Buddy Loan vs True Balance: which loan app is safer
Buddy Loan replies to 93% of unhappy reviews on Google Play, True Balance to 91%. Both can read your SMS. Over the last 90 days of reviews, Buddy Loan averages 1.90 and True Balance 3.80. The most serious complaint about both is the same: "Credit report problems". We confirmed 0 of the 13 registration numbers Buddy Loan publishes on a regulator's register, and 0 of 4 for True Balance.
| Buddy Loan | True Balance | |
|---|---|---|
| Most serious thing people report | Credit report problems (12 of 379) | Credit report problems (8 of 400) |
| Does anyone answer complaints | 93% of low-star reviews · usually same day | 91% of low-star reviews · usually same day |
| Rating in the last 90 days | 1.90 (down 2.61 on lifetime) | 3.80 (down 0.84 on lifetime) |
| Last updated | this month | this month |
| Reads your SMS | yes | yes |
| Reads your contacts | no | no |
| Shows ads | no | no |
| Numbers confirmed on a register | 0 of 13 | 0 of 4 |
| Charges we could source | not extracted yet | not extracted yet |
| Charges only in the terms | not extracted yet | not extracted yet |
How to read this
Every row comes from a public source: the app store listings, the reviews people left there, and the registers kept by RBI, SEBI and IRDAI. Where a row says "Not known", we have not measured it yet, which is different from the answer being no. Qrates takes no commission from either app.
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