Expense Minion vs TradaVN

Snap a receipt, get an expense, with no sign-up and nothing you record leaving your iPhone. Everything is free: no purchases, no ads. Expense Minion reads your receipts right on the phone, and Soot, a little puff of soot, cheers you on every time you log. QUICK TO USE • Scan: take a photo or pick receipts from your photos, and each one is read straight away • Add: type an amount, pick a category, save. Three taps. • Several at once: type "coffee 60 lunch 80" in Add and save both, or say it with the keyboard's dictation • Every photo gets a result, so nothing quietly disappears: saved, needs review, not a receipt, or couldn't read • Undo: delete, move or edit, then change your mind with one tap • Share a receipt from another app into Expense Minion • Learns as you go: the category is remembered for each shop, and a receipt format you correct once is read better next time PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking • Nothing you record is uploaded: your expenses, photos and chats stay on this iPhone • When you're online, the app updates exchange rates once a day without sending any of your data, and downloads the AI model only if you ask • Scan uses the iOS photo picker, so it needs no access to your photo library. Photos access is asked for only when you turn on a feature that needs it. • Lock the app with Face ID NEW IN 1.7.0 • One payment, many papers: the bank slip, the card-terminal slip and the tax invoice of one payment count once • A duplicate proven by its payment number (the slip's QR code, a transaction or reference number) is left out of your totals and hidden. Shown, it reads "Duplicate · not counted", and "Not a duplicate" counts it again. • Two payments at the same shop, even minutes apart, stay two expenses. • Import from a file: a CSV export from MeowJot, Money Lover or Money Manager, with a preview before anything is saved, and Undo • Month starts on: begin your month on payday (day 1 to 28, or the last day). Home's month total and budget follow it. • Better reading of totals, currencies, dates, times and shop names in every app language • More Thai bank slips read right: SCB, Krungthai, Bangkok Bank, ttb, GSB (MyMo) and MAKE • Photos are read the right way up, and Look in Photos skips photos already in the app ON-DEVICE AI (OPTIONAL) Without a download, Scan reads the text of each receipt to find the amount, date and shop. Download an AI model in Settings > AI models, or from the Soot tab, for smarter reading of the shop, amount, date and category. It also spots photos that aren't receipts and moves statements to Other papers. It's a one-time download of a few GB, then it runs offline. Soot's chat uses it too. ALSO • Soot's chat: ask about your spending, with starter questions to begin • No-spend days and daily check-ins, with a streak that gives you 3 days to fill in a missed day, and milestones up to gold Soot after a 30-day streak • Soot's Story: a monthly recap to share, with no amounts on it • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center, plus Shortcuts and Siri • Optional Thai bank-slip import: new slips in your bank app's album are read on the phone • Reads receipts in Thai, English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay, French, German and more • 36 currencies, converted to your home currency • Calendar with daily totals and no-spend days • Optional monthly budget. Soot never judges an amount. • Possible duplicates stay counted, grouped for you to check • Custom categories with icons or emoji • Search and filter your expenses • One optional daily reminder, never with amounts • Export to CSV

Trada is your trà đá stall in your pocket: pull up a chair, jot a few lines, get on with your day. One account, several small apps, and more still brewing. SPENDING & BUDGETS Jot an expense into the cashbook in 3 seconds. Its own đồng keypad — big digits, no decimal key, because the đồng has no small change. The whole month fits in one glass. Your budget is how much the glass holds, every expense pours in a little more, and going over spills it. You can see where you stand without reading a number. A debt book — who owes you, who you owe, names and all. Shared jars — a common pot with family or friends, where everyone sees what goes in and what comes out. Group budgets, a spending calendar, monthly reports, and categories your way: add your own, hide the defaults, change icons, and reorder them into the order you jot in. INVESTING & ASSETS The asset shelf — crypto, stocks and gold on one glass shelf. Prices refresh each time you open it, with an intraday chart. Every holding is a jar on the shelf, and how wide the jar sits is how much of the shelf it takes — you can see where you're heavy without reading a table. A trade ledger that records every buy and sell, with profit and loss worked out for you. CLUBS A class fund, a football team's kitty, a reunion pot - open a club, set each round's amount, and the ring shows who has chipped in and who still owes. No chasing anyone. The treasurer writes the fund's own income and spending into the books, and every member can see which rounds they've paid. Share a period's report with a link - the person you send it to doesn't need the app. LUNAR CALENDAR A sheet for every morning, torn off the way the block calendar on the stall's pillar is. The solar day large, the lunar date and the can chi beneath it, and whether the day is hoàng đạo or hắc đạo — said in words, not left to a coloured dot. The day's six lucky hours, with the one you are in right now already marked. The whole month on a page: lunar dates under solar ones, rằm and mùng 1, and the festivals called by name. Convert either way, leap months included — the thing most likely to go wrong when you are looking up a giỗ. Find a good day for a wedding, an opening, breaking ground, a journey, a house move or signing something. Every day it offers says why it qualifies instead of asking to be believed. Save your date of birth in Settings and the days that clash with your sign drop out on their own. It works with no signal too, and nothing advertises at you in the middle of it. IT STILL WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL In a lift, in a basement car park, on the metro - the cashbook still opens, you can still jot, this month and last month are still there, and clubs you've opened still read. What you write waits on the phone and sends itself the moment you're back online. Force-quit the app and nothing is lost. MADE YOURS Light or dark. Vietnamese or English. Your timezone, your currency. Choose which apps sit on your home screen. Notifications only when something actually needs you: someone asking you to confirm a debt, an invitation to a shared jar, a club opening a new round, or a contribution waiting for you to confirm it. You choose which apps may notify you, and how. PLAINLY SAID Trada shows no ads today. Trada does not sell what you write down. Deleting your account is something you do yourself, in Settings, without asking anyone. Free to start. Privacy policy: https://tradavn.net/legal/privacy Terms of use: https://tradavn.net/legal/terms