Comparison

Spendly vs DeductHound

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

Head to head
About

Spendly

Features
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Spendly: Visual Expense Logs Spendly helps you track every expense with a clean, modern design built for effortless daily use. Get clear insights into your money without the complexity, subscriptions, or privacy worries. • Yearly Spending Heatmap: Track your habits with a GitHub-style daily heatmap for any year. Plus, get an instant annual summary featuring your year total, daily average, and busiest month. • Siri and Shortcuts Integration: Log on the go! Just say, "Hey Siri, log an expense" or ask, "How much did I spend this month?" • Receipt Photos: Snap and attach a photo to any transaction to keep your proof of purchase organized. Stored 100% privately on-device. • CSV Import and Restore: Easily import a previously exported Spendly CSV to back up your data or migrate between devices. • Massive Currency Expansion: Added 40+ new world currencies - including the Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) - bringing the total to over 50+ supported currencies! • Streamlined Currency Experience: Features a beautiful new searchable currency picker and an updated first-launch onboarding. Changing your currency in Settings now updates everywhere instantly with no app restart needed. SEE YOUR SPENDING CLEARLY • Visual Month Chips: See exactly how much you spent each month at a glance. • Beautiful Charts: Pie charts and bar graphs reveal exactly where your money goes. • Instant Comparisons: Compare this month vs. last month to spot trends instantly. POWERFUL YET SIMPLE • Quick Logging: Add transactions in seconds with smart categories and icons. • Smart Dashboard: View your Today, This Week, and This Month totals in one place. • Full History: Search, filter, and review your entire transaction history by month. GLOBAL AND FLEXIBLE • 50+ World Currencies: Full support for major global currencies with instant, app-wide conversion. • Clean Exports: Export monthly data as a CSV spreadsheet or a clean PDF report for easy budgeting. 100% PRIVATE BY DESIGN • On-Device Storage: Your financial data and receipt photos stay securely on your device. Download Spendly today and take control of your daily spending!

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DeductHound

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A shoebox of paper receipts is a pile of write-offs you will never claim. DeductHound turns that pile into a categorized, exportable expense log, one photo at a time. Point the camera at a paper receipt. DeductHound finds the edges, captures the moment your hand is steady, and reads the receipt on your iPhone. Merchant, date, total, sales tax and the tip on a restaurant check come back filled in, each one editable before you save. EVERY FIELD IS YOURS TO CORRECT Extraction is the feature, not a safety net. Every scan ends on a confirmation screen with the photo beside the fields, so nothing is ever filed behind your back. A field the scan could not read with confidence is left blank and focused, ready for you to type. Faded thermal ink and creased receipts are the normal case here, not the edge case. THE SCHEDULE C LINE NUMBER, NOT JUST A CATEGORY Every receipt lands in a Schedule C category with the real IRS line number printed next to it: Meals on Line 24b, Travel on 24a, Supplies on 22, Office on 18 and the rest. That line number follows the expense everywhere, including the CSV and the PDF, so at tax time you copy figures across instead of guessing which box they belong in. Correct a merchant once and DeductHound remembers your choice. CLEAR THE BACKLOG IN ONE SITTING Already have months of receipt photos in your camera roll? Import from Photos runs them as a batch and hands you a queue of confirmations, one tap each when the scan is clean. REPORTS YOUR ACCOUNTANT CAN OPEN The Reports tab shows quarterly and yearly totals, a breakdown by category, monthly bars and the countdown to your next estimated-tax deadline. Export a CSV for the spreadsheet or a PDF with receipt thumbnails grouped by category. Both carry the Schedule C line number. NO ACCOUNT. NO SIGN UP. There is no login, no password and no server to sign up for. Receipts, amounts and images stay on this iPhone, and the reading is done by Apple's on-device Vision engine, so no receipt image and no extracted text is ever uploaded. NO GPS. NO BATTERY DRAIN. DeductHound does not track mileage and never runs your GPS in the background. It does one job: paper to deductible expense. REMINDERS THAT MATCH THE TAX YEAR A weekly scan-day nudge, plus alerts before each US estimated-tax deadline in January, April, June and September. WIDGETS Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your month total and jump straight into the scanner. SUBSCRIPTION DeductHound is a subscription. Two plans, no trial: 79.99 USD per year or 12.99 USD per week. Both unlock everything. The subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in Settings, and you can cancel any time. DeductHound is not tax advice. Consult a tax professional. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of service: https://digitalnafta.com/deducthound/terms Privacy policy: https://digitalnafta.com/deducthound/privacy

Screenshots

Spendly4 screens
DeductHound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spendly at none against DeductHound's 2. Spendly also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. DeductHound sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per 7 days. Spendly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Spendly versus DeductHound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendlyDeductHound
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTextWaves IncJan Daniel Naftanaila

In-app purchases

None

Spendly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DeductHound

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$12.997 Days
  • Annual$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Spendly free?
Spendly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DeductHound free?
DeductHound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spendly or DeductHound have ads?
DeductHound shows ads; Spendly does not.

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