Comparison

MoneyIO vs Bobby

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

Head to head
About

MoneyIO

This app helps you manage your budget and track monthly expenses without linking bank accounts. It provides insights into spending habits with category breakdowns and a transaction map. Set up recurring budgets and expenses for automatic tracking.

Highlights
  • Manual expense and budget tracking
  • Spending category breakdown
  • Add expense with place details
  • View transactions on a map
  • Recurring budget and expense setup
Read full description

MoneyIO is a great, simple way to capture your budget and monthly expenses. It is a budget tool that lets you track your expenses without the need of linking to your bank and credit card accounts. TRACK EXPENSE AND BUDGET - MoneyIO lets you quickly capture your expense and budget. - Quickly learn your daily spending average and your current financial status this month. HOW YOU'VE SPENT YOUR MONEY - Breakdown categories show you how you've spent your money. - Quickly know what categories you've spent most of your money on. ADD EXPENSE WITH PLACE DETAILS - We want to make adding expenses as simple as possible. We make it really simple for our users to add a place details to the transaction. Simply click on the place icon, search for a place and we will autofill all the details. TRANSACTIONS MAP - View your transactions on a map. Know where you've spent your money. RECURRING BUDGET AND EXPENSE - Recurring budget and expense feature lets you capture the monthly recurring items. These will be added and tracked automatically every month.

About

Bobby

Effortlessly track your recurring expenses and manage all your subscriptions in one place. Get timely notifications for upcoming bills to avoid late fees and maintain better control over your monthly spending.

Highlights
  • Add custom and pre-defined subscriptions
  • View all subscriptions at a glance
  • Track monthly spending on subscriptions
  • Receive bill due date notifications
  • Prevent late payment fees
  • Avoid insufficient funds
Features
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Bobby is the easiest way to get insights in your fixed costs. Manage your subscriptions and get notified when a bill is due. EASILY ADD SUBSCRIPTIONS Adding subscriptions is easy, choose from hundreds of existing subscriptions or create your own custom subscriptions. Enter all contract details to get the most out of Bobby, or use Bobby as a quick way to calculate your monthly payment for you. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS AT A GLANCE Bobby provides a clear overview of all your subscriptions and upcoming bills. This way you'll always know the amount of money spent on subscriptions, which helps you to control your monthly spendings. GET NOTIFIED Bobby also notifies you when a bill is due, so you'll never have to deal with late payment fees you didn't know about again. Besides that, it prevents you from having insufficient funds on your account on the day a payment is due.

Screenshots

MoneyIO4 screens
Bobby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bobby at Free against MoneyIO's $0.99. Bobby also leads on ratings volume (8K vs 1) and device support. MoneyIO's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 56%) and in-app purchases (none vs 6).

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

Bobby is free to download; MoneyIO costs $0.99 up front. Bobby sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. MoneyIO asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MoneyIO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bobby has 8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of MoneyIO's written reviews are positive against 56% of Bobby's.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
MoneyIO versus Bobby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoneyIOBobby
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (8K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better55.8% of reviews
Number of ratings18K — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Devices—iPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHai LeYummygum

Customer experience

MoneyIO

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bobby

All ratings7,954 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,010 reviews
Positive55.8%
Neutral13.3%
Negative30.9%

Bugs and requests

MoneyIO

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bobby

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Notifications don't work
  • Crashes on launch
  • Everything disappears
  • Unreliable and broken
  • Glitchy, doesn't work well
Show 5 more
  • Notifications are not working
  • Notifications randomly stop working
  • Notifications come at wrong times
  • Subscription data disappeared
  • iCloud sync issues

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add widgets
  • Allow editing of subscription details
  • Separate monthly and annual subscriptions
  • Add ability to mark subscriptions as paid
  • Add categories/folders for subscriptions
Show 6 more
  • Allow custom icons for subscriptions
  • Add ability to hide/pause subscriptions
  • Improve notification system
  • Add Apple Watch app
  • Improve currency conversion
  • Add ability to export data

In-app purchases

None

MoneyIO

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Bobby

One-time6
  • Unlock Subscription Limit$0.99
  • Visual Pack$0.99
  • Security Pack$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Unlock Category Limit$0.99
  • All-in-one Pack$1.99
  • All-in-one Pack v2$2.99

Questions

Is MoneyIO free?
MoneyIO costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bobby free?
Bobby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MoneyIO or Bobby?
MoneyIO is rated higher. MoneyIO averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Bobby averages 4.7 from 8K ratings.

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