Comparison

Best Budget Pro vs Spending Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Best Budget Pro

Manage your personal finances with this intuitive budgeting app. Create unlimited income and expense budgets, track transactions, and gain insights into your spending habits. Become your own financial expert with customizable features and helpful reminders.

Highlights
  • Unlimited income/expense budgets
  • Track transactions
  • Customizable budget settings
  • Budget rollover option
  • Transfer between budgets
  • Transaction search
  • Passcode protection
Features
Currently charting
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Best Budget is an easy to use app to help you keep to a budget, as a personal finance application, you can create unlimited income and expense budgets with or without recurring, and track the transitions of each budget. With Best Budget, you can check your income and expense at a glance, and monitor which transactions are going on a budget. Best Budget is help you to become your own financial expert. Features: ⁃ Create unlimited expense or income budgets. ⁃ Set budget name, amount, type, category, date range and if no cycle or cycle by a specific date range etc. ⁃ Set if budget available amount is rollover or not. ⁃ Transfer available amount from one budget to another. ⁃ Add transactions to each budget. ⁃ View history of past circular budget. ⁃ Time marker to show the status of current date at each budget. ⁃ Custom reminders to help you manage budgets. ⁃ Report to show your income and expense proportion of a date range. ⁃ Report to show percentage of each budget of a date range. ⁃ Export your budgets in form of HTML, CSV or PDF. ⁃ Custom date range of budgets to be exported. ⁃ Search transactions by name, amount and note. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID passcode. ⁃ Clean and tidy user interface. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports iCloud backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. If you have any question or suggestion, please email to userfeed@vip.tom.com.

About

Spending Tracker

Easily track your expenses and income to gain control over your finances. Set budgets, view spending summaries, and generate reports with interactive charts. Take the first step towards saving money by understanding where your money goes.

Highlights
  • Simple and intuitive interface
  • Flexible time period tracking (Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)
  • Budget mode with carry-over
  • Summary view of spending progress
  • Log expenses and income
  • Editable spending and income categories
  • Interactive charts and reports
Features
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Spending Tracker is the easiest and most user friendly Personal Finance App in the store. And best of all, it's free! The simple fact is, by tracking your spending you will be able to stick to a budget and therefore SAVE MONEY. So give it a try and have instant control over your spending! *** Features *** ------------------ √ Simple and intuitive user interface - helps you track your spending quickly and easily √ Flexible Time Periods - choose to track Weekly, Monthly or Yearly √ Budget Mode - optionally set a fixed budget amount to help you meet your spending targets - carry over any remaining budget to the next period √ Summary View - overview of your current spending progress - time travel backwards and forwards in time - see your main areas of spending √ Log Expense and Income - easy and quick transaction entry - sort by date, name or amount - repeat transactions daily, weekly or monthly (Pro Upgrade required) - export transactions (Pro Upgrade required) √ Categories - editable spending and income categories - choose a quality icon for each category √ Reports - easy visualisation of where your money goes - beautiful and interactive charts - view spending grouped by category - see the history of your spending

Screenshots

Best Budget Pro4 screens
Spending Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spending Tracker at Free against Best Budget Pro's $0.99. Spending Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (19K vs 108). Best Budget Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#122 vs unranked). On in-app purchases, monetization model, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spending Tracker is free to download; Best Budget Pro costs $0.99 up front. Best Budget Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Spending Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spending Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spending Tracker has 19K ratings behind it against 108, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Best Budget Pro's written reviews are positive against 95% of Spending Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Budget Pro ships an update every 6 months, Spending Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Best Budget Pro versus Spending Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest Budget ProSpending Tracker
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (108 ratings)4.8 (19K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.1% of reviews94.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10819K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#122 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS1615.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵MH Riley Ltd

Customer experience

Best Budget Pro

All ratings108 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative13.6%

Spending Tracker

All ratings19,361 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews2,950 reviews
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.9%

Bugs and requests

Best Budget Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Spending Tracker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Transactions sometimes entered in wrong order
  • Backup and restore functionality not always reliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to split transactions into multiple categories
  • Incorporate currency conversion and exchange rates
  • Allow family/shared account access and updates
  • Implement a 'Debt' category to track loan payments
  • Add option to take photos of receipts and attach to transactions

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Best Budget Pro

Subscriptions3
  • Premium - 1 month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium - 6 months1 Month trial$5.496 Months
  • Premium - 1 year3 Months trial$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Spending Tracker

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$2.99

Questions

Is Best Budget Pro free?
Best Budget Pro costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Spending Tracker free?
Spending Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Best Budget Pro or Spending Tracker?
Spending Tracker is rated higher. Best Budget Pro averages 4.3 out of 5 from 108 ratings, while Spending Tracker averages 4.8 from 19K ratings.
Do Best Budget Pro or Spending Tracker have ads?
Spending Tracker shows ads; Best Budget Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Best Budget Pro or Spending Tracker?
Best Budget Pro ships an update every 6 months, and Spending Tracker every 2 months. Most recently, Best Budget Pro was updated on October 30, 2026 and Spending Tracker on October 31, 2026.

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