The Spendee alternative with your portfolio beside your spending
Expenses, budgets and cash accounts next to your brokers and net worth, in one account encrypted on your device before anything syncs. Start with 14 days of everything, no card.
14 days of everything · Then a free plan that never expires · Export on every plan
Turbobulls if you hold investments and want them tracked beside your spending, in an account no server can read.
Spendee for tracking spending: it connects to your bank, costs a fraction of what we do, and its free plan gives you a budget you can set up, where ours is read-only.
On price: Turbobulls from €2.99 a month billed yearly, or free. Spendee Plus $1.99 a month or $14.99 a year, or the free Basic plan. Checked September 2026.
What the difference looks like
Three views of the app on sample data. Try the tabs, or open the read-only demo, which needs no signup.
Envelopes, including the month they go wrong
Money assigned per category, with what is left tracked per envelope. When one runs over, the overspending comes out of next month’s pool. Spendee budgets by category too, with a daily limit; the difference is what sits beside the budget rather than the budget itself.
The part Spendee is not built for
Income, expenses, savings rate and cash flow, reported against holdings as one net worth with a financial independence projection on top. Spendee’s product pages and help centre describe no portfolio tracking or net worth across holdings, as checked in September 2026, and this is the whole reason a Spendee user would move.
What you see after your device decrypts it.
What our database actually holds
Spendee’s security page describes encrypted channels and encrypted storage on its servers, with access limited to authorized users. What it does not describe is end-to-end encryption, and that is the difference this toggle shows. The action and the timestamp sit in the clear, and the part that would tell you anything is ciphertext. That is also why we cannot connect to your bank.
14 days of everything, no card. Or click around the read-only demo first, on sample data.
Switching from Spendee
Spendee lists export on every tier, so start there: export your transactions as CSV from its mobile app and bring them in through the generic CSV adapter, mapping the columns yourself.
Export your history from Spendee
Per its help centre, free-plan export covers the last 365 days and Plus or Premium has no date limit, so a longer history needs a paid month before you leave.
Set up your categories first
Set your categories up before the first import rather than after. Both products budget by category, so the structure carries over conceptually even though the file will not carry it for you.
Import the CSV into Turbobulls
The import preview marks duplicates before anything is written and the commit is atomic, so a bad file does not leave you half-imported.
Plan for the part that will actually change: spending stops arriving on its own. If your bank is ING Romania, Raiffeisen Romania, Salt Bank or Revolut personal there is a dedicated adapter, and otherwise it is a monthly CSV export. That is a real habit to take on, and it is worth being sure the investing side is worth it to you before you do. Excel export from Turbobulls is on every plan, so nothing you put in is trapped either way.
Which one fits you?
Three questions, and on this page the answer is Spendee more often than not.
Answer the three questions and a recommendation appears here.
Side by side
Where they differ first, then where they agree. Based on each platform’s public documentation as checked in September 2026.
Spendee details are from its own site, pricing, bank-connect and security pages, help centre, terms of use and privacy policy, as checked in September 2026. Where this table says no, it rests on what those pages state rather than on their silence. The Turbobulls column describes Turbo Pro, the plan that carries both sides. Everything in the Spendee column comes from its own pages, read in September 2026, and every negative rests on what those pages say; they are listed in the footer. Prices are in different currencies and move with the exchange rate, so this page does not claim a percentage. Its pricing page shows the same feature list for Plus and Premium; its help centre says Plus adds unlimited wallets, unlimited budgets and shared wallets, and Premium adds bank, e-wallet and crypto-wallet connections, automatic import and categorisation, and the AI receipt scanner. Spendee may have changed since; its own pages are the authoritative source.
14 days of everything, no card. If you never pay, you keep a free plan that never expires, and nothing is deleted.
The long version
Everything behind the table, one topic at a time.
A spending tracker, and a tracker that also budgets
Spendee, operated by SPENDEE a.s. of Prague, is built around everyday spending. Per its site, you connect your accounts and transactions arrive and categorise themselves, budgets show how much you can spend each day and notify you at 75% and 90%, and shared wallets let a couple or a household run the same money together. It is mobile-first and it is inexpensive.
Turbobulls is a portfolio tracker that also budgets in envelopes, encrypted on your device so the server cannot read either half. Holdings, cost basis, dividends and returns sit in the same account as spending, salary, debt and cash, and net worth is reported across all of it.
If you are choosing a tool purely to track spending, Spendee costs less and takes the work out of getting the data in, and that is a strong case. This page exists for the narrower one: you also hold investments, and you would rather not keep them in a second product on a server that can read them. Everything Turbobulls gives up, the bank connections included, is the price of that one decision.
Getting data in, where we lose outright
Spendee states it connects to more than 2500 financial providers worldwide, and it also connects e-wallets and crypto wallets. Per its terms of use the connections run through its own bank integrations or the aggregators Salt Edge and Plaid, and per its security page the access is read-only, with a limited-lifetime token rather than your password for directly connected banks. Which plan includes it is stated two ways: the pricing page lists bank sync under free Basic, the help centre says connecting a bank is a paid feature. Either way, for capturing everyday spending this is not a close contest and pretending otherwise would waste your time.
Turbobulls connects to nothing. A sync service has to hold working credentials and read the transactions it fetches, which is precisely what encrypting on your device prevents. What we have instead is file import: dedicated adapters for ING Romania, Raiffeisen Romania, Salt Bank and Revolut personal, and a generic CSV mapper for everything else, with duplicate detection and an atomic commit so a bad file cannot leave you half-imported.
Worth being exact about what that costs you, because it is not a question of which country you bank in. The generic mapper takes a CSV from any bank or broker that can export one, which is very nearly all of them; the dedicated adapters just save you mapping the columns the first time. What you give up is the connection. Spending stops arriving on its own and becomes a file you export once a month. For portfolio trades that is a small cost, since there are few of them. For daily spending it is a real one, and it is the single most common reason to choose Spendee over us.
Budgeting
Both budget by category. Spendee markets smart budgets that show how much you can spend each day and notify you at 75% and 90% of the budget, one budget on the free plan and unlimited budgets and wallets on the paid tiers, and shared wallets on Plus and Premium for couples, families and roommates. Turbobulls has no equivalent of shared wallets.
Turbobulls budgets in envelopes: each month you assign the money you actually have, unspent amounts roll over, and overspending comes out of next month’s pool, so the budget stays tied to real cash rather than a forecast. Spending carries categories and tags, alongside cash accounts, debt, salary and savings rate.
On the free plans the comparison goes against us plainly. Spendee Basic gives you one cash wallet and one budget you can set up, at no cost; whether bank sync comes with it is stated two ways on its own pages, so we leave that to Spendee. Our free plan makes budgeting read-only and caps the wallet at 120 transactions, three accounts and ten categories. Ours is a demonstration; theirs is usable.
Investing, the reason this page exists
Spendee’s product pages and help centre describe no portfolio tracking or net worth across holdings, as checked in September 2026. Its homepage frames crypto wallets as part of your cash flow, which is a different thing from tracking a position with a cost basis. The one exception is a 2022 NFT campaign page at nft.spendee.com, which describes tracking connected NFT wallets as assets; its current product pages and help centre do not repeat it, so check its own documentation if this decides it for you.
Turbobulls tracks stocks, ETFs, crypto, bonds and deposits with per-lot cost basis, splits applied retroactively, and multi-currency handled with the FX rate on each transaction date. Returns cover ROI, money-weighted and time-weighted return, with benchmarking against any ETF, stock or basket, and historical snapshots that rebuild the portfolio as it stood on any date. Dividends record withholding tax per payment. Behind that sits a panel of twelve metrics, four of which stay visible on the free plan.
The argument is not that this is more features. It is that your savings rate and your portfolio return are the same question asked twice, and answering it in one place is what this product is for. If you do not hold investments, none of it applies and Spendee is the simpler, cheaper answer.
How each platform handles your data
SpendeeWe are going to be careful here rather than opportunistic, so this is what Spendee’s own pages say. Its security page states that all communication runs through encrypted channels, that data is stored encrypted on its servers so only authorized users can access it, and that it runs on Google Cloud Platform. Bank access is read-only. Credentials are stored only if you opt in, and for directly connected banks it receives a limited-lifetime token rather than your password. Its terms name Salt Edge and Plaid as the aggregators beside its own bank integrations. Its privacy policy lists both among its data processors, puts its database servers in the EU (Belgium) and in the USA, and says that beyond its listed processors personal data is not transferred or disclosed to third parties unless you consent, you initiate it, or the law requires it. Its help centre describes the company as PSD2-licensed, and says that is why it asks its users for nationality, personal ID and address under anti-money-laundering law. What none of that describes is end-to-end encryption or a key that only you hold. Its privacy policy and terms are the authority, and both are worth reading if this decides it for you.
TurbobullsWhat we can state is our own architecture. Data is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM under a key derived from your password using PBKDF2, before anything is sent. The platform is designed so it cannot read your figures rather than choosing not to. Both companies are EU-based, so GDPR applies to both.
The trade is not free and it runs directly against the previous tab: encrypting on the device is exactly why we cannot offer the bank connections Spendee offers. On analytics, Turbobulls records explicit events only within the app, with no autocapture, no session recording, no advertising trackers, and nothing sold. See exactly how the encryption works, including what we can still see.
- AES-256-GCM on device encryption, PBKDF2 key derivation
- Per-project keys, recovery key available
- No bank connections anywhere in the path
- Export on every plan, never paywalled
- States it connects to 2500+ providers worldwide, through its own bank integrations or Salt Edge and Plaid
- Encrypted channels in transit, encrypted storage on its servers, access for authorized users
- Database servers in the EU (Belgium) and in the USA, per its privacy policy
- No end-to-end encryption described; its privacy policy and terms are the authority
What each one costs, and we are the expensive one
Spendee lists Basic free, Plus at $1.99 a month or $14.99 a year, and Premium at $5.99 a month or $35.99 a year, in dollars as shown on its pricing page as checked in September 2026. That page labels the yearly option as a 49% saving and notes prices may differ by country; its terms say prices show in your local currency where supported and include VAT. Subscriptions are sold through the App Store and Google Play only, per its help centre, and a one-time Lifetime Premium is sold there at a price the pricing page does not show. The 7-day trial is on Plus and Premium, needs payment details up front, and runs once per store account. Its pricing page shows the same feature list for Plus and Premium; its help centre says Plus adds unlimited wallets, unlimited budgets and shared wallets, and Premium adds bank, e-wallet and crypto-wallet connections, automatic import and categorisation, and the AI receipt scanner.
Turbo Pro, the plan every figure on this page is measured against, is €6.66 a month billed yearly at €79.90, or €7.99 monthly, and covers the spending side and the investing side together. If budgeting is all you want from us, you do not have to buy the portfolio tracker with it: Spending Pro is €2.99 a month billed yearly at €35.90, and it leaves the investing side exactly at free-plan depth. The trial is 14 days of everything and the account lands on a permanent free plan afterwards rather than ending.
There is no reading of this where we are the cheap option for tracking spending. Spendee Plus costs a fraction of Turbo Pro, and so does Premium, the plan its help centre says carries the bank connections. What you are paying the difference for is the portfolio tracker in the same account and the encryption around both. If you do not want those, buy the cheaper thing. The prices are in different currencies and move with the exchange rate, so we are not going to put a percentage on the gap in either direction.
Where each one is weaker
On tracking spending, most of the weakness on this page is ours.
- No bank connections at all, against the 2500+ providers Spendee states it connects to
- Every import is a file you export and upload yourself, once a month rather than continuously
- Only a handful of banks and brokers have a dedicated adapter; anything else means mapping the columns once
- Turbo Pro costs substantially more than Spendee for anyone who only wants budgeting
- Our free plan does less budgeting than Spendee’s free plan
- No shared wallets for couples or households
- An installable web app rather than native mobile apps
- No portfolio or investment tracking, cost basis or net worth across holdings described on its product pages or help centre
- Free-plan export covers the last 365 days, and export sits in the mobile app while import sits in the web app, per its help centre
- Budgets are noted as coming to web soon, so the web app trails the phone
- Encryption in transit and at rest with access for authorized users, per its security page; no end-to-end encryption or user-held key described
Read from Spendee’s own site, pricing, bank-connect and security pages, help centre, terms of use and privacy policy in September 2026. A feature absent from a page is not the same as absent from the product, and this list says only what those pages describe.
What it costs
This is the section where we are the expensive option, and there is no way to present it otherwise. Both have a free tier, so the question is what paying buys.
Or €3.59 a month billed monthly. Annual billing is two months free. Cancel anytime. That is the spending side bought on its own.
- Unlimited accounts, spending entries and categories, with envelope budgeting you can actually edit
- The investing side stays exactly at free-plan depth, never less. Paying for one side never takes the other away
- Turbo Pro at €6.66 a month billed yearly at €79.90 opens both sides, portfolio tracker included
- Encryption and export on every plan, free included
No time limit, no card, nothing deleted. Budgeting is read-only and the wallet caps at 120 transactions, 3 accounts and 10 categories, so as a budgeting tool alone it is smaller than Spendee’s free tier.
No card, and nothing to cancel if you stay on free.
Premium is $5.99 a month or $35.99 a year. Both carry a 7-day trial with payment details taken up front. In dollars as shown in September 2026; the pricing page notes prices may differ by country, and both are sold through the App Store and Google Play.
- Basic is free, with one cash wallet, one budget, and export of the last 365 days
- Bank sync is listed under Basic on its pricing page and called a paid feature in its help centre
- Plus adds unlimited wallets and budgets, and shared wallets
- Premium adds bank, e-wallet and crypto-wallet connections and the AI receipt scanner, per its help centre; a one-time Lifetime Premium is sold in the app stores
Prices are set by Spendee and can change. Its own pricing page is the authoritative source.
The two are quoted in different currencies and move with the exchange rate, so this page puts no percentage on the gap. The honest summary is that Spendee’s paid plans cost a fraction of Turbo Pro and, on the plan with bank connections, your spending arrives on its own. What the difference buys is a portfolio tracker in the same account, and end-to-end encryption around both halves, so what our database holds is ciphertext rather than your finances. If neither of those is worth paying for, buy the cheaper thing.