Comparison

AutoLedger vs Expense Minion

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

Head to head
About

AutoLedger

Effortlessly track daily expenses by automatically logging transactions from screenshots, photos, or clipboard content. This app streamlines record-keeping, allowing for quick review and organization of spending habits.

Highlights
  • Log expenses from payment screenshots
  • Capture receipts with camera
  • Paste clipboard content for import
  • One-tap logging with Shortcuts
  • Automatic recognition of transaction details
  • Review monthly spending summaries
  • Manage categories and merchants
Features
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AutoLedger - Quick Ledger Turn screenshots, receipts, voice notes, and hotel folios into your personal ledger. AutoLedger is a local-first personal ledger app that helps reduce repetitive entry and makes everyday spending easier to record. Start from information you already have: payment screenshots, receipt photos, voice notes, Shortcuts, and hotel folios. Live OCR quickly recognizes amounts, merchants, and times from receipts and bills. Every result enters a confirmation flow before it is saved, so you can review and edit it first. AutoLedger never creates a transaction without your confirmation, keeping you in control of your records. Quick Capture Record with screenshots, receipt photos, voice, text, Shortcuts, the Share Extension, and quick entry on Apple Watch. Multiple ledgers, custom categories, spending trends, monthly reports, import and export, and iCloud sync help you maintain a useful spending history over time. Hotel Expense Archive Travel and business stays often contain more detail than ordinary expenses. A hotel folio may include stay dates, nights, room charges, taxes, service fees, dining, and other charges. AutoLedger organizes hotel folio PDFs and saves stay details and expenses as structured hotel records for reviewing trips and managing business spending. Apple Ecosystem Use AutoLedger on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Capture quickly on your phone, organize on a larger screen, and keep your ledger up to date. AutoLedger Pro Pro adds time-saving automation, including hotel folio organization, a dedicated folio inbox, batch candidate processing, advanced search, subscription anomaly alerts, month-end document organization, and advanced rule automation. Core bookkeeping remains available for the long term. Pro is designed to reduce repetitive work, not restrict access to your ledger data.

About

Expense Minion

Features
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Expense Minion is a privacy-first expense tracker that uses on-device AI to automatically extract and categorize expenses from photos of receipts, payment slips, and invoices. HOW IT WORKS • Take a photo or import from your gallery • Apple Vision OCR reads the text instantly • On-device AI identifies the merchant, amount, date, and category • Your expense is created automatically — no manual typing KEY FEATURES • On-device AI — everything runs on your phone, nothing leaves your device • 50+ languages supported including Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean • Smart categorization — food, transport, shopping, utilities, and more • Non-expense filtering — AI recognizes non-receipt photos automatically • Template learning — the app learns from your corrections • Dashboard with monthly trends and category breakdown • Search and filter by merchant, category, or notes • Biometric authentication (Face ID / Touch ID) • Works fully offline after one-time AI model download TWO MODES • Smart Mode — instant OCR extraction, no download needed • Vision AI Mode — download the AI model for automatic categorization PRIVACY FIRST • No account required • No cloud sync • No subscription • No ads • All data stays on your device

Screenshots

AutoLedger4 screens
Expense Minion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Expense Minion at none against AutoLedger's 5. Expense Minion also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). AutoLedger's advantage is device support (6 vs 1). On price, ads 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. AutoLedger sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Expense Minion asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AutoLedger ships an update every 2 weeks, Expense Minion daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
AutoLedger versus Expense Minion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAutoLedgerExpense Minion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMochuan Software (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.Apisak Musikapan

In-app purchases

5 purchases

AutoLedger

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time3
  • Coffee Support$0.99
  • Lunch Support$2.99
  • Sponsor Support$9.99
None

Expense Minion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AutoLedger free?
AutoLedger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Expense Minion free?
Expense Minion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AutoLedger or Expense Minion have ads?
Neither AutoLedger nor Expense Minion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AutoLedger or Expense Minion?
AutoLedger ships an update every 2 weeks, and Expense Minion daily. Most recently, AutoLedger was updated on October 7, 2026 and Expense Minion on October 10, 2026.

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