SpendFoxy: Expense Tracker

Contact

Questions, problems or ideas? Write to:

spendfoxysupport@diaryfromtheroad.com

It helps to include your iPhone model and iOS version. Please don’t send amounts or other financial details you’d rather keep private.

Questions

• How do I restore Pro on a new iPhone?

  Pro unlocks extra features; see the app for details. To restore it on a new iPhone, sign in with the same Apple Account you bought Pro with. In SpendFoxy, go to Settings › SpendFoxy Pro › Restore purchases. This restores subscriptions and lifetime purchases.

  To move your expenses, restore a backup: on the welcome screen of a new install, tap Restore from a backup (or Restore from iCloud, when a copy is there).

• What is the Pro preview?

  For your first 14 days, SpendFoxy includes everything in Pro. There’s no payment and nothing renews. When it ends, you keep everything you added and SpendFoxy stays free for everyday tracking. You can end the preview early in Settings › SpendFoxy Pro.

• How do I cancel or change my subscription?

  Subscriptions are managed by Apple. If you have a yearly or monthly subscription, go to Settings › SpendFoxy Pro › Manage subscription in SpendFoxy to change or cancel it. Removing the app on its own isn’t the same as canceling.

• How do I get a refund?

  Apple handles refunds for App Store purchases, so we can’t issue them ourselves. Sign in to reportaproblem.apple.com, choose I’d like to › Request a refund, and follow the steps. Eligibility varies by country.

• Where is my data stored?

  On your iPhone. There is no SpendFoxy account, and no server of ours stores your expenses. Your iPhone includes the app’s data in its own backups (iCloud Backup or a computer backup). If you switch on Settings › Data › Back up to iCloud, the app also saves a daily backup file to the app’s folder in your own iCloud Drive (Files › iCloud Drive › SpendFoxy); the newest 10 are kept. You can also save a backup file yourself with Back up to a file.

• How do I delete all my data?

  In the app, go to Settings › Data › Erase all data. It asks twice, and first offers to export a backup. Erasing deletes every expense, trip, custom category, card payment and setting on this iPhone.

  It does not delete backup files stored elsewhere. If you used Back up to iCloud, also delete the SpendFoxy folder in Files › iCloud Drive, and delete any backup or spreadsheet files you saved yourself.

• What usage data is collected, and how do I turn it on or off?

  SpendFoxy sends anonymous usage events, such as “an expense was saved” or “Insights was opened”, with yes/no facts like whether an expense was in a foreign currency. Events never contain amounts, notes, names of places or merchants, category or trip names, or anything you typed, and they are tied to a random identifier created on your phone, not to you.

  Anonymous usage stats are off unless you turn them on. You can change this anytime in Settings, with Share anonymous usage stats. While it’s off, the app sends no usage events at all, and erasing your data keeps your choice. Details are in the privacy policy.

• How do Apple Pay card payments get in?

  Through an optional automation you set up once in the Shortcuts app: Settings › Card payments walks you through it. When you pay with Apple Pay, the automation passes the payment to SpendFoxy on your phone.

  A payment the app can read in full is added to Expenses, marked “From card”, and you can edit or delete it. One it can’t read in full waits in Settings › Card payments under Needs attention for you to check. It depends on what Apple Pay hands to Shortcuts, so keep an eye on your expenses, and cash still needs to be added by hand.

  Adding card payments on their own is part of SpendFoxy Pro. Payments that arrive while you have Pro or the Pro preview can always be added, even later on Free. On Free, new card payments are still saved and wait in Settings › Card payments. They’re added on their own when you have SpendFoxy Pro.

• Where do the exchange rates come from?

  Daily mid-market rates from the open-source currency-api project, downloaded from jsDelivr and Cloudflare. A request contains only currency codes and a date, never your amounts. Each expense keeps the rate of its own date, so past totals don’t move when rates do. Offline, the newest rate on your phone is used and replaced with the exact one once you’re back online.

  Mid-market rates are not what your card charged. To match your statement, open the expense and type the amount your bank charged; SpendFoxy works out the rate from it.

• How do I add the Lock Screen button and widgets?

  In the app, Settings › Lock Screen and widgets shows it step by step:

  1. Touch and hold your Lock Screen.
  2. Tap Customize, then Lock Screen.
  3. Tap a corner button and pick SpendFoxy (Add expense).

  The Add expense control can also go in Control Center or on the Action Button, and there are Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets (Today shows what you spent today). The control needs iOS 18. Opening the app from a locked iPhone asks for Face ID or your passcode first.