Trip Receipts vs Pack The Bag Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trip Receipts
Effortlessly track your travel expenses and manage receipts. This app automatically tallies daily totals and allows you to generate shareable expense reports via email or AirDrop.
- Manage receipts by trip
- Automatic daily expense totals
- Generate shareable expense reports
- Email expense reports
- AirDrop expense reports
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Every trip. Every expense. Together. Keep your travel expenses and receipts in one place, from the first coffee to the final hotel bill. Whether you’re traveling for work, taking a holiday, or organizing a group trip, Trip Receipts helps you capture the details and keep moving. CAPTURE IT. KEEP MOVING. Photograph a receipt, import a photo or PDF, or enter an expense without an attachment. Keep multiple attachments with an expense and review available on-device recognition suggestions before using them. ONE TRIP. EVERYONE’S RECEIPTS. Share a trip through iCloud so participants can add and edit receipts. Record who paid and keep everyone’s expenses together. KNOW WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES. Explore spending by category and day with interactive charts. Organize expenses with categories, subcategories, and tags, and set category budgets for each trip. Keep original currencies and use currency conversion to bring totals together. FIND THE RECEIPT YOU NEED. Search by merchant, description, tag, participant, or receipt text. Use filters to narrow the results and keep photos and PDFs alongside the expense they belong to. FROM TRIP TO EXPENSE REPORT. Create PDF reports with a choice of layouts. Export CSV data for spreadsheets or original attachments in a ZIP file. Back up your library so you can keep a separate copy of your records. YOUR TRIP. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES. Use Trip Receipts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync across your devices. Check trip totals and daily spending on Apple Watch through its iPhone companion. Keep working offline with your downloaded library. Your receipts, organized for the journey.
Pack The Bag Pro
This app simplifies travel packing by helping you create, manage, and share detailed packing lists. Avoid forgetting essentials and prevent unexpected costs with features like item weight tracking and customizable lists. Prepare for your next journey with confidence.
- Create, edit, and delete items and categories
- Over 700 items in 27 categories
- Assign weights to items
- Share lists via email, iCloud, or AirDrop
- Packing reminder notifications
- Apple Watch support
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Have you ever forgotten something really important for your trip? This will never happen again with Pack The Bag! No more incomplete hand-written packlists for your upcoming journey, no more bad feelings or expensive surprises at the airport. Make your next trip the best trip ever. Pack The Bag for iOS helps you managing your packlists. You and your bag will be well-prepared, you will save the trouble of thinking about all the items that you want to carry along on your journey. Pro version: no ads, all features! Import your lists from Pack The Bag Free with only 2 clicks! - Choose from more than 700 items in 27 categories - Easily create, edit and delete items and categories - Maintain your items in the inventory list without the need to create a packlist - Assign a weight to your items to prevent expensive surprises at the airport - Create new packlists by copying from existing lists - Pack your items without running around by optionally sorting by storage locations - Send and share packlists by email - they can be imported on any other iOS device - Files support: Export and import lists via iCloud or file sharing - Airdrop support: Exchange lists with devices in your surrounding - Packing reminder push notification: Define a date when your device should remind you to start packing - Define an icon for your packlist - Sort lists by name or date or reoder them manually - Duplicate a category with all included items (e.g. child 1, child2, …) - Add a filter to display how many items are not yet packed in a list - Color schemes: Choose from different colors - or define your own color - Support for Apple Watch - pack your items on the watch - Supported Languages: English, German, Turkish You have ideas how to improve the app? You found issues? Send feedback to the Pack The Bag team directly from inside the app - your support is highly appreciated!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pack The Bag Pro at $2.99 against Trip Receipts's $9.99. Pack The Bag Pro also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (84% vs 76%). Trip Receipts's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and chart position (#97 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Trip Receipts costs $9.99 and Pack The Bag Pro $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Trip Receipts holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 49 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Trip Receipts's written reviews are positive against 84% of Pack The Bag Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Trip Receipts ships an update every 3 months, Pack The Bag Pro every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Trip Receipts | Pack The Bag Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (21 ratings) — better | 4.5 (49 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.0% of reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 49 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #97 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wayne Hartman | Andreas Krawczyk |
Customer experience
Trip Receipts
Pack The Bag Pro
Bugs and requests
Trip Receipts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pack The Bag Pro
Reported bugs
10 issues- App forgets last used setting after switching
- Filters reset after app switching
- Difficulty in marking all items as packed
- Swipe attempts for deletion are not always successful
- Paid version can be complicated to use
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- User interface issues in some updates
- Some menu items not laid out in the best way
- App can be too complex for casual users
- Difficulty in figuring out how to reuse previous lists
- Sync across devices without Dropbox is desired
Requested features
22 requests- Add a note section to each individual item
- Add a sort option that combines all items to a single list regardless of category or storage location
- Allow manual sorting of items within categories
- Add a dark mode option
- Implement Apple Watch complications for interaction
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- Add a feature to keep the app at the last used setting
- Option for sub-lists to specify exact items
- Way to mark items that can't be packed until the day of travel
- Add a section for standard lists and currently used lists
- Cloud integration and desktop access
- Allow others to edit shared lists
- Integration with TripIt app
- Integration with weather app for pre-population
- Ability to hide or archive old lists
- Add photos of items
- Create multiple typical lists (e.g., business, international)
- Make notes about specific items
- Bulk edit mode for inventory items
- Clearer indication of plan vs. pack mode
- Auto-syncing across all devices
- Improve UI for better readability and less complexity
- Add a feature to check/uncheck all items at once
In-app purchases
Trip Receipts
No in-app purchases
Pack The Bag Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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