Comparison

Expense Tracker & Manager vs Tally

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Simple expense and income tracking
  • Monthly transaction overview
  • Integrated calculator
  • Interactive spending charts
  • Customizable reports
  • Transaction reminders
  • PIN code protection
Features
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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

About

Tally

A private budget tracker that helps you log daily expenses, set spending limits by category, and visualize your spending habits. All your financial data is stored securely on your device with no account creation needed.

Highlights
  • Track expenses by category
  • Set monthly budgets per category
  • View spending breakdowns with charts
  • Savings goals with progress tracking
  • Quick-add shortcuts
  • Fully offline functionality
Features
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Tally is a simple, private budget tracker for you and your family. Log your daily expenses, set spending limits by category, and see exactly where your money goes — all stored on your device with no accounts required. Features: • Track expenses by category (groceries, dining, gas, and more) • Set monthly budgets per category • View spending breakdowns with charts • Savings goals with progress tracking • Quick-add shortcuts for your most frequent expenses • Fully offline — your data never leaves your device

Screenshots

Expense Tracker & Manager4 screens
Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tally at none against Expense Tracker & Manager's shown. Tally also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). Expense Tracker & Manager's advantage is ratings volume (483 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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

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

Tally 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 483 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Expense Tracker & Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tally's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Expense Tracker & Manager ships an update every 5 months, Tally every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Expense Tracker & Manager versus Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpense Tracker & ManagerTally
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (483 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings483 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlin Sorin CucJulian Vara

Customer experience

Expense Tracker & Manager

All ratings472 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral4.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews439 reviews
Positive82.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative10.0%

Tally

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Tally

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Expense Tracker & Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Tally

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expense Tracker & Manager free?
Expense Tracker & Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Expense Tracker & Manager or Tally?
Tally is rated higher. Expense Tracker & Manager averages 4.6 out of 5 from 483 ratings, while Tally averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Expense Tracker & Manager or Tally have ads?
Expense Tracker & Manager shows ads; Tally does not.
Which is updated more often, Expense Tracker & Manager or Tally?
Expense Tracker & Manager ships an update every 5 months, and Tally every 5 weeks. Most recently, Expense Tracker & Manager was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tally on October 31, 2026.

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