AppSpend

For iPhone

Know what your apps really cost you

Track your apps, what you pay for them, and how much time you actually spend in them.

Coming soon to the App Store

No account. Your library never leaves your iPhone.

  • Offline first
  • No account needed
  • Your data stays yours
  • Free to download

Features

Everything in one place, nothing you didn't ask for

Six things AppSpend does well, rather than thirty it does badly.

  • One library for everything

    Track the apps you have installed and the ones you still want side by side, in a single list you can actually keep up to date.

  • Every price, every billing period

    Record an app as free, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or one-time, and see what it truly works out at per month and per year.

  • Usage time that rolls up

    Log the time you spend in an app each day and watch it total into weekly, monthly and yearly hours automatically.

  • A dashboard that answers the question

    Total monthly spend, yearly spend, apps tracked and wishlist size — the four numbers that matter, on one screen.

  • Statistics worth reading

    Cost by category, twelve months of spending history, your top five most expensive apps, and what you use most and least.

  • Find anything in seconds

    Search, filter by installed, wishlist, free, paid, favourites or category, and sort by price, name, date added or usage time.

FavouritesSwipe to delete, with undoPull to refreshLight and dark mode

Screenshots

A quiet interface for an uncomfortable number

Light and dark mode, and a dashboard that gets to the point.

  • AppSpend dashboard showing a monthly spend of $26.48, a projected yearly cost of $318, 4.7 hours of usage, and cards for apps tracked and apps still to install.

    Your month at a glance

  • The AppSpend app library, filtered by installed, wishlist and favourites, listing apps with their price, category and daily usage time.

    Every app in one library

  • An app detail screen in AppSpend showing the cost of a free app and a daily usage dial reading 12 minutes.

    Cost and usage, per app

  • AppSpend onboarding screen headed "Save time", explaining that the app tracks how much time you spend in each application and that no account is needed.

    Set up in under a minute

How the numbers work

Where every figure comes from

You should know how a total was reached before you trust it, so here are the rules in full.

  • Weekly

    52 charges a year, 4.33 a month

    A year is not 48 weeks. Dividing by four would flatter every weekly subscription you own, so we do not.

  • Daily

    365 charges a year

    Small daily amounts are the ones that surprise people most when they add up.

  • Monthly

    × 12 for the yearly figure

    The straightforward one.

  • Yearly

    ÷ 12 for the monthly figure

    So an annual plan can be compared fairly against a monthly one.

One-time purchases stay out of the totals

A payment you make once is not a running cost, so folding it into a monthly figure would make that figure meaningless. One-time purchases are reported on their own and are never added to your monthly or yearly recurring totals.

They are estimates, and we would rather say so

Every figure is calculated from what you type in. Providers bill on calendar months of different lengths, prices change part-way through a term, and the App Store applies its own tax and currency conversion. Expect these numbers to be close to your real bill rather than identical to it.

Usage works the same way. iOS does not hand Screen Time data to apps like this one, so the hours you see are the ones you recorded yourself.

FAQ

Questions worth a straight answer

Is my data private?

Your library is. Every figure you enter is written to a local database on your iPhone and stays there — there is no server of ours to send it to, no account and no analytics SDK.

The free version shows ads from Google AdMob, and Google receives device information in order to serve them. It is never given your library: not the apps you track, not the prices, not your usage times. Pro removes the ads altogether.

The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what the ads collect, how to turn off ad tracking on your iPhone, and the one other case where your device goes online — pasting an image URL for an app icon, which fetches that image exactly as a browser would.

Does it need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no log-in, no email address and no profile. Open the app and start adding apps.

Can it cancel my subscriptions for me?

No, and it is important to be clear about that. AppSpend does not connect to your App Store account. It cannot see what you are actually subscribed to, and it cannot start, change or cancel anything.

Deleting an entry here deletes a note you wrote; the real subscription carries on. Those are cancelled in the Settings app on your iPhone: tap your name, then Subscriptions.

Does it read my real screen time automatically?

No. iOS does not make Screen Time data available to apps like this one, so usage is entered by you.

You record how long you spent in an app on a given day, and the app rolls those daily entries up into weekly, monthly and yearly totals and into the usage statistics.

Is it free?

Free to download, and the free version tracks up to 10 apps with ads.

Pro is an optional subscription — $9.99 a month or $29.99 a year — that removes the ads, lifts the app limit and unlocks the full statistics, renewal reminders and backup and export. It is billed by Apple and cancelled in your iPhone Settings, like any other subscription.

Your data is never sold either way. There is nothing collected to sell.

How do I delete my data?

Swipe an app away to remove a single entry — an undo option appears for a few seconds in case you did not mean it.

To remove everything, delete AppSpend from your iPhone and iOS removes its local database with it. That is permanent: there is no copy on a server, so nobody can restore it for you.

Anything else? Head to support.

Find out what you are actually paying

Add your apps, put a price against each one, and let AppSpend do the arithmetic. It takes a few minutes, and all of it stays on your phone.

Coming soon to the App Store

Free to download · No account · Your data stays on your phone