Comparison

Spent. vs Orbit Spending

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

Head to head
About

Spent.

This private expense tracker logs payments from bank alerts and Apple Pay. It uses on-device AI to read screenshots and receipts, offering insights and budget tracking without cloud storage or accounts.

Highlights
  • Private expense tracking
  • Bank alert and Apple Pay integration
  • On-device AI for receipt scanning
  • AI-powered data entry suggestions
  • Budget creation and tracking
  • Multi-currency support
  • Insights by category and merchant
Features
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Your bank already tells you. Spent. writes it down. Spent. is a private expense tracker for iPhone. After a one-time Shortcuts setup, payments arrive from Apple Pay and, on iOS 27, from your bank's alerts. You check each one and it's logged. No account, no tracking, and your records stay on your phone. BANK ALERTS (FREE, iOS 27) Your bank or wallet app already tells you when you've paid. Get the shortcut and choose those apps. There's no rule to write: each payment alert waits in your review list, and Spent. learns which account it belongs to from what you approve. No bank login, no connection to your bank, no server. Apple Pay capture (FREE) Add the shortcut in Settings > Apple Pay. Each time you pay with Apple Pay, the purchase waits in your review list with the merchant and amount filled in. Approve them one at a time or all at once. AI UNLOCK Screenshot your e-wallet history. Spent. fills in every row. It reads bank and wallet screenshots and receipts, turns "lunch 12" into an entry, and suggests clean names and categories. On iPhone 15 Pro or later running iOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence on, this runs on Apple's on-device model with nothing to download, and you can try it free for 7 days. Other iPhones download Spent.'s model once (3.6 GB). Either way it reads on your phone (Cloud check, below, is the one optional exception), and you check every entry before it saves. ASK LIL BIT (FREE) Lil Bit, the little bookkeeper inside Spent., answers from what you've recorded, right on your phone. • "How much on food this month?" • "How much at Target last month?" • "Compare this month and last" • "Am I over budget?" BUDGETS Set a monthly limit for any category and Insights draws a quiet bar under it, so you can see under, near or over at a glance. Per currency, and included in your backups. WHAT ELSE YOU CAN DO • Track expenses, income and transfers across accounts • Multi-currency: each account keeps its own currency, with no conversions • Insights by category and merchant, month over month • Scan a pile of receipts for free with on-device text recognition; each waits in your review list with its photo • Double-tap the back of your iPhone on a payment screen to log it (one-time Back Tap setup) • Pick a category for new captures with one tap in your review list • Select several transactions and change their category, merchant, account or notes at once • See and edit what Spent. remembers about each merchant • Recurring transactions and duplicate detection • Home Screen widget to log, scan or ask in one tap; it shows no data by design • Privacy mask hides every balance with one tap • Siri and Shortcuts • Full backup and restore, any time PRIVACY BY DESIGN Spent. has no server and no account. Nothing is collected, so there is nothing to leak. The AI runs on your iPhone. Cloud check is optional: only if you allow it, Spent. sends the text it read, never the photo, to Apple's Private Cloud Compute for a second look, and Apple can't store it. Your receipts, balances and habits stay with you. Free: manual tracking, bank alerts, Apple Pay capture, Lil Bit chat, receipt scanning, budgets and insights. AI Unlock is one payment for screenshot import, AI receipt reading, typed entries and AI suggestions. No subscription, ever. Your expenses, tracked privately.

About

Orbit Spending

Features
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Orbit tracks your spending automatically. Set up a one-time Shortcut and every Apple Pay purchase logs itself the moment you tap to pay: amount, merchant, and card, without ever opening the app. No bank logins. No spreadsheets. No typing in receipts. TRACKING THAT DOES ITSELF • Apple Pay purchases import automatically, in the background • Merchant logos and smart categorization keep your list tidy • Cash or card purchases add manually in seconds • See where a purchase happened on a map KNOW WHAT YOU CAN SPEND • Monthly budget with a daily allowance that updates as you spend • Everyday-spending mode that ignores fixed costs like rent • Recurring payment tracking so subscriptions never surprise you • Alerts for budget limits, large purchases, upcoming charges, plus a weekly summary • Home Screen widget with your month at a glance SET UP IN A MINUTE Sign in with Apple, Google, or email, follow the guided setup, and your next tap-to-pay purchase tracks itself. Your history syncs to your account, so a new phone picks up right where you left off. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No analytics, no ads, no selling your data. Purchase locations never leave your device. Face ID lock and in-app account deletion included. Orbit is free.

Screenshots

Spent.4 screens
Orbit Spending3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbit Spending at none against Spent.'s 2. On price, ads, 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. Spent. sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Orbit Spending asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Spent. versus Orbit Spending: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpent.Orbit Spending
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChee Leong CHONGCaden Chiang

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spent.

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • AI Unlock$4.99
None

Orbit Spending

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spent. free?
Spent. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Spending free?
Orbit Spending is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spent. or Orbit Spending have ads?
Neither Spent. nor Orbit Spending shows ads.

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