Buddy vs Help Me Save
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. Terms & Conditions: http://www.nattkod.tech/privacy_policy_terms_conditions
Help Me Save
This app helps children learn about saving money and achieving financial goals. Kids can set savings targets, track weekly contributions, and see how long it will take to reach their goals.
- Set savings goals
- Track weekly contributions
- Calculate time to reach goals
- Interactive learning
- Customizable target measurement (days, weeks, months)
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Help Me Save is designed to help children learn about saving and the rewards of reaching their financial goals. With our app, kids can set a money goal and determine how much they want to contribute towards it on a weekly basis. Our calculator will then show them how many days it will take to reach their goal based on their weekly contributions. For example, if a child's goal is £10 and they contribute £5 per week, it will take 14 days to reach their goal. This app is a fun and interactive way for kids to learn about budgeting and the importance of saving. Help Me Save allows you to set your preferences such as how you want to measure your savings target (days, weeks or months) and what the saving target is. Each day, week or month you then update the app to show what you've actually saved compared to your target - the app will then recalculate the time it will take to achieve your savings goal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Help Me Save at none against Buddy's 15. Help Me Save also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Buddy's advantage is ratings volume (9.5K vs 1) and chart position (#63 vs unranked). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Help Me Save asks for nothing beyond the download.
Help Me Save holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buddy has 9.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Buddy ships an update every 9 days, Help Me Save every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buddy | Help Me Save |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (9.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #63 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buddy Budgeting AB | Phil Trevor |
Customer experience
Buddy
Help Me Save
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
Help Me Save
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 trial$39.991 Year
- Buddy Premium7 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
- Unlimited$49.99
Help Me Save
No in-app purchases








