Expense vs Blended Recovery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense
Effortlessly monitor your finances with this intuitive spending tracker. Visualize your expenses with a clean line chart and gain insights into your spending habits. Customize categories and export your data for detailed analysis.
- Intuitive expense tracking
- Beautiful line chart visualization
- Monthly spending overview
- Customizable categories
- Export data to CSV
- Local data storage
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Expense makes tracking money easy and intuitive. • Simple and beautiful line chart • Fast expense tracking, enter amount and select a category, that’s it • Track where your money is going in monthly view • Export to CSV for further processing • Customize categories in settings • All of your data are stored locally and are not available to us
Blended Recovery
This app provides behavioral health services, including individual and family therapy, addiction recovery groups, and specialized teen and parenting programs. It features an integrated video conferencing platform with multi-language translation for accessible counseling sessions.
- Individual and Family Therapy
- Addiction Recovery Groups
- Parenting and Anger Management
- Teen Support Groups
- Integrated Video Conferencing
- Multi-language Translation
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Blended Recovery is a behavioural Health Business located in E TN. We have multiple offices & offer a Range of services from Individual & Family therapy to addition Recovery Groups to Parenting, Anger Management & Teen Groups as well as Family Visitations. BR has own App and Video Conferencing platform that offers the latest in Technology. We have integrated language Translation for multiple language so Clients can attend. Counselor Session & Receive all State & Court mandatory therapy. We hope you find all BR Services & Technology very useful.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Blended Recovery at monthly against Expense's every 6 months. Blended Recovery also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Expense's advantage is ratings volume (112 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Blended Recovery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expense has 112 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Expense ships an update every 6 months, Blended Recovery monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense | Blended Recovery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (112 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shan Cao | Mike Lucas |
Customer experience
Expense
Blended Recovery
Bugs and requests
Expense
Reported bugs
2 issues- Currency display issues
- No visible way to delete entries (user reported)
Requested features
28 requests- Search functionality
- Increased list of category icons
- Ability to use Emojis as category icons
- Set a recurring expense
- Add a 'memo' or text field for notes
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- Search function
- New icons for categories
- Option to add a 'sim' if money and it to tell me how much is left (per diem)
- Read from/write to the app with Shortcuts
- Annual summary feature
- Online help or FAQ in settings
- Exporting to select week or month
- Better category icons
- Subcategories
- Currency format tweaks
- Total cost row/cell for exporting
- Home screen widget
- Currency symbol (auto-set)
- Password protection
- Custom image option for categories
- Organize by week or bi-weekly
- Year-end summary
- Filter process for month/year outlook within the app
- Configure file export layout
- Auto-backup via iCloud
- Add button closer to screen edges
- iPad & Mac version
- iCloud sync
Blended Recovery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expense
No in-app purchases
Blended Recovery
No in-app purchases
Questions
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