Comparison

Surplus vs Expense & Budget

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

Head to head
About

Surplus

This app helps you manage your monthly finances by tracking income, expenses, and upcoming payments. It provides insights into your spending habits, categorizes transactions, and offers customizable reports. Sync your accounts automatically or manually for a clear overview of your leftover spend.

Highlights
  • Monthly income and expense tracking
  • Categorization of spending
  • Customizable reports with CSV export
  • Transaction grouping
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Automation via Shortcuts app
Features
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Surplus is a monthly expense tracker that takes into account your monthly income, expenses and upcoming payments to provide you with a clear overview of your leftover spend. -- Spend Wisely -- Know how much you have left to spend, including your subscriptions and installments. -- Profile Your Spend -- Categorize your expenses into meaningful groups that drive insights into your spend profile. This can include popular budgeting methods such as the “50/30/20 budget rule” or the “80/20 budget rule”. -- Adaptable Workflows -- Manual or automatic, easily sync and categorize transactions from all your accounts. -- Transaction Collections -- Group related transactions across buckets and time. They can be themed around trips, shared expenses or anything you'd like! -- Widgets -- Customize your home and lock screens with widgets that showcase your leftover spend, upcoming transactions and buckets. -- Interactive Reports -- Customizable reports for your historic and upcoming spend with support for CSV Export. -- Shortcuts -- Automate your expense tracking with actions configurable via the Shortcuts app. Examples include triggering an expense entry when leaving your favorite coffee shop or scheduling spend summaries on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Actions can be run via Siri, Apple Watch and the Shortcuts app. -- Privately Synced with iCloud -- All financial data is stored on your device(s) and synced privately via your iCloud Account. We do not store any personal information or transaction data on our servers. Surplus is free to use with pro features that can be activated via in-app purchases. Surplus Pro can be purchased as a one time payment or as a recurring subscription. Current pricing and purchase offers are available in the app. By downloading and using Surplus you agree to our terms and conditions: Terms of Use https://surplus.app/terms Privacy Policy https://surplus.app/privacy Surplus is an indie app developed and maintained by Omar Inam. If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to contact me through Twitter @_oinam

About

Expense & Budget

This app helps you manage your personal finances by tracking expenses, creating budgets, and visualizing your financial status. It offers tools to understand spending habits, save money, and make informed financial decisions. Easily record income, expenses, and transfers to gain a clear overview of your financial health.

Highlights
  • Record and categorize income, expenses, and transfers
  • Streamlined timeline view of finances
  • Comprehensive expense and budget tracker
  • Centralized daily financial records
  • Generate reports on spending patterns
  • Exportable PDF reports
  • Visual chart analysis of financial health
Features
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**Take control of your money in two taps a day — no bank login, no data harvesting, ever.** Log every expense, income, and transfer in seconds. Set budgets that warn you *before* you overspend. See your whole month in clean charts. Your books stay on your device — no bank logins, no selling your spending habits, no ad network watching where your money goes. Built for anyone who wants real control of their money — freelancers with uneven income, families splitting bills, savers chasing a goal, anyone done handing their financial life to a faceless app. Simple enough to use daily. Strong enough to pay off debt, build savings, and finally answer "where did the month go?" **Features:** - **Add money in two taps** — Income, expense, or transfer on one fast screen with a tap-to-pick category grid. Snap a receipt photo and attach it to any entry. Logged before your coffee gets cold. - **Budget alerts before you overspend** — Set a budget for any category and get a push notification at 75%, 90%, and 100%. The first warning comes early — not after you're already in the red. - **See exactly where it goes** — Spending trends, income-vs-expense bars, category breakdown donuts, and a net-worth line. Your entire financial picture on one screen. - **Your month, every way you look at it** — Daily, weekly, and monthly views plus a full calendar with per-day totals. Tap any day to see exactly what you spent. - **Every account in one place** — Cash, checking, savings, credit cards, loans, investments, and more — each in its own currency. Cross-currency transfers lock in the exchange rate the moment you enter them, so old balances never drift. - **Recurring bills post themselves** — Salary, rent, subscriptions, and loan payments land automatically on the right date. Set it once and forget it. - **No bank links. Ever.** — Nothing connects to your bank. Your books live on your device, full stop. Your spending habits are never sold, tracked, or mined. - **Free cloud sync + web app** — Sign in with Apple or Google to back up and sync across iPhone, iPad, and the web app at app.moneyeco.io. Sync is free for everyone — never paywalled. - **Lock it down** — Hide your finances behind a PIN plus Face ID or Touch ID. - **Your data is yours** — Export your entire history to one backup file and import it anywhere. Sign out and your local books stay put. - **One-time upgrade** — Pay once to remove ads and unlock unlimited accounts and budgets. No subscription. No recurring charge. Yours forever. Whether you're paying off debt, building a savings runway, splitting bills, or just want to know where the month went — Expense Budget gives you the full picture and keeps it completely private. === Premium Subscription - Payment charged to your Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Manage or turn off auto-renewal anytime in your Account Settings - Privacy Policy: https://apponance.com/privacy - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Surplus4 screens
Expense & Budget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Surplus at none against Expense & Budget's shown. Surplus also leads on ratings volume (28 vs 6). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Surplus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Expense & Budget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Expense & Budget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Surplus ships an update monthly, Expense & Budget every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Surplus versus Expense & Budget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurplusExpense & Budget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (28 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDev Harvest LLCApponance, Inc.

Customer experience

Surplus

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

Expense & Budget

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Surplus

Subscriptions3
  • Surplus Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Surplus Pro Yearly$14.491 Year
  • Surplus Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Surplus Pro Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Expense & Budget

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Service$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Premium App$4.99

Questions

Is Surplus free?
Surplus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Expense & Budget free?
Expense & Budget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Surplus or Expense & Budget?
Expense & Budget is rated higher. Surplus averages 4.8 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Expense & Budget averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Surplus or Expense & Budget have ads?
Expense & Budget shows ads; Surplus does not.
Which is updated more often, Surplus or Expense & Budget?
Surplus ships an update monthly, and Expense & Budget every 3 weeks. Most recently, Surplus was updated on November 3, 2026 and Expense & Budget on November 3, 2026.

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