Comparison

SpendCheck vs Sumlet

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

Head to head
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.

About

Sumlet

A minimalist personal finance app for quick and effortless daily expense and income logging. It offers clear spending insights and keeps your financial data private and offline on your device.

Highlights
  • Fast expense and income entry
  • Clear spending insights with charts
  • Private and offline data storage
  • Simple daily transaction summaries
  • Intuitive keypad for quick logging
Features
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Expense tracker for everyday spending. Open, type, and done~ Check, sum, and done~ Change, set, and done~ Sumlet is a minimalist personal finance app designed to make recording daily expenses and income quick, clear, and effortless. With a clean interface and an intuitive keypad, logging a transaction takes only seconds. No ads. No account registration. No internet required. Your financial data stays on your device, private and under your control. KEY FEATURES • Fast Expense & Income Entry Record expenses and income in seconds with an intuitive keypad. • Clear Spending Insights Understand your spending habits at a glance with simple charts and summary statistics. • Private & Offline Track expenses without an account, cloud sign-up, or unnecessary data collection. Your financial information stays on your device. • Simple Daily Summaries Filter, review, and edit your transactions with clear day-by-day summaries. WHY SUMLET? Many money management apps are packed with features you may never use, forced sign-ups, and intrusive ads. Sumlet focuses on what matters: fast entry, simple insights, and private expense tracking. Take control of your everyday spending with a clean, clutter-free expense tracker. Download Sumlet today.

Screenshots

SpendCheck4 screens
Sumlet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sumlet at 5.0 against SpendCheck's 4.7. SpendCheck's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sumlet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SpendCheck has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SpendCheck versus Sumlet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendCheckSumlet
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMANIKANDAN CHELLAPPAN NADARKaras Xiang

Customer experience

SpendCheck

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sumlet

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SpendCheck

No in-app purchases

None

Sumlet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpendCheck free?
SpendCheck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sumlet free?
Sumlet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SpendCheck or Sumlet?
Sumlet is rated higher. SpendCheck averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Sumlet averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SpendCheck or Sumlet have ads?
Neither SpendCheck nor Sumlet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpendCheck or Sumlet?
SpendCheck ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sumlet every 2 weeks. Most recently, SpendCheck was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sumlet on October 31, 2026.

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