Expense & Budget Tracker App vs Tick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense & Budget Tracker App
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See where your money actually goes. Log an expense in seconds, set a budget you can stick to, and watch your savings goals move. NO SIGN-UP, NO BANK LOGIN No email, no password, no social login and nothing to connect. Open the app and start tracking straight away. TRACK SPENDING AND INCOME • Log an amount with a category, a payment method (cash, card, wallet, bank), a note and any date • Edit or delete anything you logged • Choose your currency once and the whole app follows it • Light and dark themes SCAN A RECEIPT INSTEAD OF TYPING Photograph a receipt and the total, the date, the shop and a category are filled in for you. You check every field before it saves, and a scan that cannot be read still keeps the photo. You can also hold the microphone and say what you spent instead of typing it. BUDGETS • A weekly or monthly limit per category • A ring showing how much of the limit the period has used • Tap through to the transactions behind any budget SAVINGS GOALS • Set a target, add to it whenever you like, and watch the percentage climb • Give a goal a deadline if it needs one SHOPPING LIST AND GROCERY BUDGET • Keep a list of what to buy and tick items off • Set a grocery budget and see what the list is costing you SUBSCRIPTION TRACKER • Record what renews, when it renews and what it costs • See the monthly total of everything you are paying for STATISTICS • Where the money went, by category • Your spending trend over time • Week, month and year views with a daily average RECEIPT ARCHIVE Every receipt photo you keep sits in one place. Receipt images are stored on your device, so they are not uploaded anywhere and removing the app removes them. FINANCE COACH Ask about your own numbers in plain language and get an answer based on what you have logged. EXPORT YOUR DATA Export every transaction as a CSV file at any time, from More › Export data. YOUR DATA Your transactions, budgets, goals and lists are stored in your own account on our cloud database. Receipt photos stay on your device. A receipt image, or the text of what you say, is sent to Google Gemini only at the moment you use the scan, voice or coach feature. We do not sell your data. PREMIUM The free version includes 3 entries (income or expense), 3 budgets, 1 savings goal, 3 tracked subscriptions and the last 30 days of statistics, and shows ads. Premium removes every limit and every ad. • Weekly — $6.99 per week • Yearly — $19.99 per year • Lifetime — $49.99 once, never renews Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you turn renewal off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Prices shown are US prices; your own storefront price appears in the app. Restore Purchases is on the Premium screen and in More. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/expensebudgettrackerprivacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tick
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Tick is an expense tracker built around one number: five seconds. That is how long it should take to open the app, log what you just spent, and put the phone back in your pocket. FAST BY DESIGN Type an amount, tap save. Everything else - place, category, note, tags, a photo of the receipt - is optional and can be added later. A template fills in the category, the place and the currency, and a home screen shortcut opens straight into a new expense. READY FOR DAILY LIFE Forty-three categories are switched on the first time you open Tick. Groceries, Pharmacy, Fuel, Car Repair & Service, Rent, Electricity, Office Rent, Office Bills, Public Transit, Travel & Hotel, Taxes and more are there the moment you install. Another thirty-three wait in the list switched off, seventy-six across eleven groups in all. Add your own, and hide the ones you never use. MULTIPLE CURRENCIES, DONE PROPERLY Log in any currency. Rates for thirty currencies come from the European Central Bank's daily reference feed and are frozen onto each expense at the moment you save it, so last year's report never changes because a rate moved this morning. Using a currency outside those thirty? Type the rate in yourself - the app will not guess one. WORKS OFFLINE, WITH NO SIGNAL Everything is stored on the phone first and syncs when there is a connection. A plane, a basement, a bad line - none of it stops you logging an expense. REPORTS THAT ANSWER A QUESTION Narrow the expense list by date, category, currency or amount, or search it by place and note. Then see where the money went by category, by place, or over time. WHAT YOU CAN TAKE OUT Export to CSV for a spreadsheet, or to PDF for something you can send or file. Export from a report and the date range you are looking at comes with it; export from Settings and everything does. Your data leaves in a format you can open without Tick. WHO IT IS FOR People who hold more than one currency and are tired of a tracker that quietly rewrites last month when a rate moves. People who log what they spend where there is no signal. People who want the entry typed, not imported. MANUAL ENTRY, NO BANK SYNC Tick does not connect to your bank. No account linking, no transaction import, no receipt scanning that reads your card number. It has no approval workflows and no team accounts. Every expense in Tick is there because you typed it. SUBSCRIPTION Tick Pro Monthly - 1 month - USD 2.99 Tick Pro Yearly - 1 year - USD 19.99 Other regions are charged the store's local equivalent. The first 14 days are free and ask for no card. After that, adding new expenses needs a subscription. Viewing, reporting and exporting keep working without one, permanently - your records stay yours whether you subscribe or not. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tickexpense.com/privacy The app interface is in English and Turkish.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tick at none against Expense & Budget Tracker App's shown. Tick also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Expense & Budget Tracker App's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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. Expense & Budget Tracker App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Tick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Expense & Budget Tracker App ships an update every 2 weeks, Tick weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Expense & Budget Tracker App | Tick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | faiza zulfiqar | FIRAT KONYALIOGLU |
In-app purchases
Expense & Budget Tracker App
- Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$49.99
Tick
- Tick Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tick Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
Questions
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