The short version
Pick Orbit if your problem is subscriptions specifically, you want your data to stay on the phone, and you would rather pay once than monthly. It is cheaper than Forseera over any stretch of time, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Pick Forseera if the question is bigger than subscriptions: rent, car, insurance, utilities, and the streaming too, lined up against the paycheck that has to cover them, with what's left as the first thing you see.
Three differences you can check yourself
- Orbit organizes around renewal dates. Forseera organizes around your paychecks. Nothing in Orbit's listing, release notes, or site mentions income or pay periods. In Forseera, the pay period is the unit: Home shows this period's income, its bills, and what's left; the Timeline shows which check covers what.
- Orbit has no bank connection. Forseera's is optional. Orbit gets bills in by screenshot, CSV, or statement import, and two of its three critical reviews say that import did not work for them. Forseera's default is typing bills in or picking them from a list, with a read-only Plaid link available if you want amounts and dates filled in.
- Orbit is a one-time purchase. Forseera is a subscription. Orbit Plus is $24.99 once, or $19.99 a year. Forseera is $8.99 a month or $69.99 a year after a 7-day trial. If the price is the deciding factor and subscriptions are your only problem, Orbit is the better buy.
What Orbit does that Forseera does not
Orbit keeps everything on your phone with no account, imports from a screenshot, alerts you before a free trial converts, shows an annual cost view of your subscriptions, supports more than thirty currencies, and costs less. Apple has featured it. Its reviewers like the design, and so do we.
Forseera has none of those. It needs an account so your bills survive a new phone, it has one currency per period, and it costs more. What it has instead is the paycheck.
What Orbit's reviewers ask for
Orbit has only a couple of dozen written US reviews, almost all of them warm, so there is no angry tail to quote. The few critical ones share a shape: the import did not work after paying, too much was still manual, or the app found the subscriptions and then offered no help cancelling them.
I just want to enter and track my own subscriptions.
If that is you, both apps will do. The question is whether the list should stop at subscriptions or include the rent, and whether you want to see it by renewal date or by paycheck.
Questions people ask
Is Forseera cheaper than Orbit?
No. Orbit Plus is a one-time $24.99 or $19.99 a year. Forseera is $8.99 a month or $69.99 a year after a 7-day trial. Forseera costs more and does a different job: every bill against the paycheck that covers it, not only subscriptions.
Does Orbit show bills by paycheck?
No. Orbit organizes subscriptions by renewal date and annual cost and has no income or pay-period feature in its listing or on its site. Forseera groups bills by pay period on every screen.
Can Forseera import subscriptions from a screenshot like Orbit?
No. Forseera adds bills by typing, picking from a built-in list of common services, or an optional read-only bank link through Plaid that fills in amounts and dates.
Does Forseera keep data on the phone like Orbit?
Forseera stores your bills in your account so they survive a new phone or a lapsed subscription, and you can export them as CSV or delete the account and all its data from inside the app. Orbit keeps data on the device, with iCloud backup as a paid feature.
How do I switch from Orbit?
Add your bills and subscriptions to Forseera, which takes about ten minutes, and tell it a typical paycheck. Orbit's one-time purchase does not renew, so there is nothing to cancel.
Subscriptions are bills too. Stop being surprised by them.
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Try Forseera freeSources, with the date we read them
- Subscription Manager: Orbit on the App Store (prices, in-app purchases, description), checked October 20, 2026
- Orbit's website, checked October 20, 2026