Comparison

SpendMinder vs Spent.

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

Head to head
About

SpendMinder

Features
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SpendMinder – A Budget That Matches How You Get Paid SpendMinder is the fast, modern budgeting app designed around your real pay cycle. Instead of forcing you into monthly calendars, SpendMinder builds a budget based on your actual payday — built from dates you give us — giving you clearer limits, accurate pacing, and a realistic view of your money. If you want to control day-to-day spending, stay ahead of bills, pay off debt faster or save for goals, SpendMinder keeps everything organised in one clean place. Key features • Budgeting based on your real pay schedule Track spending against your actual payday. See daily spending limits, pacing, remaining balance and whether you’ll finish the cycle on budget. • Fast, simple expense tracking Add expenses in seconds with a clean, quick interface. Categorise purchases, review spending patterns and keep on top of your money easily. • Clear insights that show where your money goes View your top spending categories, peak spending days, recurring payments and more — without spreadsheets or complicated charts. • Fixed expenses and monthly bills Add rent, utilities, subscriptions and other repeating costs to see your true spendable amount each cycle. • Debt tracking with payoff tools Track balances, minimums and due dates. Use Snowball or Avalanche payoff methods and see your debt totals fall over time. • Savings goals with progress tracking Set goals, add contributions and see how close you are to completing each one. • Clean, modern, ad-free design We are committed to never display you a single ad! We value your time, privacy, that's why all data stays only on your phone, and not on our servers! Why people choose SpendMinder • Built for any financial cycle you give us! • Ideal for people who overspend between paydays • Helps you stay consistent with accurate pacing and daily limits • Great for users who want budgeting, debt tracking and savings in one app • Designed for clarity, speed and ease — no spreadsheets required Pro Features Unlock Pro for unlimited history, full insights, savings goals, debt tracking and export tools. Your data stays private and securely stored on your device. SpendMinder helps you stay in control, stay consistent and stay confident with your money. Start your first pay cycle today. Terms of Use (EULA) Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

SpendMinder4 screens
Spent.4 screens

Verdict

The call

SpendMinder and Spent. are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. SpendMinder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Spent. sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpendMinder ships an update every 11 days, Spent. every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SpendMinder versus Spent.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendMinderSpent.
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618.6
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristiaan de RoverChee Leong CHONG

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SpendMinder

Subscriptions2
  • SpendMinder Pro — Monthly$3.991 Month
  • SpendMinder Pro Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • SpendMinder Pro — Lifetime$59.99
2 purchases

Spent.

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

Questions

Is SpendMinder free?
SpendMinder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spent. free?
Spent. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SpendMinder or Spent. have ads?
Neither SpendMinder nor Spent. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpendMinder or Spent.?
SpendMinder ships an update every 11 days, and Spent. every 8 days. Most recently, SpendMinder was updated on November 9, 2026 and Spent. on November 7, 2026.

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