Comparison

Quick Expense vs Stashi Money Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Quick Expense

Features
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Quick Expense is a receipt scanner and expense tracker that logs your spending in seconds and keeps it private. Snap a receipt and the shop, total, date and line items are filled in for you. Pay with Apple Pay and the expense logs itself. Set budgets, watch your trends, and share a project with the people you split costs with, in any currency. SCAN RECEIPTS IN SECONDS • Point your camera at a receipt and the shop, total, currency, date and line items are read for you • On iPhone and iPad with Apple Intelligence, receipts can be read right on your device • Discounts and member savings are kept, so the items add up to what you paid • Snap a whole stack of receipts and review them when you're ready • Paid cash with no receipt? Enter the amount and the shop in a few taps EXPENSES THAT LOG THEMSELVES • Add a Shortcuts automation once, and every Apple Pay tap with the cards you choose becomes an expense, sorted into a category • On iOS 27, payment notifications from your bank apps can log themselves too (Beta) • Receipt emails can log themselves with the Shortcuts Mail trigger (Beta) • It all happens in the background: no app to open and nothing to type afterwards BUDGETS AND TRENDS • Set a monthly budget overall or for each category, and see what's on track at a glance • Give a trip or project its own budget, per month or for the whole thing • Trends shows your months over time, categories against your usual, and your top shops • Search finds expenses by shop, note or any item on the receipt TRACK SPENDING IN ANY CURRENCY • Each expense keeps the amount in the currency you paid, from yen to dinar • Totals show in your home currency, so trips and purchases abroad simply add up SPLIT COSTS WITH ANYONE • Create shared projects for your home, a trip or a group • Invite people with a link, or let them scan an invite QR code • Everyone adds their own expenses and sees one shared total MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Built natively for iOS, fast and smooth • On iPad and an unfolded iPhone Duo, your list and the details sit side by side PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Stored on your phone: works offline, and nothing waits on a server • End-to-end encrypted: synced data and receipt backups are encrypted on your phone first • No account and no tracking: we never ask for your name or email, and there are no analytics FREE AND PRO Quick Expense is free to use. Log as many expenses as you like, with 20 cloud receipt scans a month, budgets, trends and automatic logging. Pro is an optional monthly subscription that adds unlimited cloud scans, encrypted sync across your devices, shared projects and recurring expenses for rent and subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://quickexpense.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://quickexpense.app/privacy.html

About

Stashi Money Tracker

Features
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Stashi is a calm, private money tracker for your phone. Bring your cash, bank and digital accounts into one place, log what comes in and goes out, and see where your money is going. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE - Cash, bank and digital accounts, each with its own balance - Transfers between your accounts that never count as income or spending - Interest on an account, with quarterly crediting, tiered rates, a minimum balance to earn and an optional maximum balance that earns - Credit cards with their own limit, a limit shared with other cards, or none, showing what you owe and what is left TRACK EVERY EXPENSE - Quick log: type or say "coffee 150 gcash" or "sahod 25000 bdo", check what Stashi read, and save. Taglish, fees and cashback work too - Log income and expenses in seconds, with categories you can edit - Search and filter your transactions - Log a card's statement, record its interest and fees, and pay it from any account - Refunds and card cashback that never count as income - Recurring bills, paydays and transfers, logged automatically on the days you pick, including twice a month UNDERSTAND YOUR SPENDING - This month's money in, money out and net, with a six-month chart - The headline of what changed this month, in plain words - Where your spending went, by category - Transfers kept out of income and spending PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account to create, no sign-up, no email - Your data is saved on this phone. Nothing goes to a Stashi server - App lock with Face ID or Touch ID, and Hide amounts for when someone is looking - No bank connection: you enter what you want to track - Quick log's mic turns what you say into text on your iPhone. Only the text is kept, and the sound is never saved or sent - Export everything as CSV or JSON, and back up or restore your data any time MADE TO FEEL GOOD - Light and dark appearance - Choose your currency STASHI PRO (OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASE) - Insights in full: every finding about your month, not just the headline. On supported phones, on-device AI phrases them - Look back at any past month, with what moved and the full category breakdown - Savings pockets inside a bank or e-wallet account, each earning its own interest, with an optional due date - Installment plans: spread a card purchase over its months - Reminders the day before each recurring charge and 3 days before a card payment is due - Export what you filtered, or a whole month, as CSV - Quick log in full: several entries in one line, Siri, Spotlight and Control Center, the title and category filled in by Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones, and nicknames Stashi learns for your accounts - Unlimited recurring expenses and categories (free includes 3 recurring expenses and 12 categories; recurring income and transfers are unlimited) Pay once. No subscription. No ads.

Screenshots

Quick Expense4 screens
Stashi Money Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stashi Money Tracker at every 4 days against Quick Expense's every 11 days. Stashi Money Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Quick Expense sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Stashi Money Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Expense ships an update every 11 days, Stashi Money Tracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Quick Expense versus Stashi Money Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick ExpenseStashi Money Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFaruq RasidPatrick Ofilada

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Expense

Subscriptions1
  • QuickExpense Pro (Monthly)1 Month trial$4.991 Month
1 purchases

Stashi Money Tracker

One-time1
  • Stashi Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Quick Expense free?
Quick Expense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stashi Money Tracker free?
Stashi Money Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Expense or Stashi Money Tracker have ads?
Neither Quick Expense nor Stashi Money Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Expense or Stashi Money Tracker?
Quick Expense ships an update every 11 days, and Stashi Money Tracker every 4 days. Most recently, Quick Expense was updated on October 25, 2026 and Stashi Money Tracker on October 24, 2026.

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