Knox vs Manilo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Knox
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Master your money without the headache. WHY KNOX? Most finance apps are clunky spreadsheets in disguise. Knox is different. We use on-device intelligence to read your receipts, gamification to keep you on a streak, and secure iCloud sync to keep your data private. No bank credentials required, no selling your data—just pure financial clarity. KEY FEATURES: √ Fast entry Prefer manual entry? Our custom keypad and "Quick Pick" categories make logging expenses lightning fast. Need to make a change? Bulk edit and manage transactions with a smooth, native interface. √ Smart Receipt Scanner Scan receipts using VisionKit. Knox extracts line items, cleans noisy text, auto-detects categories, and lets you confirm everything before saving. √ Beautiful Insights Understand your money instantly with: - Today/Week/Month totals - Remaining budget & days left - Category breakdowns - Over-budget alerts - Smooth charts and weekly/monthly trend views √ Search Everything Find any transaction with fast search, category chips, date filters, highlighted matches, and swipe actions. √ Categories You Control Use default categories or create your own with emoji, colors, drag-and-drop ordering, and safe deletion. √ Motivating Achievements Celebrate progress with streaks, milestone badges, and playful goal stories that keep you consistent. √ Private & Secure Sync Your data belongs to you. - iCloud Sync: Seamlessly syncs across your devices using your private iCloud account. - Privacy First: No account sign-up required. We don’t see your data. - Data Export: Export your finances to CSV for Excel or Numbers anytime. √ Free-Tier Tracking Track daily expenses for free with clear remaining-expense counters. When you need more, unlock premium anytime. For Terms and Conditions, Privacy Terms, please visit: https://dreamscapecrafters.com/knox-terms-of-use/ https://dreamscapecrafters.com/knox-privacy-policy/
Manilo
Effortlessly track expenses using voice commands, AI categorization, and receipt scanning. Set budgets, manage multiple currencies, and share spending with family. Access detailed insights via a web dashboard.
- Voice-activated expense logging
- AI-powered categorization
- Receipt scanning and OCR
- Multi-currency account management
- Shared expense tracking
- Monthly budget setting
- Web dashboard for insights
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Manilo (formerly Ledgy) logs expenses the moment you speak them. Say what you spent, and AI fills in the amount, merchant, and category — no typing, no forms. Or snap a receipt. Or type a note. Whatever gets it in fastest. Manilo is an expense tracker and budget app built on voice and AI. Log transactions in seconds, set monthly budgets, share spending history with family or housemates, track accounts in any currency, and review everything on the web — all synced across your devices. — Voice and AI — Speak any transaction out loud: "Coffee at Blue Bottle, four seventy-five" or "Uber to the airport, twenty-two dollars." Manilo parses the amount, merchant, date, and category in under two seconds. Trigger it from the iPhone action button or a Siri shortcut — no app to open first. AI categorization learns your patterns. The first few times you log Whole Foods, it asks which category. After that, it knows. On-device voice processing — audio is never transmitted or stored. — Talk to Manilo from Any AI — Manilo ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. If you use Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible assistant, you can log, query, and edit transactions from inside your AI — without opening the app. No other expense tracker in the App Store offers this. Requires Manilo Cloud. — Receipt Scanning — Snap any receipt — grocery store, restaurant, hardware store. Manilo reads the total, merchant name, and date, then adds the transaction to your log. Confirm in one tap or let it save automatically. — Budgets — Set monthly spending limits by category. Manilo shows how much is left, not just how much was spent. Green when on track, orange when close, red when over. No spreadsheets. No end-of-month surprises. — Multi-Currency — Add accounts in any currency. Travel card in euros, savings in dollars, UK credit card in pounds. Manilo applies live exchange rates and shows everything converted to your home currency. Long-press any foreign balance to see its equivalent. — Shared Expenses — Create a group for the people you spend with — a household, a couple, a trip abroad. Everyone logs their own expenses into one shared history that all members can see. Budgets, categories, and charts apply across the whole group, in any currency. Track your London weekend in pounds and the household groceries in dollars — Manilo converts everything to one home view. Requires Manilo Cloud subscription. — Charts and Web Dashboard — The mobile app shows a category donut chart with filters by month, quarter, or custom range. The web dashboard at ledgy.app goes deeper: spending trends by day, category breakdowns, income vs. expense comparisons, and shared group summaries. Same data, every surface. Log your first expense in under ten seconds. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Manilo at 4 against Knox's 2. Manilo also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Knox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Manilo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Knox ships an update weekly, Manilo every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Knox | Manilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremiah Siror | Borys Harholinskyi |
In-app purchases
Knox
- Knox Weekly$1.997 Days
- Knox Monthly$4.991 Month
- Knox Yearly$29.991 Year
Manilo
- Ledgy Cloud Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Manilo Cloud Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Ledgy Cloud Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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- Manilo Cloud Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year









