5 Top Expense Apps for Android to Save You Time and Money

Expense apps for Android can turn your phone from a lump of plastic into a servile personal secretary to help you keep up with everything you spend as you go about your business. Or rather, your business’ business.

Only the most sadistic among us enjoy filling in expenses, which is why it’s great to have an app at hand that can help you record and process your expenses with the minimum of fuss.

You’ll see a lot of free expense apps for Android on the Google Play store. Most of the top ones are delivered as part of a cloud-based expense management software. This generally means that you don’t pay to download the app, but you can only use it if you take out a monthly subscription to the web software. Luckily, prices are normally pretty low (they can even be free for single-users), and many of these expense management solutions offer free trials and freemium options.

To help you choose the right Android expense app for you or your business, we’ve studied GetApp’s Category Leader ranking of expense management software to unearth the products with the best mobile support, and cross-referenced these with user ratings in the Google Play store.

Concur

Concur helps you keep tabs on your expenses while you’re on the move. The cloud-based software offers services designed to streamline management of business travel, expenses, and invoicing. It’s designed to integrate with business systems in areas such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), HR, and accounting.

The Concur app for Android boasts an array of features for managing business expenses, including the ability to import data from credit cards, snap photos of receipts, as well as supporting the submission and approval of expense reports. It’s designed so that expenses can be photographed and edited while your Android device is in ‘Airplane’ mode.

Concur pricing : From $8 per month

GetApp Category Leader mobile score : 20/20

Concur Google Play Store average user rating (July 2016) : 4.5/5

Nexonia Expenses

Wish you could just snap your fingers and have your expenses all done? Nexonia Expenses allows you to snap a pictures of receipts with your phone’s camera then submit them for approval via the Nexonia application.

The cloud software lets you sync data between the application and your ERP/accounting app, and features credit card integration with daily transaction feeds that let you view spending at a glance wherever you go. It supports more than 160 currencies so you shouldn’t be hampered by having to convert currency manually.

Nexonia Expenses pricing : From $10 per month

GetApp Category Leader mobile score : 16/20

Nexonia Expenses Google Play Store average user rating (July 2016) : 4.3/5

Expensify

Designed to automate your business’ expense reporting process, Expensify tracks the entire process from first getting a receipt to when the final report is exported into your accounts application, such as Xero, QuickBooks, or NetSuite. The application’s OCR technology, known as SmartScan, matches scanned receipts with imported credit card transactions, generating expense reports automatically.

Expensify boasts an expense app for Android that lets you take pictures of receipts on your phone or scan them in. You can then create and edit expenses from your device. It includes support for time entry, mileage entry, and simple report submission.

Expensify pricing : From $5 per month

GetApp Category Leader mobile score : 16/20

Expensify Google Play Store average user rating (July 2016) : 4.1/5

Certify

Certify is designed to help you save time and money and make sure your business stays compliant. The software auto-generates expense reports for employees, eliminating the need for in-house accountants to chase down business travelers for their expense reports.

Like Expensify, Certify has its own scanning technology, called ReceiptParse, which means an end to stuffing wads of receipts into your wallet. Expenses can be edited through the Android app, allowing you to categorize receipts, and manually add the reason for each expense.

Certify pricing : From $8 per month

GetApp Category Leader mobile score : 16/20

Certify Google Play Store average user rating (July 2016) : 3.8/5

Receipt Bank

Receipt Bank is another expense app for Android, designed to help your small business avoid the agony of filling in expense reports. The mobile app contains the ubiquitous photo capture feature, and stores images of your receipts for at least seven years. This means you don’t need to keep all your old receipts stuffed in a shoebox for years on end.

Receipt Bank claims to be approved by tax authorities all over the world. It allows you to complete your expenses through the application, before pushing it out into your cloud accounting software. It supports integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, FreeAgent, and more.

Receipt Bank pricing : From £9.99 per month

GetApp Category Leader mobile score : 15/20

Receipt Bank Google Play Store average user rating (July 2016) : 4.2/5

Where to go next…

• Check out our expense management software category leader ranking , which displays more information about the top 25 apps in this field.

• Go read Stephanie Miles’ pocket-sized guide to the best free Android finance and accounting apps .

• Read reviews from GetApp users about their experiences with expense management apps.