Comparison

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager vs Expense Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager

This versatile tracking app allows you to log notes, create lists, and monitor various aspects of your life, from expenses and calories to workouts and sleep. Consolidate multiple tracking needs into a single, powerful, and user-friendly application.

Highlights
  • Track anything and everything
  • Consolidate multiple tracking needs
  • Customizable tracking options
  • Automatic data backup
  • Data export to Excel/Google Docs
  • VoiceOver accessibility
Features
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• Apple “New Year, New You” Favorite • Apple App Store Staff Favorite Lumen Trails lets you take notes, make lists and keep track of other things in your life such as time, workouts, expenses, calories, food, weight, sleep or anything else you can think of, even where you've parked your car. Thousands of people use it every day, and they love it because it truly makes a difference in their lives. “I've been using Lumen Trails for 6 months and continue to love it. One of my most sticky and useful apps ever on my phone.” – David D'Souza The beauty of Lumen Trails is that you can track absolutely anything. There are tons of other apps that allow you to track one or two things, for example, calories and weight. But what if you decide to track something else? Say, how many cigarettes you smoke as you try to quit, your eating habits or even net worth? Lumen Trails is the app for that! Instead of having one app for your to-do lists, one for tracking expenses, another one for tracking your weight, you can declutter your home screen and just have one app that does it all. Designed exclusively for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, Lumen Trails is incredibly powerful, easy to use, and looks beautiful on the Retina Display. It can even backup your data automatically to Google Drive, sync with iCloud, and is fully accessible with Apple VoiceOver in 8 languages. There's nothing that comes even close to it. And to top it all, your data is not locked on your iPhone. You can export it to Excel or Google Docs. So what's truly important to you right now? Your Health? Fitness? Finances? Productivity? Track it and get things done! :: Have a Question? We are here to help. Email us at support@lumenspark.com, or find us on Twitter @lumentrails.

About

Expense Tracker

Easily track your daily, weekly, and monthly spending with this intuitive budgeting app. Organize expenses into categories, set budgets, and visualize your spending habits with clear charts and summaries. Securely sync your data to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Beautiful User Interface
  • Budgeting and Expense Tracking
  • Expense History and Summary
  • Customizable Expense Categories
  • Data Backup & Sync to iCloud
  • Recurring Expense Notifications
  • Built-in Calculator
Features
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Expense Diary is a simple & beautiful budgeting app for keeping track of your expenses or spendings. You create your expense groups, assign a budget to it and start keeping track of your expenses. Managing your daily, weekly or even monthly finance whether its related to home or office should not be a complicated task. Expense Diary simplifies this process with few taps. If you are looking for a simple budget planner, then this is the app that you are looking for. With this app you can keep plan your monthly budget, track expenditure, and manage savings across multiple categories. Features: - Beautiful User Interface: No more clunky, difficult navigation. Easy to use app with beautiful UI and Dark Theme too. - Budgeting: Assign a budget for your expenses and keep track of it. - Expense History: Keep track of all your expenses. See how much you spent and if you are within the budget. - Expense Category: Assign multiple categories to your expenses and track it across multiple categories. - Dark Mode: Switch between light & dark theme as per your preference. - Recent Expenses: See graph of your last 7 days expenses. - Expense Summary: Visualize your expenses in a graph per each category. See what you spend most on. - Data Backup & Sync: All your expenses data are synced privately to your own icloud account. Its safe & secure - Recurring Expenses: Track all your recurring expenses too. Get notification of your recurring expense. - Built in calculator to add, subtract, divide, multiply your expenditure. - Custom Icons: Stand out from the crowd with custom app icons. - Spendings Chart: You can view a graph of your daily expenses or view your spendings per each category. You can enjoy all the features of this app by subscribing to one of our monthly or yearly subscription pack or purchasing one time LifeTime purchase. Take control of your finance today. Expense Diary will automatically charge your iTunes Account at the end of your subscription unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period. Subscriptions renew at the original price. You can turn off auto-renew at any time and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but no refund can be provided for unused portions of the subscription. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. All your previous purchases can be easily restored using the **Restore Purchase** option in the app. This will provide you access to all the premium features. Expense Diary Terms of Service & Privacy Policy https://nrlnishan.github.io/privacy/expense-diary/

Screenshots

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager4 screens
Expense Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Money Tracker+ Expense Manager at 182 against Expense Tracker's 4. Money Tracker+ Expense Manager also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17). Expense Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Money Tracker+ Expense Manager sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year and Expense Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Money Tracker+ Expense Manager has 182 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Money Tracker+ Expense Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Expense Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager ships an update every 2 weeks, Expense Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Money Tracker+ Expense Manager versus Expense Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoney Tracker+ Expense ManagerExpense Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (182 ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews90.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings182 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLumen Spark LLCNishan Niraula

Customer experience

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager

All ratings182 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews767 reviews
Positive90.4%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.6%

Expense Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App becoming unusable after updates
  • Unexpected subscription charges
  • Data loss or sync issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Integration with other apps and services
  • More advanced analytics and reporting
  • Customizable templates and icons
  • Improved syncing and backup options

Expense Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Money Tracker+ Expense Manager

Subscriptions1
  • Lumen Trails$49.991 Year
4 purchases

Expense Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Expense Diary Premium: Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Expense Diary - Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Expense Diary Premium: Yearly$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Expense Diary Premium Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Money Tracker+ Expense Manager free?
Money Tracker+ Expense Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Expense Tracker free?
Expense Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Money Tracker+ Expense Manager or Expense Tracker?
Money Tracker+ Expense Manager is rated higher. Money Tracker+ Expense Manager averages 4.5 out of 5 from 182 ratings, while Expense Tracker averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Money Tracker+ Expense Manager or Expense Tracker have ads?
Neither Money Tracker+ Expense Manager nor Expense Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Money Tracker+ Expense Manager or Expense Tracker?
Money Tracker+ Expense Manager ships an update every 2 weeks, and Expense Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Money Tracker+ Expense Manager was updated on November 1, 2026 and Expense Tracker on November 5, 2026.

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