ClearCash adapts to any stage of life — single, moving in together, raising kids, or caring for aging parents — because you control visibility and net worth responsibility for each account. That means fully combined finances, fully separate, or anything in between. Copilot Money is an automation-first tracking app where sharing means forwarding a sign-in link that hands over full control of your one account — there's no separate login or account-level privacy at all. This page focuses on the case many couples land in: some accounts shared, some personal, and both partners needing an accurate picture.
The goal is not to claim one product is universally better. The comparison helps you recognize which workflow matches your life.
This feature matrix answers the practical questions first: accounts, privacy, sharing, dependents, net worth, investments, and pricing.
ClearCashAutomatic bank connections through Plaid, including Plaid's AI-assisted transaction categorization.
Automatic account syncing with AI-assisted categorization.
Manual accounts and transaction entry are supported.
Manual accounts are supported, but balance history only starts from the date you create the account — there's no way to back-fill historic balances.
CSV transaction imports are supported for manual workflows.
Copilot does not support importing transactions from a CSV or spreadsheet — historic data has to be added transaction by transaction.
Share every account, none of them, or only specific ones — the same account-level control works whether your finances are fully combined, fully separate, or anything in between.
Copilot lets you forward a Magic Link sign-in to a partner, but it hands over full control of your one account and every connected bank — there's no way to share just specific accounts.
Belong to multiple independent groups at once — a partner, a child or aging parent you help manage money for, even a small business — with no overlap between them, all inside one account and one net worth view.
Copilot has no concept of separate groups or workspaces — it's one account, and whoever holds the sign-in link has the same full access to all of it.
Each person has their own ClearCash login. Personal financial accounts stay private unless shared.
There are no separate logins at all. Per Copilot's own help docs, any device signed in via the shared link has "full control of the account" — identical access, not a separate identity.
Assign each group member a percentage for shared spending, such as 50/50 or income-ratio splits.
Copilot offers category groups and tags to help tell whose spending is whose, but it does not assign an ongoing percentage-based responsibility split the way ClearCash does.
Add a child's or aging parent's account to its own group, separate from your household group, and set your responsibility for that group independently — monitor the balance without it counting toward your own net worth.
With no concept of separate groups, a dependent's connected account would sit directly inside your one shared account with no responsibility split and no way to keep it out of your own totals.
Designed to calculate an individual's net worth across personal accounts and their share of shared accounts.
Tracks net worth for the one account both partners share. Since there's only one shared identity, there's no separate figure for each partner's share.
ClearCash does not do budgeting today.
Category budgets with month-to-month rollover and cash flow summaries.
Categories, tags, and transaction organization, with Plaid's AI categorizing transactions automatically.
Copilot's own AI layer categorizes transactions and claims to improve the more you use it.
Properties and loans are already tracked as manual assets, but ClearCash does not track stock or crypto portfolios today.
Stocks, crypto, and ETFs tracked automatically, plus real estate value pulled in from a Zillow URL — ClearCash covers real estate too, but as a manual entry.
Historical ECB exchange rates back to 2016.
Copilot is USD-only. Foreign-currency transactions show up in USD with no conversion, so amounts need to be edited by hand to be accurate.
Bring your own AI assistant, with the context it already has about your life, to your financial discussion.
A proactive built-in money assistant that surfaces insights from your Copilot data automatically, but can't reason using context from outside the app the way an MCP-connected assistant can.
ClearCash tracks finances; it does not move money or settle debts.
Copilot is also a tracking app, not a payment app.
Or $80.00/year ($6.67/mo).14-day free trial.*
Or $95.00/year ($7.92/mo). 30-day free trial, but a card is required and it renews automatically.*
*Pricing shown as of July 23, 2026 and subject to change. Check each product's pricing page for current rates before deciding.
Most personal finance apps make you pick a model: one shared login, or entirely separate apps. ClearCash works differently: every account carries its own visibility and net worth responsibility, so the same app can model people who share everything, people who share nothing, or people that share some.
Responsibility is set per group, not per account. The household group has its own agreed split; a dependent group like Alex's mom sets Alex's share to 0%, since none of it should count toward his own net worth.
Bankrate's 2026 couples finances survey found that 62% of couples in committed relationships keep at least some financial accounts in their own name. That is the gap ClearCash is built for.
A couple shares the household card, rent account, or mortgage while personal checking, savings, and discretionary spending stay private.
One partner sets up the account and forwards the sign-in link to the other. From that point on, both people see and control everything — there's no way to keep a personal account out of the shared view.
If they want one fully shared view of everything, Copilot may be the fit. If they want selective sharing first, ClearCash is the sharper fit.
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Looking at more than one app? These one-to-one comparisons focus on different money-management workflows.
For couples weighing one shared household workspace against account-level sharing and privacy.
Read the comparison →For readers comparing zero-based budgeting with shared-account visibility and privacy.
Read the comparison →For people who care about APIs, multi-currency support, custom workflows, and lightweight budgeting.
Read the comparison →Yes, for people who want shared-account visibility and privacy more than budgeting and investment tracking. Copilot is stronger for category budgets, automated stock and crypto tracking, and a built-in AI assistant; ClearCash is more focused on privacy-first sharing and individual net worth.
It depends. If a couple is comfortable sharing one login with full access to everything, Copilot may fit. If they need specific shared accounts while keeping personal accounts private, ClearCash is built for that.
Copilot shares access to your one account via a Magic Link sign-in. Whoever has the link gets full control of the same account and session — there are no separate logins, roles, or account-level privacy settings.
No. ClearCash is for tracking, visibility, and responsibility. It is not a reimbursement app or bill-payment service.