Buddy vs WellOff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buddy
Manage your finances by creating budgets, tracking expenses, and viewing detailed overviews of your income and savings. Collaborate on shared budgets with friends and family, and easily settle up any shared costs.
- Budget creation and tracking
- Expense and income monitoring
- Shared budgets for groups
- Bank account transaction import
- Detailed spending overviews
- Transaction splitting and settlement
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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/
WellOff
This app offers a hands-on approach to managing your finances with a zero-based budgeting system. Track spending, assign income to categories, and monitor your budget to meet financial goals. It encourages good spending habits through manual transaction entry.
- Zero-based budgeting system
- Unlimited budgets and transactions
- Budget collaboration
- Budget insights and visualizations (Pro)
- Savings goals (Pro)
- Manual transaction entry
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WellOff is a zero-based budgeting application that provides a system for you to track your spending in a hands-on way. Using WellOff to grow your wealth and meet your financial goals is simple: 1. Create a new budget 2. Within your budget, assign all of your income to one of the budget categories 3. Whenever you make a purchase, enter in a new transaction to the correct budget category 4. Monitor your budget and make any adjustments as necessary Base Features: Unlimited budgets Unlimited transactions Budget collaboration Pro Features contains all of the base features plus: Budget insights & visualizations Savings Goals Remove advertisements Does WellOff connect to my bank account? No! WellOff does not connect to your bank account(s) to auto-import your transactions. We believe that having a more hands-on approach builds good spending habits over time by having you manually enter in your purchase. What is a zero-based budget? A zero-based budget is a budget where every single dollar of your income is assigned to a budget category. This ensures that every single dollar of your income is accounted for and is working for you. As you track your spending, you assign your transactions to one of the budget categories and ensure you don't go over that category's limit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WellOff at 100% against Buddy's 49%. WellOff also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). Buddy's advantage is ratings volume (9.6K vs 2) and chart position (#56 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Buddy sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and WellOff sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WellOff holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buddy has 9.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Buddy's written reviews are positive against 100% of WellOff's.
| Parameter | Buddy | WellOff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (9.6K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.6K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #56 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buddy Budgeting AB | Nineone Software Inc. |
Customer experience
Buddy
WellOff
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
WellOff
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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 trial2 variants$49.991 Year
WellOff
- WellOff Pro$2.99









