Simple Spender vs Spender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Spender
Easily track your income and expenses with just a few taps. This app automatically generates insightful charts and graphs to visualize your financial habits. Manage budgets, recurring transactions, and multiple currencies with a user-friendly interface.
- Automatic charts and graphs
- Monthly budget management
- Repeating transaction support
- Multiple currency support
- Customizable categories
- Passcode data protection
- Multiple themes
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You just need a few taps to save your income, expenses. And we will generate multiple charts and graphs automatically. Features: - Simple, fast and clean - Simple reporting with graphs and charts - Flexible Time Periods for report - User friendly UI design Functions: - Monthly Budget - Support Repeating Transaction - Multiple Currencies - Customized Categories - Different type of Chart and Graph - Protect your data with Passcode - Multiple Themes
Spender
Track your spending for specific events like vacations or trips. This app focuses on recording expenses with details like amount, purpose, and date, offering sorting and easy deletion of records. An in-app purchase removes the free version's payment limit.
- Add payments with amount, purpose, and date
- Sort expenses by amount, name, or date
- Quickly remove all records
- In-app purchase to remove payment limit
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This app is for those who want to find out how much money they spent on vacation or on a trip or for a specific purpose. There are no types of expenses here, only the expenses themselves and what you spent them on. There are no subscriptions, and the built-in purchase removes the limit of 10 payments in the free version. OPPORTUNITIES: - Adding payments (amount, where/what was spent and date) - Sort the list by amount or by name or by date - Quick removing of all records when they are no longer relevant
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Spender at none against Simple Spender's shown. Simple Spender's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Simple Spender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Spender ships an update monthly, Spender every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Spender | Spender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kwok Chun Hin | Evgeny Turchaninov |
Customer experience
Simple Spender
Spender
In-app purchases
Simple Spender
- Premium$0.99
Spender
- Full version$0.99
