Expense manager vs Lemon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense manager
This app helps you manage and track your daily expenses with an intuitive interface. It offers features like financial calendars, customizable categories, and reminders to help you stay on top of your spending and bills.
- Intuitive expense, income, and balance charts
- Financial calendar for monthly spending overview
- Customizable expense and income categories
- Integrated calculator for summing transactions
- Customizable reminders for bills
- PIN code protection for data security
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Application that helps you manage and track your daily expenses. Designed to be simple and intuitive, this expense tracker app will help you manage, report and always be aware of what is happening in your own wallet. A great budget manager tool for everyone who is concerned about their spending. Closely manage your expenses with ease & take advantage of custom reminders so that you will never be late with your monthly bills. Key features: - intuitive navigation with summarized expense, income & balance charts - financial calendar - monthly expense & income distribution at a glance - track and manage your every day expenses - customizable expense and income categories - make them best fit your financial life - integrated calculator - great when you have multiple transactions that need to be summed up - reminders - daily, weekly and monthly - a great help for repeating/recurrent payments. - summarized expense, income and balance charts grouped by week, month, year or even custom time range - category grouped reports - PIN code protection - secure and reliable you can rest assure that your data is safe from prying eyes - data backup & restore - multiple currencies available - choose your preferred currency/money - adjustable currency/money display format - possibility to choose the first day of week (Monday or Sunday) - data reset functionality You don't have to stop spending, you just have to track, understand and make future smart decisions. Enjoy it! Find out more & follow us on: http://expensecalendar.com/ https://www.facebook.com/expensecalendar
Lemon
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Lemon app is the most easy way to keep track on your daily earnings. What makes Lemon different is the fact that you know how much money you make each day, this way you get instant feedback on your savings. At the end of the day you can see how much money you saved that day or if you are spending more than what you make in a day. To see your daily earnings start by adding your monthly and yearly income and expenses and you are good to go. KEY FEATURES: -- SCREENS -- - Today: see your daily earnings, how much you are spending, what was your balance yesterday and the number of consecutive days you saved money. - Payments: this is where you see all of your yearly, monthly and daily payments. See which of them are have a high daily cost. - Stats: see your weekly, monthly and yearly balance, averages and differences between periods. Also you can set a monthly goal and see the balance needed everyday to accomplish this goal. - Export: you can export all transactions to a CSV file. For cases when the app needs to be deleted, but you don't wanna loose your data. You can import when you start your app fresh. -- OTHER FEATURES -- - Today widget where you can check your current day and week balance, how much money you spent and how many consecutive days you earned money. - Haptic feedback when you add new transaction - Black Edition theme as an IAP option. Enjoy it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Expense manager at none against Lemon's 1. Expense manager also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). Lemon's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lemon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Expense manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Expense manager ships an update every 2 weeks, Lemon every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Expense manager | Lemon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (275 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 275 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Larisa Maria Berce | Adrian Stanciu |
Bugs and requests
Expense manager
Reported bugs
4 issues- Backup feature not working
- Incorrect date entries
- Crashes and freezes
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to edit/delete entries
- Recurring expense/income options
- Export data to CSV/PDF
- Sync across devices
- More currency support
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- Improved reporting and analytics
Lemon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expense manager
No in-app purchases
Lemon
- Black Edition Theme$0.99









