Lunch Money vs Tiller

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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Tiller comes out ahead of Lunch Money in how AI assistants talk about budgeting apps, with an overall score of 13 versus 5, and a spot in 13 of 64 answers compared to Lunch Money's 5. Claude is the most generous to both, giving Tiller 32 and Lunch Money 11, while ChatGPT and Perplexity barely mention either. Tiller's strongest showing is a clean sweep for spreadsheet-based budgeting, named in all 3 of 3 answers. Head-to-head, Tiller is named more often in 8 questions, Lunch Money in just 1, with 11 questions ending in a tie.

Head to head

metric	Lunch Money	Tiller
score	5	13
questions won	5	11

By assistant

Lunch Money

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	0	0% of answers
Claude	11	20% of answers	#6.3
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#5.0

Tiller

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	5	5% of answers	#1.0
Claude	32	55% of answers	#5.9
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	5	5% of answers	#1.0

Where they differ

Only Lunch Money gets named for

What's the best budgeting app that works outside the US?

Only Tiller gets named for

What's the best budgeting app for couples sharing finances?
What's the best app to track net worth and investments alongside a budget?
What's the best personal finance app to see all my accounts in one place?
What's the best envelope or zero-based budgeting app?
What's the best budgeting app in 2026?
Which budgeting app is worth paying for?
What are the best budgeting apps?

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