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5 Best Tilla Alternatives for Subscription Tracking (2026)

App Comparisons · The Subgrove Team · · 4 min read

Tilla found a nice niche: a clean, private, manual subscription tracker for Android with a genuinely cheap one-time price. If you're after a Tilla alternative, you probably already like that formula — no bank linking, add your subscriptions yourself, pay once — and you're looking for it somewhere Tilla doesn't reach, or with something Tilla doesn't do.

Let's be fair up front: on price alone, Tilla is hard to beat, and we won't pretend otherwise. The reasons to look elsewhere aren't about cost — they're about where it runs and what it can hold. Here's the honest breakdown.

Why people look beyond Tilla

Credit where it's due: Tilla is private, simple, and about as cheap as a paid tracker gets — a small one-time unlock, with a free tier that caps at around five subscriptions. If you're Android-only, single-currency, and tracking just for yourself, Tilla might be all you need, and that's a fine outcome.

The reasons people still shop around:

  • Android only. The moment your household is mixed Android-and-iPhone, or you want to check the list on a laptop, a single-platform app can't be the shared source of truth.
  • Currencies. If you pay for some things in your home currency and others in USD, you want them folded into one total, not converted in your head.
  • Shared and family subscriptions. A lot of plans are split with a partner or housemate — you want one shared view, not two lists.

None of those are price problems, and none of them are solved by a cheaper app. They're solved by a differently-shaped one.

The best Tilla alternatives

1. Subgrove — same private model, every platform

Subgrove keeps what makes Tilla good — manual entry, no bank linking, privacy by default — and removes the Android-only ceiling. It's a PWA, so the same app installs to the home screen on iPhone and Android and desktop, and works fully offline.

On top of cross-platform, it adds the things a single-device app structurally can't: multi-currency totals, family sharing, a calendar view, and push renewal reminders with per-subscription timing.

  • Pros: Cross-platform, multi-currency, family sharing, calendar view, offline, private.
  • Cons: Manual entry — no automatic detection.
  • Pricing: Free for up to 5 subscriptions; Pro is $1.99/month, $10/year, or $15 lifetime.

2. Bobby — the iPhone equivalent of Tilla

If Tilla appealed to you but you're actually on iOS, Bobby is its mirror image: a beautiful, cheap, private manual tracker — just iOS-only instead of Android-only. Same trade (single platform), opposite platform.

  • Pros: Polished native iOS design, no bank linking, cheap one-time unlock.
  • Cons: iOS only; data on one device; infrequent updates.
  • Pricing: ~$2.99 one-time. See our Bobby review.

3. TrackMySubs — for business and multi-currency

A web-based tracker built for freelancers and small businesses: folders, tags, and multi-currency, no bank linking. Runs anywhere there's a browser, which sidesteps the platform question entirely.

  • Pros: Business-friendly organization, multi-currency, platform-agnostic.
  • Cons: Web-only (no native app); dated UI.
  • Pricing: Free for ~10 subscriptions; paid from about $10, as of this writing.

4. A spreadsheet — the free, fully-private baseline

Nothing is more private than a file you own. We publish a template to start from — it just has no reminders, which is the feature that actually stops a renewal in time.

  • Pros: Free, totally private, portable.
  • Cons: No reminders, no normalization, no sharing.

5. Rocket Money — only if you'd rather automate

If Tilla's manual entry is the part you'd happily drop, Rocket Money is the opposite approach: link your US bank, auto-detect charges, get concierge cancellation. You trade privacy and bank access for automation — and it's US-only.

  • Pros: Automatic detection, cancellation help.
  • Cons: Bank linking (Plaid); US-only; paid tier for the good parts.
  • Pricing: Free tier; Premium $7–14/month.

Quick comparison

App Platforms Multi-currency Family sharing Bank linking Pricing (as of this writing)
Tilla Android only Limited No No ~ one-time; free up to ~5
Subgrove iPhone, Android, desktop (PWA) Yes Yes No Free (5 subs); $1.99/mo, $10/yr, $15 lifetime
Bobby iOS only Basic No No ~$2.99 one-time
TrackMySubs Web only Yes No No Free (~10 subs); from ~$10
Rocket Money iOS, Android, web No No Yes Free tier; Premium $7–14/mo

Which Tilla alternative should you pick?

If you liked Tilla but need it beyond Android, most people want Subgrove. It's the same private, manual, pay-and-forget idea, but it works on whatever device you or your family pick up, holds more than one currency, and can be shared — the three things an Android-only app can't do at any price. And with a $15 lifetime option, it keeps Tilla's pay-once spirit alive.

Pick Bobby if the real situation is that you're on iPhone and just want Tilla's equivalent there.

Pick TrackMySubs if your subscriptions are business expenses across currencies and you live in a browser.

Pick Rocket Money only if you're in the US and you'd rather trade bank access for automatic detection.

Tilla gets the fundamentals right — private, cheap, simple. The question is only whether "Android-only, one person, one currency" describes your life. If it doesn't, the fix isn't a cheaper app, it's one shaped for more than one device. Want to know your real total first? The free subscription cost calculator adds it up in two minutes.

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