The short version: True Cost and Easy Expense do the same core job, scan a receipt, track income and expenses, log mileage, and export a tidy report, so the honest question is price. True Cost is a flat $10 a month (or $90 a year). Easy Expense starts at $20 a month for that same everyday work, and its automation extras, bank sync and email receipts, come in on the $35 a month Professional plan, with team use billed per user. Same core job, half the price.
Price and features, side by side
| Feature | True Cost | Easy Expense |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $10 / mo ($90 / yr) | $20 / mo (Starter) |
| Unlimited receipt scanning | ✅ | ✅ |
| Expense reports (CSV & PDF) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Income tracking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Mileage tracking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Bank & card auto-import | ❌ | ✅ on $35 plan |
| Email receipt forwarding | ❌ | ✅ on $35 plan |
| Team / multiple users | ✅ Team $20 / mo flat, unlimited members | ✅ $8–12 / user / mo |
| Free trial | 7 days | 7 days |
A few things stand out. On the everyday work, scanning receipts, tracking income and expenses, logging mileage, and exporting a report, the two apps are fairly close. That is the job most individuals and freelancers need a receipt app for, and it sits at $10 a month with True Cost and $20 with Easy Expense's Starter plan. Easy Expense's $35 Professional plan mainly adds automation, bank and card sync, and email receipts, rather than changing the everyday capture, and team use is billed per user. (Prices are the in-app rates as of mid-2026 and can change.)
What the price gap actually is
Line up the plan you would really buy. For the core job, scanning receipts, tracking income and expenses, logging mileage, and exporting a clean report, the comparison is True Cost at $10 a month against Easy Expense's $20 Starter. That is half the price for the same everyday work. Pay yearly and it widens: True Cost is $90 for the year, about $7.50 a month. You only reach Easy Expense's $35 Professional plan when you need bank sync, email receipts, or extra users, and even there True Cost's Team plan adds unlimited members for a flat $20.
Where Easy Expense pulls ahead
Two things Easy Expense does that True Cost does not, and it is fair to say so. On its Professional plan it can connect to your credit card and bank accounts and pull transactions in automatically, and it can scan receipts straight from your email. If your workflow is inbox-heavy, or you want every card charge to appear without touching a receipt, that automation has real value, and it is the reason to consider the $35 plan.
True Cost takes the other road on purpose: it is capture-first and asks for no bank login at all. You point the camera, its OCR reads the merchant, date, line items, tax, and tip, and the entry files itself. Nothing links to your bank, which is exactly what a lot of people want from a phone app that lives next to their money. It is a genuine trade: less automatic ingestion, no open banking connection to worry about.
Where True Cost pulls ahead
Beyond the flat $10 price, the clearest structural difference is how you pay to add people. True Cost's Team plan is one flat $20 a month for unlimited members, where Easy Expense's team plans run $8 to $12 per user each month, so the bill climbs with every person you add. A five-person team is a flat $20 with True Cost and $40 to $60 a month with Easy Expense. Mileage is valued at a per-mile rate you set, and multi-currency amounts convert at live exchange rates, both in the base plan.
It also reads tax-inclusive receipts (GST or VAT baked into the price, as in Singapore, Europe, or Australia) as fluently as tax-exclusive ones, splits tax and tip per line item, and exports a clean CSV or PDF with the receipt images attached in a tap. True Cost is on the App Store now with the same 7-day free trial.
The verdict
So which should you pick? If your must-have is automatic bank and email import, Easy Expense's $35 Professional plan is built for that and does it well. But if you are an individual, freelancer, or small business owner who wants the everyday job done, receipts read accurately, income and mileage tracked, tax-ready reports from your phone, True Cost does that same core work for $10 against Easy Expense's $20. If price is the deciding factor, that difference is the main thing to weigh.