Comparison

DailyCost - Expense Tracker vs DailyBill

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

Head to head
About

DailyCost - Expense Tracker

Easily track your daily expenses with this intuitive finance organizer. Manage your money smarter with smart categories, elegant reports, and support for over 160 currencies. Ideal for personal finance and travel.

Highlights
  • Cloud syncing and backup
  • Intuitive gesture interface
  • Financial reports and summaries
  • 160+ currencies with auto exchange rates
  • Smart categories
  • Stylish themes
  • Data export (CSV)
Features
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DailyCost is a simple and elegant expense tracker that helps you organize your personal finance. With just few taps and swipes, you can easily keep track of your daily expenses and learn how to spend your money smarter. Supporting 160+ currencies with automatically updated exchange rates, DailyCost could be your best travel companion to go around the world. - Cloud syncing and backup - Simple and intuitive gesture interface - Elegant summary and financial reports - 160+ currencies with auto-updated exchange rates - Smart categories - Stylish themes - Data export (CSV) - Passcode lock (Touch ID) Tips: - Hold your iPhone horizontally for statistics - Tap and hold to delete an item This app is designed and developed individually by a passionate designer. Fed up with complicated expense tracking apps, he determined to make one simpler and better. Like it? Please support me by rating this app. Questions and suggestions? Don't hesitate to drop in any feedback. Email: support@dailycost.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/dailycost Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailycostapp Discord: https://discord.gg/qqXxBmAh

About

DailyBill

Effortlessly track daily expenses and income with a simple, gesture-based interface. Visualize spending habits, manage categories, and plan budgets weekly, monthly, or annually. Sync across devices and secure your data with passcode protection.

Highlights
  • Easy data entry with tap and swipe
  • Graphical spending tendency views
  • Customizable categories
  • Multi-device sync
  • Budget planning
  • Passcode/biometric lock
  • Calendar and statistics views
Features
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DailyBill is a simple and elegant finance app perfect for budget planning, spending tracking, and money management. The app can helps you to keep your daily expense and or income tracked. The whole app contains only one single view and you can manage your personal finance with tap and swipe gestures. In this main view it shows sum of your expense and income, as long as a line bar to indicate the weekly status of current week. KEY FEATURES: - Super easy and simple to enter data anytime, anywhere. - View your spending tendencies graphically. - View statistics by simply entering the data. - Set up sub-categories and main categories as necessary. - Manage all your accounts at once. - Check weekly, monthly, and annual statistics. - Use calendar view. - Use budget planning features to plan weekly, monthly, and annual budgets. - Change the start date of the month. - Sync multiple devices (iPhone, iPad) and see the same numbers on all devices - Head to the Today view in Notification Center and add DailyBill Today - Backup/Restore complete application data, including all receipts - Multiple themes you can choose and support iOS dark mode - Passcode/TouchID/FaceID unlock - DailyBill follows the locale/region setting on your device and shows date and currency symbols appropriate for your region ================================ SUBSCRIBERS GET MORE FEATURES! ================================ DailyBill Pro Subscription is an auto-renewing subscription. It’s available for monthly period. USD$0.99 monthly, named as: Month Member. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/JRJian/db_privacy/blob/master/README.md Terms of Use: https://www.websitepolicies.com/policies/view/N8mjYtpC ------------------- DailyBill is a life-loving Apple developer who develops independently in his spare time. Like it? Please support me by rating this app. Questions and suggestions? Don't hesitate to drop in any feedback. Feedback: --- Email me at szsb_jian@outlook.com

Screenshots

DailyCost - Expense Tracker4 screens
DailyBill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DailyCost - Expense Tracker at Free against DailyBill's $2.99. DailyCost - Expense Tracker also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and ratings volume (166 vs 33). DailyBill's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DailyCost - Expense Tracker is free to download; DailyBill costs $2.99 up front. DailyCost - Expense Tracker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and DailyBill sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DailyBill holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DailyCost - Expense Tracker has 166 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of DailyCost - Expense Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of DailyBill's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DailyCost - Expense Tracker ships an update fortnightly, DailyBill monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DailyCost - Expense Tracker versus DailyBill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDailyCost - Expense TrackerDailyBill
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (166 ratings)4.9 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings166 — better33
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRSQUARED INVESTMENT PTE. LTD.坚涛 陈

Customer experience

DailyCost - Expense Tracker

All ratings166 ratings
Positive73.5%
Neutral3.0%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews1,423 reviews
Positive74.3%
Neutral9.9%
Negative15.8%

DailyBill

All ratings33 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

DailyCost - Expense Tracker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Entries disappearing without explanation
  • Forced logout leading to data loss
  • Blank blue screen issue after updates
  • Incorrect currency conversion for small amounts

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to create custom categories
  • Implement monthly/yearly expense tracking
  • Introduce iCloud or cloud backup support
  • Add option to import/export data

DailyBill

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DailyCost - Expense Tracker

One-time2
  • Premium 1 Month$0.99
  • Premium 12 Months$9.99
5 purchases

DailyBill

Subscriptions1
  • Month Member$0.991 Month
One-time4
  • Diamond Tip$1.99
  • Master Tip$3.99
  • Life Member$7.99
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  • Challenger Tip$9.99

Questions

Is DailyCost - Expense Tracker free?
DailyCost - Expense Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DailyBill free?
DailyBill costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DailyCost - Expense Tracker or DailyBill?
DailyBill is rated higher. DailyCost - Expense Tracker averages 4.0 out of 5 from 166 ratings, while DailyBill averages 4.9 from 33 ratings.
Do DailyCost - Expense Tracker or DailyBill have ads?
Neither DailyCost - Expense Tracker nor DailyBill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DailyCost - Expense Tracker or DailyBill?
DailyCost - Expense Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and DailyBill monthly. Most recently, DailyCost - Expense Tracker was updated on November 10, 2026 and DailyBill on November 6, 2026.

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