Expense Tracker & Manager vs Boring Expenses
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense Tracker & Manager
This app offers a straightforward way to track expenses, manage budgets, and organize spending. It helps users gain control over their finances with simple tools for recording income and outgoings, analyzing spending patterns, and setting reminders. The application aims to bring order to financial life without unnecessary complexity.
- Simple expense and income tracking
- Monthly transaction overview
- Integrated calculator
- Interactive spending charts
- Customizable reports
- Transaction reminders
- PIN code protection
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Expense tracker - Money management made simple. If you are looking for a complicated money management application that promises you to do everything you ever wanted, then you have to keep looking because this app is not for you. This expense tracker & manager promises to be a very simple, intuitive and straight forward mobile application that helps and assists you to track all your expenses, manage your budgets/costs and organize your spending, enabling you to make savings and order in your financial life. Organize your incomes, manage your family budget, keep track of expenses while traveling and understand where all your money are with some great, yet simple features. Main features: - intuitive, clean and simple way of adding daily expenses and incomes - main screen calendar that gives a quick monthly overview over all transactions - integrated calculator - sum up all your bills without leaving the application - interactive charts that let's you quickly analyze your expenses and incomes - expense, income & balance critical reports - weekly/monthly/yearly and custom report time periods - monitors and analyze past expenses - reminders - set reminders for future inflow or outflow transactions - recurrent payments -> never miss another deadline - transactions balance - day, week, month, year - expense and income category filter - a compact yet comprehensive list of expense and income categories - add or edit categories, if defaults don't work for you - PIN code protection - keep your spending away from curios eyes - world currencies - over 100 currencies with accurate currency symbols - currency number format - decimal separator This expense tracker application is dedicated in helping you manage your financial life, easily, efficiently and with no complications. Find out more and follow us on : Official website : https://expenditure-tracker.com/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ExpenditureTracker
Boring Expenses
This app provides a simple, private way to track your spending without complex features or sign-ups. It focuses solely on expenses, offering quick entry and clear visual reports. Your data is securely stored in your iCloud and remains invisible to the developer.
- One-tap expense entry
- Interactive spending charts
- Customizable categories with icons
- Quick filters by date and category
- CSV data export
- Offline functionality
- Light and dark themes
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Where does your money actually go? Boring Expenses shows you in seconds — a tiny, beautifully boring expense tracker that's 100% free, ad-free, private, and sign-up-free. Your data lives in your personal iCloud, end-to-end encrypted by Apple and invisible to us. JUST EXPENSES — NOTHING ELSE - No income tracking — total focus on spending - No multiple accounts — one number, the whole picture - No complicated budgets or category limits - No welcome screens or personal surveys - No bank connections — log each expense by hand, like a journal - No subscriptions, ads, trackers, or analytics - Apple-only — native look, feel, and animations WHY PEOPLE LOVE IT - Ready in the first second: no questionnaires, budget setup, paywalls, or registration - Truly free: no "premium" tiers, no nagging for donations - Private by design: expenses stay in encrypted iCloud, never shared - Works fully offline - Tiny and fast: opens instantly - No category caps: seeing your trends over weeks and months builds smarter habits on its own KEY FEATURES - One-tap expense entry: pick a category, type the amount — done - Beautiful interactive charts that update instantly — week, month, year - 100+ icons and colors to make categories your own - Quick filters by date and category - CSV export: pull your data into Excel or anywhere, anytime - Apple Watch app and Home Screen widgets - Full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support - Light and dark themes with a true native iPhone feel START TODAY Download Boring Expenses and build smarter everyday spending habits — one tap at a time. Thanks for reading to the end — have a great day! Questions or ideas? Open Settings > Feedback to message the developer directly. Enjoying the app? A quick App Store review means the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Boring Expenses at none against Expense Tracker & Manager's shown. Boring Expenses also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). Expense Tracker & Manager's advantage is ratings volume (472 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Boring Expenses holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expense Tracker & Manager has 472 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Expense Tracker & Manager ships an update every 5 months, Boring Expenses monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense Tracker & Manager | Boring Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (472 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 472 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alin Sorin Cuc | Dmitry Kulizhnikov |
Customer experience
Expense Tracker & Manager
Boring Expenses
Bugs and requests
Expense Tracker & Manager
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not opening or showing a blank screen
- Incorrect date display or navigation
- Inability to recover lost data or history
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to set up recurring expenses or income
- Option to carry over balance to next month
- Sync across devices and backup functionality
- Export data to Excel, PDF, or other formats
- More detailed analytics and reporting
Boring Expenses
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expense Tracker & Manager
No in-app purchases
Boring Expenses
No in-app purchases
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