Comparison

Budgetpad. vs BudgetingBuddi

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

Head to head
About

Budgetpad.

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BudgetPad is a simple, beautiful way to stay on top of your money — designed to feel like a friendly paper notepad. BUDGETS & EXPENSES • Set monthly budgets by category and watch what's left at a glance • Log expenses in seconds, with cash/credit tracking and notes • See your spending history grouped by day • Export your data to CSV anytime SPLIT THE BILL • Split a bill among family or friends in seconds • Add each person and punch in their amounts one by one • Add an optional service fee that's split evenly • Track who still owes you with the "To collect" panel, and settle up per person BILLS • Keep track of recurring bills monthly, weekly ,annually • Remind user to pay bill on the day, 1 day before, 3 days before, 1 week before due date. LOANS • Keep track of money you've lent or borrowed • Record partial payments and mark loans as settled USE IT YOUR WAY • No account needed — tap "Continue offline" and your data stays on your device • Or sign in with email, Google, or Apple to sync across your devices • Choose your currency, accent color, and light or dark mode Your data is yours. You can permanently delete your account and all your data from within the app at any time. BudgetPad doesn't show ads or track you across other apps.

About

BudgetingBuddi

Features
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Budgeting that works the way you actually think about money. Set one budget amount at whatever scale makes sense to you — $600 a month, $40 a day, $7,200 a year — and every other scale is derived from it. Switch between day, week, month, and year, and every figure on screen follows. OVERVIEW What you've spent against what you planned, for the period you're looking at. Every category gets a meter, a remaining figure, and a plain status: on track, close to budget, or over. CALENDAR A month of daily spending as a heatmap. Darker days are heavier days. Tap any day to read its figure — and every number is listed in plain text beneath the grid, so the colour is never the only thing carrying the value. TRENDS Spending across recent periods, your biggest movers period over period, and outlier detection that flags a category when it drifts more than two standard deviations from its own recent history. It tells you the sample size behind each call, so you know how much to trust it. ONE-OFF EXCEPTIONS December groceries aren't September groceries. Set a different amount for a single period and the weeks and days inside it scale to match. YOUR CATEGORIES, YOUR NUMBERS The app starts with an empty list. It never invents categories, never guesses at what you spent, and never asks to connect to your bank. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account to create and no server of ours to sign in to. Your budget lives on your device and syncs through your own private iCloud, keyed to the Apple ID you already use. No ads, no trackers, no third-party analytics. The app makes no network requests of its own and works fully offline. Built for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Budgetpad.4 screens
BudgetingBuddi4 screens

Verdict

The call

Budgetpad. and BudgetingBuddi are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Budgetpad. versus BudgetingBuddi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBudgetpad.BudgetingBuddi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobin CasaljayJory Gutman

In-app purchases

None

Budgetpad.

No in-app purchases

None

BudgetingBuddi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Budgetpad. free?
Budgetpad. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BudgetingBuddi free?
BudgetingBuddi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Budgetpad. or BudgetingBuddi have ads?
Neither Budgetpad. nor BudgetingBuddi shows ads.

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