Expense vs Top Clock
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
Top Clock
This app provides a floating clock and timer that stays visible above all other applications. It's useful for tasks like online shopping, studying with Pomodoro timers, or cooking with real-time countdowns.
- Floating clock and timer
- Millisecond timing
- Picture-in-picture window
- Adjustable size and position
- Multiple timer types (stopwatch, countdown, Pomodoro)
- Customizable colors
- One-click operation
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Top Clock is a small window floating clock that displays time and countdown on the desktop and any app. use: 1. Online shopping assistant, a small window on the shopping app displays a millisecond clock or an hourly countdown. 2. For online learning, when watching a video, the Pomodoro is displayed floating in a small window for more efficient learning. 3. Cooking timer, while using other software, a small window can view the countdown in real time. Features: 1. Millisecond timing, online shopping is one step faster. 2. A small picture-in-picture window, adjustable in size and position, can be used simultaneously with other software. 3. Various timers, including clock, stopwatch, countdown, interval timer and Pomodoro. 4. Any combination of colors. 5. The operation is simple, just one click.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Expense at 97% against Top Clock's 61%. Expense also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Top Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume 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 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 112 and 149 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Expense's written reviews are positive against 61% of Top Clock's.
Expense ships an update every 6 months, Top Clock every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense | Top Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (112 ratings) — better | 4.6 (149 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.1% of reviews — better | 61.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 112 | 149 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shan Cao | Shenzhen Gude Aipu Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Expense
Top Clock
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
Top Clock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expense
No in-app purchases
Top Clock
No in-app purchases
