Comparison

BookNoir vs Spend Pal

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

Head to head
About

BookNoir

Features
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Welcome to BookNoir, bookkeeping has never been this easy! • Quickly record expenses and income. • Simple and clear transaction view, showing your finances over recent days, weeks, or months. • Set monthly and yearly budgets and track progress (some features require Pro). • View 14-day/30-day moving transaction curves to understand spending trends. • Generate category pie charts to visualize income and expenses. • View daily and hourly heatmaps to spot spending peaks. • Record debts and other expected transactions, and calculate cash flow for the next several decades (Pro required). Simple bookkeeping, effortless finance management. See your financial future and master your cash flow. Start using BookNoir now! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Spend Pal

Effortlessly track your daily expenses with a simple, handwritten-style interface. Input spending in plain language, and the app categorizes it automatically. Visualize your monthly spending at a glance without complex charts or alerts.

Highlights
  • Plain language expense entry
  • Automatic categorization
  • Handwritten notebook style
  • Monthly spending visualization
  • Widget for quick entry
  • Offline functionality
  • iCloud sync
Features
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By the end of the month, you know where it went. Not roughly — actually. That costs you one line a day. Type tacos 11.40 and press enter. SpendPal reads the amount, files the category, and writes it onto today's page. A paper notebook that happens to do the arithmetic. One line, then you're done Write in plain words and let the app sort out the rest. It learns your regulars, so the second coffee lands in the right place without being told. Tap any row to fix it. Tap the date to flip back and write into an earlier day. Drawn by hand, not by a spreadsheet Every page is handwriting on paper, and a small mascot called pal keeps you company in the corner. It's the rare money app you don't mind opening. A month you can read at a glance Set one monthly number. A single bar fills as you spend, next to what you spent last month and where it went. No alerts, no red screens, no charts you didn't ask for. Two seconds from the lock screen The widget shows today's total and a line to write in. Tap it and you land in the app with the keyboard already up. Home Screen and Lock Screen sizes included. Nobody asks for your bank No account, no sign-up, no bank login, no server of ours. Everything lives on the phone, and iCloud sync — on by default, one tap to stop — goes to your own private database. Keep a backup file wherever you like. Deleting the app deletes the data — that's the point. Also inside 30+ currencies · dark mode that actually looks like paper at night · works with no connection, ever · no ads, no tracking, no email asking you to come back. What Premium opens The first five lines are yours to write, with five categories and day, week and month trends. Premium lifts both limits, adds year and all-time trends, and turns on CSV import and export. Weekly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Privacy: https://elevenapril.com/privacy Terms: https://elevenapril.com/terms

Screenshots

BookNoir4 screens
Spend Pal4 screens

Verdict

The call

BookNoir and Spend Pal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. BookNoir sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spend Pal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BookNoir versus Spend Pal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookNoirSpend Pal
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer晓光 李帅 陈

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BookNoir

One-time1
  • Pro$3.99
3 purchases

Spend Pal

Subscriptions2
  • SpendPal Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • SpendPal Premium Yearly3 Days trial$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • SpendPal Premium Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is BookNoir free?
BookNoir is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spend Pal free?
Spend Pal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BookNoir or Spend Pal have ads?
Neither BookNoir nor Spend Pal shows ads.

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