Expense Tracker vs Zeroed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense Tracker
Effortlessly track personal or shared expenses with this native app. Automate expense logging via Apple Wallet and categorize spending. Share financial insights with invited family or friends, controlling access levels and privacy.
- Automated expense logging via Apple Wallet
- Shared tracking for couples and families
- Customizable categories with icons and colors
- Detailed spending insights and budget tracking
- Private iCloud sharing with access control
- Multi-currency support with automatic conversion
- Data export and import options
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Track your spending on your own, as a couple or as a family. PayShare is a native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that keeps your transactions in your own iCloud and shares them only with the people you invite. With a Shortcuts automation you set up once, a tap to pay with Apple Wallet becomes an expense in PayShare: you just pick the category. No ads, no account to create, no bank to connect. PAY WITH APPLE WALLET, PICK A CATEGORY Create one personal automation in the Shortcuts app. From then on, each time you tap to pay with a card in Apple Wallet, it runs PayShare's Add Expense action: you choose a category without opening the app, and PayShare saves the expense. Skip the question and it is saved as Uncategorized, ready to edit later. A payment in another currency is converted to your primary currency with the latest rates PayShare has downloaded. Wallet can report a payment a few seconds late and Apple's automations do not always run, so now and then a payment still needs adding by hand. SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU CHOOSE Invite a partner, family or friends through private iCloud sharing. Everyone keeps ownership of their own transactions: you share yours, and you see theirs once they share back. Give each person read-only or read-and-write access, decide whether they may delete or split your transactions, and remove a connection at any time. Switch your Timeline to anyone who shares with you, search their transactions, see their spending in your budgets and insights, and hide any single transaction from the people you pick. YOUR TIMELINE • Expenses and income with a category, merchant, payment method and tags • Location and notes, and splitting one payment across categories • Your own categories, with more than 700 icons and any color • Your five most recent payment methods ready in a menu • Transactions grouped by day, with what each day cost • Recurring transactions for rent, salary or subscriptions, from daily to yearly • A second currency shown alongside your primary one • Search by text or category, and filter by date, amount, tag or place • Export to CSV, JSON or PDF, import from CSV or JSON, and restore from backups SEE WHERE IT WENT Your months sit side by side as a bar chart. Pick one to see its total, the change from the month before, your biggest expense, your top merchant, a day-by-day chart and your categories, for expenses or income. Group by tag, merchant, place, payment method or recurring transaction, choose several months, the whole year or a past year, and open any group for the details. BUDGETS AND SAVINGS Set a monthly budget and a budget for any category, and follow your progress. A marker shows how far through the month you are, so you can compare what you have spent with how much of the month has gone, and a row of months shows which ones stayed within budget. Plan across several months, and track savings accounts toward a goal. Turn on activity budgets to unlock spending through your Apple Health steps, running minutes and mindful minutes. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Everything stays in sync through your iCloud account. PayShare works offline and syncs when you are back online. Home Screen widgets show today's spending and this month's by category. PRIVACY Your transactions are stored in your own iCloud and shared only with the people you invite. PayShare sends anonymous usage events and crash reports to help improve the app; they never include amounts, merchants, notes or categories. Exchange rates come from a public currency service, and on iPhone and iPad the app asks Apple Ads whether an ad led to the install. Some features require PayShare Premium, offered as a monthly or annual subscription or a one-time purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://boogdan.com/apps/payshare/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://boogdan.com/apps/payshare/privacy/
Zeroed
Manage your money effectively with this privacy-focused budgeting app. It utilizes the zero-based budgeting method to assign every dollar a purpose, keeping your financial data securely on your device. Enjoy features like receipt scanning, smart import, and detailed reports without any ads or subscriptions.
- Envelope budgeting
- Privacy-focused, data stays on device
- Receipt scanner
- Smart bank statement import (CSV, PDF)
- Reports and charts
- Scheduled transactions
- Home-screen widgets
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Take control of your finances with envelope budgeting. Zeroed is a privacy-focused budgeting app that helps you achieve financial freedom using the proven zero-based budgeting method. Every unit of money gets a job. PRIVACY FIRST Your financial data stays on YOUR device. We never see your transactions. Your budget file is encrypted with AES-256 using a password only you know. OPTIONAL CLOUD SYNC Sync across devices using YOUR personal Google Drive. We only access files we create. POWERFUL FEATURES - Envelope budgeting: assign every unit of money to a category - Multiple accounts: current, savings and credit cards - Receipt scanner: snap a photo to add transactions - Smart import: bank statements (CSV, PDF) - Reports and charts - Scheduled transactions for recurring bills - Home-screen widgets: safe-to-spend and envelope balances at a glance - Dark and light themes NO SUBSCRIPTION — EVER Everything is free for 34 days. After the trial, a single one-time lifetime license keeps the whole app unlocked forever. If you decide not to buy, your data stays readable and exportable — it is never held hostage. YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL Local-first, encrypted on device, no ads, no tracking, export any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Zeroed at weekly against Expense Tracker's fortnightly. Zeroed also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Zeroed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Expense Tracker against 5.0 for Zeroed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Expense Tracker ships an update fortnightly, Zeroed weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense Tracker | Zeroed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BOGDAN-GEORGIAN ALEXA | Stillware Ltd |
Customer experience
Expense Tracker
Zeroed
In-app purchases
Expense Tracker
- Pro – Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro – Annual14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- One Time Payment Premium Lifetime$39.99
Zeroed
- Zeroed - Offline Budget Planner$19.99









