iSpending vs EZ Expense Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iSpending
Track your income and expenses with this free personal finance app. Organize transactions by category, view instant summaries, and analyze spending patterns with detailed graphs. Secure your data with passcode and Face ID.
- Categorize income and expenses
- Customizable spending categories
- Instant daily, weekly, monthly, yearly summaries
- Detailed graph reports
- Transaction search
- Passcode and Face ID lock
- iCloud sync
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If you are looking for the best personal finance application, this is the app for you and it's free! Millions of downloads cannot be wrong! iSpending helps you to track your income and spendings. You can add transactions under different categories, such as income, food, entertainment. Summaries for today/week/month/year are displayed right at home page. You can view detailed report for each month in beautiful graphs and find transaction easily through search. Try it yourself to see more features, you'll love it! Features: - Add income/expense transactions under different category - Add customize spending category name - Add transactions quickly - Instant summary for today/week/month/year - Passcode lock - Export through email - View history records and compare them - Graph report for 1, 3 or 6 months time period - Separate graph report for income or expense alone - Search for transaction by name, amount, note or any of them - Polished UI, easy to use - Support for saving data in iCloud and sync across devices - Unlock using FaceID Send your comments/suggestions to hanamobiles@gmail.com or visit our website. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. • iSpending Premium subscription will automatically renew each month or year at the duration selected • 1 month (USD 2.99), or 1 year (USD 29.99) durations • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable • Privacy policy: http://www.hanamobiles.com/appstore/privacy/privacy.html • Terms of use: http://www.hanamobiles.com/appstore/privacy/tos.html
EZ Expense Manager
Easily track your expenses and income with this comprehensive manager. It supports multiple accounts and currencies, allows for scheduled payments, and offers detailed budgeting and reporting tools. Securely back up your data to the cloud.
- Expense and income tracking
- Multiple accounts and currencies
- Scheduled and recurring payments
- Receipt photo capture
- Budgeting by time period
- Data import/export
- Cloud backup and sync
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The widely popular, easy to use and feature rich Expense Manager app comes to iOS: • Tracking expenses and incomes by week, month and year as well as by categories • Multiple accounts in multiple currencies • Schedule the payments and recurring payments • Take a picture of receipt • Payment alerts • Budget by day, week, month and year • Search and reports • Import and export account activities in CSV for desktop software • User chooses to auto backup/sync with Dropbox or iCloud • Customize expense categories, payer/payer, payment methods, date format, button style etc • Account transfer • Auto fill • Convenient tools such calculator, currency converter, tip calculator, sales and tax calculator and credit card calculator • Charts • Free and no In-App purchase needed • Developer support All data is saved on your phone or your Dropbox account or your iCloud account. Nobody but you can access your account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iSpending at 4.4 against EZ Expense Manager's 2.8. iSpending also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 44%) and ratings volume (634 vs 45). EZ Expense Manager's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. iSpending sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. EZ Expense Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
iSpending holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iSpending has 634 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of iSpending's written reviews are positive against 44% of EZ Expense Manager's.
iSpending ships an update every 6 months, EZ Expense Manager every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iSpending | EZ Expense Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (634 ratings) — better | 2.8 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.9% of reviews — better | 43.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 634 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hana Mobile | Bishinew Incorporated |
Customer experience
iSpending
EZ Expense Manager
User reviews
iSpending
From 634 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💰 Helps organize finances
- 📊 Provides good visibility into spending
- 🚀 Simple and straightforward
Room to improve
- 🔒 Limited functionality without paid upgrade
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs reported
- 🗓️ Lack of customization options (categories, date range)
- 💻 No cross-device sync or backup
EZ Expense Manager
From 45 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy-to-use interface
- 💡 Rich feature set (categories, tags, budgets, accounts, sub-categories)
- 🔄 Multi-account and multi-currency support
- 💾 Data backup and export options (CSV, email)
- 📱 Long-standing reliability on Android version
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- ⚠️ Severe performance degradation over time
- 📱 iOS version significantly inferior to Android
- 🔄 Broken data migration from Android to iOS
- 🔄 Sync issues with Dropbox and iCloud
Bugs and requests
iSpending
Reported bugs
3 issues- Transactions not displaying properly
- Data loss after app updates
- Inability to access past year's data
Requested features
5 requests- Recurring transaction options
- Ability to edit/delete past entries
- More detailed reporting and analytics
- Multi-currency support
- Sync across devices
EZ Expense Manager
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes on launch or after brief usage
- Freezing during transaction entry
- Cannot import CSV files from Android backup
- Data concatenation when editing merchant names
- Dropbox sync not working properly
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- iCloud sync causing performance issues
- Database file won't download from Dropbox
- White screen after Dropbox restore
- Account transfer not updating balances
- Recurring transactions not displaying
- Calendar display issues (missing day numbers)
- App force closes on iPhone X and newer models
- Screen not utilizing full display on newer phones
- Date picker navigating to wrong month
- Duplicate entries appearing randomly
- Data loss after app updates
- App overheating iPhone
- Blank screen on app launch
- Unable to restore from CSV on iCloud/Dropbox
- Note entry screen not displaying properly on iPad
Requested features
15 requests- Bring iOS version to feature parity with Android
- Add split transactions to iOS app
- Implement auto-fill for payee and category fields
- Add alphabetical sorting for payees
- Create paid/pro version for iOS without ads
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- Add dark mode support
- Implement automatic category prediction
- Add widget support for iOS
- Fix family sharing support
- Add recurring expense improvements
- Implement advanced reporting for tax purposes
- Add calculator in amount field
- Support for iPhone X and newer screen sizes
- Improve calendar navigation
- Add account balance adjustment button
In-app purchases
iSpending
- iSpending Premium$2.991 Month
- iSpending Premium$29.991 Year
EZ Expense Manager
No in-app purchases
Questions
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