CostGlance vs Harubi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CostGlance
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Keep your costs in view—whether one-time or recurring. Offline, no account, no login, no ads. Your costs—your data. CostGlance helps you keep an overview of your costs. No bank connection, cloud, or tracking. Your data stays on your device. Features at a glance • Manage one-time and recurring costs • Group expenses into any custom groups you define • Manage income and budgets • Review clear, calendar-based monthly overviews and comparisons to the previous month • Optionally receive (local) reminders about upcoming payments and your budget • Export, import, or share backups Privacy first • Works offline • No account, no login—ever • No ads and no tracking • Your financial data stays with you Advanced Features (optional one-time purchase) More insight • Group breakdowns and spending shares on the monthly overview • Progress bars for a clearer picture of the month • iOS home screen widgets (monthly summary and alert for high upcoming costs) Buy once. Restore on a new device with “Restore Purchases.” If you finally want a simple overview of your costs—without sending your data into the void—CostGlance is the app you’ve been looking for!
Harubi
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Snap it, and it fills itself in. You just check. Receipts, payment text alerts, the transaction list inside your banking app — photograph or screenshot them, and Harubi reads the date, amount and merchant and fills the entry in for you. No ads, no account, no bank login. ■ Why photos instead of a bank connection? Harubi never asks for your bank credentials. · Cash never shows up in a bank feed. A photo of the receipt catches it. · You never hand your bank login to a third party — there is nobody to hand it to. · Nothing to sign up for. Open the app and start. ■ Three kinds of images, sorted out automatically · Paper receipts — merchant, total and date, read straight off the slip. · Payment and card alert messages — screenshot the alert and it becomes one transaction. · Bank and card statement lists — screenshot the transaction list in your banking app and every row is read at once. Whatever you send, a review screen comes first. Correct a misread figure, untick a row you don't want, then save. ■ Several screenshots, stitched into one list A statement never fits on one screen. Scroll, take as many screenshots as you need, and hand them over together. · Overlapping stretches are matched up by running balance, so nothing is imported twice. · If a date header was cut off at the top of a shot, the date is carried across from the neighboring shots. · Transactions you have already saved come back pre-unticked. ■ Share now, sort it out later Send images to Harubi from Photos or Messages with the share sheet. iOS won't let an app launch itself, so nothing happens at that moment — but the next time you open Harubi, everything you shared is waiting and gets sorted in one go. ■ Private by construction · Text recognition runs on your iPhone, through Apple's Vision framework. Photos are not uploaded for processing. · Your transaction records stay on this device. · No account, no login, no bank connection. · No ads, no tracking. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected". · Not a single analytics or advertising SDK, and no third-party libraries at all. ■ The budgeting part · Income, expense and transfer entries with a large number keypad · Daily, calendar, weekly, monthly, summary and memo views · Transaction search — by details, category or asset, narrowed to a period, with your recent searches kept · Category statistics (pie chart) with period and account filters · Per-category budgets with remaining amount and spending pace · Event budgets — keep a trip, a holiday or a move on its own named budget, apart from your monthly one · Trend tab — your daily balance, and the transactions behind any day · Balance trend graph per account · Double-entry asset tracking — cash, bank and card balances kept in step · Recurring expenses — rent, subscriptions, anything that leaves on the same day each month · Automatic insights — budgets nearly spent, too much in Other, month-over-month jumps · Backup and restore to a JSON file (photos and videos attached to memos, and recurring-expense rules, are not included in the backup) · On-device AI — a summary of your month and category suggestions for Other (iOS 26 on Apple Intelligence devices) · Light / dark mode and theme colors ■ Receipts we read Korea, Japan, the United States, Germany and the Philippines. Budgeting is all about consistency. Start light — just today's spending. iPhone only. Requires iOS 17 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CostGlance at daily against Harubi's every 3 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CostGlance ships an update daily, Harubi every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CostGlance | Harubi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc Ahrens | MJ KONG |
In-app purchases
CostGlance
No in-app purchases
Harubi
No in-app purchases









