Dime vs Spendington
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dime
This app helps you monitor your spending and manage your finances effectively. It offers insightful breakdowns of your expenditures, allows you to create and stick to budgets, and provides custom reminders to log expenses. Secure your financial data with biometric authentication and enjoy a beautifully designed interface.
- 100% free forever
- Insightful expenditure breakdowns
- Budget creation and tracking
- Recurring expense management
- iCloud sync across devices
- Custom expense input reminders
- Biometric data protection
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Why You’ll Love Dime: • 100% free forever, with no paywall or ads. • Beautifully iOS-centric design, with simplicity at its core. • Insightful expenditure breakdowns over various time periods. • Create budgets based on expense categories and stick to them. • Create recurring expenses with custom time frames. • Sync your expenses, categories and budgets with other devices via iCloud. • Custom reminders to input your expenses. • Biometric authentication to protect your data. • Home screen quick actions make capturing new expenses a breeze. • A gorgeous night theme for dark mode fanatics. • Informative home and lock screen widgets keep you updated at a glance. Dime was built by a solo student developer looking to kickstart his programming journey. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to get in touch through the app or via Instagram @camerafael. Start monitoring your expenditure and take ownership over your finances with Dime.
Spendington
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Spendington – AI-Powered Expense Tracker You made money this month. Do you know where it went? Most people lose $200–$400 a month to purchases they barely remember making. Spendington's AI logs every expense the moment you mention it — by text, voice, or photo — so you always know exactly where you stand. Just talk. We handle the rest. Describe your day: "spent $14 on lunch, grabbed coffee for $4.50, $60 at the grocery store." Spendington's AI pulls out every transaction, categorizes them, and confirms with you before saving. Snap a receipt photo. Record a voice note on the way home. It works however you do. What you get: AI expense assistant — Type, talk, or photograph a receipt. The AI extracts, categorizes, and logs everything automatically. Live balance dashboard — Total income vs. total spending, updated the instant you log anything. Category budgets — Set monthly limits by category and see the moment you're approaching them. Recurring transactions — Log rent, subscriptions, and regular bills once. They handle themselves after that. Spending charts — See where your money flows: income vs. expenses, broken down by category. Receipt attachments — Attach photos or files to any transaction for a complete paper trail. Location tagging — Know exactly where each expense happened. Multi-currency with live rates — Built for travelers and anyone earning or spending across currencies. Daily check-in reminders — A nudge at the time you pick so nothing slips through. Who this is for: Anyone who has ever reached the end of the month and wondered where it all went — young professionals, freelancers, students, travelers, and anyone building better money habits from scratch. Free to try. Takes 60 seconds to set up. No spreadsheets. No manual categorization. No end-of-month surprises. Download Spendington and find out exactly where your money is going — starting today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dime at none against Spendington's shown. Spendington's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dime sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Spendington sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dime ships an update every 3 weeks, Spendington every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dime | Spendington |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (319 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 319 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Rafael Soh | Baretronics Ltd |
Bugs and requests
Dime
Reported bugs
3 issues- Entries randomly disappearing
- Crashes and freezes on certain devices
- Widget not working as expected
Requested features
6 requests- Add income tracking
- Implement biweekly budget option
- Allow more category customization
- Integrate with external accounts (e.g., bank, credit cards)
- Implement receipt/check scanning with AI categorization
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- Add ability to create multiple accounts
Spendington
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dime
- Small Tip$2.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$7.99
Spendington
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$69.991 Year









