Simple vs The Expense App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple
Organize your finances with this app, allowing you to create custom budget categories and track transactions. View your remaining balance and manage your spending effectively. Supports Touch ID and password protection for security.
- Budget organization
- Customizable categories
- Transaction tracking
- Touch ID/Password protection
- Night theme
- CSV export
Read full descriptionHide full description
Simple Budget will help you organise your budget in a simple and elegant way, you can have many categories to populate them with transactions to see how much you need or have left. Features : - Touch ID support & Password protection - Night Theme - Simple & straight forward - List for Categories & Transaction - Support for iPhone 5/5s/6/6+ - Share as CSV file
The Expense App
Effortlessly manage your finances by tracking expenses and uploading receipts. Search, sort, and export your financial data for tax season and personal budgeting. Save time and money with this intuitive expense management tool.
- Receipt upload (PDF, image)
- On-the-go receipt photos
- Search expenses by multiple criteria
- Sort expenses by date, merchant, total
- Track annual expense totals
- Export expenses to CSV
Read full descriptionHide full description
Save time and money, track your expenses for tax season. Upload your receipts in PDF and image formats. Take photos of your receipts on the go. Search your expenses by Date, Merchant, Category, Description and Total. Sort your expenses by Date, Merchant and Total. Track your expense totals for the year. Export your expenses in CSV format.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple at 57% against The Expense App's 0%. Simple also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). The Expense App's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 2.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. The Expense App sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.00 per year. Simple asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Expense App holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Simple's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Expense App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Simple ships an update every 6 weeks, The Expense App every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple | The Expense App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (7 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ebrahim alnassar | Lifeware Tech LLC |
Customer experience
Simple
The Expense App
In-app purchases
Simple
No in-app purchases
The Expense App
- Yearly Subscription$12.001 Year
