Big Jot vs Flower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Big Jot
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Big Jot is a focused personal bookkeeping app for recording everyday income and expenses. Create entries by typing, speaking, or importing a screenshot. Organize income and expenses with categories, review trends and category breakdowns, manage multiple currencies, and edit entries whenever you need. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ AI entry assistance is optional. Review every proposed entry before it is saved. Big Jot VIP is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. VIP lets you use AI bookkeeping without a daily usage limit. Prices vary by country or region and are shown before purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings.
Flower
Effortlessly track your expenses and income with on-device suggestions and receipt scanning. Visualize your spending patterns with detailed monthly and yearly recaps. Manage all your financial accounts in one organized space.
- On-device expense and income recording
- Receipt and screenshot scanning
- Monthly and yearly financial recaps
- Multi-currency wallet management
- Cash flow and recurring item tracking
- Flexible search and filtering
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Flower brings your expenses, budgets, and wallets together in a personal space. Keep everyday records clear, then revisit the places and moments behind the numbers. RECORD YOUR WAY Add expenses and income, organize categories and subcategories, and attach photos or places. Review CSV/XLSX records before importing them; with Flower Plus you can also scan receipts, read payment screenshots, or record by voice. Suggestions based on your own history help with familiar purchases. MULTIPLE LEDGERS, A CLEARER VIEW Flower Plus lets you create additional ledgers for different purposes, each with a name and a Flower library icon. Switch between one ledger and all ledgers; records, maps, statistics, and recaps follow your selection. Wallet and account balances belong to you across all ledgers. SEE WHERE YOU SPENT Explore saved locations on your Spending Map, from familiar streets to places visited further afield. Search for a place and look through records nearby. Photos and locations are free to add, and this week’s map is free to view. REMEMBER YOUR MONTH A completed month becomes a Monthly recap with photos, places, spending patterns, and changes. Explore your monthly imprint and revisit a Story with a few words to remember the month by. Every finished month also becomes a page in your Flower yearbook. Turn through the year like a book: each day’s photos sit on a calendar, days without photos are shaded by what you spent, and a map marks the new and familiar areas you visited. When something you buy becomes a habit, Flower notices. Your profile shows each spending habit’s rhythm, its usual places, and about how much it costs in a usual month. Records with similar names can be merged into one. Your first month’s recap and yearbook page are free, and basic weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics remain free. ORGANIZE YOUR MONEY Bring cash, bank accounts, credit accounts, and multi-currency wallets together. Track transfers, recurring items, split expenses, and repayment records. Investment accounts are for keeping your own records. PLAN AND PERSONALIZE Set an overall budget or a separate budget for each saved ledger and see what remains. Choose Card Holder styles, arrange embossings, and give categories a little personality with miniature, felt, and other icon collections. FLOWER PLUS Flower Plus lets you create additional ledgers; add reimbursement details, installment schedules, or discounts to records; record refunds; add transfer fees; and create or extend shared credit accounts. Shared credit groups cards under one limit while keeping each card’s debt separate. Other benefits include receipt and screenshot scanning, voice entry, split and multi-currency records, private iCloud sync, full-ledger PDF/CSV export, historical Spending Maps, every month’s recap and yearbook page, spending habits and places, hidden balances, account archiving, and expanded asset and Card Holder capacity. Some appearances are sold separately. See the in-app offer for current plans and included features. If a subscription expires, your saved data stays. You can keep using saved ledgers, record in active ones, rename or archive them, correct or remove saved premium details, receive reimbursements, and stop existing installment plans. Due installments from existing plans continue to create records. You can correct saved transfer fees and shared limits, remove cards from a shared group, or record repayments. Recorded refunds and archived accounts stay, and balance hiding can be turned off at any time. Creating new paid configurations requires Flower Plus. Settings → Feature display controls which tools are shown. It does not unlock paid features. A locked action opens Flower Plus; a verified purchase or restore returns you to that action. Cancelling keeps your draft. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flower at none against Big Jot's 2. Flower also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, 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. Big Jot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Flower asks for nothing beyond the download.
Big Jot ships an update every 10 days, Flower every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Big Jot | Flower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YIMIN CAO | Zhiwen Huang |
In-app purchases
Big Jot
- Big Jot VIP Monthly$1.991 Month
- Big Jot VIP Annual$19.901 Year
Flower
No in-app purchases









