Comparison

Perce vs Spend Monthly

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

Head to head
About

Perce

Features
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Perce helps you see your entire financial position clearly โ€” not just your daily spending. Track assets, liabilities, transfers, recurring entries, reminders, and net worth in one simple place. With Net Worth history and Monthly Insights, Perce helps you understand how your finances change over time. Stay updated at a glance with the Perce Home Screen Widget, showing your Net Worth, Total Assets, and Total Liabilities. You can also use Siri and Shortcuts to quickly check your financial position without opening the app. Key Features: โ€ข Track assets and liabilities โ€ข See your current Net Worth and 6-month history โ€ข Home Screen Widget for quick financial overview โ€ข Siri & Shortcuts for Net Worth, Assets, and Liabilities โ€ข Monthly Insights to review your financial progress โ€ข Recurring entries with progress tracking โ€ข Internal transfers between assets โ€ข Liability payment tracking โ€ข Smart reminders for upcoming entries โ€ข Search with filtered totals โ€ข Pin important assets and liabilities โ€ข Multiple currency support โ€ข Optional iCloud Sync across your Apple devices Perce is designed to keep personal finance tracking simple, private, and easy to understand. No ads. No subscriptions. Optional tips are available if you would like to support the development of Perce.

About

Spend Monthly

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Spend Monthly is a quiet expense tracker. You write down what you spend, and it tells you where the money went. HOW AN EXPENSE GETS IN Type it. The plus button, a keypad, and it is saved. Works with no internet, and works for cash, which nothing automatic can see. Photograph a receipt. Point the camera at it and the amount, the shop and the date are read for you. You see it before it is saved. Share a receipt. Paid with DuitNow QR, a transfer or a card? Send the receipt your banking app shows you straight to Spend Monthly, and the expense fills itself in. Forward it by email. Every account gets its own address. Anything with a payment on it becomes an expense, and you check each one before it is kept. WHAT IT SHOWS YOU What you have spent this month, and how that compares with last month. Budgets you set yourself, per category or across everything. It tells you once when you are getting close, and never nags. Which days cost the most, what you spend on repeatedly, and where this month is heading if the rest of it looks like the start. THE SMALL PRINT Free to use, with a limit on how many expenses arrive each month. Plus lifts the limits and is a monthly or yearly subscription; the price in your own currency is shown before you pay, and you can cancel any time in Settings. English and Bahasa Melayu. Light and dark. Your records are yours: you can export them, and you can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app or from spendmonthly.com/delete-account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spendmonthly.com/policy

Screenshots

Perce4 screens
Spend Monthly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Perce at none against Spend Monthly's shown. Spend Monthly's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Perce sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Spend Monthly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Perce ships an update every 2 weeks, Spend Monthly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Perce versus Spend Monthly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerceSpend Monthly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMuhammad Aliff Hafiz Bin MarakarWan Kamaruzaman Bin Muhammad

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Perce

One-time3
  • Buy Me a Coffee$0.99
  • Buy Me Lunch$4.99
  • Buy Me Dinner$9.99
2 purchases

Spend Monthly

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Perce free?
Perce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spend Monthly free?
Spend Monthly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Perce or Spend Monthly have ads?
Spend Monthly shows ads; Perce does not.
Which is updated more often, Perce or Spend Monthly?
Perce ships an update every 2 weeks, and Spend Monthly every 3 weeks. Most recently, Perce was updated on October 14, 2026 and Spend Monthly on October 12, 2026.

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