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Wally
Smart expense tracking for travel and daily life
As of 30 August 2026, Wally is free to use. Wally is a lightweight expense tracking app that uses OCR technology to scan receipts and automatically categorize spending. Softwr lists it under Personal Finance. Wally is made by Wally Inc., launched in 2009, available on iOS, Android.
Overview
What Wally does
Wally is a lightweight expense tracking app that uses OCR technology to scan receipts and automatically categorize spending. Great for travel and daily expenses.
What people use it for
- Budget Management
- Expense Tracking
- Investment Tracking
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Wally.
- The Internet Archive's capture of wally.me on 2 January 2019 stated the app is free ('Control your money seamlessly. And, it's free.'), and claimed rankings as the #1 finance app in 22 countries and top 10 in 52 countries at that time.
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Pricing
What Wally costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Receipt scanning
- Expense tracking
- Basic reports
Premium
$9.99 /mo
- Advanced analytics
- Unlimited storage
- Cloud sync
Capabilities
Features
Receipt OCR scanning
Expense tracking
Receipt storage
Category management
Cloud storage
Integration with Cloud storage
IOS support
Available on iOS
Android support
Available on Android
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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Does Wally charge a subscription fee?
No, Wally is a free Chrome extension. The service compares product prices across retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Nike without requiring any payment from users.
SourceHow does Wally make money if it is free?
The provided website content does not disclose Wally's business model or revenue source. The extension appears to be offered free to users for price comparison across retailers.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Wally
- Company
- Wally Inc.
- Based in
- Berlin, Germany
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- PayPal
- Cash App
- Expense Manager
- Wallet
- Spendee
- Splitwise
- MoneyWiz
- PocketGuard
- Money Manager
- Simplifi
- EveryDollar
- GnuCash
- Goodbudget
- Google Pay
- Investopedia Stock Simulator
- Expense Manager
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