Comparison

Retly vs SpendCheck

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

Head to head
About

Retly

Features
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Never lose a purchase again. Retly is the easiest way to organize receipts, invoices, warranties, and purchase documents in one secure place. Whether you need a receipt for a warranty claim, a return, tax season, or your accountant, Retly helps you find it instantly. Smart Receipt Scanner • AI-powered receipt scanning • Automatic merchant, amount and date extraction • OCR search across all documents • Multi-currency support Warranty & Return Tracking • Track warranty expiration • Return deadline reminders • Purchase proof always available • Repair-ready document storage Smart Organization • Categories & tags • Personal and business documents • Powerful search • Cloud sync across devices Reports & Export • Tax-ready reports • PDF export • CSV export • ZIP archive • Accountant-friendly exports Privacy First Your documents stay organized, secure and always available when you need them. Perfect for: • Shopping • Business expenses • Tax preparation • Warranty claims • Returns • Home inventory Stop searching through emails and photo galleries. Keep every purchase in one place with Retly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://retly.solvioai.uk/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://retly.solvioai.uk/privacy.html

About

SpendCheck

Track your spending privately and simply. Log expenses, refunds, and investments with fast entry, receipt scanning, and smart categorization. All data stays on your device with no accounts or ads.

Highlights
  • Fast expense entry
  • Track expenses, refunds, and investments
  • Searchable receipt photos
  • Smart category suggestions
  • Automatic recurring expenses
  • Clear spending summaries and charts
  • CSV export for backups
Features
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SpendCheck is the expense tracker for people who just want to see where their money goes — without accounts, ads, subscriptions, or a single byte leaving their phone unless they choose otherwise. Everything you log lives only on your device by default. There's no sign-up, no ads, and no analytics — and no company, including us, that can see your spending. You can explicitly turn on encrypted backup to your own cloud storage. Open the app and start tracking in seconds. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • Purchases that log themselves — Set up a Shortcuts automation once (a guided setup screen in Settings shows the exact steps) and alerts from recognized bank and card apps, plus Apple Pay, are added to your list for you, marked Auto, with Undo if anything looks wrong. Prefer to confirm everything? Turn Auto-log off and every detected purchase waits for you instead. • One purchase, one entry — An Apple Pay tap, a wallet notification and a bank alert for the same purchase are matched into a single entry, while two real purchases a few minutes apart are both kept. A small orange label flags anything that looks logged twice, so you can compare and keep the one you want. • Review before it counts — Anything unclear, unusually large or possibly doubled waits in a Review screen. Confirm, edit or dismiss it in a tap. • Merchants, your way — Rename a business once and see it everywhere, merge duplicates, or split entries off. SpendCheck learns the different names a bank uses for the same place, so future purchases land in the right spot. • Fast entry — A bank-app-style keypad lets you punch in an amount and save an expense in a couple of taps. No fiddly decimal typing. • Expenses, refunds, and investments — Track money going out, money coming back, and money you've moved into brokerage or crypto platforms. Investments are kept separate so they never inflate what you "spent." • Receipt photos, made searchable — Scan a receipt with an auto-detecting document scanner (multi-page in one go), crop it anytime, and search for anything printed on it later, even if you never typed it in. All text recognition happens right on your device. • Encrypted Backup & Restore — Back up your expenses and receipts to your own cloud storage — iCloud by default, or anywhere you choose — protected by a passphrase only you know. Nobody but you, not even SpendCheck, can read it. Fully optional, and off by default. Restoring brings back every entry and never deletes what's already on your phone. • Recently Deleted — Delete something by mistake? It's recoverable for 14 days, not gone the moment you swipe. • Smart categories — As you type a business name, SpendCheck pre-fills the category you last used there. Less thinking, faster logging. • Recurring expenses — Mark something as weekly, monthly, or annual and it logs itself automatically — perfect for subscriptions, rent, and yearly renewals. • Clear summaries — See what you spent this week and this month, a breakdown by business and by category, and a simple chart — all for any month you pick. • Export anytime — Send a clean CSV of your full history to Files, Numbers, Excel, or Google Sheets whenever you want a copy. • Make it yours — Pick an accent color to match your style. PRIVATE BY DESIGN SpendCheck stores everything locally using Apple's on-device database. There is no server, no login, and no tracking. Automatic logging runs through Shortcuts on your own phone: SpendCheck only sees the alert text your automation hands to it, and nothing is sent anywhere. Your financial life is nobody's business but yours. If you ever turn on Backup & Restore, that backup is encrypted on your device before it ever leaves it — your passphrase, your cloud storage, and no way for anyone (including us) to read it without that passphrase. FREE SpendCheck is free to use. No ads, no data selling, no catch. Questions or feedback? Reach us in one tap from Settings → Send Feedback, or through the contact link on our website.

Screenshots

Retly4 screens
SpendCheck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SpendCheck at none against Retly's 4. 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. Retly sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SpendCheck asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Retly versus SpendCheck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetlySpendCheck
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGizem SOZERMANIKANDAN CHELLAPPAN NADAR

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Retly

Subscriptions4
  • Retly Plus Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Retly Pro Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Retly Plus Yearly$19.991 Year
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  • Retly Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
None

SpendCheck

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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