Expense Tracker Genius vs FireFlow for Firefly III
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense Tracker Genius
This app helps you manage your money with smart expense tracking, AI-powered travel planning, and customizable budgets. It offers detailed reports and insights to understand your spending habits. Designed with privacy first, all your financial data stays on your device.
- Smart expense tracking with AI scanning
- AI-powered travel planner and cost estimation
- Customizable budgets and savings goals
- Detailed financial reports and insights
- Multi-currency support
- Privacy-first design with on-device data storage
- Apple Watch and multiple widget support
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Take control of your finances with Expense Tracker Genius — the smart, privacy-first expense tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. SMART EXPENSE TRACKING - Add income and expenses with categories, tags, and notes - 3-tier scanning: Apple Intelligence, Vision spatial analysis, then regex - Scan receipts, bank statements, and payment app screenshots - Supports 20+ payment apps: PayPay, Suica, nanaco, Coke ON, Venmo, and more - AI detects multiple transactions from a single image - Smart category suggestions powered by Apple Intelligence or NLP - Recurring transactions, receipt attachments - Share Extension and Quick Actions from Home Screen AI-POWERED TRAVEL PLANNER - Plan trips with cost estimation powered by Apple Intelligence - Compare flights, trains, buses, and car routes with real MapKit data - Find real hotels via Apple Maps at budget, mid-range, and luxury tiers - Day-by-day itinerary with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and cafe suggestions - Track estimated vs actual spending with comparison charts - Interactive map with route, hotel, and activity pins - Share trip cards to Instagram, Facebook, or save to Photos - Link trips to savings goals with per-person budget breakdown - Weather forecast and metric/imperial support BUDGETS & SAVINGS GOALS - Category budgets with weekly, monthly, or custom periods - Visual progress charts and limit notifications - Pay cycle support — track from payday to payday - Savings goals with due dates and AI-powered tips - Addiction goals to cut spending on specific categories REPORTS & INSIGHTS - Pie charts, bar charts, radar charts, and line graphs - Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly breakdowns - AI-powered spending analysis and predictions - Predictions follow your selected account filter - Export as CSV, PDF, or images MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS & CURRENCIES - Cash, bank, credit card accounts with per-account currency - 60 currencies (30 fiat + 30 crypto) with live rates - Beautiful stacked card interface PERFORMANCE - 63x faster dashboard with single-pass calculations - Charts cached and only recompute when data changes - Debounced updates — no lag when switching views APPLE WATCH & 11 WIDGETS - Watch: daily summary, add expenses, complications - Widgets: balance, budget, goals, spending, travel, quotes - 7 themes: System, Story Card, Editorial, Pop Art, Monochrome Ink, Card Stack, Midnight Sapphire DESIGNED FOR MAC - Native Mac Catalyst with keyboard shortcuts - Resizable window with full feature parity PRIVACY FIRST - All data on your device — no servers - Optional iCloud sync, Face ID/Touch ID/PIN lock - Privacy mode hides amounts 23 languages. Full accessibility. Siri Shortcuts. Start today!
FireFlow for Firefly III
This app provides a native mobile interface for managing your personal finances hosted on your own server. It allows for offline transaction recording, detailed financial tracking, and bill reminders, all while ensuring your data remains within your control.
- Offline transaction recording
- Net worth and budget tracking
- Bill reminders and management
- Receipt scanning and data extraction
- Multi-instance support
- Siri integration
- Apple Watch app
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FireFlow is a native iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch client for Firefly III — the personal finance software you run on your own server. There is no account to create and no service in the middle. FireFlow talks to one computer: the one whose address you type in. If your instance lives on your home network, your finances never leave your house. RECORD IT WHEN IT HAPPENS Cash purchases happen where there's no signal — a market stall, a car park, a basement till. FireFlow takes the transaction anyway, marks it as waiting, and sends it the moment your server is reachable again. Nothing is lost and nothing is sent twice. Home tells you when you're offline and what's waiting to sync, and anything your server refuses appears with the reason and a choice of retrying or discarding it. Add a transaction however is closest to hand: • Ask Siri — "Add an expense at Soriana in FireFlow" • A three-tap quick add on Apple Watch • The + on your Home Screen widget, Control Center or the Action Button SEE WHERE YOU STAND • Net worth across all your accounts, per currency — never blended, because two currencies have no honest sum • Assets and liabilities, grouped, with the accounts you've excluded from net worth kept out of it • Twelve periods of history: net worth over time, money in against money out, and where it actually went • Budgets and bills, piggy banks you can add money to from the card, and spending paced against the same days last month • Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch widgets and complications showing the figure you choose ON IPAD A sidebar in landscape, the transaction list and the one you pick side by side, keyboard shortcuts, right-click menus, and receipts you drag in from Photos, Files or Mail. BILLS AND RECEIPTS • A reminder before each bill is due — on the day, the day before or three days ahead. Tap Record payment and the expense opens already filled in and linked to the bill • Turn any payment into a recurring bill, or change, pause and delete bills from the app • Scan a ticket, pick a photo or attach a file. On a new expense FireFlow reads the total, date and shop on your phone — nothing is sent anywhere but your server EVERY TRANSACTION, AT ANY DISTANCE Search covers every date, not just the period you're looking at. Filter by account, type or currency, with each day's net change per account. Scroll back through years. Create, edit, clone and delete, including split transactions — and a transfer between your own accounts is shown from the account you're standing in, so moving money never reads as income. BUILT FOR ONE SERVER: YOURS • Multiple instances, switch between them freely • Behind Cloudflare Access, Authelia or a similar gateway? Add the headers it needs, per server • Amounts in your own number format, or typed in cents • Your token lives in the iOS Keychain • Optional Face ID or Touch ID lock, with a delay you choose • Hide balances with one tap — and it hides them everywhere, including the charts, widgets and what VoiceOver reads aloud • Full VoiceOver support: transactions read as sentences, charts can be played as audio graphs • Dynamic Type all the way to the largest accessibility sizes • Light and dark, fifteen accent colours PRIVACY, PLAINLY No analytics. No tracking. No third-party code of any kind. Nothing is collected about you, because there is nowhere for it to go — there is no backend. Deleting the app, or "Delete all local data" in Settings, removes every trace from the device and touches nothing on your server. WHAT YOU NEED A Firefly III instance you can reach, and a Personal Access Token from it. If you don't have one yet, tap "Try the demo" on the first screen to see the whole app running on sample data with no network calls at all. HELP SHAPE IT Join the beta or send an idea from Settings → About. FireFlow is built by one person who reads every message. FireFlow is an independent app and is not affiliated with the Firefly III project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FireFlow for Firefly III at every 5 days against Expense Tracker Genius's every 2 weeks. Expense Tracker Genius's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Expense Tracker Genius against 5.0 for FireFlow for Firefly III. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Expense Tracker Genius ships an update every 2 weeks, FireFlow for Firefly III every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense Tracker Genius | FireFlow for Firefly III |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hussein Juybari | Anton Krall |
Customer experience
Expense Tracker Genius
FireFlow for Firefly III
In-app purchases
Expense Tracker Genius
No in-app purchases
FireFlow for Firefly III
No in-app purchases
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