Expense vs Smith Libraries Self Checkout
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
Smith Libraries Self Checkout
Borrow books from Smith Libraries using your smartphone or tablet. This app allows for quick and convenient self-checkout of items anywhere within the library premises.
- Borrow books easily
- Use smartphone or tablet
- Self-checkout anywhere in library
- Fast borrowing process
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Smith Libraries Self Checkout is an easy, fast way to borrow books from Smith Libraries. You can use your smartphone or tablet to check out items anywhere in the library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Expense at 4.8 against Smith Libraries Self Checkout's 3.5. Expense also leads on ratings volume (112 vs 2). Smith Libraries Self Checkout's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
Expense holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. 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, Smith Libraries Self Checkout every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense | Smith Libraries Self Checkout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (112 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 408 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Shan Cao | Meescan Inc. |
Customer experience
Expense
Smith Libraries Self Checkout
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
Smith Libraries Self Checkout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expense
No in-app purchases
Smith Libraries Self Checkout
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Expense free?
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