Expense List vs Simple Shopping 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).
Simple Shopping List
Create and manage multiple shopping lists with item prices. Automatically calculate expenses based on item cost or quantity and price. Track total paid, unpaid, and overall expenses for each list.
- Multiple shopping lists
- Item pricing
- Automatic expense calculation
- Quantity-based pricing
- Paid/unpaid tracking
- Total expense summary
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This simple app helps to: + Prepare many lists of shopping items with price. + Can input expense of item directly or input number of items & price for each item, then expense is calculated. + Each list is calculated with 3 conditions: total paid, total unpaid and total expenses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Expense List at 100% against Simple Shopping List's 0%. Expense List also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). Simple Shopping List's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, 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. Expense List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Shopping List asks for nothing beyond the download.
Expense List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Shopping List has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Expense List's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simple Shopping List's.
Expense List ships an update every 3 months, Simple Shopping List every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense List | Simple Shopping List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Peter Kramer | giang pham |
Customer experience
Expense List
Simple Shopping List
In-app purchases
Expense List
- upgrade to save over 500 expense items$0.99
Simple Shopping List
No in-app purchases
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