Spend vs expent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spend
This app helps you organize and track your expenses, receipts, and budgets. It offers various views like calendar, summary, and map, and can automatically download transactions from your bank and Apple Card.
- Expense tracking
- Receipt organization
- Budget management
- Calendar, summary, map views
- Automatic bank transaction download
- Apple Card transaction download
- Transaction export
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See exactly where your money goes. Spend-Trend helps you organize expenses, import bank and Apple Card transactions, attach receipts, and understand your spending through calendar, chart, and map views. Track spending with less effort: Import transactions from supported banks and Apple Card, or quickly enter an expense yourself. Understand your habits: Explore monthly totals, category trends, calendar views, charts, and maps. Keep everything organized: Create custom categories, attach receipts and notes, search transactions, and export your records. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
expent
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Expenses Tracker is a simple and fast way to keep track of your daily and monthly spending. Add expenses in seconds, see exactly where your money goes, and export everything to a file you can open in Excel or Google Sheets. The app is fully offline and stores all data only on your device. Key features Add expenses with name, amount and date View expenses grouped by month See the total amount spent for each month at a glance Visual charts that show how your spending changes over the month Export monthly expenses to a CSV file for use in Excel, Google Sheets or any spreadsheet app Edit or delete expenses whenever you need Simple, clean design focused on speed and ease of use How it works Open the app and add each expense with its amount and date Switch between months to review your past spending Use the chart view to quickly see which days were most expensive When needed, export a month to CSV and save it, back it up, or share it with someone else Privacy All data is stored locally on your device using secure local storage No account, no login and no cloud sync Your expense data is never sent to any server and is under your full control Expenses Tracker is ideal for anyone who wants a lightweight, private and easy-to-use tool to follow their daily spending and stay on top of their budget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: expent at none against Spend's 2. expent also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Spend's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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. Spend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. expent asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spend ships an update every 5 days, expent every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spend | expent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VIJAY CHINTA | Lee Yahav |
In-app purchases
Spend
- Monthy Subscription2 Months trial$4.991 Month
- Pro Upgrade$8.99
expent
No in-app purchases









