Comparison

Blocks vs SubBell

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Automated bill payments
  • Income tracking
  • Private data storage
  • Customizable paychecks
  • Variable bill reminders
  • Automatic savings sweeps
  • Quick purchase logging
Features
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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.

About

SubBell

Features
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Reminders that actually fire — before every renewal, not after. No bank link. No account. No trap. One honest list of your subscriptions, and alerts before free trials turn into bills. WHAT YOU GET FREE • Up to 5 subscriptions with renewal reminders (you choose: same day, 1, 3 or 7 days before) • Free-trial alerts — twice, so a trial never quietly becomes a charge • Monthly and yearly totals, also by category • CSV export of everything, any time. No lock-in, ever. PRO — ONLY IF YOU WANT MORE Unlimited subscriptions. Pay once (lifetime) or yearly. That is the whole difference. What is free stays free. No trial tricks, no surprise charges — cancel in Settings any time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. Your subscriptions stay on your device — we never see them. We do count anonymous app usage (which screens are opened, whether the price screen was shown) to know what to fix. No name, no account, nothing you typed. Turn it off in one tap in Settings. English, Deutsch, Русский. SUBSCRIPTION SubBell Pro Yearly — one year, auto-renewing. The price is shown on this page and in the purchase sheet. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged within 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://mazzilaaaa.github.io/subtrack-site/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Blocks4 screens
SubBell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blocks at none against SubBell's 2. On price, update cadence, 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. SubBell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Blocks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blocks ships an update weekly, SubBell every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Blocks versus SubBell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlocksSubBell
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHirthik BhojwaniAlexandr Fadeev

In-app purchases

None

Blocks

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SubBell

Subscriptions1
  • Subscription Tracker, Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Subscription Tracker Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Blocks free?
Blocks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SubBell free?
SubBell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Blocks or SubBell have ads?
Neither Blocks nor SubBell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blocks or SubBell?
Blocks ships an update weekly, and SubBell every 4 days. Most recently, Blocks was updated on October 31, 2026 and SubBell on October 29, 2026.

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