Comparison

Krumbs vs Lucia

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

Head to head
About

Krumbs

Effortlessly split bills and track shared expenses by scanning receipts or manually entering items. It calculates who owes what, simplifying group payments and managing recurring costs.

Highlights
  • Receipt scanning with itemized extraction
  • Multiple splitting methods (equal, shares, exact)
  • Simplified debt calculation and settlement
  • Group and individual expense tracking
  • Recurring expense management
  • No sign-up required to start
Features
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Dinner with eight people, one receipt, and nobody wants to do the math. Krumbs handles it. Take a photo of the receipt and Krumbs pulls out every line with its quantity and price. Then you tap who had what: the wine between two of you, the dessert for one. Discounts land exactly where they belong. FOUR WAYS TO SPLIT Equally, by shares or weights, by exact amounts, or straight from the items on the receipt. Every expense gets split the way it actually happened. CLEAR BALANCES, FEWER PAYMENTS Krumbs works out who owes who and then simplifies it. Instead of six transfers going in circles, it tells you the two that settle everyone up. See balances inside each group and your running total with each person. WITH A GROUP OR WITHOUT ONE Create groups for the trip, the apartment or Friday dinner, each with its own name, emoji and color. For one-offs, log a single shared expense with a friend without setting up a group at all. RECURRING EXPENSES Rent, the gym membership, the subscription you share. Set it once and it repeats on its own, with the split you chose. START WITHOUT SIGNING UP Open the app and you can create a group, scan a receipt and add expenses right away. Save your account with Apple, Google or email whenever you want, so nothing is lost when you change phone. ALSO INSIDE - Invite links so friends join a group in one tap - Notifications when someone adds or edits an expense - Multiple currencies - Group activity timeline - Dark, fast, quiet design - No ads Krumbs doesn't process payments or move money. It keeps the count, so the settle-up between you is the right one.

About

Lucia

Effortlessly track your spending and income with automatic logging of Apple Pay purchases. Set budgets, manage recurring bills, and save for goals. Your financial data stays private in your iCloud.

Highlights
  • Automatic Apple Pay purchase logging
  • Manual logging for cash and other payments
  • Customizable spending categories and budgets
  • Recurring bill and installment management
  • Savings goal tracking with vaults
  • Shared profiles for collaborative budgeting
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
Features
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Lucia logs your spending for you. Link Wallet once and every Apple Pay purchase is saved and sorted in the background. Cash, and anything paid another way, takes one tap. No subscription: pay once and Lucia is yours. No account, no ads, no trackers. Your data stays in your iCloud. Logs itself Purchases arrive in the right category, with an optional banner to confirm each one. Apple Pay purchases in another currency are converted to yours at the day's rate. You can also log with Siri, the Action Button, Back Tap, the Shortcuts app or a Home Screen widget. Where your money goes Log income and expenses in categories you can make your own, and see each month broken down by category. Note how you paid (credit card, debit card, cash or transfer) and see how much went through each. Where it comes from Income has its own page: what came in this month, from which sources, and how you received it. Spending limits Set a monthly limit for each category and get an alert at 80% and at 100%. Recurring and installments Add your subscriptions from over 100 services, each with its logo, and see what renews next and what you've paid this month. Bills and credit card installments go there too, repeating weekly, twice a month, monthly, every 3 or 6 months, or yearly. An installment plan can start on any day, each installment counts in its own month, and you always see what you still owe. Vaults Save in vaults for anything: a trip, an emergency fund, a new gadget. Each can have a goal and a date, and an interest rate if your bank pays one. Add money, withdraw it, or use it to pay for a purchase, and always see what's available and what's saved. Share a profile Share a profile through iCloud with the people you live or travel with. Everyone can add to it, each transaction shows who added it, and budgets and vaults stay in sync for all of you. Widgets See what's available, add a purchase in one tap, or check the charges due in the next 7 days, right from your Home Screen. Synced through your iCloud Your transactions, budgets and vaults appear on every device you use, and come back on their own after a reinstall or a new phone. Free to try Try Lucia for free, then unlock it for good with one purchase. Private by design Lucia keeps everything on your device and in your own private iCloud, where only you, and anyone you share a profile with, can reach it. There are no servers of ours and nothing for anyone to read, not even us. Made for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo Built natively for iOS and iPadOS, with Dark Mode, Dynamic Type and every screen size. Your money. Your iCloud.

Screenshots

Krumbs4 screens
Lucia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Krumbs at none against Lucia's 1. Krumbs also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Lucia's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Lucia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Krumbs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Krumbs against 5.0 for Lucia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Krumbs ships an update fortnightly, Lucia every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Krumbs versus Lucia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKrumbsLucia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB36 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developerfernando contrerasJuan Pablo Martinez Saavedra

Customer experience

Krumbs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lucia

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Krumbs

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Lucia

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$9.99

Questions

Is Krumbs free?
Krumbs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lucia free?
Lucia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Krumbs or Lucia?
Krumbs and Lucia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Krumbs or Lucia have ads?
Neither Krumbs nor Lucia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Krumbs or Lucia?
Krumbs ships an update fortnightly, and Lucia every 3 days. Most recently, Krumbs was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lucia on November 10, 2026.

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