Parakit vs Creso
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parakit
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Parakit is a simple, private money tracker: log an expense in about 3 seconds — no account, no sign-up, no bank connection. Type the amount, tap a category, done. Your financial records stay on your device. FAST EXPENSE TRACKING • Numpad-first entry screen • Quick add by voice or text ("coffee 4.50") • 19 ready-made categories, plus your own • Clear income vs. expense summary with charts • Daily reminder and logging streak DEBT & IOU LEDGER • Track money you lent and borrowed, person by person • Due-date reminders • Send a friendly reminder via WhatsApp or SMS in one tap BILLS, SUBSCRIPTIONS & CARDS • Subscription tracker with renewal reminders • Cheques and promissory notes with due dates • Credit-card installment plans • Multiple wallets and accounts with balances • Upcoming payments at a glance ASSETS & NET WORTH • Cash, bank, gold, foreign currency, crypto and investments • Live gold and exchange rates when you're online • Gold by grams or coins • Net worth in your main currency REPORTS & PLANNING • Monthly summary, trends and a shareable monthly recap card • CSV export and CSV import • Set the month start day to match your payday • Home-screen widget PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Works offline — no account, no cloud • App lock with Face ID / Touch ID • Light and dark theme PREMIUM — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Parakit is free with ads. Premium is a single lifetime purchase, never a subscription: • No ads • Advanced reports and PDF export • Monthly budgets and category limits with alerts • Savings goals • Recurring transactions (salary, rent, bills) • Smart insights and receipt photos • Unlimited custom categories • Backup & restore to your own file • Accent colors Available in 13 languages, with multi-currency support.
Creso
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Will your money last the month? Creso answers on the first screen: what you have, what's still due and how fast you're spending — so you know what's left before you spend it. No bank to connect, no account to create, no ads. Answer two questions and you're already logging your first coffee. FREE — AND NOT A TRIAL • Log expenses, income and transfers in two taps • Budgets that show what's LEFT, not what you've spent • End-of-month forecast: what you have, plus what's due, minus how fast you spend • Fixed costs, found automatically: everything that charges you every month, totalled by the year, with price rises flagged. $13.99 a month is invisible; $167.88 a year is a decision • Net worth across every account, debts included • Debts both ways: what you owe and what you're owed — even the ones you only jot down as a reminder. Split a bill any number of ways in one tap • Savings, mortgage and loan calculators, with 40 years of real market returns to test your assumptions • Import a CSV, or paste your bank statement straight from a PDF or an email • Receipt photos, and four themes — including true AMOLED black and Glass • A full backup you can export and keep — always free. If you ever leave, you leave with everything CRESO PRO • Investment tracking, with your real return — overall and year by year • Accounts in other currencies, with daily exchange rates • A one-page monthly PDF report for your accountant • Your whole year told in plain sentences, and a forecast to December • Shared goals that several people fill from their own phones • Automatic backups, Face ID lock, export to Excel and CSV • Custom icons and colors • Unlimited budgets, goals, scheduled payments, accounts and categories Monthly or yearly. Cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. PRIVACY, PLAINLY No account and no servers: your ledger is a file on your phone, and the app sends nothing about you. It makes two optional connections: it downloads the European Central Bank's public exchange-rate table if you hold another currency and — only if you add your own market-data key — it fetches quotes straight from that provider. Both can be turned off. No ads. Not in the free plan, not ever. Made in Providence by economists, investors and mathematicians. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://providencehq.es/en/creso/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Creso at none against Parakit's shown. Parakit's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Parakit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Creso sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Parakit ships an update every 2 days, Creso weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parakit | Creso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mehmet Fatih icin | Guillermo Rivas-Plata Somavilla |
In-app purchases
Parakit
- Parakit Premium$9.99
Creso
- Creso Pro mensual$3.991 Month
- Creso Pro anual$29.991 Year









