Comparison

SpendWhat vs Spending tracker

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

Head to head
About

SpendWhat

Effortlessly track your spending with an AI-powered financial assistant. Log expenses via voice or receipt scan, receive personalized saving tips, and visualize your financial health with intuitive charts. Keep your data synced and secure across all devices.

Highlights
  • Voice-powered expense logging
  • Smart receipt scanning (OCR)
  • Personalized AI saving tips
  • Intuitive visual financial charts
  • Cross-platform data sync
  • AI-driven spending nudges
Features
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EVER WONDERED: "WHERE DID ALL MY MONEY GO SO FAST?" Stop letting personal finance become a month-end headache. Let SpendWhat – the smartest AI-powered financial assistant – help you master every transaction in the blink of an eye. WHY CHOOSE SPENDWHAT? Voice-Powered Logging: No more tedious typing! Just say "I spent $5 on coffee," and our AI will automatically categorize and save it for you instantly. Smart Receipt Scanning (OCR): Simply snap a photo of your receipt. The AI will extract the total amount and category with high precision. Convenience at its best! Personal AI Assistant: Our intelligent bot tracks your habits to "nudge" you when you’re overspending and offers personalized saving tips based on your routine. Intuitive Visual Charts: Experience a modern, dynamic interface with a trendy Purple-Blue theme. Grasp your financial health at a glance in just 3 seconds. Seamless Cross-Platform Sync: Your data is always synced, encrypted, and safe across all your devices. Transform money management from a burden into an enjoyable experience. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeul

About

Spending tracker

Features
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Spending Tracker is the simplest way to know where your money goes. No bank login. No account. No ads. You write down what you spend — and the app turns it into a picture you actually understand. A CALENDAR, NOT A SPREADSHEET Every day shows what you earned and spent, right on the month grid. One look tells you whether this month is going well. Tap any day to see the details. LOG AN EXPENSE IN THREE SECONDS • Big number pad with a 000 key, built for real prices • Quick add: type "coffee 45k" and the amount and category fill themselves • Scan a paper receipt or a bank notification screenshot — the amount is read on your device • Add from the home screen widget, the Lock Screen, or your Apple Watch MANY WALLETS, MANY CURRENCIES Keep cash, a bank account and a foreign-currency card side by side. Each wallet has its own currency and shows its own symbol and decimals. Totals, charts and budgets are converted to your main currency using live exchange rates, and the rates keep working offline. BUDGETS THAT ACTUALLY HELP Set a monthly limit overall or per category. Instead of a number you have to interpret, the app tells you plainly how much you can still spend each day for the rest of the month. RECURRING AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Rent, salary, Netflix — set them once and they are recorded on time. The subscription screen adds up what you pay every month, so hidden costs stop being hidden. SEE THE PATTERN A clean donut chart by category, six months of income against spending, and percentages that make the story obvious. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything is stored on your device. There is no account to create and nothing is uploaded. Turn on iCloud sync only if you want your own devices to share the same book. Lock the app with Face ID. Export everything to CSV whenever you like. 17 LANGUAGES English, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Arabic. Change the language inside the app — it does not have to match your phone. FREE AND PREMIUM The free version is a real app, not a trial: unlimited transactions, the calendar, budgets, charts and CSV export. Premium adds unlimited wallets and categories, receipt scanning, unlimited recurring rules and advanced reports. Premium is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase, or as a monthly or yearly subscription — whichever suits you. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://phungdoanh.github.io/term.html Privacy Policy: https://phungdoanh.github.io/privacy_policy.html

Screenshots

SpendWhat4 screens
Spending tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Spending tracker at none against SpendWhat's shown. SpendWhat's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. SpendWhat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Spending tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SpendWhat versus Spending tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendWhatSpending tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnh NguyenPhung Doanh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SpendWhat

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly plan$3.991 Month
  • Anuual plan$9.991 Year
3 purchases

Spending tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Spending tracker Pro Month$0.991 Month
  • Spending tracker Pro Year$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Spending tracker Pro Life Time$9.99

Questions

Is SpendWhat free?
SpendWhat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spending tracker free?
Spending tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SpendWhat or Spending tracker have ads?
SpendWhat shows ads; Spending tracker does not.

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