Comparison

Expense Tool vs Budgets Pro

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

Head to head
About

Expense Tool

Track personal and shared expenses with detailed logging, receipt attachments, and location mapping. Generate summaries and balances for group spending, and export your data in various formats.

Highlights
  • Define custom expense sets
  • Attach receipts, photos, and locations
  • Fast data capture with autocompletion
  • Expense summaries and balances
  • Export data (HTML, Text, CSV)
  • Map integration
  • Passcode lock
Features
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Organize your own and shared expenses. Do you and your partner want to log how much you're spending for your household and merge the expenses entered on your individual devices? Are you on holidays with friends and want to know how much you are spending? If you are sharing your expenses, do you need a tool to document your balances and debts to one another? Are you sharing a holiday or a household with others and would you like everyone to log their own expenses into one common list, each on their own device? Do you want to know how much you're spending for your hobby, on your business trip, or any other expenses? Use Expense Tool, create an expense set and start entering your data. Your expenses can be listed, shown on a map, exported (by email or to a file) and printed. Expense Sets can be synced across your own devices via iCloud, shared with other people, or transferred directly from device to device. If more than one person is part of an expense set, you get a summary showing the total of all individual expenses and the balance of the shared expenses. Features: • Define Expense Sets with custom settings • Add expenses and optionally attach receipts, photos and locations • Fast data capture: Select with autocompletion what you've already entered • List your expenses: all, by month, by week or within a custom timeframe • Expense list sections: by person, by expense caption • Summary and Balance of shared expenses • Overview of all expense sets • iCloud Synchronization — enable per Expense Set • iCloud Sharing — share an Expense Set with others • Export your data: email, PDF, or save to a file (CSV with receipts and photos, bundled as a .zip) • Receipts: Document Scanner (iOS only) • Printing • Data Exchange between iPhone, iPad and Mac • Geocoding and map integration • Backup and Import • Passcode Lock (iOS only) • iPhone, iPad, Mac • Languages: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.jo-tools.ch/expense-tool/terms_and_conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://www.jo-tools.ch/expense-tool/privacy_policy.html Support / FAQ: https://www.jo-tools.ch/expense-tool/

About

Budgets Pro

This app helps you manage your money by creating custom budgets and tracking your spending against them. It provides instant feedback on how much you have left to spend and allows you to view your purchase history. You can also export your data for further analysis.

Highlights
  • Create custom budgets (monthly, weekly, custom periods)
  • Track spending against budgets
  • View remaining budget amounts
  • Monitor purchase history
  • Export purchases as CSV
  • Secure passcode entry
Features
Currently charting
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"Money well spent" - appadvice.com Where does the money go? Create your Budgets and keep to them - Buy 'Budgets - Expense Tracker' ! 'Budgets - Expense Tracker' logs your purchases against your budgets so you can see how much you have spent. Your budgets can be monthly, weekly, or any other time period you like. ◆ Know instantly how much you've got left to spend in your budget ◆ Keep track of your spending so you Don't Overspend. You can set up as many Budgets as you need and monitor your spending over any time period. √ See how much of your Budgets you have left to spend with the Coin Tubes Display! √ Budgets can be monthly, weekly, or any time period you define √ You can carry over unused Budget Amounts to the next time period √ View your Purchase History √ E-Mail your Purchases as a CSV file attachment from within the App ; CSV files work with most spreadsheet software √ Includes Secure Passcode Entry System to keep your budget data private ◆ This app is part of the MoneyBudgie Finance Tracking Bundle. - All 4 Apps work together to help you get in control of your finances. For example, you can use budgets planned with the Home Budget Plan app in this app, whilst purchases logged in this app affect your bank account balances tracked by Spending Log, etc. Buy 'Budgets - Expense Tracker', create your Budget and keep to it.

Screenshots

Expense Tool4 screens
Budgets Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Expense Tool at Free against Budgets Pro's $4.99. Expense Tool also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Budgets Pro's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). On ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Expense Tool is free to download; Budgets Pro costs $4.99 up front. Expense Tool sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 3 months. Budgets Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Budgets Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Budgets Pro has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Expense Tool's written reviews are positive against 92% of Budgets Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Expense Tool ships an update every 3 weeks, Budgets Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Expense Tool versus Budgets Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpense ToolBudgets Pro
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.5 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews91.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#197 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuerg OtterMoneyBudgie

Customer experience

Expense Tool

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.5%
Negative26.9%

Budgets Pro

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive91.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative2.7%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Expense Tool

Subscriptions4
  • Plus Quarterly$0.993 Months
  • Pro Quarterly14 Days trial$1.993 Months
  • Plus Yearly$2.991 Year
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  • Pro Yearly14 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro (Lifetime)$19.99
None

Budgets Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expense Tool free?
Expense Tool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Budgets Pro free?
Budgets Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Expense Tool or Budgets Pro?
Budgets Pro is rated higher. Expense Tool averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Budgets Pro averages 4.5 from 10 ratings.
Do Expense Tool or Budgets Pro have ads?
Neither Expense Tool nor Budgets Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Expense Tool or Budgets Pro?
Expense Tool ships an update every 3 weeks, and Budgets Pro every 2 months. Most recently, Expense Tool was updated on September 29, 2026 and Budgets Pro on October 2, 2026.

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