Comparison

Spending vs SpendByMe

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

Head to head
About

Spending

Features
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Take control of your finances with Spending – Expense Tracker, a simple, secure, and beautifully designed app that helps you track expenses, manage budgets, monitor bills, and achieve your savings goals. Whether you're recording daily expenses, planning monthly budgets, or organizing your personal finances, Spending makes expense management effortless. NEW: Voice-to-Text Expense Entry Adding expenses is now faster than ever. Simply tap the microphone and say: "Spent ₹250 on food" or "Paid ₹1,200 for shopping." Spending automatically understands your voice and creates the transaction in seconds, making expense tracking quick, accurate, and effortless. Track Income & Expenses Stay organized with an easy and intuitive expense tracker. • Add income and expenses instantly • Organize transactions with custom categories • View complete financial history • Monitor your daily spending and cash flow Smart Reports & Insights Understand where your money goes with beautiful charts and detailed analytics. • Spending by category • Monthly & yearly summaries • Income and expense overview • Advanced search and filters Budget Planner & Savings Goals Build better financial habits and stay on track. • Create monthly budgets • Monitor spending limits • Track savings progress • Identify unnecessary expenses Recurring Transactions & Bill Reminders Never miss an important payment. • Schedule recurring income and expenses • Track subscriptions and monthly bills • Receive helpful reminders on time Automatic Backup Keep your financial data safe and accessible. • Automatic backup when enabled • Restore data on a new device • Secure local storage with optional cloud backup Multi-Currency & Multi-Language Manage your finances anywhere. • Multiple currencies • Multiple languages • Regional date and number formats Custom Categories Personalize the way you organize your money. • Unlimited categories • Custom icons and colors • Flexible expense organization Privacy & Security Your financial information stays private. • Face ID & Touch ID support • Secure local storage • Optional cloud backup • No advertising trackers • You control your data Designed for Everyday Use • Clean and intuitive interface • Dark Mode support • Fast and lightweight performance • Simple enough for everyone Perfect For • Personal finance • Daily expense tracking • Budget planning • Students and families • Freelancers and professionals • Small business owners Take control of your money, understand your spending habits, and make smarter financial decisions every day. Download Spending – Expense Tracker and start building better financial habits with fast expense tracking, smart budgeting, and effortless Voice-to-Text expense entry.

About

SpendByMe

Effortlessly manage your finances with an AI-powered app that automatically tracks expenses, subscriptions, and bills by analyzing SMS and email. Gain clarity on your spending without manual entry, organize transactions with smart categorization, and monitor credit card usage and upcoming payments.

Highlights
  • Automatic expense tracking via SMS/email
  • Smart expense categorization
  • Credit card bill and due date tracking
  • Subscription, loan, and EMI tracker
  • Expense splitting with friends/couples
  • Budget planner and goal tracking
  • Spending map and insights
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Stop tracking expenses manually. Most expense tracker apps expect you to enter everything yourself. That’s where people give up. SpendByMe is an AI-powered SMS & email-based automatic money management app that helps you track expenses, subscriptions, credit card bills, EMIs, and upcoming payments automatically. Instead of manually entering transactions, SpendByMe analyzes transactional SMS messages, statement emails, receipts, and bank statements to organize your finances automatically. No spreadsheets. No daily effort. No confusion. Just clarity. Works with almost every major currency worldwide. ▶ Track your money in 3 simple ways 1. Automatic expense tracking Transactions can be tracked automatically using transactional SMS messages and email alerts. Connect your email to fetch transaction alerts and credit card statements automatically. 2. Paste any transaction Paste a bank message and it gets categorized and added instantly. 3. Manual entry Add amount, merchant, and account. SpendByMe completes the rest automatically. ▶ Smart expense categorization • Automatically categorizes your transactions • Learns from your usage and improves over time • Set custom rules for full control • No need to fix categories again and again ▶ All your money in one place • Bank accounts, credit cards, wallets, and cash • Automatic balance tracking • One clean view of your finances • Automatic currency conversion support No switching between apps. No guesswork. ▶ Smart credit card management • Track credit card bills, due dates, and limits • Monitor spending across multiple cards • Understand your real credit usage • Avoid missed payments and late fees ▶ Subscription, loan & EMI tracker • Detect subscriptions, EMIs, loans, and recurring payments • Track upcoming payments and due dates • Avoid missed payments and hidden charges ▶ Splits with friends & couples • Split expenses with friends instantly • Track shared expenses for trips and groups • Manage couple expenses easily • Send reminders in one tap ▶ Tags & sub-tags for better organization • Organize transactions using tags and sub-tags • Track reimbursements and shared payments • Create trip budgets and event budgets • Filter transactions exactly how you want ▶ Spending map & smart insights • See where you spend money on a map • Track location-based spending habits ▶ Upcoming payments & invoice tracker • Track upcoming bills and payments • Create and manage invoices ▶ Budget planner & goal tracking • Create budgets in seconds • Track savings goals and financial targets ▶ Accurate financial tracking • Separates expenses, income, and transfers properly • Clean and reliable data • Search any transaction instantly • Real insights into your spending ▶ Powerful search & insights • Search transactions, tags, merchants, or notes instantly • AI-powered insights • Understand where your money goes Privacy-first expense tracker ▶ Your data stays yours. • Everything stays on your device unless you enable sync • Only transactional messages and emails are processed • No access to personal chats • No unnecessary data collection SpendByMe does not read personal chats, OTPs, or unrelated messages. Flexible and easy to use • Want full automation? It’s there • Prefer manual control? That works too SpendByMe adapts to you. Gets smarter over time. The more you use it, the better it becomes. Better categorization. Better accuracy. Less effort. Take control of your money today. Download SpendByMe — your smart expense tracker, budget planner, subscription tracker, split expense app, EMI tracker, credit card manager, and automatic money management app. Terms of Use: This app uses the standard Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA). You can find it here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Spending4 screens
SpendByMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spending at none against SpendByMe's 7. SpendByMe's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SpendByMe sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Spending asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spending ships an update every 3 days, SpendByMe every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Spending versus SpendByMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendingSpendByMe
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—58.8% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlbert Patrick SankohAbhinav Ranjan Jha

In-app purchases

None

Spending

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

SpendByMe

Subscriptions7
  • SpendByMe Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Spendbyme Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Spendbyme Max Monthly$7.991 Month
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  • SpendByMe Pro 6 Months$7.996 Months
  • SpendByMe Pro 1 Year$14.991 Year
  • Spendbyme Plus Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Spendbyme Max Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Spending free?
Spending is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpendByMe free?
SpendByMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spending or SpendByMe have ads?
Spending shows ads; SpendByMe does not.
Which is updated more often, Spending or SpendByMe?
Spending ships an update every 3 days, and SpendByMe every 5 days. Most recently, Spending was updated on October 18, 2026 and SpendByMe on October 16, 2026.

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