Comparison

SpendLit vs Harubi

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

Head to head
About

SpendLit

Features
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SpendLit helps you understand where your money goes, plan how you want to spend it, and make progress toward what matters to you. See your spending, budgets, savings goals and recent activity in one clear overview — without turning managing your money into another job. UNDERSTAND YOUR SPENDING • See where your money actually goes • Explore spending by category and product • Compare weeks and months to uncover trends • Keep your transactions organized and easy to understand PLAN YOUR MONEY • Create budgets for the things you spend on • See how much you've spent and what's still available • Build savings goals and track your progress over time • Organize everything with custom categories, colors and icons TRACK EXPENSES WITHOUT THE BUSYWORK Snap a photo of a receipt and SpendLit can read the details, identify individual items and organize the expense for you. Prefer doing it yourself? Add or edit expenses manually in seconds. You can review scanned receipts before they're added, or enable auto-approval when you'd rather keep things moving. STAY IN THE LOOP • Get an optional weekly recap of your spending • Receive gentle reminders when it's time to catch up • Track money in the currency that works for you YOUR MONEY. YOUR DATA. Your financial data belongs to you. Manage or delete your account at any time from Settings.

About

Harubi

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Snap it, and it fills itself in. You just check. Receipts, payment text alerts, the transaction list inside your banking app — photograph or screenshot them, and Harubi reads the date, amount and merchant and fills the entry in for you. No ads, no account, no bank login. ■ Why photos instead of a bank connection? Harubi never asks for your bank credentials. · Cash never shows up in a bank feed. A photo of the receipt catches it. · You never hand your bank login to a third party — there is nobody to hand it to. · Nothing to sign up for. Open the app and start. ■ Three kinds of images, sorted out automatically · Paper receipts — merchant, total and date, read straight off the slip. · Payment and card alert messages — screenshot the alert and it becomes one transaction. · Bank and card statement lists — screenshot the transaction list in your banking app and every row is read at once. Whatever you send, a review screen comes first. Correct a misread figure, untick a row you don't want, then save. ■ Several screenshots, stitched into one list A statement never fits on one screen. Scroll, take as many screenshots as you need, and hand them over together. · Overlapping stretches are matched up by running balance, so nothing is imported twice. · If a date header was cut off at the top of a shot, the date is carried across from the neighboring shots. · Transactions you have already saved come back pre-unticked. ■ Share now, sort it out later Send images to Harubi from Photos or Messages with the share sheet. iOS won't let an app launch itself, so nothing happens at that moment — but the next time you open Harubi, everything you shared is waiting and gets sorted in one go. ■ Private by construction · Text recognition runs on your iPhone, through Apple's Vision framework. Photos are not uploaded for processing. · Your transaction records stay on this device. · No account, no login, no bank connection. · No ads, no tracking. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected". · Not a single analytics or advertising SDK, and no third-party libraries at all. ■ The budgeting part · Income, expense and transfer entries with a large number keypad · Daily, calendar, weekly, monthly, summary and memo views · Transaction search — by details, category or asset, narrowed to a period, with your recent searches kept · Category statistics (pie chart) with period and account filters · Per-category budgets with remaining amount and spending pace · Event budgets — keep a trip, a holiday or a move on its own named budget, apart from your monthly one · Trend tab — your daily balance, and the transactions behind any day · Balance trend graph per account · Double-entry asset tracking — cash, bank and card balances kept in step · Recurring expenses — rent, subscriptions, anything that leaves on the same day each month · Automatic insights — budgets nearly spent, too much in Other, month-over-month jumps · Backup and restore to a JSON file (photos and videos attached to memos, and recurring-expense rules, are not included in the backup) · On-device AI — a summary of your month and category suggestions for Other (iOS 26 on Apple Intelligence devices) · Light / dark mode and theme colors ■ Receipts we read Korea, Japan, the United States, Germany and the Philippines. Budgeting is all about consistency. Start light — just today's spending. iPhone only. Requires iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

SpendLit4 screens
Harubi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harubi at none against SpendLit's 2. Harubi also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. SpendLit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Harubi asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpendLit ships an update every 6 weeks, Harubi every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
SpendLit versus Harubi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendLitHarubi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNasser Yemdjih KazeMJ KONG

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SpendLit

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Yearly$17.991 Year
None

Harubi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpendLit free?
SpendLit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Harubi free?
Harubi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SpendLit or Harubi have ads?
Neither SpendLit nor Harubi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpendLit or Harubi?
SpendLit ships an update every 6 weeks, and Harubi every 3 days. Most recently, SpendLit was updated on October 25, 2026 and Harubi on October 24, 2026.

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