Expense tracker | Simple Spend vs Drip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense tracker | Simple Spend
Manually track your monthly expenses and budget with this straightforward finance app. Log daily spending, recurring bills, and gain insights into your financial habits. Offers advanced features for Pro users, all while prioritizing your privacy.
- Super fast expense logging
- Monthly budget tracking
- Recurring bill management
- Customizable categories
- Financial insights and breakdowns
- Pro features like currency conversion and CSV export
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Simple Spend is the super simple manual expense and budget tracker for iPhone. Set a monthly budget, log your daily expenses and recurring bills, and get on top of your finances! - Super fast expense logging - One monthly budget with pace and forecast - Create folders for trips or projects - Add recurring bills that auto-post on their due date - Custom categories - Insights: daily average, month-over-month trend, category breakdown, recurring bill progress Pro - Currency conversion - No limits - Widgets for lock & home screens - CSV export - Bill due date reminders $9.99 for lifetime access. PRIVACY FIRST: No bank linking, no screen-scraping, no third party or AI ever sees your transactions. You log what you spent, it stays on your device, and syncs only through your own private iCloud account, the same way Apple's own apps sync. There's no account to create and no login screen.
Drip
Effortlessly track all your recurring payments in one place. Receive timely alerts before charges occur and identify subscriptions you no longer use to save money. Manage your finances and budget effectively with this intuitive organizer.
- All subscriptions in one place
- Notifications before charges
- Identify unused subscriptions
- Monthly and yearly cost overview
- Price history tracking
- Cancelation assistance
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Subscriptions add up quietly. Drip shows you where your money goes every month — and what you've stopped using. EVERY SUBSCRIPTION IN ONE PLACE Pick Netflix, Spotify, iCloud+, or any of 350+ services in the catalog, and Drip fills in the rest. Add one of your own in seconds. Monthly, yearly, or every 30 days — Drip knows when the next charge lands. WARNED BEFORE THE MONEY GOES Get notified a few days before every charge, at whatever time works for you. Especially free trials — Drip warns you before they turn into a real charge. FIND WHAT YOU'VE STOPPED USING Once a month, Drip asks with a single tap: did you use it? Your answers build the "Worth cancelling" report — what you're not using anymore, and what it's already cost you. A TOTAL THAT ACTUALLY ADDS UP • Monthly and yearly cost at a glance, converted into your base currency • A calendar with every charge date and the month's most expensive day • Spend by category, compared with last month • Family and group plans: only your share counts • Price history whenever a service raises its rate • Home Screen widgets • iCloud sync — your subscriptions stay current across every device WHEN YOU'RE READY TO CANCEL Drip shows how each subscription bills — Apple, Google, or direct — and takes you to the right place. Cancelled subscriptions keep their history. PRIVATE AND SIMPLE Reminders run locally on your device. Your subscriptions sync through your own iCloud and go nowhere else. No account required. START FREE, UNLOCK ONCE The free version tracks five subscriptions. Drip Pro is a one-time purchase — not a subscription, that would rather miss the point — and unlocks unlimited subscriptions, spending statistics, extra reminders, the unused-subscriptions report, and widgets. Works with Family Sharing. Drip is not affiliated with any service mentioned. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Drip at 3 against Expense tracker | Simple Spend's 1. 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
Both are free to download. Expense tracker | Simple Spend sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Expense tracker | Simple Spend against 5.0 for Drip. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Expense tracker | Simple Spend | Drip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kim Walker | Maksim Valynets |
In-app purchases
Expense tracker | Simple Spend
- Simple Spend Pro$9.99
Drip
- Drip Pro$6.99
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