AI Spend Tracker vs Tally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AI Spend Tracker
This app analyzes your financial statements by uploading PDFs, using AI to categorize transactions without requiring bank account linking. It provides detailed spending breakdowns and visual charts to help you understand your financial habits. Prioritizes user privacy by processing and deleting statements after analysis.
- AI-powered transaction categorization from PDF statements
- Spending breakdowns by category, merchant, and card
- Multi-card tracking
- Visual spending charts
- No bank account linking required
- Privacy-focused statement processing
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RetroBudget is an AI expense tracker made by one independent developer. I built it around a simple problem: credit card statements contain the answers, but they make it surprisingly hard to understand where your money actually went. Most finance apps want you to connect a bank account. RetroBudget takes a different route. Upload a credit card statement PDF you already have, and RetroBudget turns the transactions into a clear view of your spending without your bank password or live account access. What you can see: • Spending by category, merchant, and card • Recurring charges and monthly spending patterns • Simple charts that make the numbers easier to understand • Live Activity and optional notifications while a statement is processed How it works: 1. Choose a credit card statement PDF 2. AI reads and categorizes the transactions 3. Explore your spending breakdown 4. Delete the statement whenever you’re done Your imported PDF and extracted records remain in your iCloud-backed app storage until you delete the statement. RetroBudget uses Sign in with Apple and does not require bank linking. RetroBudget isn’t built by a big finance company. It’s an independent app I’m making to solve one focused problem well. If it helps you understand your spending a little faster, it’s doing its job. Privacy Policy: https://retrobudget.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tally
This personal finance tracker helps you log purchases, manage subscriptions, and monitor account balances. It offers features like receipt scanning, voice logging, and customizable budgets. Your financial data stays private on your device.
- Log purchases with auto-focused keyboard
- Scan receipts with camera or Action Button
- Log spending by voice
- Track recurring subscriptions with reminders
- Manage multiple accounts and balances
- Set monthly and per-category budgets
- Import data from bank statements (PDF/photo)
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Tally is a personal finance tracker that runs entirely on your iPhone. No accounts. No ads. No data collection. Log purchases, track subscriptions, watch your balances, and see where your money goes. TRACK PURCHASES Add a purchase in seconds — the amount field is auto-focused so the keyboard's already up. Pick from a category grid you can extend with your own emoji and color. Attach receipt photos, add notes, and edit or delete any transaction with full date control. Scan a receipt or price tag with the camera (or the iPhone Action Button) and Tally pre-fills the amount, merchant, and category. Hold the mic button to log a purchase by voice. MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS See every recurring charge in one place — Netflix, Spotify, Claude, that one app you forgot about — each with the app icon pulled from the App Store. Set renewal dates, get a reminder before each charge, and see your monthly and yearly totals. MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS & BALANCE TRACKING Track checking, credit, debit, Venmo, and more in one place. See your total balance, compare against last month, and view a balance trend chart by hour, day, or week. Tap + or − to log income or spending. Record what your balance was on any past date to re-anchor your history. DASHBOARD Today, this week, this month, this year — tap any cell on the dashboard to switch the spending pie chart and breakdown to that timeframe. Set monthly and per-category budgets with progress bars. See net cash flow when you add your income schedule. IMPORT FROM YOUR BANK Import purchases and income from PDF or photo bank statements. Share a statement straight from your bank's app into Tally. Parsing skips duplicates and learns merchant categories over time. LOCK-SCREEN WIDGET & LIVE ACTIVITY Add a purchase from the lock-screen widget — one tap opens straight to "New Purchase" with the keyboard up. A Live Activity shows your monthly budget progress. SIRI, SHORTCUTS & ACTION BUTTON Log spending with Siri ("Add coffee to Tally"), Shortcuts, or your iPhone Action Button — including receipt scanning on supported devices. EXPORT YOUR DATA Export everything to CSV in one tap. Back up and restore your full Tally library as JSON — every purchase, subscription, account, income entry, budget, and balance snapshot — so nothing's lost if you switch devices. LIGHT + DARK MODE Match your system or pick whichever you prefer. Your data stays on your device. The only network requests Tally makes are to fetch app icons for the subscriptions you add (via Apple's iTunes Search API and DuckDuckGo's icon service) — and even those are anonymous.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tally at none against AI Spend Tracker's 2. Tally also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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. AI Spend Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Tally asks for nothing beyond the download.
AI Spend Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Tally weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AI Spend Tracker | Tally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pushpinder Pal Singh | Ryuya Tanabe |
In-app purchases
AI Spend Tracker
- Pro$5.991 Month
- Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year
Tally
No in-app purchases








