Comparison

Buddy vs Account Tracker Pro

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

Head to head
About

Buddy

This app helps you create and manage personal or shared budgets. Track expenses, connect your bank account for automatic transaction import, and gain a clear overview of your spending, income, and savings. It also features tools to split costs and settle up with others.

Highlights
  • Create personal budgets
  • Shared budgeting for couples/groups
  • Connect bank accounts for transaction import
  • Detailed spending and income overview
  • Expense splitting and settlement tracking
Features
Currently charting
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Buddy helps you set up a budget and keep track of your expenses, either by yourself or together with your loved ones. Here’s what is waiting for you inside: BUDGETS Buddy will help you not to overspend on your well-earned salary by setting up a budget plan that fits you. Do you want a shared budget with your partner? Or keep the expenses between you and your mates fair on the vacation? No problem, just invite them and get a clear picture of who spent what. CONNECT YOUR BANK Import all transactions from your bank account into Buddy and see how your budget is doing. OVERVIEW We'll give you a beautiful & detailed overview of your spendings, income, and savings. SPLIT Split lets you know who paid what, and how to settle up. And much more for you to find. Take control of your finance today! Buddy offers a $9.99 monthly renewing and a $49.99 yearly renewing subscription to unlock Premium functionality. The purchase will be charged from your iTunes account if you choose to buy the Buddy Premium subscription. You can manage or cancel your subscription through the user settings in iTunes after the purchase. The subscription period ends with the same kind of subscription you already bought to the same price unless you turn off your subscription 24 hours before it renews. It is not possible to cancel your current subscription during the time your subscription is active. Privacy Policy: https://buddy.download/privacypolicy/ Terms & Conditions: https://buddy.download/terms-and-conditions/

About

Account Tracker Pro

Manage your personal finances with this powerful app. Track spending, monitor account balances, set up bill reminders, and create budgets. Gain insights with detailed reports and ensure financial control with multi-currency support and alerts.

Highlights
  • Track multiple account types
  • Bill reminders and alerts
  • Budgeting by category
  • Detailed financial reports
  • Multi-currency support
  • Data backup and syncing
Features
Currently charting
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Apple "New apps and games we love" (on the Mac), March 2017 Apple "Staff Favourite" in the UK (on iOS), Jul/Aug 2010 Account Tracker is a powerful personal finance app that helps you track spending and monitor balances across multiple accounts. Its clean, intuitive user interface, and features such as alerts, bill reminders, budgets, reports and full multi-currency support, make it easy to take control of your finances. This Pro version is a subscription-free version of Account Tracker, with exactly the same content plus basic support for Apple Watch. Try Account Tracker before you buy, it is free to download and supports a 1 month FREE TRIAL. Simply cancel before being charged. Also check out Account Tracker for Mac, now available on the Mac App Store. It requires Account Tracker version 6 or above (to sync over iCloud or Dropbox), and macOS Sierra (10.12) or above. ACCOUNTS - Track multiple accounts: checking, current, savings, credit cards, loans/mortgages ... etc - Separate your accounts into groups, e.g. personal vs business accounts - Enter your recurring transactions using calendar-based repeat intervals, e.g. every 2 weeks, the last Friday of every month ... etc - Quickly and simply enter one-off transactions as they happen - Reconcile your account data with your statements - While it is useful to see where your money goes, you can also look FORWARDS, showing all of your future commitments - Alerts if an account is likely to go overdrawn or hit its overdraft limit BILLS - Enable reminders for non-automatic transactions, e.g. bills that you have to pay manually - View all transactions with reminders set - Alerts to tell you when these transactions are due BUDGETS - Add budgets per category for spending, income and transfers across individual or multiple accounts - View these as daily, weekly, fortnightly/biweekly, monthly, yearly or custom dates (e.g. tax years) - Monitor your transactions against the goals you set REPORTS - Detailed reports to really understand your financial position - Account balance over time, cash flow, spending by category or payee detail, income by category or payer and transfers by category - View these as daily, weekly, fortnightly/biweekly, monthly, yearly or custom dates (e.g. tax years) - Export or print reports as PDF files DATA, BACKUPS AND SYNCING - Import historical transactions or bank statements from a CSV file - Export account statements, budgets and reports in CSV format for offline processing, e.g. in a spreadsheet - Local backup and restore on your device, plus transfer of backups by AirDrop, email, Dropbox or iCloud - Support for database syncing across multiple devices (using either Dropbox or iCloud) - PIN code protection, plus Face/Touch ID and 1Password integration PLUS - Full multi-currency support, per account and per transaction - The default currency is the one local to your device, but this can be overridden - Supports sub-categories and splitting a transaction across multiple categories/subcategories - Universal, retina enabled app that works on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - buy once, use it on ALL of your devices - Also supports the Apple Watch, to display account balances and a snapshot of your main budgets - In-app user guide SUPPORT Please use the link to my support page from the AppStore page or from the app itself (or simply go to http://grahamhaley.co.uk/accounts/). Alternatively, contact me directly via my support pages and you will get a quick response.

Screenshots

Buddy4 screens
Account Tracker Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

Buddy and Account Tracker Pro both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 97% of Account Tracker Pro's written reviews are positive against 48% of Buddy's. Account Tracker Pro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 15) and chart position (#19 vs #79). Buddy's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (9.6K vs 98). On rating, ads, monetization model and device support 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

Buddy is free to download; Account Tracker Pro costs $4.99 up front. Buddy sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Account Tracker Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Buddy against 4.8 for Account Tracker Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buddy has 9.6K ratings behind it against 98, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Buddy's written reviews are positive against 97% of Account Tracker Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buddy ships an update every 9 days, Account Tracker Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Buddy versus Account Tracker Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddyAccount Tracker Pro
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (9.6K ratings)4.8 (98 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews97.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.6K — better98
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#79#19 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuddy Budgeting ABGraham Haley

Customer experience

Buddy

All ratings9,567 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews889 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral11.9%
Negative39.6%

Account Tracker Pro

All ratings98 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews197 reviews
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.0%

User reviews

Buddy

From 9.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Visually appealing
  • 💡 Customizable categories
  • 🚀 Intuitive interface
  • 👍 Helps with budgeting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Recurring transactions not working properly
  • 🐛 Balance not carrying over to next month
  • 🐛 Syncing issues between devices
  • 🐛 Transactions disappearing or resetting
  • 💸 Expensive subscription

Account Tracker Pro

From 98 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great price, great options
  • 🚀 Easy to use, great support
  • 🚀 Intuitive and functional
  • 🚀 Robust and indispensable
  • 🚀 Excellent for budgeting and forecasting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues on some devices
  • 🐛 Lack of intuitive UI for some users

Bugs and requests

Buddy

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Recurring transactions not working as expected
  • Balance not carrying over to next month
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Transactions disappearing or resetting
  • Inability to edit categories without creating new ones

Requested features

8 requests
  • Calendar view for transactions
  • Bill reminders and due date tracking
  • Ability to hide/exclude certain transactions
  • Savings/investment tracking
  • Multi-currency support
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  • Ability to reorder categories
  • Weekly budget view
  • Ability to split transactions

Account Tracker Pro

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Loss of categories and details after update
  • Syncing issues between primary and secondary devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Receipt image attachment feature
  • Dark mode option
  • Annual budgeting and rollover

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Buddy

Subscriptions10
  • Buddy Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Buddy Premium$4.991 Month
  • Premium$9.991 Month
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  • Buddy Premium$9.991 Month
  • Buddy Premium7 Days trial$16.991 Year
  • Buddy Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Buddy Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Buddy Premium1 Year trial$34.991 Year
  • Buddy Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Buddy Premium7 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited$49.99
None

Account Tracker Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buddy free?
Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Account Tracker Pro free?
Account Tracker Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Buddy or Account Tracker Pro?
Account Tracker Pro is rated higher. Buddy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 9.6K ratings, while Account Tracker Pro averages 4.8 from 98 ratings.
Do Buddy or Account Tracker Pro have ads?
Neither Buddy nor Account Tracker Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buddy or Account Tracker Pro?
Buddy ships an update every 9 days, and Account Tracker Pro every 2 months. Most recently, Buddy was updated on October 30, 2026 and Account Tracker Pro on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, Buddy or Account Tracker Pro?
Buddy currently peaks at #79 in the App Store charts, and Account Tracker Pro at #19. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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