Comparison

Buddy vs Expense Tracker & Manager

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

Expense Tracker & Manager

This app offers a straightforward way to track expenses, manage budgets, and organize spending. It helps users gain control over their finances with simple tools for recording income and outgoings, analyzing spending patterns, and setting reminders. The application aims to bring order to financial life without unnecessary complexity.

Highlights
  • Simple expense and income tracking
  • Monthly transaction overview
  • Integrated calculator
  • Interactive spending charts
  • Customizable reports
  • Transaction reminders
  • PIN code protection
Features
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Expense tracker - Money management made simple. If you are looking for a complicated money management application that promises you to do everything you ever wanted, then you have to keep looking because this app is not for you. This expense tracker & manager promises to be a very simple, intuitive and straight forward mobile application that helps and assists you to track all your expenses, manage your budgets/costs and organize your spending, enabling you to make savings and order in your financial life. Organize your incomes, manage your family budget, keep track of expenses while traveling and understand where all your money are with some great, yet simple features. Main features: - intuitive, clean and simple way of adding daily expenses and incomes - main screen calendar that gives a quick monthly overview over all transactions - integrated calculator - sum up all your bills without leaving the application - interactive charts that let's you quickly analyze your expenses and incomes - expense, income & balance critical reports - weekly/monthly/yearly and custom report time periods - monitors and analyze past expenses - reminders - set reminders for future inflow or outflow transactions - recurrent payments -> never miss another deadline - transactions balance - day, week, month, year - expense and income category filter - a compact yet comprehensive list of expense and income categories - add or edit categories, if defaults don't work for you - PIN code protection - keep your spending away from curios eyes - world currencies - over 100 currencies with accurate currency symbols - currency number format - decimal separator This expense tracker application is dedicated in helping you manage your financial life, easily, efficiently and with no complications. Find out more and follow us on : Official website : https://expenditure-tracker.com/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ExpenditureTracker

Screenshots

Buddy4 screens
Expense Tracker & Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Expense Tracker & Manager at none against Buddy's 15. Expense Tracker & Manager also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 48%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Buddy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). On price, rating 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

Both are free to download. Buddy sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Expense Tracker & Manager 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 4.6 for Expense Tracker & Manager. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buddy has 9.6K ratings behind it against 484, 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 82% of Expense Tracker & Manager's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buddy ships an update every 9 days, Expense Tracker & Manager every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Buddy versus Expense Tracker & Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddyExpense Tracker & Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9.6K ratings) — better4.6 (484 ratings)
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews82.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.6K — better484
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#80 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuddy Budgeting ABAlin Sorin Cuc

Customer experience

Buddy

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

Expense Tracker & Manager

All ratings472 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral4.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews439 reviews
Positive82.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative10.0%

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

Expense Tracker & Manager

From 484 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Practical and efficient
  • 💡 Customizable categories
  • 🚀 Simple and straightforward
  • 👍 Helpful for managing finances

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes or stops working
  • 🐛 Data loss after device change or app reinstall
  • 🔋 Excessive ads that interfere with usage
  • 🐛 Inability to edit or delete entries
  • 🐛 Calendar/date issues and inconsistencies

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
Show 3 more
  • Ability to reorder categories
  • Weekly budget view
  • Ability to split transactions

Expense Tracker & Manager

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App not opening or showing a blank screen
  • Incorrect date display or navigation
  • Inability to recover lost data or history

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to set up recurring expenses or income
  • Option to carry over balance to next month
  • Sync across devices and backup functionality
  • Export data to Excel, PDF, or other formats
  • More detailed analytics and reporting

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

Expense Tracker & Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buddy free?
Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Expense Tracker & Manager free?
Expense Tracker & Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Buddy or Expense Tracker & Manager?
Buddy is rated higher. Buddy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 9.6K ratings, while Expense Tracker & Manager averages 4.6 from 484 ratings.
Do Buddy or Expense Tracker & Manager have ads?
Expense Tracker & Manager shows ads; Buddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Buddy or Expense Tracker & Manager?
Buddy ships an update every 9 days, and Expense Tracker & Manager every 5 months. Most recently, Buddy was updated on October 30, 2026 and Expense Tracker & Manager on October 23, 2026.

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