Comparison

DooSpend vs Simple Expenses

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

Head to head
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DooSpend

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DooSpend — 5 ways to log · what's left to spend today · which card pays most before you swipe · yearly money in vs tax thresholds Too lazy to track your spending? Not sure which card earns the most where? ① 5 ways to log — type it · snap a slip · pick a photo/screenshot · scan a QR before paying · say it (AI logs it) ② What's left today — your budget spread across the days, for everyday discipline ③ About to pay? One tap shows which card earns the most — more points and cashback ④ Savings — money set aside stays out of what's safe to spend + a savings chart you tick off ⑤ Installments & debts — next payment, what's left, reminders before it's due ⑥ Money in by year — compared with the thresholds banks must report to the Revenue Department ⑦ Shared pockets — split with friends + "who owes whom" + PromptPay QR to pay back ⑧ On your device + your own iCloud — no bank linking, no SMS reading ■ Shared Pockets • Split costs with friends, partner, or family — even on different Apple IDs • Invite with a link you can paste into any chat • Per-pocket budgets + category breakdowns ■ Credit-card assistant • Ranked by reward rules you set up yourself once • Co-brand card rules — store-specific (e.g. a Shopee card) or store exclusions (dining promos that skip delivery) • Track the cashback / points / miles you actually earn • 0% installments with interest worked out for you • Statement-cycle and due-date reminders ■ The full picture • Share slips straight from your bank app, Shopee or Lazada · import a whole card statement in one go • Auto-categorize, learn your merchant renames, flag duplicates • Daily budget takes your set bills out first, plus a morning nudge — works on cash & transfers too • This month's overview — card bills, installments, recurring payments and money you borrowed, sorted by date or on a calendar · card bills follow the real statement cycle, so you see how many days past due and what this bill comes to • Budgets you can start on your salary day • Keep debt/loan payments out of your spending totals — flag them "not counted" (they still hit your balance) • Automatic subscription tracking + price-hike alerts • Tags — several per entry, with totals by tag • Multi-currency, backup/restore, CSV/PDF export ■ Genuinely private • No ads or tracking SDKs · nothing sold • When you use AI, only the image or text you choose is sent (via our proxy) to Anthropic Claude to read it, tagged with a random per-device id for the usage quota — never your name, email, or Apple ID Free: unlimited manual entries · 5 AI scans/month · card rules + Best Card for 1 category · reward tracking · 1 savings goal · CSV/Excel import (first card statement free) · 3 accounts · 1 budget · 1 tag DooSpend Pro: • Daily "safe to spend" (bills taken out first) + morning nudge • Best Card for every category, store chips, and alerts before a reward cap fills • Unlimited card-statement imports (PDF) • Savings chart you tick off box by box + multiple goals • Create shared pockets (joining one is free) • Money in by year: combine accounts at the same bank, compare with the Revenue Department thresholds, export an explanation file (PDF/CSV) • Tax filing summary — the year's income, withholding and deductions • Loan interest, worked out for you · net-worth trend • CSV/PDF export · 150 AI scans/month • Unlimited accounts, budgets & tags Pro is ฿69/month or ฿590/year (your local price is shown at purchase). It's an auto-renewing subscription — payment is charged to your Apple ID within 24 hours before the period ends and renews automatically until canceled. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://doospend.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://doospend.com/privacy.html

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Simple Expenses

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Simple Expenses opens on a keypad. Type the amount, tap a category, save. That is the whole app. No account. No sign-in. Nothing you record is ever sent anywhere — and it still survives a new phone, because you can back it up to your own iCloud Drive. RECORD IN SECONDS • The keypad is the first screen — no menu to open, no form to fill in • The category you used last is already selected, so the usual case is one tap fewer • Add a note or back-date an entry from the two chips above the keypad • Home screen quick actions jump straight to Add expense or Add income A MONTH THAT MATCHES YOUR PAYDAY • Close the cycle yourself on the day you are paid, whenever that falls • Whatever is left over is carried into the new cycle for you — and you can type a different figure if the app has drifted from the cash you actually have • Forget to close one and it closes itself at the end of the month, so nothing runs on forever • Every closed cycle keeps its own totals to step back to SEE WHERE IT WENT • Entries are grouped by day, each day carrying its own total • Swipe to delete, with five seconds to undo if you did not mean it • The cycle summary ranks every category and shows its share of the total • Step back through earlier cycles from either screen BACKED UP, NOT LOST • Turn on automatic backups and pick a folder in iCloud Drive: a fresh copy is written every time you leave the app, and the last seven days are kept • Save a backup file by hand wherever you like, and restore it in a few taps on a new phone • No account and no server of ours — the file lives where you put it LOCK WITH FACE ID • Turn it on in Settings: the app asks every time it opens, and hides your figures in the app switcher • Your phone's passcode always works if your face is not recognised MAKE IT YOURS • Create, rename, reorder and hide categories, each with its own emoji and colour • Hiding a category keeps it off the keypad without touching entries you already recorded • Pick your currency from the full ISO list — amounts are written the way your country writes them: no decimals for yen, won or dong, and the symbol where it belongs (€12,50 or 12,50 €) • In 12 languages: English, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Vietnamese, Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French • Light, dark, or follow the device PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no network code in this app at all — no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Your entries live in a database on your device. The only permission the app can ask for is Face ID, and only once you turn the lock on yourself. A backup is a file you choose to keep. The app sends it nowhere; if you keep it in iCloud Drive, iCloud Drive is what carries it, not the app.

Screenshots

DooSpend4 screens
Simple Expenses4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DooSpend at Free against Simple Expenses's $0.99. Simple Expenses's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, 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

DooSpend is free to download; Simple Expenses costs $0.99 up front. DooSpend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Simple Expenses asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DooSpend ships an update every 5 days, Simple Expenses every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
DooSpend versus Simple Expenses: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDooSpendSimple Expenses
PriceFree — better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApiwat PengjamThirawat Tatatmi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DooSpend

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
None

Simple Expenses

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DooSpend free?
DooSpend is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Expenses free?
Simple Expenses costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do DooSpend or Simple Expenses have ads?
Neither DooSpend nor Simple Expenses shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DooSpend or Simple Expenses?
DooSpend ships an update every 5 days, and Simple Expenses every 3 days. Most recently, DooSpend was updated on October 31, 2026 and Simple Expenses on November 6, 2026.

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