Comparison

Stack vs Miss Spent

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

Head to head
About

Stack

This app gamifies savings with interactive themes and progress tracking. Set unlimited goals, monitor deposits, and celebrate milestones as your wealth grows. Unlock full features with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Gamified savings tracker
  • Unlimited savings goals
  • Visual savings world themes
  • Streak and milestone tracking
  • Savings insights and analytics
  • Shareable milestone cards
Features
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Saving money doesn’t have to feel boring. Stack turns saving into something you can see, celebrate, and actually want to keep doing. Whether you’re saving for a wedding, vacation, new car, emergency fund, dream home, or simply a more secure future, Stack helps you turn big financial goals into small, achievable Money Moves. Every deposit is progress. Every milestone deserves to be celebrated. And every little move gets you closer to the life you’re building. BUILD YOUR STACK Create personalized savings goals and watch your progress grow with every Money Move. See how much you’ve saved, how much is left, and how close you are to your next milestone. MAKE MONEY MOVES Saved $10 by cooking at home? Skipped your coffee run? Got paid and moved $50 into savings? Log it as a Money Move and put it toward the goal that matters to you. Small amounts count here. SET GOALS THAT FEEL POSSIBLE Break big dreams into smaller steps. Create Stacks for things like: • Emergency funds • Vacations • Weddings • A new car • A future home • Gifts • Your next big dream WATCH YOUR STACK WORLD GROW Your savings don't just change a number. As you make progress, your Stack World grows with you, turning your financial progress into something visual and rewarding. TAKE ON SAVINGS CHALLENGES Need a little motivation? Complete challenges like the 7-Day Stack, 10 Money Moves, and other savings challenges designed to help you build consistency without making saving feel overwhelming. COLLECT YOUR WINS Unlock milestones and rewards as your savings grow. Celebrate your first Money Move, first $100, first $1,000, and the bigger milestones waiting ahead. UNLOCK YOUR MONEY ERA Your progress unlocks new avatar icons and collectibles, giving your Stack a little more personality as you grow. Because financial progress can be practical and cute. CELEBRATE YOUR PROGRESS Big milestone? Create a shareable celebration card and give yourself credit for how far you’ve come. You’re not just saving money. You’re building habits, confidence, and a brighter future one little move at a time. Stack it. Track it. Watch it grow.

About

Miss Spent

This app helps you curb impulse spending by making you wait before purchasing. It tracks the money you save by resisting temptations, encouraging you to reach your financial goals.

Highlights
  • Capture purchase temptations via share sheet
  • Pause and wait before making a purchase
  • Track money saved from resisted impulses
  • Private iCloud backup for your data
  • Optional anonymous app-use analytics
  • One-time unlock for premium features
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Most of what you almost buy, you don't actually want. You just want it right now. Miss Spent is your Accountability Dame — a noir fixer who takes your worst impulses off your hands. About to buy something? Hand it to her. She makes you sit on it. When the wait's up, she rules: did the want survive, or was it just the lighting? Every "no" goes into your Stash — a running total of the money you DIDN'T spend, climbing toward the one thing you're actually saving for. THE LOOP - Capture — send any temptation to her, from any store, via the share sheet - Pause — she puts it on ice; most wants don't survive the wait - The Reckoning — she pings you when it's time to rule: didn't buy / bought it - The Stash — watch the money you kept add up - Your temptations, amounts, notes, and photos are yours. They stay on your phone and back themselves up to your own private iCloud — no account to make, no server of ours, nothing here for anyone to read. That private copy is how your Stash follows you to a new iPhone, and capture still works with no signal at all. - Anonymous app-use analytics are on by default to help improve the product; they never include your items, amounts, notes, source URLs, or images, are not used for tracking, and can be turned off in Settings. - One-time unlock, never a subscription. The "no" is always free; the unlock adds a second visual theme, a second Dame voice register, and Ledger export — a readable report of your reckonings, not your backup; your private iCloud copy is that. She likes money. That's the whole point. She just wants you to keep yours.

Screenshots

Stack4 screens
Miss Spent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Miss Spent at free with in-app purchases against Stack's subscription. Stack's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Stack sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Miss Spent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stack against 5.0 for Miss Spent. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack ships an update every 2 days, Miss Spent every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stack versus Miss Spent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStackMiss Spent
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMeaghan ZuttermeisterNeon Tiger Labs LLC

Customer experience

Stack

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Miss Spent

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Stack

Subscriptions3
  • Stack Premium$0.997 Days
  • Stack Premium$4.991 Month
  • Stack Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Miss Spent

One-time1
  • The Unlock$19.99

Questions

Is Stack free?
Stack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Miss Spent free?
Miss Spent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stack or Miss Spent?
Stack and Miss Spent are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Stack or Miss Spent have ads?
Neither Stack nor Miss Spent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack or Miss Spent?
Stack ships an update every 2 days, and Miss Spent every 2 months. Most recently, Stack was updated on October 28, 2026 and Miss Spent on October 11, 2026.

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