Daily Spend vs Basic Budget+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Spend
Easily track your expenses and understand where your money goes. Set spending limits, receive reminders for good financial habits, and gain insights into your spending patterns. This free tool helps you manage your budget and work towards financial freedom.
- Easy expense tracking
- Spending limit setting
- Financial habit reminders
- Spending insights
- Budget management
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Looking for an easy way to understand where your money is being spent? This is what you've been searching for. Daily Spend makes tracking spending super simple. Add expenses with ease in a few short seconds and gain useful insights into where your money goes. Set spending limits to help control expenses. Setup reminders to help build healthy financial habits. Get helpful financial insights at a glance with the Daily Spend expense manager. We've crafted the finest expense manager out there and its free! Download today to begin your journey to financial freedom. Terms of Service: https://www.tuogol.com/daily-spend-terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://www.tuogol.com/daily-spend-privacy-policy
Basic Budget+
Manage your finances with a simple ledger. Track multiple account types, transfers, and view basic reports. Quickly record transactions and understand your spending habits without linking financial accounts.
- Multiple account types
- Transfers between accounts
- Basic reporting
- Quick transaction entry
- Transaction recall
- No financial account linking
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A basic ledger that allows for multiple account types, transfers between accounts, and basic reporting. Quick entries on app open and transaction recall make this a simple and quick way to manage your finances and see where your spending habits are without connecting your financial information anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Basic Budget+ at 5.0 against Daily Spend's 4.3. Basic Budget+ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Daily Spend's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Daily Spend sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Basic Budget+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Basic Budget+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Spend has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Daily Spend ships an update every 9 days, Basic Budget+ every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Daily Spend | Basic Budget+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Rice | Furious Rhino |
Customer experience
Daily Spend
Basic Budget+
In-app purchases
Daily Spend
- Premium$4.99
Basic Budget+
No in-app purchases
