Comparison

Spending vs Debit & Credit

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

Head to head
About

Spending

Easily track your daily and monthly expenses by category. This app helps you understand where your money goes, focusing on small, frequent purchases that can add up. Visualize your spending with graphs and manage multiple budgets for different needs.

Highlights
  • Track spending by category
  • View daily, weekly, and monthly expenditure
  • Spending breakdown graphs
  • Customizable categories
  • Multiple budget management
  • Daily spending limits
Features
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Ever wondered how a week before pay day your bank account and wallet seem pretty much empty? 'Spending' helps you quickly and easily track what you spend and where you spend it, so those pay day blues might become a thing of the past! Most people know when their utility bills or rental payments leave their account. The thing that makes people go overdrawn, or spend more than they realise, are the little payments; the coffee in a morning, the sandwich at lunch, or the drinks after work. Very quickly these payments mount up, and your wallet seems empty more often than it seems full! Unlike many budget management applications, Spending doesn't want to know which store you were at, which card or account you used, or a host of other things. All Spending wants to know is the category you think the payment relates to, and how much you spent. Using this information, it can tell you that all important information - how much you've spent today and so far this month, enabling you to keep a tighter grip on your financial outgoings. Spending has the following features… - Quickly track the amount you've spent on different categories of expenditure. - See at a glance your expenditure for today, the last 7 days, or the current month. - Graphs that show a breakdown of your spending by category, or date. - Create new categories, and change the order of existing ones. - Have several budgets, e.g. for trips abroad. You can override the currency used for a budget too. - Set a budget amount that applies to each month, but override it for specific months when you know you can spend more, or must spend less. - Quickly see how much money you have left for the current month, and how much you can spend each day.

About

Debit & Credit

Manage all your finances in one place with this intuitive personal finance app. Track spending, create budgets, and plan for the future with automatic transaction import and detailed reports. Syncs across devices and offers shared account management.

Highlights
  • All accounts in one app
  • Apple Card integration
  • Fast transaction entry
  • Budgets and scheduled transactions
  • Financial planning
  • Detailed reports
  • iCloud sync
  • Shared accounts
Features
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If you are looking for a personal finance app that is convenient, easy to use and at the same time has enough features, then Debit & Credit is the right app for you. • All Accounts in One App Keeping financial records was always a bit of a hassle. But now you can actually enjoy it. See all your accounts in one place and switch between them with one simple touch. • Integration with Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Apple Savings Get your transactions from Apple Card automatically imported into the app. Debit & Credit will help you to automatically categorize them using import rules. • Super Fast Creating a new transaction now takes a matter of seconds. It has never been easier with gestures and other features that we developed for you. And we will never require you to make dozens of unnecessary taps to accomplish simple tasks. • Locations (Geotagging) Shopping frequently at the same place? Save its location to record expenses even faster. You can also get a list of saved payees sorted by distance. • Budgets & Scheduled Transactions Do you want to budget expenses on a particular category? No problems. Do you plan to make a transaction in the future and want to be reminded about it? Consider it done. • Financial Plans Plan ahead by creating a financial plan for the next year. Compare your performance against it and see your future net wealth. • Reports We believe in clean, crisp reports that are easy to read and understand. See where and what do you spend your money on. Other types of reports are available too. • iCloud Sync We will never ask you to create an account or provide any personal details. All data is stored in iCloud, it is not available to anyone except you. • Shared Accounts Do you want to share some of your accounts with someone else? No problems, you can share selected accounts via iCloud while keeping other accounts private. Great for managing family finances! • Bank reconciliation mode Sometimes we all need extra help to keep our accounts in shape. You can easily reconcile your accounts with bank statements in the app to eliminate any disparities. • Importing data We know how important it is to be able to import transactions from your financial institutions. That's why we support CSV, QIF, QMTF, OFX and QFX files. And you can also choose which particular transactions to import from a file, something that not all financial apps know how to do. • Watch App Create new transactions on the go with the Apple Watch app. You can also check your budgets and pay scheduled transactions with it. • Powerful features Split categories, pending transactions, URL schemes, file attachments, transaction tags, Siri, Touch ID and Face ID support, printing reports and saving them as PDF files - all those and many other features are at your disposal when you need them. • Mac version of the app You can download macOS version of the app on the Mac App Store. It has even more features and syncs fast with the iOS companion via iCloud. Some features are limited to premium version subscribers. Premium version is an annual subscription. Our privacy policy, as well as subscription terms are available at https://debitandcredit.app/privacy-policy-with-terms.html. In case of any questions please don't hesitate to contact support@debitandcreditapp.com.

Screenshots

Spending4 screens
Debit & Credit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Debit & Credit at 4.8 against Spending's 3.6. Debit & Credit also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 7). Spending's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment and ads 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. Debit & Credit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Spending asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Debit & Credit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Debit & Credit has 2.4K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Spending's written reviews are positive against 89% of Debit & Credit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spending ships an update every 18 months, Debit & Credit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Spending versus Debit & Credit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendingDebit & Credit
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (7 ratings)4.8 (2.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews89.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteve HarrisIvan Pavlov Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Spending

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Debit & Credit

All ratings2,405 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.7%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews396 reviews
Positive89.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative4.8%

Bugs and requests

Spending

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Debit & Credit

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Duplication of transactions
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Incorrect account balances

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to track cryptocurrency transactions
  • Option to view uncleared and cleared balances separately
  • More detailed budget and spending visualizations
  • Improved shared account management

In-app purchases

None

Spending

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Debit & Credit

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Version$19.991 Year
  • Premium Version1 Year trial$19.991 Year
  • Premium Version7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Spending free?
Spending is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Debit & Credit free?
Debit & Credit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spending or Debit & Credit?
Debit & Credit is rated higher. Spending averages 3.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Debit & Credit averages 4.8 from 2.4K ratings.
Do Spending or Debit & Credit have ads?
Neither Spending nor Debit & Credit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spending or Debit & Credit?
Spending ships an update every 18 months, and Debit & Credit every 3 weeks. Most recently, Spending was updated on October 23, 2026 and Debit & Credit on November 1, 2026.

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