Comparison

Billist vs Spending Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Billist

Easily manage shared expenses with friends, partners, or roommates. Track bills, split amounts unevenly, and transfer funds to settle balances. Generate comprehensive reports in PDF or spreadsheet format.

Highlights
  • Share expenses with contacts
  • Split bills unevenly
  • Transfer money to balance
  • Generate PDF/spreadsheet reports
  • Automatic geolocation for bills
  • Siri integration for quick entry
Features
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Billi$t helps you to manage the bills list of your group. Invite participants and share the lists with them. Choose who will pay the next bill sharing the amount, even in unequal parts. Transfer money among participants to balance the counts. Examine balanced and overall statistics, send reports to other participants. Set the list to Accounting mode, also enter the income and review the cash flow summary. Easy: simplified list setting by selecting contacts and default currencies. Smart: fast bill input through default activities, default currencies and automatic geolocation. Complete: full report in PDF or spreadsheet format. Helpful: one-tap sending of your location to other participants. Handy: quick entry via Siri. • Manages currencies (updated daily from the European Central Bank) • Displays amounts in original or default currency • Tracks personal bills (excluded from shared totals) • Calculates individual/overall statistics with amounts grouped by activity • In accounting mode, calculates cash flow summary grouped by month or year • Allows the addition of currencies not provided in the default list • Allows the addition of activities not provided in the default list • Maintains historical files for closed lists • Shows more informations in landscape orientation

About

Spending Tracker

Easily track your expenses using voice, photos, or typing. Visualize spending trends with instant charts and reports. Share expenses with family or export data for taxes.

Highlights
  • Voice and photo expense logging
  • Instant spending trend visibility
  • iCloud sync and team sharing
  • Advanced reporting and export
  • Smart categorization
  • Receipt scanning
Features
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Cash Compass is a private expense tracker for iPhone. No bank logins, no account connections, no data sold — you log what you spend, and it shows you exactly where your money goes. FAST TO LOG, SO YOU ACTUALLY KEEP DOING IT • Say it — speak an expense and it's categorised and saved • Ask Siri — "log an expense in Cash Compass" works from Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight and the Action button • Snap it — photograph a receipt and the details are pulled out for you • Or type it — amount-first manual entry in a few taps, works fully offline SEE WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING • Category charts — bar, donut and line views of where the money went • Month-over-month comparison — this period against the last, category by category • Weekly report — what you spent this week vs last, with the categories that moved • Spending-spike alerts — Cash Compass flags a category running above its own recent average • Savings rate — set your monthly income and watch the rate on your dashboard • Tracking streak — consecutive days logged, because consistency is the whole game PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No bank logins. Nothing to connect, nothing to reauthorise, no credentials to breach • Your transactions stay on your device; Premium syncs through your own iCloud account • No ads. No selling your data WORKS WHEREVER YOU DO • Every world currency — set yours and every total, chart and export follows • 33 languages • Separate Personal and Business accounts, switchable in a tap • Cash spending is tracked as easily as card — something bank-feed apps structurally cannot do FREE, AND WHAT PREMIUM ADDS Manual logging is free forever, with no ads. Premium unlocks unlimited voice entry and receipt scanning, the full charts, CSV export, and iCloud sync across your devices. Apple Family Sharing covers 5 more family members at no extra cost — each keeps their own private data; the subscription is the only shared item. Cash Compass is made by a small independent developer. If something's missing or broken, the support link goes to a human.

Screenshots

Billist4 screens
Spending Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Billist at 100% against Spending Tracker's 50%. Billist also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Spending Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spending Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Billist asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Billist ships an update every 4 months, Spending Tracker every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Billist versus Spending Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBillistSpending Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuca VettorazzoSwiftAppLab LLC

Customer experience

Billist

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spending Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Billist

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Spending Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Annual (recommended)7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Billist free?
Billist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spending Tracker free?
Spending Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Billist or Spending Tracker have ads?
Neither Billist nor Spending Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Billist or Spending Tracker?
Billist ships an update every 4 months, and Spending Tracker every 5 days. Most recently, Billist was updated on November 2, 2026 and Spending Tracker on November 8, 2026.

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