Comparison

CardLah! vs Spent.

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

Head to head
About

CardLah!

Features
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For credit card experts who refuse to miss a reward. If you're juggling a few cards at once, you know the pain. Every card has its own min-spend, its own deadline, and missing one means kissing the rewards goodbye. CardLah! takes the mental load off. - One screen, all your cards. See your total min-spend for the month, which cards you've hit, which are falling behind, and how many days you've got left. - Auto-track tap-to-pay. Pay with Apple Wallet and the transaction lands in the right card. Nothing to type, nothing to remember. - Foreign currency, handled. Spend abroad and it gets converted to your home currency, so your progress stays accurate. - See where your money goes. Transactions get sorted into categories automatically. Switch between day, week, month, and year views. - No bank logins, ever. CardLah! only reads what's already on your phone via Apple Wallet. - Plus the basics: custom categories, quick edits, full history, and CSV import/export.

About

Spent.

This private expense tracker logs payments from bank alerts and Apple Pay. It uses on-device AI to read screenshots and receipts, offering insights and budget tracking without cloud storage or accounts.

Highlights
  • Private expense tracking
  • Bank alert and Apple Pay integration
  • On-device AI for receipt scanning
  • AI-powered data entry suggestions
  • Budget creation and tracking
  • Multi-currency support
  • Insights by category and merchant
Features
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Your bank already tells you. Spent. writes it down. Spent. is a private expense tracker for iPhone. After a one-time Shortcuts setup, payments arrive from Apple Pay and, on iOS 27, from your bank's alerts. You check each one and it's logged. No account, no tracking, and your records stay on your phone. BANK ALERTS (FREE, iOS 27) Your bank or wallet app already tells you when you've paid. Get the shortcut and choose those apps. There's no rule to write: each payment alert waits in your review list, and Spent. learns which account it belongs to from what you approve. No bank login, no connection to your bank, no server. Apple Pay capture (FREE) Add the shortcut in Settings > Apple Pay. Each time you pay with Apple Pay, the purchase waits in your review list with the merchant and amount filled in. Approve them one at a time or all at once. AI UNLOCK Screenshot your e-wallet history. Spent. fills in every row. It reads bank and wallet screenshots and receipts, turns "lunch 12" into an entry, and suggests clean names and categories. On iPhone 15 Pro or later running iOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence on, this runs on Apple's on-device model with nothing to download, and you can try it free for 7 days. Other iPhones download Spent.'s model once (3.6 GB). Either way it reads on your phone (Cloud check, below, is the one optional exception), and you check every entry before it saves. ASK LIL BIT (FREE) Lil Bit, the little bookkeeper inside Spent., answers from what you've recorded, right on your phone. • "How much on food this month?" • "How much at Target last month?" • "Compare this month and last" • "Am I over budget?" BUDGETS Set a monthly limit for any category and Insights draws a quiet bar under it, so you can see under, near or over at a glance. Per currency, and included in your backups. WHAT ELSE YOU CAN DO • Track expenses, income and transfers across accounts • Multi-currency: each account keeps its own currency, with no conversions • Insights by category and merchant, month over month • Scan a pile of receipts for free with on-device text recognition; each waits in your review list with its photo • Double-tap the back of your iPhone on a payment screen to log it (one-time Back Tap setup) • Pick a category for new captures with one tap in your review list • Select several transactions and change their category, merchant, account or notes at once • See and edit what Spent. remembers about each merchant • Recurring transactions and duplicate detection • Home Screen widget to log, scan or ask in one tap; it shows no data by design • Privacy mask hides every balance with one tap • Siri and Shortcuts • Full backup and restore, any time PRIVACY BY DESIGN Spent. has no server and no account. Nothing is collected, so there is nothing to leak. The AI runs on your iPhone. Cloud check is optional: only if you allow it, Spent. sends the text it read, never the photo, to Apple's Private Cloud Compute for a second look, and Apple can't store it. Your receipts, balances and habits stay with you. Free: manual tracking, bank alerts, Apple Pay capture, Lil Bit chat, receipt scanning, budgets and insights. AI Unlock is one payment for screenshot import, AI receipt reading, typed entries and AI suggestions. No subscription, ever. Your expenses, tracked privately.

Screenshots

CardLah!4 screens
Spent.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CardLah! at none against Spent.'s 2. On price, update cadence, 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. Spent. sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. CardLah! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CardLah! ships an update every 2 weeks, Spent. every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
CardLah! versus Spent.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCardLah!Spent.
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQichuan ZhangChee Leong CHONG

In-app purchases

None

CardLah!

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Spent.

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • AI Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is CardLah! free?
CardLah! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spent. free?
Spent. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CardLah! or Spent. have ads?
Neither CardLah! nor Spent. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CardLah! or Spent.?
CardLah! ships an update every 2 weeks, and Spent. every 8 days. Most recently, CardLah! was updated on October 30, 2026 and Spent. on November 7, 2026.

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