Comparison

Settle Up vs WeBudget

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

Head to head
About

Settle Up

Easily track shared expenses and IOUs for groups like travelers, flatmates, or friends. Handles complex splits, multiple payers, incomes, and items from bills. Works offline and across platforms, minimizing transfers and offering real-time exchange rates.

Highlights
  • Track shared expenses
  • Manage IOUs
  • Handle complex splits
  • Multiple payers support
  • Offline functionality
  • Real-time exchange rates
  • Data export
Features
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Settle group expenses without the stress. Tired of messy IOUs, awkward money talks, and complex math after a trip or shared dinner? Settle Up is the smartest way to track shared expenses and manage "who owes whom" instantly. From simple bill splitting to complex multi-currency adventures, we handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on the fun. Perfect for travelers, roommates, couples, event organizers, and friends. Join over 2.5 million users who have simplified their shared finances! WHY SETTLE UP? – Split anything: Whether it’s an even split, unequal weights, or multiple people paying for one item, we handle every real-life scenario. – Smart settlements: Our unique algorithm calculates the fewest possible transfers to settle all debts, saving you time and transaction fees. – Works everywhere: Sync data across other platforms. No internet? No problem — it works offline and syncs when you’re back. – No app required: Share a group link so friends can view the balance in their browser without downloading anything. POWERFUL FEATURES FOR REAL LIFE – Global ready: Supports all currencies with real-time exchange rates for international travel. – Ultra-fast sharing: Invite friends via a simple link or a QR code. – Export & reports: Need a deep dive? Export your data to CSV for easy accounting. – Instant transparency: Get notified the second someone adds an expense or settles up. Settle Up will even remind group members automatically and nudge them to settle their debts. UPGRADE TO PREMIUM FOR THE FULL EXPERIENCE Unlock the tools designed for power users and frequent travelers: – Ad-free: Focus on your finances without distractions. – Receipt photos: Snap and store bills directly in the group. – Recurring & future expenses: Automate rent, subscriptions, and utility bills. – Custom categories: Organize your spending with colorful, personalized labels. – Export to Excel: Get a full expense report in a spreadsheet. – Statistics: View charts on spend by categories and members. Stop worrying about the math. Start enjoying the moment. Download Settle Up today and sail through your next group expense! Visit our Terms of Service and Privacy policy at: https://settleup.io/tos.html

About

WeBudget

Features
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WeBudget is an expense tracker that does the typing for you. Share a bank message, an email receipt or a screenshot into WeBudget and it becomes a transaction — the amount, the merchant, the account and a category it works out for itself. Screenshots are read on your device. You confirm it, and that is the whole loop. Nothing is ever saved behind your back. Every capture waits in a review queue until you say yes, and correcting one teaches WeBudget the merchant for next time. WHAT IT DOES • Share text or a screenshot from any app and have it logged for you • Budgets per category, with a warning before you go over — not after • Charts that answer a question: where it went, what changed, what this month is on pace to cost • Multiple accounts and currencies • Import from a WeBudget backup or from Money Manager • Export everything, whenever you like • Face ID or PIN lock, and a covered screen in the app switcher • Full support for English, French, Spanish and Arabic YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE The ledger lives on your device. There is no account to create and nothing is uploaded unless you turn on cloud backup — and if you do, records are encrypted on the phone with a key our servers never hold. We cannot read your transactions. Neither can anyone who breaks into our database. That is a real trade-off and we would rather say it plainly: if you forget your recovery passphrase, your cloud copy cannot be recovered by us or by anyone. The app explains this before it lets you switch sync on. WHAT IS FREE, AND WHAT IS NOT Free, with ads, forever: adding transactions by hand, unlimited transactions, every chart, every budget, local backup, import and export. Your own data is never held behind a paywall. WeBudget Plus is a subscription. It removes the ads, turns on automatic capture, and adds the encrypted cloud copy across your devices. Both plans start with a free trial. ABOUT THE ADS The free tier carries ads, and they stay out of the way: never inside your transactions, balances or review queue, and never on the screens where you add money or manage your account. No transaction, amount, merchant or balance is ever used to target an ad — not one. You can also watch a short video for two hours without ads, or subscribe and see none at all. Privacy policy: https://we-budget.app/privacy Terms: https://we-budget.app/terms Support: https://we-budget.app/support

Screenshots

Settle Up4 screens
WeBudget4 screens

Verdict

The call

Settle Up and WeBudget 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 · 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. Settle Up sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and WeBudget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Settle Up versus WeBudget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSettle UpWeBudget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStep Up Labs, Inc.Heythem Ben Hadj Youssef

Bugs and requests

Settle Up

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Expense details disappearing
  • Inability to create new groups
  • Keyboard issues on iOS 8
  • Incompatibility with iPad

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to assign fixed amounts to group members
  • Option to adjust expense shares (e.g. exclude certain items)
  • Support for paying groups (multi-family events)

WeBudget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Settle Up

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time8
  • Group Premium for 1 week$5.99
  • Group Premium for 2 weeks$9.99
  • Group Premium for 2 months$14.99
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  • Group Premium for 1 month$14.99
  • Group Premium for 2 months$29.99
  • Group Premium5 variants$39.99
  • Group Premium for 1 year$39.99
  • Lifetime Group Premium$149.99
2 purchases

WeBudget

Subscriptions2
  • WeBudget Plus14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • WeBudget Plus14 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Settle Up free?
Settle Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WeBudget free?
WeBudget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Settle Up or WeBudget have ads?
Both Settle Up and WeBudget show ads.

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