# Expense - Spending Tracking — user reviews > 69 indexed App Store user reviews of Expense by Shan Cao, rated 4.80/5 from 112 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expense-spending-tracking/id1020335225/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/expense-spending-tracking/id1020335225.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 92 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (17 of 69) ### 5/5 — This App is simple and super easy to use! *2021-11-01, version 1.4* There’s no fluffs and it has all the core functionality. Love it!!! ### 5/5 — Beautiful simplicity. *2020-10-19, version 1.2* I love how fast you can enter a transaction. Each month I export the data into a spreadsheet. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Simple and intuitive! *2020-06-21, version 1.2* Nice app, clutter free and does everything a regular person wants for a decent bookkeeping. ### 5/5 — Feature request *2020-05-13, version 1.2* This app is great, I just wish it had one more feature: the ability to add a ‘memo’ — just a brief text field where I can specify what a particular expense was for. I’m still looking for an app that is simple like this one, but with a memo field. Until I find it, this app wins! ### 5/5 — Simple and effective *2020-04-17, version 1.2* I have been using Expense for over a year now. It is easy to use and works perfectly for tracking day to day expenses. The layout is very intuitive and lets you add expenses quickly, versus the bigger budgeting apps where you end up hunting for the right category. I also love the monthly view, and that you can get your expenses downloaded as a CSV. ### 5/5 — Simply the best *2020-02-20, version 1.2* This is super simple. Things that are not obvious in the description is you can add and customize categories. Love the fact that you can email yourself the data from the app, it is not stored in the cloud. Also this app opens super fast, which is huge when you want to quickly enter spending. I have never reviewed an app, but this one is so good I felt like I had to rate it. Note, it is simple by design. Export your data and move it to excel for analysis. ### 5/5 — Simple & Clean *2020-02-10, version 1.2* Exactly what I’ve been looking for, love the visuals of the icons, and graphs. ### 5/5 — Very useful *2019-12-12, version 1.2* A hidden gem. Many options, but still basic which I want. Can export files to excel without a problem. Real life saver. Thanks ### 5/5 — THEY ARE THE BEST *2019-11-30, version 1.2* EASY, QUICKLY, CLEARLY AND YOU CAN EXPORT YOUR DATA. THAT'S ALL WE NEED. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING MY LIFE MORE EASY. ESPECIALLY, WITH THE FINANCE PART. ### 5/5 — Great app *2019-10-01, version 1.2* I love this app because it’s so minimalistic and easy to use. The only thing I’d love to see are a few new icons for the categories. Are you planning on adding any new ones in the future? ### 5/5 — Quick, Easy, Simple *2019-09-07, version 1.2* Exactly what I was looking for. Gives me a very quick and easy way to decrease what I spend each day, week, month. Can be also used to eliminate a particular habit that is tied to money (food habit, drinking, etc.). Definitely recommend this. ### 5/5 — Love this App *2019-08-12, version 1.2* This app is amazing! It is really easy to use and it has opened my eyes to how I am spending my money ### 5/5 — Great expense tracking *2019-06-09, version 1.2* - No syncing, just you, your categories, and your expenses. - Month view with totals by category. - CSV export. - And the only part that matters: probably the best expense tracking user interface available on iOS. Thank you for sharing this app freely! ### 5/5 — Misleading $6.23 *2019-04-12, version 1.2* People think the app costs $6.23 and don't download it. It's hurting your app. Indicate that it's free. ### 5/5 — Everyone should learn from this app *2019-03-30, version 1.2* Simple, clean and exactly do what needed to be done. Kudos to dev and designer. ### 5/5 — Beautiful and simple *2019-03-26, version 1.2* Does what I want - track expenses. Nothing else so is wonderfully simple. Love it ### 5/5 — Perfect *2019-03-05, version 1.2* I needed something simple to keep track of expenses for daily care of elder. Quick and easy. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 3/5 — Seems promising *2018-01-24, version 1.1* Looks to be the simple tracker I've been wanting, however wish it was shared and would sync with my husband's phone for joint checking accounts! ### 3/5 — Seems fine but where's auto-sync? *2017-05-25, version 1.0.2* I would love the app if it would sync with my cards and accounts. Nice interface but I don't have the time to plug in every expense. ### 4/5 — Simple and easy *2019-09-26, version 1.2* This app keeps track of spending and doesn't take a lot of steps. It isn't for finances which i like. ### 4/5 — Needs remaining amount *2019-05-08, version 1.2* Simple easy to use app. Would like an option to add a sim if money and it to tell me how much is left (per diem) on a daily basis. ie on a business trip, say I’m allowed x dollars a day for meals. When I input my meal costs it tells me how much I have left for that day. ### 4/5 — Simple, functional, has more potential *2019-03-19, version 1.2* Tracking expenses is really easy with this app, put in the number, tap the correct category, enter a description. Done! And the ability to export data as a csv/json is super neat. It would be great to be able to read from/write to the app with Shortcuts though. Doesn't have to be fancy, just a shortcut to get all transactions out, and a shortcut to add a single transaction in would be amazing 😎 ### 4/5 — Simple and Easy *2018-11-17, version 1.2* This app makes tracking spending easy and simple. You create your categories and away you go! Exporting would be nice to select what week or month you want to export but other than that I like this one the best of those out there. ### 4/5 — Needs better icon symbols *2018-09-18, version 1.1* I like the app-but please add in better category icons!!! Ex: an icon for monthly haircut->✂️<- What is one supposed to use an icon of men’s underwear for??? ### 4/5 — Currency *2018-07-30, version 1.1* I like how simple it is! But subcategories would be super helpful. Plus it shows up a bit weird depending on the currency. (e.g. 2000 yen looks like “2000.00” on the main screen even though I changed the settings for the period) ### 4/5 — Good APP but with a bit more work it can be made great *2018-07-07, version 1.1* Good app, works on KISS principle. However it can be a made great with the addition of some sort of filter process for month/year filter outlook within the APP and also to be able to configure the file export layout so that it can be exported and incorporated into a master spreadsheet for analysis. Hope the developers will work on that suggestion and make this into a great APP ### 4/5 — Great app- minor feature request *2018-07-06, version 1.1* Great app for managing monthly expenses easily without a lot of feature overhead. Simple and to the point! Small feature request though. Currently the only way to organize totals is by day or month. If there was a way to organize by week or bi-weekly, that would be great! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Using so many years! *2025-11-26, version 1.5.1* This minimalistic app is the best thing that can take 30 seconds of your time every day and still track all your expenses. ### 5/5 — KISS *2025-03-02, version 1.5.1* Keep It Simple Stupid. This is hands on the best expense app to get. Fast, simple and has an intuitive GUI. Highly recommend and I can’t believe it’s free. ### 5/5 — So Simple Yet Powerful *2024-04-02, version 1.4* I’ve been using this app since forever, with breaks. I just started using it again and I simply had to write this review. This app does everything I want the way I want it. I tried dozens of expense tracking apps and I keep coming back to this one. You can tell this was made by someone who’s using the app themselves. It’s so simple, useful and frictionless. Thank you for making it! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2023-11-06, version 1.4* Love this app , I use it everyday!!! ### 5/5 — Just great *2023-01-27, version 1.4* I have been using this app for about 3 1/2 years. I originally got it to keep track of food expenses that I split with a roommate. It is so easy to use. You can create categories and make notes about each purchase . It’s just a very simple easy to understand application and the results can be expected to useful formats. ### 5/5 — Great for tracking expenses *2022-10-19, version 1.4* This app is just great. I still use it every day and love how simple it is. I do wish there could be some updates though. Maybe an increased list of the category icons or the ability to use Emojis as a category icon. Also the ability to set a recurring expense would be handy. ### 5/5 — 非常推荐 *2022-08-19, version 1.4* 非常好用的软件，记录方便，页面简洁，不用登陆注册，备份方便，app里没广告，不会有短信/邮箱推送广告轰炸，居然还免费，非常非常推荐！ ### 5/5 — New feature pls: Needs search! *2022-08-13, version 1.4* This is an excellent app. It needs a search function however to be perfect. ### 5/5 — No fills perfect expense journal *2022-08-01, version 1.4* This app has been my “go to” for several years now. I keep track of all my spending. Simple, fast, effective, no bloatware. ### 5/5 — Efficient and does the job ! *2021-11-18* Pleased with this app . It is clean and simple. Appreciate that you don’t have to buy any additional features . --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-11.*