DailySpend vs Tappy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DailySpend
Effortlessly track daily expenses, manage budgets, and split bills with friends. Scan receipts to automatically record purchases and view spending insights with home screen widgets. Your financial data stays private on your device with optional iCloud sync and app lock.
- Expense tracking with categories and notes
- Budget creation and monitoring
- Fair bill splitting with tax and tip calculation
- Receipt scanning with OCR
- Home screen widgets for quick access
- Private data storage with optional iCloud sync
- CSV export and encrypted backups
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DailySpend helps you track everyday spending, manage budgets, and split bills with clear, accurate shares. TRACK YOUR EXPENSES Record purchases with categories, dates, and notes. Review your spending history and charts, set overall and category budgets, and create recurring expense entries. SPLIT BILLS FAIRLY Split a total evenly or assign individual and shared items to different people. Include tax and tips, check each person’s share, and export a receipt. You can also save your own share as an expense. SCAN RECEIPTS Use your camera to recognize text on a receipt and suggest a total. Receipt images are processed on your device. Review the suggested amount before saving. CHECK SPENDING WITH WIDGETS View spending and budget information from your Home Screen, or open a new expense with Quick Add. KEEP YOUR RECORDS PRIVATE No app account is required. DailySpend has no ads or third-party analytics. Expenses are stored on your device, with optional private iCloud sync. Enable App Lock to protect access using device authentication. EXPORT AND BACK UP Export expenses as CSV or create passphrase-encrypted backups for later restoration. CSV files are unencrypted, and your backup passphrase cannot be recovered if you lose it. Made for iPhone and iPad. DailySpend calculates bill shares. It does not transfer money or connect to bank accounts.
Tappy
Log expenses instantly with quick actions like back taps, Siri commands, or widgets. This app provides clear spending insights and custom categories, all while keeping your data private on your device.
- Log expenses in seconds without opening app
- Back Tap and Siri integration
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Spending tracking by category
- Customizable expense categories
- Data export to CSV
- 100% private on-device data
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Track expenses the moment they happen, before you forget. Tappy is the fastest way to log spending. Double-tap the back of your phone, ask Siri, or tap a widget to save an expense in seconds, without ever opening the app. Most expense trackers make you unlock your phone, open the app, tap through screens, and type. By then you've already forgotten the coffee or the cab fare. Tappy removes every step between you and a logged expense. WHY TAPPY • Log an expense in seconds, no app open required • Back Tap: double-tap your phone to log instantly • Siri: "Hey Siri, log expense in Tappy" • Widgets: log straight from your Lock or Home Screen • Track spending by category, at a glance • See where your money goes with clear insights • Browse your full expense history anytime • Create your own custom categories • Works in any currency • Export everything to CSV • iCloud backup. Never lose an expense, restore on any device PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up. Your expenses stay on your device and back up only to your own private iCloud, we never see them. BUILT FOR SPEED Whether it's morning coffee, a quick cab, or splitting dinner with friends, Tappy makes logging effortless, so you actually keep it up and finally know where your money goes. Download Tappy and start tracking in seconds. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DailySpend at none against Tappy's 3. DailySpend also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Tappy's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Tappy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. DailySpend asks for nothing beyond the download.
DailySpend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tappy has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of DailySpend's written reviews are positive against 87% of Tappy's.
| Parameter | DailySpend | Tappy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 87.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JINGRUI FENG | Arranged Social LLP |
Customer experience
DailySpend
Tappy
In-app purchases
DailySpend
No in-app purchases
Tappy
- Tappy Pro$2.991 Month
- Tappy Pro$14.991 Year
- Tappy Pro$29.99









