The honest disclosure. I'm Liam, the founder of WealthR. That means I have a bias, and you should assume it shows up in this post even when I'm trying to be fair. My commitment in this review is twofold: (1) every claim about a competitor links directly to their site so you can verify it, and (2) the “where they win” sections are not faint praise — I'll tell you the situations where you should genuinely pick someone else over WealthR. There are several.
Quick answer: which one is right for you
If you only have 30 seconds, here's the matrix. Each app is the right answer for a different question.
| If your question is… | Pick this one |
|---|---|
| “Where does my money go each month?” | Emma · Moneyhub |
| “What savings can I find in my spending?” | Snoop |
| “I want a clean tracker with an AI-agent CLI” | Ledgi |
| “Native iOS, one-time payment, on-device only” | WealthView |
| “Consolidate my old workplace pensions” | PensionBee |
| “Free UK FIRE planner with full tax engine” | WealthR |
| “Replace my UK net worth spreadsheet” | WealthR · Ledgi · WealthView |
- Why these seven, and why a UK-specific list matters
- Emma — the established UK budgeting app
- Ledgi — the clean tracker with AI integration
- Moneyhub — the paid Open Banking aggregator
- PensionBee — the pension consolidator
- Snoop — the savings-finder
- WealthR — what I built and why
- WealthView — iOS-only, one-time purchase
- How to actually choose
Why these seven, and why a UK-specific list matters
Search “best net worth tracker” in 2026 and the first ten results are mostly American — Empower (formerly Personal Capital), Monarch, YNAB, Lunch Money. These are excellent products. None of them understand the £20,000 ISA allowance, HICBC on Child Benefit, the £100,000 personal-allowance taper, Scottish tax bands, salary sacrifice mechanics, or the post-April-2027 pension IHT rules.
For UK users that matters. A net worth tracker that lumps an ISA in with a taxable account, or models retirement income without distinguishing UFPLS from drawdown, will give you a confidently wrong picture of where you actually stand. This list is the seven UK-built or UK-meaningful tools I've actually tested and have honest views on.
Two things up front:
- None of these apps connect to all of HMRC's systems. They estimate your tax position from inputs you provide. Even the most rigorous (WealthR — yes, I'm allowed to think that) is a planning aid, not regulated financial advice.
- I've grouped the seven alphabetically. No ranking implied by order. Each one is the “best” for the user it fits.
Emma — the established UK budgeting app
A budgeting app that grew into a net-worth tracker. 2m+ UK users since 2017.
Emma's core proposition is spending. Open Banking connects to your bank accounts and credit cards, transactions are categorised automatically, and the app builds a picture of where your money actually goes each month. Budgeting limits, subscription detection, bill reminders, cashback offers, peer-to-peer payments — Emma does all of this well. They've also moved into direct investing recently: GIA, ISA, individual stocks and crypto from £1, with a SIPP listed as “coming soon”.
Net worth tracking is included but is positioned as part of their Pro tier in the current plan structure. If you specifically want net worth as your primary use case and don't already need the spending side, Emma's pricing model can feel like you're paying for the budgeting features you might not want.
Ledgi — the clean tracker with AI integration
A focused UK net worth tracker with a genuinely novel Claude Code skill and CLI.
Ledgi's clearest differentiator is something no other app in this list has: an AI-agent integration. Install their CLI or their Claude Code skill and you can ask an AI “what's my net worth” or “add my Monzo account with £2,500” in natural language, and the AI actually updates your data. For users who live inside AI workflows, this is a unique fit. Beyond that, Ledgi is a clean, focused tracker — net worth, ISA allowance across four UK wrappers, pension overview, live investment prices across stocks/ETFs/crypto, spending analytics derived from monthly snapshots, a five-minute monthly review.
The trade-off is scope. Ledgi doesn't include a UK income tax calculator, doesn't model FIRE or Coast FIRE, doesn't run sequence-of-returns stress tests, and doesn't have a permanent free tier (60-day free trial then £2.99/mo or £26.99/yr). It's deliberately narrower than something like WealthR — and that's the appeal for the right user.
Moneyhub — the paid Open Banking aggregator
A long-established UK personal-finance aggregator. Paid-only at consumer tier.
Moneyhub is genuinely excellent at one thing: aggregating past spending across every account you own. Open Banking connections pull transactions from your current accounts, credit cards, ISAs, SIPPs and mortgages into one unified view, updated daily, categorised automatically. If you have four banks, three credit cards and a tangle of investment accounts and you want one screen that shows you what's happening, Moneyhub will deliver that within hours of setup. They're FCA-regulated as an information provider and offer Money Coach-style features that go beyond simple categorisation.
The downside is that Moneyhub doesn't have a permanent free tier at the consumer level, and the product isn't built around the questions a UK retirement planner asks. There's no UK income tax calculator, no retirement income modelling, no FIRE / Coast FIRE features, no sequence-of-returns stress test, no ISA allowance tracking across all six UK wrappers.
PensionBee — the pension consolidator
An FCA-regulated SIPP provider, not really a tracker — but UK users often confuse the two.
PensionBee is a different category from the rest of this list. They don't track your wealth — they hold and manage one specific part of it (a consolidated SIPP). What they do brilliantly is make the “I have 4–5 old workplace pensions and no idea where they are” problem disappear: they consolidate the lot into one beautifully designed app with transparent fees and a sensible default investment plan. The UX is genuinely excellent.
The reason PensionBee is on this list is because UK searchers often type “PensionBee alternative” when they actually want a tracker (something that sees their full picture, not just the PensionBee pot). For that use case, PensionBee is the wrong tool — by design. It can't see your ISAs, your DB pension, your property, your State Pension, or the SIPP you didn't consolidate with them. The right combination for many UK users is PensionBee to hold the consolidated pot + a tracker to model everything together.
Snoop — the savings-finder
An Open Banking app focused on day-to-day savings tips rather than long-term wealth.
Snoop is owned by Vanquis Banking Group and built around a specific question: “where am I overpaying right now?”. The “snoops” feature surfaces patterns from your Open Banking data — a streaming subscription you forgot about, an energy tariff that's £200/yr worse than the alternatives, a broadband deal you should renegotiate. For users in the “I should save more but I can't see where” situation, Snoop is genuinely useful and the UX is friendly.
What Snoop doesn't try to do is the long-term wealth picture. There's no retirement income modelling, no FIRE planning, no UK income tax calculator, no sequence-of-returns analysis. It's a day-to-day app, not a planning app. The two are complementary rather than competitive.
WealthR — what I built and why
A free UK wealth tracker and financial planner — built because none of the above did the job for me as a UK FIRE planner.
I'll be specific about what WealthR is and isn't, because vagueness here would be unhelpful. WealthR is a manual-entry web app that combines net worth tracking with a full UK financial planner. The free tier covers the full UK income tax calculator (HICBC, Marriage Allowance, Scottish bands, the £100k 60% trap, Student Loan Plans 1–5 + PG, salary sacrifice), a FIRE / Coast FIRE / depletion modeller, an 11-stream retirement income module with correct UK tax treatment per source, ISA allowance tracking across all six UK wrappers (S&S, Cash, LISA, JISA, IFISA, legacy Help to Buy), a Budget tab with bill categories (housing, utilities, groceries, subscriptions, etc.), take-home calc, savings-rate observations and a FIRE-date link, the dividend income horizon planner, BTL cashflow with gross yield, financial and sequence-of-returns stress tests, and 12 months of history. Pro (£5.99/mo or £49.99/yr) adds PDF reports, custom adviser share links (you choose exactly which sections your IFA or family can see), the Tax Year Optimiser (a personalised HICBC escape and Bed & ISA plan), what-if Scenarios, the estate planning suite, and unlimited history.
Updated June 2026: since this post was first published, WealthR has shipped a full Estate & IHT tab — your inheritance tax position built from the net worth you already track: nil-rate and residence bands (with the £2m taper), spouse transferable allowances, the 36% charity rate, and the April 2027 pension rule modelled both ways. The IHT calculation is free; Pro adds lifetime gift tracking with live 7-year taper countdowns, who-gets-what wishes (private by default), and an “if you died today” death-benefit view. Selling a property can now be recorded as gifted to family — the 7-year clock starts automatically, split equally between children if you choose — and you can model a planned future sale or gift on the Forecast tab and watch the net-worth step-change before committing. As far as I can tell, no other app on this list models any of this. Usual caveat applies: estimates, not advice — these are exactly the decisions to take to a qualified adviser.
Separately from the app, wealthr.co.uk/tools/ publishes nineteen standalone free UK calculator tools — Bed & ISA, CGT allowance tracker, CGT calculator (post-Oct-2024 rates), Coast FIRE, FIRE number, HICBC, IHT on pensions, income shock, LBTT-Scotland, LTT-Wales, long-term care, marriage allowance (with backdating), Monte Carlo retirement, mortgage overpayment vs invest, pension carry forward, salary sacrifice pension, stamp duty 2026, cost of raising a child, car cost — that anyone can use without signing up.
Where WealthR is honestly weaker than alternatives on this list: no Open Banking (manual entry by design — Emma, Moneyhub and Snoop are much better if that's what you want), no Claude Code skill or CLI (Ledgi wins outright on AI-agent access), no native iOS app (it's a web-first PWA — WealthView wins for native iOS), no direct investing inside the app (you can't buy shares in WealthR), no transaction-level spending categorisation (the Budget tab is manual entry), no rent-reporting to credit bureaus. WealthR is a planning tool, not a transactional one.
WealthView — iOS-only, one-time purchase
A native iOS net worth tracker with a one-time payment and strictly local storage.
WealthView takes a clear position: iPhone-only (Android is “coming soon”), £7.99 one-time unlock instead of a subscription, and your data never leaves your device — no servers, no account, no cloud sync. For users whose threat model is “no third party should ever touch my financial data”, this is the strictest privacy posture available. The app itself is polished: six tabs covering wealth, retirement, tax, history, and the basics are well-executed. The four-scenario retirement stress test (longevity, low growth, market crash, care costs) is a useful planning feature.
The trade-offs are platform and free-tier depth. iOS-only rules out Android users entirely and rules out desktop visualisation for everyone. The free tier covers basic net worth and a 5-row retirement preview; the full modeller, stress test, IHT projection and CGT awareness all sit behind the £7.99 unlock. If you want a comparable free product, WealthR's free tier covers more ground.
How to actually choose
If you've read this far you've probably noticed the pattern: there isn't one best UK net worth tracker, there are about three categories with clear leaders in each:
- Open Banking spending trackers (Moneyhub, Emma, Snoop) — solve the “where did my money go” problem, paid subscription, require bank linking.
- Manual-entry wealth trackers (WealthR, WealthView, Ledgi) — solve the “where do I stand and where am I going” problem, manual entry, no bank linking.
- Single-purpose specialists (PensionBee) — solve one specific problem brilliantly but only see one part of your picture.
Most UK users I've spoken to end up with one from category 1 (for spending) plus one from category 2 (for wealth and planning). PensionBee sits alongside either if you want pension consolidation specifically. Trying to find a single app that does both day-to-day spending and long-term planning typically means compromising on one or both.
My bias, made explicit: I think WealthR is the right answer in category 2 for UK users who want depth (full tax engine, FIRE planning, retirement income modelling) without paying a subscription to access it. I'd actively recommend Emma, Moneyhub or Snoop in category 1 — WealthR isn't trying to compete there.
WealthR's free tier covers the full planner — net worth, UK tax, FIRE, retirement income, stress test.
No bank linking, no credit card, no Pro upsell to use the core features. Works on desktop, iOS, Android. Sign up takes 30 seconds.
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Methodology note: app features, pricing and tiers verified against each provider's public website as of 23 May 2026. Features change frequently in this space — always check the relevant site for current details before signing up. Spotted something inaccurate in this review? Email [email protected] and I'll update.