Comparison
Spendee alternative for travellers and digital nomads
Spendee and Nomad Budget side by side: a budgeting app with bank sync and wallets, and an expense tracker with a wallet for every country.
Spendee is a popular budgeting app on iPhone, Android and the web. It connects to banks, e-wallets and crypto wallets, sorts spending into categories and wallets, and handles more than one currency. Many people use it for everyday money and take it along when they travel.
Nomad Budget is narrower and made for one situation: money spent across countries. Here is where each is the better fit.
Which one is for you
Choose Spendee if…
Spendee suits you if you want your everyday finances in one place, with bank sync, a web version and shared wallets for a household.
Choose Nomad Budget if…
Nomad Budget suits you if you move between countries and want a wallet for each, the rate of each day kept, one total, and no bank connection at all.
Spendee and Nomad Budget, side by side
| Feature | Spendee | Nomad Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone, Android and a web version | iPhone. Not on Android yet. |
| Updates | Active; version 6.0.6 on 3 October 2026 | Active; first released in 2026 |
| Built around | Wallets for cash, bank accounts or occasions; categories and labels | One wallet per country, in that country’s currency; your trips and route are read from them |
| Currencies | Multiple currencies | Every entry in the currency you paid in |
| Exchange rate kept per entry | Not stated in its listing | Yes: the rate of the day it was paid, kept for good |
| Total across countries | An overview of all your wallets | Everything adds up in one main currency you choose, and can change |
| Budgets | Budgets by category, with progress notifications | A monthly budget with alerts (free); category and country budgets by the day or month (Pro) |
| Works offline | Not stated in its listing | Yes |
| Travelling with others | Shared wallets with a partner or flatmates (paid plans) | Shared wallets with edit or view-only access. No bill splitting or “who owes whom”. |
| Receipt photos | Yes, with an AI receipt scanner | No |
| Map | Not stated in its listing | A 3D globe of where you’ve been and what each country cost, drawn from your entries |
| Compare countries’ costs | No | Yes: official price levels (World Bank ICP 2021, Eurostat) free; priced on your own spending with Pro |
| Bank connection | Yes: banks, e-wallets and crypto wallets | None, by design |
| Import and export | Imports and exports transactions | Imports CSV and Excel; exports CSV (Pro) |
| Free version includes | 1 cash wallet and 1 budget | Unlimited entries, wallets and currencies, the globe, a monthly budget; one shared wallet, one goal, three recurring bills |
“Not stated in its listing” means we couldn’t confirm it from Spendee’s own pages, not that it is missing.
The quickest way to judge is with your own spending: Nomad Budget is free on iPhone, and works without an account.
Where Spendee is stronger
- Bank, e-wallet and crypto wallet connections.
- A web version, and Android as well as iPhone.
- Home Screen widgets and an AI receipt scanner.
- Labels for slicing your spending in more ways.
What Nomad Budget does differently
- A wallet for every country, created from where you are, in that country’s currency — and unlimited wallets in the free version.
- Every entry keeps the exchange rate of its own day.
- No bank connection, by design: it works the same with cash, foreign cards and any bank in any country.
- A 3D globe of your route and of what each country cost you.
- The cost of your own way of living in another country, from official price levels.
Moving from Spendee
Export your transactions from Spendee, then import the file in Nomad Budget (Settings → Import). Nomad Budget knows the layout of Spendee’s export and shows you a summary before anything is saved. An import can be undone for seven days.
Sources
Checked on 4 October 2026. Spendee is made by Cleevio s.r.o.; it is named here only to compare.