Simple Expense Tracker vs Spendly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Expense Tracker
Easily manage your spending and stay within your budget. Track expenses in real-time, set spending limits, and receive visual cues as you approach or exceed your budget.
- Create custom budgets
- Track expenses in real-time
- Visual budget indicators (orange/red)
- Monitor budget period progress
- Review and delete past transactions
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Simple Expense Tracker helps you stick to your budget! Add transactions as you spend, keep track of your expense in real time. Set a budget and stick to it! Features: - Create your budget including spend limit, period (weekly, fortnightly, monthly) and day of the week to start on - Each time you spend, add a transaction with the amount and an optional description (takes 2 seconds!) - Figures will change orange when you are close to your spend limit and red when you have exceeded it - Track how far through your budget period you are vs how much of your spend limit has been used - Review past transactions and delete as necessary (e.g items which were part of last budget period)
Spendly
Manage your personal finances with this straightforward app. Track expenses, set savings targets, and monitor your financial health. All your data is kept private and secure on your device.
- Expense tracking
- Savings goal setting
- Financial situation overview
- On-device data storage
- No account required
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Spendly - a simple and effective personal finance management app. Track your spending, set savings goals, and easily keep track of your financial situation. No account required, no data collection - all information is securely stored on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spendly at 5.0 against Simple Expense Tracker's 2.0. Spendly also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Simple Expense Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Spendly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Expense Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spendly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Simple Expense Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spendly's.
Simple Expense Tracker ships an update every 3 days, Spendly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Expense Tracker | Spendly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mitchell Duncan | Hieu Xuan Leu |
Customer experience
Simple Expense Tracker
Spendly
In-app purchases
Simple Expense Tracker
No in-app purchases
Spendly
- Remove Ads$0.99
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