Buddy vs Expense Tracker & Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create personal budgets
- Shared budgeting for couples/groups
- Connect bank accounts for transaction import
- Detailed spending and income overview
- Expense splitting and settlement tracking
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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/
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.
- Simple expense and income tracking
- Monthly transaction overview
- Integrated calculator
- Interactive spending charts
- Customizable reports
- Transaction reminders
- PIN code protection
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Buddy | Expense Tracker & Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (9.6K ratings) — better | 4.6 (484 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.5% of reviews | 82.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.6K — better | 484 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #80 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buddy Budgeting AB | Alin Sorin Cuc |
Customer experience
Buddy
Expense Tracker & Manager
User reviews
Buddy
From 9.6K App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
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- 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
Buddy
- 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
- Unlimited$49.99
Expense Tracker & Manager
No in-app purchases
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