Expense Tracker vs Flower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense Tracker
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Expense Tracker: Koala is a minimalist bookkeeping app that keeps every transaction crystal clear. ▶ EFFORTLESS BOOKKEEPING Record income, expenses, and transfers in seconds. Parent-child categories and tags keep everything organized. ▶ CALENDAR OVERVIEW View daily income and expenses on a monthly calendar. Tap any date to see detailed transactions. ▶ PROFESSIONAL ANALYTICS Pie charts, bar charts, and trend graphs analyze your spending by category, tag, or account. ▶ MULTI-ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT Support for cash, bank cards, credit cards, e-wallets, and more — with balance tracking and credit card billing cycles. ▶ MULTI-CURRENCY & EXCHANGE RATES Built-in global currency support with real-time exchange rate updates, so international spending is always accurately tracked. ▶ IMPORT & EXPORT Import from WeChat, Alipay, or CSV templates. Export to CSV/Excel for flexible data portability. ▶ CLOUD SYNC Sign in to sync across all your devices in real time. Never lose your data when switching phones. ▶ SCHEDULED BOOKKEEPING Set recurring rules for rent, salary, and more — transactions are created automatically. ▶ SHORTCUTS QUICK ENTRY Add Koala's built-in Shortcut with one tap. Trigger it right from WeChat, Alipay, or any payment page to instantly pop up the entry window — log it and jump straight back, no app-switching required. ▶ iOS WIDGETS Home screen widgets show today's or this month's totals at a glance. ▶ 5 LANGUAGES Supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean. ▶ PRIVACY FIRST Apple Sign-In authentication. Local-first data storage. Your financial data stays private. ▶ Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flower
Effortlessly track your expenses and income with on-device suggestions and receipt scanning. Visualize your spending patterns with detailed monthly and yearly recaps. Manage all your financial accounts in one organized space.
- On-device expense and income recording
- Receipt and screenshot scanning
- Monthly and yearly financial recaps
- Multi-currency wallet management
- Cash flow and recurring item tracking
- Flexible search and filtering
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Flower brings your expenses, budgets, and wallets together in a personal space. Keep everyday records clear, then revisit the places and moments behind the numbers. RECORD YOUR WAY Add expenses and income, organize categories and subcategories, and attach photos or places. Scan receipts, import payment screenshots, or review CSV/XLSX records before importing them. Suggestions based on your own history help with familiar purchases. MULTIPLE LEDGERS, A CLEARER VIEW Flower Plus lets you create additional ledgers for different purposes, each with a name and a Flower library icon. Switch between one ledger and all ledgers; records, maps, statistics, and recaps follow your selection. Wallet and account balances belong to you across all ledgers. SEE WHERE YOU SPENT Explore saved locations on your Spending Map, from familiar streets to places visited further afield. Search for a place and look through records nearby. Photos and locations are free to add, and the current month’s map is free to use. REMEMBER YOUR MONTH A completed month becomes a Monthly recap with photos, places, spending patterns, and changes. Explore your monthly imprint and revisit a Story with a few words to remember the month by. Basic weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics remain free. ORGANIZE YOUR MONEY Bring cash, bank accounts, credit accounts, and multi-currency wallets together. Track transfers, recurring items, split expenses, and repayment records. Investment accounts are for keeping your own records. PLAN AND PERSONALIZE Set an overall budget or a separate budget for each saved ledger and see what remains. Choose Card Holder styles, arrange embossings, and give categories a little personality with miniature, felt, and other icon collections. FLOWER PLUS Flower Plus lets you create additional ledgers; add reimbursement details, installment schedules, or discounts to records; add transfer fees; and create or extend shared credit accounts. Shared credit groups cards under one limit while keeping each card’s debt separate. Other benefits include private iCloud sync, full-ledger PDF/CSV export, historical Spending Maps, more Monthly recaps, and expanded asset and Card Holder capacity. Some appearances are sold separately. See the in-app offer for current plans and included features. If a subscription expires, your saved data stays. You can keep using saved ledgers, record in active ones, rename or archive them, correct or remove saved premium details, receive reimbursements, and stop existing installment plans. Due installments from existing plans continue to create records. You can correct saved transfer fees and shared limits, remove cards from a shared group, or record repayments. Creating new paid configurations requires Flower Plus. Settings → Feature display controls which tools are shown. It does not unlock paid features. A locked action opens Flower Plus; a verified purchase or restore returns you to that action. Cancelling keeps your draft. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flower at none against Expense Tracker's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Expense Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Flower asks for nothing beyond the download.
Expense Tracker ships an update weekly, Flower every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense Tracker | Flower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 巍 阮 | Zhiwen Huang |
In-app purchases
Expense Tracker
- 考拉记账会员(月)$0.991 Month
- 考拉记账会员(年)$6.991 Year
Flower
No in-app purchases









