Comparison

Starling vs EasyBudget Pro

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

Head to head
About

Starling

A digital banking app offering free personal and business accounts with robust security features and 24/7 UK-based customer support. Manage all your finances, from everyday spending to savings and bills, all from your phone.

Highlights
  • Free personal and business accounts
  • Joint and under-16 accounts
  • Habit-building savings tools (Spaces)
  • 24/7 UK customer support
  • Advanced security controls
  • Fee-free spending abroad
  • Instant transaction notifications
Features
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Best-in-class banking, designed for your phone and life in the 2020s. Our free, habit-building bank accounts help millions of people be good with money. Apply for a free bank account directly from your phone – in minutes. Industry-leading digital banking security. • 24/7 UK-based customer support from real people. • Manage your account security with simple controls in the app. • FSCS protection up to £120,000. • Verify if it’s us calling you, with call status indicators in the app. One app. Everyday banking. From personal to joint to business banking, bring your finances under one roof: • Personal account: Spend, organise, save with the habit-building bank account. • Joint account: Bills, budgets or just getting brunch: it’s better together. • Business account: Pay no monthly fees, 24/7 UK customer support and free invoicing and accounting tools. • Under 16s: The free debit card for kids, managed from your account. • Student account: Budget with Spaces, spend abroad with no fees and apply for an interest-free overdraft. Easy mobile banking that just works. • Branchless and fully online. • Open and manage your account entirely from your phone. • Spend abroad like a local with no fees from us. • Get an instant notification every time you spend or receive money. Build life-changing habits with game-changing features. • Organise your finances by setting money aside into virtual ‘change jars’, aka Spaces. • Get instant notifications every time you spend. On holiday? Get notifications in both currencies. • Put your bills on autopilot so you only spend what’s actually available. • Make every penny count by rounding up payments to the nearest pound. • Get a clearer picture of your spending with our AI-powered features. Starling Bank Limited (trading as Starling) is registered in England and Wales (No. 09092149), 5th Floor London Fruit And Wool Exchange, 1 Duval Square, London, United Kingdom, E1 6PW. We are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority under registration number 730166.

About

EasyBudget Pro

Features
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EasyBudget Pro helps you plan your spending, keep track of your accounts and see the bigger picture of your finances. • Create multiple budgets, organise money into categories and see what is available at a glance. • Record income and spending, split transactions and move funds between categories. • Import bank transactions from CSV files, review them before saving and spot possible duplicates. • Set categorisation rules and remember a category for a payee when adding a transaction. • Reconcile account activity against bank statements. • Schedule recurring transactions daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly, and spot potential subscriptions and other repeated payments. • Choose alerts for upcoming bills and low budget balances. • Track assets, debts and net worth, with reminders when values are due for review. • Explore reports and plan how extra payments could help pay off debts. • Share budgets, while keeping funds-transfer payees specific to each budget. • Create encrypted budget backups, restore a backup as a separate budget, export data by email as CSV and delete budgets you no longer need.

Screenshots

Starling4 screens
EasyBudget Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Starling at Free against EasyBudget Pro's $2.99. Starling also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Starling is free to download; EasyBudget Pro costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Starling ships an update weekly, EasyBudget Pro every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Starling versus EasyBudget Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarlingEasyBudget Pro
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.9 (2.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.8K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size561 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTARLING BANK LIMITEDMark Hodgkinson

Bugs and requests

Starling

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues after phone updates
  • Inability to record video for verification
  • App crashes on certain devices
  • Delayed or failed money transfers

Requested features

7 requests
  • Joint account cards with different designs
  • Ability to set up automatic transfers to savings
  • More customization options for Spaces
  • Integration with password managers
  • Showing pending payments in balance
Show 2 more
  • Daily balance history view
  • Ability to split transactions into categories

EasyBudget Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Starling

No in-app purchases

None

EasyBudget Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Starling free?
Starling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EasyBudget Pro free?
EasyBudget Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Starling or EasyBudget Pro have ads?
Neither Starling nor EasyBudget Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Starling or EasyBudget Pro?
Starling ships an update weekly, and EasyBudget Pro every 6 months. Most recently, Starling was updated on November 13, 2026 and EasyBudget Pro on November 7, 2026.

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