Giftcardy vs Expense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Giftcardy
Effortlessly track all your gift card balances in a single location. Add your cards, log every purchase, and always know your remaining funds.
- Manage gift card balances
- Record transactions
- Track remaining funds
- Add multiple gift cards
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Easily manage all your gift card balances in one place Simply add a gift card, record each transaction, and never lose track of your remaining balance
Expense
Effortlessly monitor your finances with this intuitive spending tracker. Visualize your expenses with a clean line chart and gain insights into your spending habits. Customize categories and export your data for detailed analysis.
- Intuitive expense tracking
- Beautiful line chart visualization
- Monthly spending overview
- Customizable categories
- Export data to CSV
- Local data storage
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Expense makes tracking money easy and intuitive. • Simple and beautiful line chart • Fast expense tracking, enter amount and select a category, that’s it • Track where your money is going in monthly view • Export to CSV for further processing • Customize categories in settings • All of your data are stored locally and are not available to us
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Expense at 4.8 against Giftcardy's 4.4. Expense also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 71%) and ratings volume (112 vs 8). Giftcardy's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Expense holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expense has 112 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Giftcardy's written reviews are positive against 97% of Expense's.
Giftcardy ships an update every 2 months, Expense every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Giftcardy | Expense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (112 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 97.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 112 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Yadon | Shan Cao |
Customer experience
Giftcardy
Expense
Bugs and requests
Giftcardy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Expense
Reported bugs
2 issues- Currency display issues
- No visible way to delete entries (user reported)
Requested features
28 requests- Search functionality
- Increased list of category icons
- Ability to use Emojis as category icons
- Set a recurring expense
- Add a 'memo' or text field for notes
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- Search function
- New icons for categories
- Option to add a 'sim' if money and it to tell me how much is left (per diem)
- Read from/write to the app with Shortcuts
- Annual summary feature
- Online help or FAQ in settings
- Exporting to select week or month
- Better category icons
- Subcategories
- Currency format tweaks
- Total cost row/cell for exporting
- Home screen widget
- Currency symbol (auto-set)
- Password protection
- Custom image option for categories
- Organize by week or bi-weekly
- Year-end summary
- Filter process for month/year outlook within the app
- Configure file export layout
- Auto-backup via iCloud
- Add button closer to screen edges
- iPad & Mac version
- iCloud sync
In-app purchases
Giftcardy
No in-app purchases
Expense
No in-app purchases
