Comparison

Spency vs Tip & Shift Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Spency

This app helps you plan your finances by projecting your balance on a calendar. It allows you to organize bills, set daily spending limits, and track income to see your financial outlook before payday.

Highlights
  • Projected balance calendar
  • Bill and expense organization
  • Daily spending limit setting
  • Income tracking
  • Offline budget tracking
  • Optional iCloud sync
Features
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No bank login. Spency is a simple budget planner, expense tracker, and money manager that helps you organize bills, set a daily spending limit, and see your money ahead of time. Instead of only tracking purchases after they happen, Spency helps you plan forward. Add your income, bills, recurring expenses, and daily spending limit. Spency then projects your balance across a calendar so you can see where your budget is healthy and where it gets tight before payday. Use Spency as a weekly budget planner, monthly budget tracker, bill tracker, or personal money planner. It replaces messy spreadsheets and budget sheets with a clear schedule you can check in seconds. HOW IT WORKS Add your income Track salary, freelance payments, deposits, and recurring income. Organize bills and expenses Plan rent, subscriptions, utilities, groceries, one time costs, and recurring payments. Set a daily spending limit Spency uses your daily allowance to forecast your balance automatically. SEE YOUR MONEY AHEAD Projected balance for every day on the calendar Upcoming bills and how they affect your budget Monthly totals for income, expenses, and net balance Tight days flagged early Daily spending allowance always visible Simple charts for cash flow, savings, and spending insights WHO IT IS FOR Spency is built for people who want a simple way to plan money without connecting a bank account. It works well for personal budgets, household budgets, bills, income planning, daily spending, and people who want to know whether their money will last until the next payday. WHY SPENCY Many budget apps focus on categorizing past transactions. Spency focuses on helping you understand what is coming next. Your projected balance shows whether your plan works, and your daily spending limit gives you one simple number to adjust. SPENCY PLUS Budget projection and cash flow forecasts for 1, 3, and 6 months Insight charts with recurring and one time expense breakdowns Access to over 12 months of budget history The free version includes your most recent 3 months of data. PRIVACY FIRST No bank connection No account required Offline budget tracking Your data stays on your device, with optional iCloud sync Delete everything anytime Set it up once. Check it in seconds. Stay in control of your budget with confidence. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tip & Shift Tracker

Track hours, tips, and take-home pay across multiple jobs. Visualize your schedule with a color-coded calendar and see earnings broken down per job or combined. All data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Log multiple jobs with custom rates and locations
  • Track tips, tip-outs, and calculate take-home pay
  • View earnings by job or combined
  • Color-coded calendar for shifts and availability
  • Seniority tracking per job
  • Data export for tax season
Features
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Built for anyone working more than one job. MULTIPLE JOBS Add as many jobs as you work. Each gets its own color, position, hourly rate, start date and location. Worked two jobs in one day? Log both — they stay separate everywhere in the app, and saving one no longer locks the other. TIPS, TIP-OUTS AND TAKE-HOME Enter your hours, the tips you collected and what you tipped out. The app does the math: hourly pay + tips − tip out = your real take-home. EARNINGS THAT ADD UP See what you made this week, this month and year to date — broken out per job and combined, with tips and tip-outs shown separately. A CALENDAR YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE Green for worked, blue for pass, orange for refusal, gray for off, purple for FMLA, red for call out. Multi-job days show a bar per job. SENIORITY WHERE IT BELONGS Seniority lists moved into the Contacts tab, under Must Know Contacts, and are tracked per job. NEW HERE? START WITH THE WALKTHROUGH A visual tutorial in the More tab walks you through logging a shift, reading the calendar and tracking earnings. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • Exporting now opens the share sheet, so you can save to Files, email it or send it anywhere • CSV export adds hourly rate, hourly pay, tip out and take-home columns for tax season • Overtime is not calculated — rates vary too much between employers Everything stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Spency4 screens
Tip & Shift Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tip & Shift Tracker at 100% against Spency's 29%. Tip & Shift Tracker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Spency's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Spency sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Tip & Shift Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tip & Shift Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Spency's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tip & Shift Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spency ships an update every 5 days, Tip & Shift Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spency versus Tip & Shift Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpencyTip & Shift Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCallebe Sousa e SilvaHospitality is Life LLC

Customer experience

Spency

All ratings14 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral28.6%
Negative42.9%

Tip & Shift Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Spency

Subscriptions2
  • Spency Pro Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Spency Pro Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Spency Pro TrialFree
  • Spency Pro$9.99
2 purchases

Tip & Shift Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Spency free?
Spency is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tip & Shift Tracker free?
Tip & Shift Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spency or Tip & Shift Tracker?
Tip & Shift Tracker is rated higher. Spency averages 3.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Tip & Shift Tracker averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Spency or Tip & Shift Tracker have ads?
Neither Spency nor Tip & Shift Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spency or Tip & Shift Tracker?
Spency ships an update every 5 days, and Tip & Shift Tracker weekly. Most recently, Spency was updated on October 1, 2026 and Tip & Shift Tracker on September 22, 2026.

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