Comparison

Expenses OK vs SpendCheck

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

Head to head
About

Expenses OK

Effortlessly manage your personal finances with this intuitive expense tracker. Quickly log spending, visualize your financial habits with charts, and secure your data with advanced authentication. Sync across devices and export your financial records with ease.

Highlights
  • Expense tracking
  • Handy widget
  • Subcategories
  • Pie diagram visualization
  • Data synchronization
  • Password and biometric security
  • CSV export
  • Backups
Features
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Expenses OK - the fastest way to track your expenses. The features of the app: - expenses - the handy widget - subcategories - pie diagram - synchronisation - password - Face ID and Touch ID - export to CSV - backups

About

SpendCheck

Track your spending privately and simply. Log expenses, refunds, and investments with fast entry, receipt scanning, and smart categorization. All data stays on your device with no accounts or ads.

Highlights
  • Fast expense entry
  • Track expenses, refunds, and investments
  • Searchable receipt photos
  • Smart category suggestions
  • Automatic recurring expenses
  • Clear spending summaries and charts
  • CSV export for backups
Features
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SpendCheck is the expense tracker for people who just want to see where their money goes — without accounts, ads, subscriptions, or a single byte leaving their phone unless they choose otherwise. Everything you log lives only on your device by default. There's no sign-up, no ads, and no analytics — and no company, including us, that can see your spending. You can explicitly turn on encrypted backup to your own cloud storage. Open the app and start tracking in seconds. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • Purchases that log themselves — Set up a Shortcuts automation once (a guided setup screen in Settings shows the exact steps) and alerts from recognized bank and card apps, plus Apple Pay, are added to your list for you, marked Auto, with Undo if anything looks wrong. Prefer to confirm everything? Turn Auto-log off and every detected purchase waits for you instead. • One purchase, one entry — An Apple Pay tap, a wallet notification and a bank alert for the same purchase are matched into a single entry, while two real purchases a few minutes apart are both kept. A small orange label flags anything that looks logged twice, so you can compare and keep the one you want. • Review before it counts — Anything unclear, unusually large or possibly doubled waits in a Review screen. Confirm, edit or dismiss it in a tap. • Merchants, your way — Rename a business once and see it everywhere, merge duplicates, or split entries off. SpendCheck learns the different names a bank uses for the same place, so future purchases land in the right spot. • Fast entry — A bank-app-style keypad lets you punch in an amount and save an expense in a couple of taps. No fiddly decimal typing. • Expenses, refunds, and investments — Track money going out, money coming back, and money you've moved into brokerage or crypto platforms. Investments are kept separate so they never inflate what you "spent." • Receipt photos, made searchable — Scan a receipt with an auto-detecting document scanner (multi-page in one go), crop it anytime, and search for anything printed on it later, even if you never typed it in. All text recognition happens right on your device. • Encrypted Backup & Restore — Back up your expenses and receipts to your own cloud storage — iCloud by default, or anywhere you choose — protected by a passphrase only you know. Nobody but you, not even SpendCheck, can read it. Fully optional, and off by default. Restoring brings back every entry and never deletes what's already on your phone. • Recently Deleted — Delete something by mistake? It's recoverable for 14 days, not gone the moment you swipe. • Smart categories — As you type a business name, SpendCheck pre-fills the category you last used there. Less thinking, faster logging. • Recurring expenses — Mark something as weekly, monthly, or annual and it logs itself automatically — perfect for subscriptions, rent, and yearly renewals. • Clear summaries — See what you spent this week and this month, a breakdown by business and by category, and a simple chart — all for any month you pick. • Export anytime — Send a clean CSV of your full history to Files, Numbers, Excel, or Google Sheets whenever you want a copy. • Make it yours — Pick an accent color to match your style. PRIVATE BY DESIGN SpendCheck stores everything locally using Apple's on-device database. There is no server, no login, and no tracking. Automatic logging runs through Shortcuts on your own phone: SpendCheck only sees the alert text your automation hands to it, and nothing is sent anywhere. Your financial life is nobody's business but yours. If you ever turn on Backup & Restore, that backup is encrypted on your device before it ever leaves it — your passphrase, your cloud storage, and no way for anyone (including us) to read it without that passphrase. FREE SpendCheck is free to use. No ads, no data selling, no catch. Questions or feedback? Reach us in one tap from Settings → Send Feedback, or through the contact link on our website.

Screenshots

Expenses OK4 screens
SpendCheck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Expenses OK at 5K against SpendCheck's 6. SpendCheck's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Expenses OK against 4.7 for SpendCheck. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expenses OK has 5K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Expenses OK's written reviews are positive against 100% of SpendCheck's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Expenses OK ships an update every 2 months, SpendCheck every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Expenses OK versus SpendCheck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpenses OKSpendCheck
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5K ratings) — better4.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews88.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobion OOOMANIKANDAN CHELLAPPAN NADAR

Customer experience

Expenses OK

All ratings4,833 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews449 reviews
Positive88.4%
Neutral4.9%
Negative6.7%

SpendCheck

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Expenses OK

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Data loss and sync issues with iCloud
  • Unexpected app crashes

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to set custom date ranges
  • Income tracking and balance calculation
  • Receipt attachment and management
  • Recurring expense setup
  • Multi-currency support
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  • Detailed monthly/weekly expense reports

SpendCheck

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Expenses OK

No in-app purchases

None

SpendCheck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expenses OK free?
Expenses OK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpendCheck free?
SpendCheck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Expenses OK or SpendCheck?
Expenses OK is rated higher. Expenses OK averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while SpendCheck averages 4.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Expenses OK or SpendCheck have ads?
Neither Expenses OK nor SpendCheck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Expenses OK or SpendCheck?
Expenses OK ships an update every 2 months, and SpendCheck every 2 weeks. Most recently, Expenses OK was updated on October 29, 2026 and SpendCheck on October 28, 2026.

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