Comparison

Finances 1 (Old Version) vs Finances

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

Head to head
About

Finances 1 (Old Version)

Track income and expenses with easy categorization and insightful charts. Offers Apple Watch integration for quick financial overviews. The free version has limitations, with a one-time purchase unlocking all features.

Highlights
  • Income and expense tracking
  • Transaction categorization
  • Weekly, monthly, yearly statistics
  • Apple Watch app
  • Data export (full version)
  • Customizable categories
  • Passcode and fingerprint security
Features
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**Don't download – this app was replaced by Finances 2** My Finances helps you to track your income and expenses with ease. The app lets you categorise your transactions and provides weekly, monthly and yearly statistics. Beautiful line and bar charts make analysing your income and expenses fun. The app is designed to be easy to use on the go and gets out of your way quickly. Apple Watch: My Finances on Apple Watch shows your income and expenses of today, yesterday, this week and month. You can also view your transactions grouped by categories is a beautiful bar chart. The Glance shows your net worth history over the last 30 days. It's the easiest and fastest way to get an overview of your finances. Features: - Income and expense tracking for multiple account - Planned (one-time or recurring) transactions with reminder - Weekly, monthly and yearly statistics (full version) - Data export as csv, plaintext and json file (full version) - Customisable categories - Secure your data with a passcode and your fingerprint (requires Touch ID) - Today widget - Apple Watch app to see your statistics on your wrist - Optimised for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus - No ads The free version is limited to 20 transactions per month per account and doesn't offer all statistics, data export and automatic backups. Purchase the full version with a one-time In-App Purchase to enable all features.

About

Finances

Manage your finances with this app that tracks expenses, income, and investments. Set budgets, monitor cash flow, and view detailed reports. Cloud sync ensures your data is backed up and accessible across devices.

Highlights
  • Expense and income tracking
  • Budget management
  • Investment tracking
  • Bill reminders
  • Multi-currency support
  • Cloud sync
  • Financial reports
Features
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The Finances application provides an integrated set of features to help you manage your cash flow and investments: - For cash flow, Finances supports tracking expenses and income, and includes support for budgets, accounts, payees, and bill tracking. - For investments, Finances supports tracking cash and stock investments and automatically fetches daily stock prices. - Finances allows flexible cycles for managing your cash-flow: Monthly (default), Weekly, Every 2 weeks, Every 4 weeks, and Semi-monthly. - The Finances application provides the ability to group your expenses into categories and sub-categories, and lets you set a budget and track expenses at the category/sub-category level. - The features within Finances are well integrated such that a bill can become an expense (when you pay for it) and adjust the account balance at the same time. - Finances includes Cloud Sync that automatically backs up your data, and syncs entries across multiple devices (iPhone, iPad). KEY FEATURES: Expenses: - Create/Edit/Delete expenses and recurring expenses - Browse expense entries by month, by category/date with the ability to drill-down - Optionally associate an account and payee with an expense - Attach photo images of receipts; drag and resize images on screen - Support for multiple currencies and automatic exchange rate conversion Income: - Create/Edit/Delete income and recurring income - Optionally associate an account with the income Bills - Create/Edit/Delete bills and recurring bills - Support for Payees, and track payments by Payee. - Make payment on bills either an as expense or as a transfer (to avoid double accounting your expenses) - Bill reminders Categories and Budget - Create/Edit/Delete expense categories and sub-categories - Set a budget, and track expenses at the category/sub-category level. - Associate icons with the categories - Budget rollover - Support for one-time budgets - Classify expenses into fixed, variable and discretionary and compute your disposable income Accounts - Support for Accounts such as Checking, Savings, Credit, Debit, Cash, etc. - Associate your expense and income entries with your accounts and accurately track account balances. - View transactions, and do transfer between accounts. - Ability to choose a different base currency for each account Investments - Support create/edit/delete of Investment accounts - Support for add/edit/delete of investments - Support for Cash and Stock investments - Automatic fetching of stock prices every for accurate tracking of investment values Reports - Trend chart for Expense, Budget and Income for the last 6 months - Trend chart for Accounts and Investments for the last 6 months - Pie/Bar charts for expense break-down (Available in the Expenses screen). - Export reports in PDF/CSV format by email or via WiFi Cloud Sync - Automatic backups - Automatically sync entries across multiple devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch) - Sync works over 4G and WiFi - Ability to work within a single budget with other members of the household Other - Import data in OFX/CSV format into accounts - Large numeric keypad for expense/income amount entry - Finances follows the locale/region setting on your device and shows date and currency symbols appropriate for your region Finances is free for the first 100 entries. You can upgrade to unlimited entries by subscribing to either the monthly plan or the yearly plan. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the current subscription price. The subscription auto-renewal can be turned off by going to your iTunes Account Settings. Please refer to http://www.anishu.com/privacy.html for privacy policy, and http://www.anishu.com/terms.html for terms of use.

Screenshots

Finances 1 (Old Version)3 screens
Finances4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Finances 1 (Old Version) at none against Finances's 2. Finances 1 (Old Version) also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (84% vs 75%). Finances's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. Finances sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Finances 1 (Old Version) asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Finances holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Finances 1 (Old Version)'s written reviews are positive against 75% of Finances's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Finances 1 (Old Version) ships an update monthly, Finances every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Finances 1 (Old Version) versus Finances: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinances 1 (Old Version)Finances
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.3 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.4% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings47 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthias HochgattererAnishu, Inc.

Customer experience

Finances 1 (Old Version)

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews224 reviews
Positive84.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative12.5%

Finances

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Finances 1 (Old Version)

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes and closes unexpectedly for some users
  • Recurring transactions not always posting automatically

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to track hours worked and calculate average hourly earnings
  • Improve recurring transaction functionality to support more frequencies (e.g., fortnightly)
  • Provide option to view expenses by specific store/merchant
  • Enhance color customization for categories
  • Add more cloud storage integration options (e.g., OneDrive, Google Drive)

Finances

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Finances 1 (Old Version)

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Finances

Subscriptions2
  • Finances Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Finances Subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Finances 1 (Old Version) free?
Finances 1 (Old Version) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Finances free?
Finances is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Finances 1 (Old Version) or Finances?
Finances is rated higher. Finances 1 (Old Version) averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Finances averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Finances 1 (Old Version) or Finances have ads?
Neither Finances 1 (Old Version) nor Finances shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Finances 1 (Old Version) or Finances?
Finances 1 (Old Version) ships an update monthly, and Finances every 4 months. Most recently, Finances 1 (Old Version) was updated on October 15, 2026 and Finances on October 5, 2026.

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