREENSHOT (PRO) Snap a confirmation email, a bill or a store page, and Subby fills in the service, price and billing cycle for you. You review it before anything is saved. CLOUD BACKUP (PRO) Automatic backups to iCloud, or to your own Google Drive, so your list survives a lost or replaced iPhone. You can also back up to this device and restore from a file. IN YOUR LANGUAGE 19 languages, right to left layout included. Pick the app's language inside Subby, whatever your iPhone is set to. PRO IS ONE PAYMENT Subby is free, with ads. PRO is a single one-time purchase, not a subscription. It removes the ads and unlocks the widget, cloud backup, screenshot import and icon requests. The free app tracks everything, with no cap on how many subscriptions you add. The unlock stays with the Apple Account that bought it, and Restore Purchases brings it back on your other Apple devices. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, no bank connection. Subby knows what you tell it, nothing more. Your subscription list lives on your device, and backups go only to storage you already own. Tracking subscriptions since 2017, by Pocket Implementation S.R.L.

Screenshots

SubHelm4 screens
Subby Subscription Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SubHelm at none against Subby Subscription Tracker's shown. SubHelm also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Subby Subscription Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. SubHelm sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Subby Subscription Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SubHelm ships an update every 3 days, Subby Subscription Tracker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
SubHelm versus Subby Subscription Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubHelmSubby Subscription Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSambulo SendaPOCKET IMPLEMENTATION S.R.L.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SubHelm

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • SubPilot Pro — Lifetime$39.99
1 purchases

Subby Subscription Tracker

One-time1
  • Subby PRO$19.99

Questions

Is SubHelm free?
SubHelm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Subby Subscription Tracker free?
Subby Subscription Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SubHelm or Subby Subscription Tracker have ads?
Subby Subscription Tracker shows ads; SubHelm does not.
Which is updated more often, SubHelm or Subby Subscription Tracker?
SubHelm ships an update every 3 days, and Subby Subscription Tracker fortnightly. Most recently, SubHelm was updated on August 8, 2026 and Subby Subscription Tracker on September 15, 2026.

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