Comparison

BillLog vs TallyScan

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

Head to head
About

BillLog

This app allows detailed tracking of income and expenses by breaking down each transaction into itemized details, quantities, and prices. It supports receipt scanning, flexible categorization, and visual summaries to understand spending habits. Recurring bills and multi-device sync are also available.

Highlights
  • Itemized bookkeeping
  • Receipt scanning
  • Flexible categories and tags
  • Spending charts and summaries
  • Recurring bill management
  • Multi-device sync
  • Face ID protection
Features
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BillLog is a personal finance app built around itemized records, tags, and custom boards. Instead of saving only a total, you can break a bill into individual items and record quantities, unit prices, categories, and prices after discounts—so you can see where your money actually went. Categories answer “What kind of expense was this?” Tags connect expenses to real-life contexts. Group bills for a trip, home project, household, or subscription with tags, then use custom boards to follow spending, income, trends, and budget progress over time. Key features: - Receipt-assisted entry: scan a receipt or import an image from Photos to create an editable draft - Itemized records: split one bill into multiple items with names, quantities, unit prices, and categories - Discount allocation: distribute an order-level discount across items for more accurate totals and reports - Tag organization: attach multiple tags to a bill and organize spending by household, trip, project, or any context you choose - Custom boards: combine tags into focused boards for spending, income, trends, and budget progress - Flexible insights: review your finances by date, category, and tag - Recurring bills: manage daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly expenses and get reminders before they are due - Data control: sync with iCloud, import or export JSON and Excel files, and protect access with Face ID - Local web access: open the Web service to view bills, dashboards, and boards from a browser on the same network Useful for: - Grocery shopping: save individual items and keep categories accurate after discounts - Travel and home projects: group expenses with tags and monitor the budget on a dedicated board - Subscriptions and fixed expenses: track recurring charges and see what is coming up - Household and project finances: review income and spending together in one context From quickly saving a purchase to understanding a long-running project, BillLog turns everyday transactions into records you can actually review. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://myqonnt.github.io/BillLog/privacy-policy.html

About

TallyScan

Features
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Stop guessing where your grocery money goes. Scan any receipt and TallyScan's on-device AI reads every item, price and category — then tap any product to see what you have paid for it over time, at every store you shop. Private by design: every scan happens on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no data ever leaves your device. Catch price hikes, build a budget, and finally see where the grocery bill goes. PRICE HISTORY FOR EVERYTHING YOU BUY Tap any line item to see every time you have bought it: what it cost, which store was cheapest, and whether the price is climbing. The longer you scan, the more it knows. SMART RECEIPT SCANNING Snap a photo of any receipt and on-device AI instantly extracts the store, total, and every line item — auto-categorized into Produce, Dairy, Meat, Household, and more. Works with crumpled, faded, and long receipts. Prefer typing? Quick manual entry with one-tap templates. SPENDING INSIGHTS Monthly spending charts, category breakdowns, top items, and store-by-store comparisons — all generated from your real receipts. PRICE WATCH Buy the same items week after week? TallyScan compares your own purchase history and flags exactly which items got more expensive — and which got cheaper. BUDGET TRACKING Set a monthly budget and watch progress in real time, with clear over/under indicators. AI SAVINGS TIPS Personalized suggestions based on your actual shopping patterns, powered by Apple Intelligence — entirely on your device. PRIVATE — ON-DEVICE AI No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No cloud. Your data is never uploaded, processed remotely, or shared with anyone. FREE, WITH NO LIMIT Scan as many receipts as you like. Monthly spending, the category breakdown, three AI questions per receipt and CSV export are free for everyone — and so is the full price history of one item you choose. TALLYSCAN PREMIUM Premium opens the rest: • Price history for every item, not one — every price you have paid, at every store • Store comparison — which shop charged less for the things you actually buy • Price Watch — the items you rebuy that are getting more expensive • AI savings tips, and unlimited questions about any receipt • Budget tracking, with clear over and under indicators Catch one price rise and it can pay for the year. Terms of Use: https://dotdotdotapps.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://dotdotdotapps.com/privacy

Screenshots

BillLog4 screens
TallyScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BillLog at 18.0 against TallyScan's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. BillLog sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and TallyScan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BillLog against 5.0 for TallyScan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BillLog ships an update weekly, TallyScan every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BillLog versus TallyScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBillLogTallyScan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer章铭 李Dotdotdotapps LLC

Customer experience

BillLog

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TallyScan

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BillLog

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$0.991 Month
4 purchases

TallyScan

Subscriptions3
  • Aisle Weekly$1.497 Days
  • Aisle Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Aisle Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Aisle Premium$39.99

Questions

Is BillLog free?
BillLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TallyScan free?
TallyScan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BillLog or TallyScan?
BillLog and TallyScan are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BillLog or TallyScan have ads?
Neither BillLog nor TallyScan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BillLog or TallyScan?
BillLog ships an update weekly, and TallyScan every 4 days. Most recently, BillLog was updated on October 31, 2026 and TallyScan on November 5, 2026.

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