Expense List vs Bill List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense List
Track expenses, group them by category, and email detailed lists. Supports multiple currencies with user-defined exchange rates. Organize custom categories and subcategories for comprehensive financial overview.
- Expense tracking with amount, date, notes, and category
- Multi-currency support with custom exchange rates
- Customizable categories and subcategories
- Filter expenses by date range
- Email expense lists and database exports
- Automatic date tagging
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Expense List, Version 2.7 this free version is limited to saving 50 Expense Items. After an In-App Purchase, it can save over 500 expense items. Expense List keeps track of expenses, grouping and listing the expenses into different Categories, and e-mailing the expenses to other computers. Expense items - amount, date, notes and Category - Amount - recorded in $, €, £ or ¥ and converted to any one of these. Items are converted from one currency to any other currency using user-supplied exchange rates. - Date - automatically tags expense item with current day/time - Notes - add optional descriptions to expense items - Category - each expense item is assigned to a Category Categories - comes with an original table of Categories - Delete any original Category and add new ones - Rearrange table of Categories - Make any Category a subcategory of another Category. Subcategories can have subcategories. Lists - Display a list of expense items assigned to any specific Category, or to all Categories, converted and totaled in $, €, £, or ¥. - Filter-by-date expense items included in lists, keep a running total from one date to another - E-mail lists - E-mail a formatted listing of entire dBase of expense items to another computer for processing by a spreadsheet program capable of parsing format (NOTE - spreadsheet program is not supplied with this App - compatible with Excel).
Bill List
Easily track daily expenses and income with detailed charts and reports. Manage accounts, set custom currencies, and secure your data with password protection. Export your financial information in various formats for analysis.
- Add/Edit accounts and transactions
- Calendar view of bills
- Pie and bar reports for income/expense categories
- Custom currency settings
- Password and Touch ID protection
- Data export (HTML, PDF, CSV)
- iCloud backup and restore
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Bill List - the fastest way to record the daily cost. Through the chart analysis of your daily expenses. The features of the app: - Add/Edit account. - Calendar view of bills. - Add/Edit income/expense. - Pie reports for categories of income and expense. - Histogram and Bar reports to compare income and expense. - Set your own currency. - Pass word protection. - Supports Touch ID password. - Send data by email in form of HTML, PDF or CSV. - Supports AirPrint. - Reminder. - Add subcategories. - iCloud Backup & restore. - Supports 3D Touch and widget. - Set different theme colors. - Supports universal version(available on both iPhone and iPad). Contact US Email: jackbettersli@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Expense List at 5.0 against Bill List's 4.5. Expense List also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Expense List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bill List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Expense List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
Expense List ships an update every 3 months, Bill List every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense List | Bill List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Kramer | 勇 牛 |
Customer experience
Expense List
Bill List
In-app purchases
Expense List
- upgrade to save over 500 expense items$0.99
Bill List
- Remove Ads &Change Theme colors$0.99
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