Grocery Record vs ShoppySpends
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grocery Record
Effortlessly monitor your grocery expenses with this intuitive application. Scan receipts, categorize purchases, and visualize your spending habits over time to identify potential savings.
- Scan grocery receipts
- Organize purchases by category
- Visualize spending over time
- Track category spending
- Manual purchase entry
- Customizable categories and colors
- Home screen widgets
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Keep track of your grocery spending in a simple, easy to understand format. Find out where you can save money! - Scan your grocery receipts - Organise purchases into categories - See at a glance how you've spent your money over the past week, two weeks or month - Track your spending in each category over time - Drill down through categories to see what purchases are your biggest contributors to spending Extra features include - The option to enter purchases manually. - Fully customizable categories and colors. - Home Screen widgets
ShoppySpends
Effortlessly manage your grocery shopping and track your spending. Create shareable lists, scan receipts to add items quickly, and visualize your financial habits with detailed statistics. Syncs seamlessly via iCloud.
- Shareable grocery lists
- Receipt scanning for item entry
- Weekly and monthly spending statistics
- iCloud synchronization
- Widgets and Siri Shortcuts integration
- Multi-currency support
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Plan groceries faster and spend smarter. Build shareable lists, scan receipts to prefill items, and see weekly/monthly stats—all synced with iCloud. Why ShoppySpends: • Quick Add: type, hit return, keep going • Receipt Scan: fast on‑device extraction (edit before saving) • Spending Stats: weekly & yearly charts, multi‑currency • Share Lists: collaborate via iCloud • Widgets + Shortcuts: complete items, add via Siri Premium (free): Unlimited lists & items, sharing, yearly analytics, all widgets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShoppySpends at 5.0 against Grocery Record's 1.0. ShoppySpends also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Grocery Record sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ShoppySpends sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShoppySpends holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Grocery Record ships an update every 2 months, ShoppySpends every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grocery Record | ShoppySpends |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thrown Toys Software | Marko Malesevic |
Customer experience
Grocery Record
ShoppySpends
In-app purchases
Grocery Record
- Ad Removal$2.99
ShoppySpends
- Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
