Spending Tracker

Name: Spending Tracker
Rating: 4.8 (18439 reviews)
Author: MH Riley Ltd

Take Control Of Your Money

Free · In‑App Purchases

18K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Finance
Developer

MH Riley Ltd
Language

EN
English
Size

51.3
MB

Spending Tracker is the easiest and most user friendly Personal Finance App in the store. And best of all, it's free! The simple fact is, by tracking your spending you will be able to stick to a budget and therefore SAVE MONEY. So give it a try and have instant control over your spending! *** Features *** ------------------ √ Simple and intuitive user interface - helps you track your spending quickly and easily √ Flexible Time Periods - choose to track Weekly, Monthly or Yearly √ Budget Mode - optionally set a fixed budget amount to help you meet your spending targets - carry over any remaining budget to the next period √ Summary View - overview of your current spending progress - time travel backwards and forwards in time - see your main areas of spending √ Log Expense and Income - easy and quick transaction entry - sort by date, name or amount - repeat transactions daily, weekly or monthly (Pro Upgrade required) - export transactions (Pro Upgrade required) √ Categories - editable spending and income categories - choose a quality icon for each category √ Reports - easy visualisation of where your money goes - beautiful and interactive charts - view spending grouped by category - see the history of your spending

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

18K Ratings

Using this for years - best out there!
03/08/2020

Bimmernerd
Like many people, my wife and I manage a busy household with children. We both work full time+ in the medical field and managing finances was a challenge. Several years ago I thought “there has got to be an app out there that allows us to share essentially a ledger or account register of some sort.” Of course there were several and we tried literally a dozen different apps. Many were complicated, forced you to create spending budgets or complicated things by adding unnecessary “fluff” or had issues with syncing or cost a monthly fee. We wanted a simple, accurate way to track how much we spent every month, on what, and could see how much we had left in our checking and savings. We wanted software my wife could enter a transaction in and it would show up on my version on my phone instantly from anywhere in the world and vice versa. This app does just that, we have been using it for several years, earlier versions had occasional sync problems but the developer was always very responsive and able to help us fix the issue. The last several versions of this app have been rock solid and do exactly what we need it to, nothing more, nothing less and helps my wife and I stay on top of our finances and spending habits. If you’re looking for a great app for sharing an account with someone that allows you to enter transactions on the fly - look no further this one is as close to perfection as you can get.
Using this for years - best out there!
03/08/2020

Bimmernerd

Like many people, my wife and I manage a busy household with children. We both work full time+ in the medical field and managing finances was a challenge. Several years ago I thought “there has got to be an app out there that allows us to share essentially a ledger or account register of some sort.” Of course there were several and we tried literally a dozen different apps. Many were complicated, forced you to create spending budgets or complicated things by adding unnecessary “fluff” or had issues with syncing or cost a monthly fee. We wanted a simple, accurate way to track how much we spent every month, on what, and could see how much we had left in our checking and savings. We wanted software my wife could enter a transaction in and it would show up on my version on my phone instantly from anywhere in the world and vice versa. This app does just that, we have been using it for several years, earlier versions had occasional sync problems but the developer was always very responsive and able to help us fix the issue. The last several versions of this app have been rock solid and do exactly what we need it to, nothing more, nothing less and helps my wife and I stay on top of our finances and spending habits. If you’re looking for a great app for sharing an account with someone that allows you to enter transactions on the fly - look no further this one is as close to perfection as you can get.
Powerful app for freelancers & self employed
07/21/2021

4volvos
I’ve downloaded and tried more than a dozen expense tracking apps and most didn’t work for me. At first this one seemed too simple as I wanted to view transactions by category. Then I discovered that when you pull down on the screen you see the categories box and you can choose to view transactions by the categories you create. I upgraded to Pro then exported expenses and discovered you can export by category, a range of dates, by the month or year or whatever. At this point I saw what a game changer it was for me. When I did an email export all I had to do was click on the file from my desktop and I had a spreadsheet with all the transactions in order. If you had a mind to you could make categories that match your Schedule C for taxes which is what I did. So I have expense categories: Post Office, Shop Supplies, Office, Utilities, eBay fees, etc. I have income categories: Web Sales, eBay Sales, Shop Sale, Investment Sold, etc. Whenever I want to see any or all the transactions I can see any part of them by Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. Note that it syncs through DropBox so I can see it on my iPad or iPhone. No subscription. You can set up multiple accounts and set reminders, set a passcode, set auto-backup and other tweaks. Highly recommend especially if you’re trying to track receipts, payments and income. Charles
Powerful app for freelancers & self employed
07/21/2021

4volvos

I’ve downloaded and tried more than a dozen expense tracking apps and most didn’t work for me. At first this one seemed too simple as I wanted to view transactions by category. Then I discovered that when you pull down on the screen you see the categories box and you can choose to view transactions by the categories you create. I upgraded to Pro then exported expenses and discovered you can export by category, a range of dates, by the month or year or whatever. At this point I saw what a game changer it was for me. When I did an email export all I had to do was click on the file from my desktop and I had a spreadsheet with all the transactions in order. If you had a mind to you could make categories that match your Schedule C for taxes which is what I did. So I have expense categories: Post Office, Shop Supplies, Office, Utilities, eBay fees, etc. I have income categories: Web Sales, eBay Sales, Shop Sale, Investment Sold, etc. Whenever I want to see any or all the transactions I can see any part of them by Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. Note that it syncs through DropBox so I can see it on my iPad or iPhone. No subscription. You can set up multiple accounts and set reminders, set a passcode, set auto-backup and other tweaks. Highly recommend especially if you’re trying to track receipts, payments and income. Charles
Simplicity = Consistency!
Jan 15

Tuladance
The relief and literal thrill I feel to find that this app will help me easily enter and track my spending across multiple accounts is hard to put into words right now. As someone who is trying to manage spending habits and change money behaviors while struggling with neurodivergent issues I needed something simple to manage multiple budget accounts and a backlog of data in half completed spreadsheets. The apps I’ve tried were too involved and/or too pricey and I’d inevitably stop using them consistently to be truly effective. The piles of receipts I have kept with the intention of tracking my spending has actually deterred me from my intentions and have exacerbated my problems. This simple to use, easily navigated app with its low, one-time fee for a host of other benefits besides eliminating ads, including exporting data, means that I can feel confident in letting go of all of these little pieces of paper and truly make progress on managing my spending through real time monitoring. My only criticism (and it may just be my own weird brain) is that I don’t understand some of the category icons, but as there are plenty to choose from, it’s not a big deal. I’m super grateful to have found this app—thanks so much; it offers a great service to those of us struggling to manage all the things.

Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback - we really appreciate it! We are so pleased you are finding the app easy to use:) If you would like support at any point, please get in touch at support@mhriley.com where we will be happy to hear from you. Best wishes!
Simplicity = Consistency!
Jan 15

Tuladance

The relief and literal thrill I feel to find that this app will help me easily enter and track my spending across multiple accounts is hard to put into words right now. As someone who is trying to manage spending habits and change money behaviors while struggling with neurodivergent issues I needed something simple to manage multiple budget accounts and a backlog of data in half completed spreadsheets. The apps I’ve tried were too involved and/or too pricey and I’d inevitably stop using them consistently to be truly effective. The piles of receipts I have kept with the intention of tracking my spending has actually deterred me from my intentions and have exacerbated my problems. This simple to use, easily navigated app with its low, one-time fee for a host of other benefits besides eliminating ads, including exporting data, means that I can feel confident in letting go of all of these little pieces of paper and truly make progress on managing my spending through real time monitoring. My only criticism (and it may just be my own weird brain) is that I don’t understand some of the category icons, but as there are plenty to choose from, it’s not a big deal. I’m super grateful to have found this app—thanks so much; it offers a great service to those of us struggling to manage all the things.
Developer Response Jan 17
Thank you for your feedback - we really appreciate it! We are so pleased you are finding the app easy to use:) If you would like support at any point, please get in touch at support@mhriley.com where we will be happy to hear from you. Best wishes!
Home Budgeting
07/06/2019

CR@SK
I downloaded and updated to the premium to get the extra features. I think that was worth the small cost. It is a simple-to- use program, and I like being able to add categories on the fly. Since I am retired, and have a small income, I like that I can put in a fixed budget amount, and then add misc. income to calculate come a total spending allowance per month. Then, there is an auto calculate that shows the under/over spending and the ability to carry over a positive or negative variance. I had created a spreadsheet in Numbers, but that was a bit clumsy, so this is a refreshing change. I enter the expenses on both the ipad and iphone, and the sync through Dropbox has been working well with live updates. This program was designed very intuitively and is exactly what I had been looking for. I think there are other apps which might have more features, but the ones I looked at seemed more complicated. This is simple and provides just the amount of information that I need to monitor my budget. It would be nice to be able to take a snapshot of receipts, however. There is a both a pdf and csv export function, so I can export the report into a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV) or as a pdf into an app like Notability for viewing. So far, in the first week, I give it a high rating for simplicity and comprehensiveness.
Home Budgeting
07/06/2019

CR@SK

I downloaded and updated to the premium to get the extra features. I think that was worth the small cost. It is a simple-to- use program, and I like being able to add categories on the fly. Since I am retired, and have a small income, I like that I can put in a fixed budget amount, and then add misc. income to calculate come a total spending allowance per month. Then, there is an auto calculate that shows the under/over spending and the ability to carry over a positive or negative variance. I had created a spreadsheet in Numbers, but that was a bit clumsy, so this is a refreshing change. I enter the expenses on both the ipad and iphone, and the sync through Dropbox has been working well with live updates. This program was designed very intuitively and is exactly what I had been looking for. I think there are other apps which might have more features, but the ones I looked at seemed more complicated. This is simple and provides just the amount of information that I need to monitor my budget. It would be nice to be able to take a snapshot of receipts, however. There is a both a pdf and csv export function, so I can export the report into a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV) or as a pdf into an app like Notability for viewing. So far, in the first week, I give it a high rating for simplicity and comprehensiveness.

3.2 ------ * Fix Progress Bar to represent Income correctly * Add Expense/Income actions added to Shortcuts app * Shortcuts can be added to Lock Screen * Modernised Color Picker * Fix Widget figures when 'Budget Mode' turned on * Fix occasional issue which prevented syncs until app is restarted * Fix Voice Over for Category Icon/Color selection * Handle device running out of disk space more gracefully * Improved consent / privacy options

Version 3.2

23h ago

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