Comparison

Summa vs Boring Expenses

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

Head to head
About

Summa

This app helps you manage your finances by tracking expenses, budgeting, and monitoring investments. It features an AI assistant for personalized insights and allows for shared finances with family. Secure and private, it aims to improve your financial health.

Highlights
  • AI money assistant
  • Automatic expense tracking
  • Shared budgeting for families
  • Bill and subscription alerts
  • Net worth and investment tracking
  • Savings goal setting
  • Financial health scoring
Features
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Summa is the private budget planner and expense tracker that brings spending, bills, savings goals, investments, and net worth into one place, with an AI money assistant that answers with your real numbers. No ads, and we never sell your data. BUDGET PLANNER AND EXPENSE TRACKER Build a monthly budget in minutes with guided setup or suggestions from your own spending. Pace shows whether each category is on track, close to its limit, or over. Group categories, carry budgets forward, and leave one-off purchases out. TRACK SPENDING AUTOMATICALLY - Sync bank accounts and credit cards automatically (Pro+Connect, US and Canada) - Link Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Savings from Apple Wallet (US and UK) - Scan receipts: amount, merchant, date, and currency are read in 17 languages - Import bank statements with column detection, account matching, and duplicate checks - Review new transactions with a swipe, or add one by hand in seconds On-device machine learning categorizes transactions and learns from your corrections. Merchant names are cleaned up automatically, and renaming a merchant once updates every past and future transaction. YOUR AI MONEY ASSISTANT Ask Summa Personal Assistant about your money in plain language and get answers with charts from your own data. It can recategorize a batch or adjust a budget, and it always asks first, with undo. Everyday questions run on your device with Apple Intelligence; complex ones can use Apple's Private Cloud Compute. BUDGET TOGETHER Spaces is shared finance for couples and families. Split expenses and settle up, build a shared budget you can both edit, save toward joint goals, and see a household forecast. You choose exactly what your partner sees, and the financial data you share is end-to-end encrypted. BILLS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND ALERTS Summa finds recurring bills and subscriptions, tracks what is paid, due, and overdue, and reminds you before a payment lands. Nearly 40 alert types cover low balances, large purchases, price increases, and budget warnings, each one yours to switch on or off. FORECAST YOUR MONTH The Forecaster projects month-end spending on your device and simulates 1,000 outcomes to show the range your month could land in. NET WORTH, INVESTMENTS, AND DEBT Track net worth across accounts, portfolios, and holdings with daily market prices. Follow loans and mortgages with payoff charts, test extra payments, and watch your home equity build. SAVINGS GOALS AND FINANCIAL HEALTH Set savings goals, link an account or add money by hand, and watch each one fill to the finish line. Your Focus score rates your financial health from 12 factors, including on-time bills and card use. MADE FOR EVERY APPLE DEVICE Summa is built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and optimized for iPhone Duo, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri, and Spotlight search. Your data backs up automatically and restores on a new device. 17 languages, 75 currencies, dark mode, and color-blind friendly palettes. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Categorization, receipt reading, and forecasting run on your device - The assistant uses Apple Intelligence or Apple's Private Cloud Compute, never a third-party AI service - Bank connections run through Plaid; your credentials never touch our servers - Receipt images are never uploaded - App lock with Face ID or Touch ID START FREE The Free plan includes unlimited accounts and transactions, budgets, labels, two savings goals, and five receipt scans a month. Try Summa Pro free for 1 month to unlock the AI assistant, forecasting, Focus, investments, net worth, widgets, and more. Pro+Connect adds automatic bank sync. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://summaone.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://summaone.com/privacy

About

Boring Expenses

A simple, private expense tracker that focuses solely on your spending. Log expenses quickly with one-tap entry and visualize trends with instant charts. Your data is securely stored in your personal iCloud and is never shared.

Highlights
  • One-tap expense entry
  • Interactive charts
  • Customizable categories
  • CSV export
  • Apple Watch app
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Where does your money actually go? Boring Expenses shows you in seconds — a tiny, beautifully boring expense tracker that's 100% free, ad-free, private, and sign-up-free. Your data lives in your personal iCloud, end-to-end encrypted by Apple and invisible to us. JUST EXPENSES — NOTHING ELSE - No income tracking — total focus on spending - No multiple accounts — one number, the whole picture - No complicated budgets or category limits - No welcome screens or personal surveys - No bank connections — log each expense by hand, like a journal - No subscriptions, ads, trackers, or analytics - Apple-only — native look, feel, and animations WHY PEOPLE LOVE IT - Ready in the first second: no questionnaires, budget setup, paywalls, or registration - Truly free: no "premium" tiers, no nagging for donations - Private by design: expenses stay in encrypted iCloud, never shared - Works fully offline - Tiny and fast: opens instantly - No category caps: seeing your trends over weeks and months builds smarter habits on its own KEY FEATURES - One-tap expense entry: pick a category, type the amount — done - Beautiful interactive charts that update instantly — week, month, year - 100+ icons and colors to make categories your own - Quick filters by date and category - CSV export: pull your data into Excel or anywhere, anytime - Apple Watch app and Home Screen widgets - Full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support - Light and dark themes with a true native iPhone feel START TODAY Download Boring Expenses and build smarter everyday spending habits — one tap at a time. Thanks for reading to the end — have a great day! Questions or ideas? Open Settings > Feedback to message the developer directly. Enjoying the app? A quick App Store review means the world.

Screenshots

Summa4 screens
Boring Expenses4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Boring Expenses at none against Summa's 10. Boring Expenses also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). Summa's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (18.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads 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

Both are free to download. Summa sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per month. Boring Expenses asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Summa against 4.9 for Boring Expenses. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Summa's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boring Expenses's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Summa ships an update every 5 days, Boring Expenses monthly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Summa versus Boring Expenses: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSummaBoring Expenses
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStrata Veritate LLCDmitry Kulizhnikov

Customer experience

Summa

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Boring Expenses

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Summa

Subscriptions8
  • Pro + Connect Monthly$3.001 Month
  • Pro + Connect Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro + Connect Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Pro + Connect Annual$30.001 Year
  • Pro Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Annual$49.991 Year
  • Pro + Connect Annual1 Month trial$79.991 Year
  • Pro + Connect Annual$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Lifetime$89.99
  • Pro Lifetime$124.99
None

Boring Expenses

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Summa free?
Summa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Boring Expenses free?
Boring Expenses is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Summa or Boring Expenses?
Summa is rated higher. Summa averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Boring Expenses averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do Summa or Boring Expenses have ads?
Neither Summa nor Boring Expenses shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Summa or Boring Expenses?
Summa ships an update every 5 days, and Boring Expenses monthly. Most recently, Summa was updated on November 5, 2026 and Boring Expenses on November 5, 2026.

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