Smartbro Prepaid Tracker rnLaunched last year, Smartbro for Android is available on Google Play and has pretty much all the features you need. It does live-tracking of your prepaid balance, creates a bill for your prepaid usage, and also tracks data usage giving you an app-wise breakdown, so you can see which apps are using the most data on your phone.
It lets you track the balance easily even on dual-SIM phones, which can be a bit of a pain normally. The app displays the remaining balance on the phone’s built-in dialler, and lets you see app-wise or day-wise data usage. It also creates a detailed bill where you can see all the calls you’ve made, how much time was spent on them, and how much money was used as well.
True Balance
True Balance by Balance Hero is a very popular option for checking prepaid balance. It also has additional features such as mobile recharges, cash back offers, and data usage tracking. If you have a dual-SIM phone, each SIM is presented as a different card in the app and you can see the balance, the active packs, and the day’s usage at a glance. Notifications tell you when recharges are becoming due, offer low balance alerts, and so on, and you earn points for various actions that can be used to get discounts if you recharge your phone or anyone else’s through the app.
Smart App
The Smart App is a great looking app that has a slightly different focus from the others on this list - instead of looking at your prepaid usage, the focus is on your 3G and 4G data usage. Another very interesting feature that the app has - if you’re on a supported network, then you can use the app to find the best plan to subscribe to, and save money that way. A floating notification gives you live data tracking so you can see the impact watching a video on YouTube has on your budget, while ‘smartplans’ lets you put down your requirements, and then the app determines which recharge packs you should buy. It also shows call insights, showing the length of calls and top contacts, while a similar breakdown for data usage lets you know what apps are using up your limits. Finally, you can also recharge prepaid numbers using the app.
Mubble
The Mubble app is pretty similar to the Smart App, as it also suggests the best recharge plans. It’s top feature about Mubble is the settings, which let you control so much about the way the app lets you know about your balance. You can set low balance warning indicators, and switch on things like alerts for apps secretly using mobile data, unknown charges, and other useful options, while turning off basic stuff like alerts every time you use data, or make a call. It too creates a prepaid bill with all your data in one place, even if you have a dual-SIM phone, and shows app-wise data usage figures, including a breakdown for active usage and background refreshes. That’s very cool because if you have two apps that are using a lot of data, and only one of those is something you actively use, then you know how you can save some money.
BillBachao
Although BillBachao isn’t as detailed when it comes to data and call balance tracking, it does the basics just as well as any other app on the list. It also includes a self-help section that can request MNP, activate DND, and deactivate all VAS packs, you often don’t even realise you’re paying for, all through a very simple and easy to use menu. It also lets you test signal strength in case you want to see why you’re facing issues such as call drops. At the same time, it shows you your usage for the last 30 days and works fine on dual-SIM phones, shows the data and call balance, and lets you see usage on 3G/ 4G, and Wi-Fi; and see the split between local calls and STD calls. If you only want a data tracker, then some of the others on the list do a better job of visualisation, but as a control centre for your connection, BillBachao is great.
