doble compared
There’s no table here with everything green on our side. There are three ways to keep track of your money, what each one really solves, and what doble isn’t for.
They’re not brands: they’re different ways to solve the problem. What decides it isn’t which buttons each app has — it’s where it gets your transactions from.
Your bank’s app
It’s accurate and free, but it only sees what goes through there: not your cash, not a card from another bank, not what you owe someone, not what you share with your partner. If all your money is in one bank, it may be enough.
Budgeting apps
The best-known ones connect through bank aggregators designed for the US and Europe. Outside those markets, automatic syncing doesn’t exist and you have to log by hand — which is exactly what people stop doing after two weeks.
Bill-splitting apps
They work out who owes whom and stop there. They don’t track your net worth, your debts or your budget. If all you need is to split a bill with friends, a dedicated app will do.
Where transactions come from
Your bank already alerts you about every purchase. doble reads that alert: by email on any device, and on iPhone also from the notification or text message. It never asks for your passwords or logs into your bank. That’s why it works with banks no aggregator covers.
What others miss
Cash, voice, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, your watch and widgets. In much of Latin America cash is still most transactions: an app that can’t see it shows you half your life.
What it builds from that
Accounts, cards, loans, cash and assets, split between what you own and what you owe. A card adds debt; a savings account adds balance.
And with your people
An account with more than one owner, where each person gets their share; the household circle; and dobletab to split the cost of a plan. See them compared.
This is here on purpose. An app that’s for everything is good for nothing, and we’d rather you know before you install it.
It doesn’t give investment advice or tell you what to do with your money. It shows you where it is.
It doesn’t connect to brokerages or update your stock prices. You log an asset with its value.
It doesn’t generate tax forms or talk to the tax authority. You can export your transactions and take them to your accountant.
No app can promise that. What is true: you can’t save what you can’t see.
FAQ
Most well-known budgeting apps were built on bank aggregators from the US and Europe, so outside those markets you end up logging by hand. doble takes another route: it reads the alert your bank already sends you by email — and on iPhone, the notification or text message too — so it works with banks no aggregator covers. Today it recognizes Bancolombia, Davivienda, Banco de Bogotá, Finandina, Rappi and Falabella in Colombia, Banco Aliado in Panama, and ARQ.
No, and it’s not a policy: it’s the design. doble never asks for your passwords or logs into your account. It only reads the alert your bank already sends you, the same way you read it.
A bill-splitting app works out who owes whom on a trip or a dinner, and that’s where it ends. doble does that too — it’s called dobletab — but it also tracks your net worth, your cards, your debts, your budget and your goals. If all you need is to split a bill with friends, a dedicated app is enough.
It’s not a financial advisor and doesn’t give investment advice. It doesn’t connect to brokerages or track your stock portfolio. It doesn’t file your taxes. And it won’t tell you what to do with your money: it shows you where it is.
If all your money is in one bank, it might be. Your bank’s app sees what goes through that bank: not your cash, not a card from another bank, not what you owe someone, not what you share with your partner. doble exists to bring all of that into a single number.
Both. There are apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Android, and you can use it from your browser. The plan belongs to your account, not your device: you pay once and it works on all of them.
It comes with a 30-day full trial with no card, and doble gives you that trial, not the app store. After that: doble+ is US$3.99 a month or US$39.99 a year for one person, Duo is US$5.99 or US$59.99 for two, and Family is US$8.99 or US$89.99 for up to five. All three plans give the same access; what changes is how many people they cover.
If it’s not for you, you’ll know within a week — and we won’t charge you to find out.