Expense vs Accounting
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
Accounting
Easily track daily expenses with this professional accounting software. Quickly add new expense items, customize spending categories, and add remarks for detailed records. Enjoy a smooth, ad-free experience with features like widgets and dark mode.
- Fast expense entry
- Customizable spending items
- Expense calculation by time period
- Add remarks for transactions
- Ad-free experience
- Widget support
- Dark mode
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This is an easy to use, convenient, professional accounting software for your daily life, providing you with a fast a way to keep track of your expenses Product Features and Functionalities: 1. Smooth and simple to use. Complete a new expense item in less than three seconds with no unnecessary operations 2. Calculate expenses for any time period 3. Add customized spending items 4. Add remarks. Keep a clear record of where you spend your money 5. Ad-free 6. Widget 7. Dark Mode 8. Multi-person accounting Clean interface, simple usage. Fall in love with accounting. Enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes with completing every expense item
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Expense at 4.8 against Accounting's 4.2. Expense also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 79%). Accounting's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 112 and 59 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Expense's written reviews are positive against 79% of Accounting's.
Expense ships an update every 6 months, Accounting every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense | Accounting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (112 ratings) — better | 4.2 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.1% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 59 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shan Cao | Beijing Free Calculator Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Expense
Accounting
User reviews
Expense
From 112 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Extremely simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Fast and efficient expense tracking
- ✨ Clean and minimalistic interface
- 🆓 Free to use with no ads
- 💡 Intuitive GUI
Room to improve
- 💡 Lacks search functionality
- 💡 No recurring expense option
- 💡 Limited category icon selection
- 💡 No subcategories
- 💡 Currency display can be odd
Accounting
From 59 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Extremely fast and efficient
- 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases
- 💡 Customizable categories
- 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues between devices
- 🐛 Data loss and disappearing records
- 🐛 Inability to edit or delete entries
- 💡 Lack of income/balance tracking
- 💡 Limited reporting and analytics
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
Accounting
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashing when trying to change dates
- Incorrect date display and time period issues
- Sync failures between shared accounts
Requested features
5 requests- Add income tracking and balance calculation
- Implement data backup and restore functionality
- Allow editing and deleting of existing entries
- Provide more customization options for categories
- Add graphical reporting and data visualization
In-app purchases
Expense
No in-app purchases
Accounting
No in-app purchases
