Comparison

Expense manager vs Expense Tracker Simple

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Expense Tracker Simple

This app offers a straightforward way to track your expenses without requiring an account or subscription. Log spending quickly with custom categories and view your financial habits through charts and historical data.

Highlights
  • Log expenses with amount, category, date, and note
  • 10 built-in categories
  • Up to 15 custom categories
  • Monthly history browsing
  • Pie chart spending breakdown
  • Analytics section for insights
  • Yearly spending view
Features
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Most expense apps forgot what "simple" means. This one never did. Expense Tracker Simple is the app for people who just want to log what they spent, and nothing else. No setup. No account. No subscription. No tutorial. You open it, you log, you're done. Free. Forever. No catch. Not free for 7 days. Not free with a 5-expense limit. Not free until you "upgrade to Pro." Every single feature in this app, expense logging, monthly history, pie charts, custom categories, is yours forever, from the moment you download it. No credit card. No subscription. No expiry. No account. Not now. Not ever. You don't sign up. You don't verify an email. You don't create a password you'll forget. The app works the moment you open it, privately tied to your device_id. Nothing leaves your hands. Three taps. Every time. Open → Amount → Category → Done. That's the entire flow. No onboarding wizard. No budget targets to configure. No "link your bank account." Just log what you spent and move on with your day. Everything you need. Nothing you don't. • Log expenses with amount, category, date, and a note • 10 built-in categories for everyday spending • Add up to 15 custom categories • Browse any past month in history • Pie chart breakdown of where your money went • Get deeper insights into your spending with the analytics section • Yearly view to spot spending patterns • No bank connection. No data selling. Built for real people, not accountants. If you've downloaded five expense apps and deleted all of them because they were too complicated, too expensive, or too pushy, this is the one you've been looking for. It doesn't do everything. It does exactly enough.

Screenshots

Expense manager4 screens
Expense Tracker Simple4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Expense Tracker Simple at none against Expense manager's shown. Expense Tracker Simple also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Expense manager's advantage is ratings volume (267 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Expense Tracker Simple holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expense manager has 267 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Expense manager's written reviews are positive against 75% of Expense Tracker Simple's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Expense manager ships an update every 2 weeks, Expense Tracker Simple every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Expense manager versus Expense Tracker Simple: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpense managerExpense Tracker Simple
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (267 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings267 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLarisa Maria BerceVipul Vishnu AV

Customer experience

Expense manager

All ratings267 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews219 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral9.1%
Negative12.8%

Expense Tracker Simple

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative8.3%

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

Expense Tracker Simple

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Expense manager

No in-app purchases

None

Expense Tracker Simple

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expense manager free?
Expense manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Expense Tracker Simple free?
Expense Tracker Simple is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Expense manager or Expense Tracker Simple?
Expense Tracker Simple is rated higher. Expense manager averages 4.6 out of 5 from 267 ratings, while Expense Tracker Simple averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Expense manager or Expense Tracker Simple have ads?
Expense manager shows ads; Expense Tracker Simple does not.
Which is updated more often, Expense manager or Expense Tracker Simple?
Expense manager ships an update every 2 weeks, and Expense Tracker Simple every 2 days. Most recently, Expense manager was updated on October 11, 2026 and Expense Tracker Simple on October 17, 2026.

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