Comparison

Expense Tool vs Kairoku

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

Kairoku

Features
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A simple expense tracker for logging spending the moment it happens. No bank or card linking, no receipt scanning, and no income tracking. Kairoku focuses on one thing: making it easy to keep recording. ■ One-tap presets Coffee, lunch, train. Pin your frequent expenses as presets at the top of Home. One tap finishes the entry—often before you leave the register. Mistakes undo in a moment. ■ Remaining budget front and center Set a monthly budget and Home shows how much you can still spend this month—large and clear. Seeing what’s left, not only what you’ve spent, makes pacing the second half of the month feel natural. Overspending shows plainly in red. ■ Fast manual entry For anything without a preset, enter the amount and pick a category. Amount chips (+100 / +500 / +1000) and your last category keep typing to a few seconds. Memo and date only when you need them. ■ Automatic totals Reports show category breakdowns and day-by-day trends in charts. Compare with the same day last month so you can answer “am I overspending?” right away. ■ Log from widgets Home Screen widgets show remaining budget and presets. Record directly from a widget button without opening the app. ■ Built to help you stick with it ・Optional daily reminder notifications (set any time) ・Add your own categories and rename them; hide ones you don’t use ・Light and Dark Mode ■ Peace of mind All records stay on your device. No account is required, and your expense logs are never sent off the device.

Screenshots

Expense Tool4 screens
Kairoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kairoku at none against Expense Tool's 5. Expense Tool's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price 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. Expense Tool sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 3 months. Kairoku asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Expense Tool versus Kairoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpense ToolKairoku
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuerg OtterDaisuke Minami

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

Kairoku

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expense Tool free?
Expense Tool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kairoku free?
Kairoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Expense Tool or Kairoku have ads?
Kairoku shows ads; Expense Tool does not.

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