Reviews · Verified August 2026
SimplyWise Reviews: What Contractors Actually Say
The SimplyWise reviews below are real App Store reviews, quoted with the reviewer’s name, their star rating, and the date. Nothing here is written by us.
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Where these SimplyWise reviews come from
Most software review pages are a wall of anonymous praise with no way to check any of it. This one, however, is built the opposite way. Every quote comes from Apple’s public customer review feed for a SimplyWise app, pulled on August 20, 2026. Reviewer display name, star rating, and date are printed with each one. In other words, you can open the same feed and find them.
Three apps carry the SimplyWise reviews below. They are separate companion apps, not one program, though a single subscription opens all of them.
| App | Rating | Ratings | What reviewers use it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| SimplyWise Cost Estimator | 4.8 | More than 31,400 | Photo to itemized estimate, bids, invoicing |
| SimplyWise Receipts & Expenses | 4.9 | More than 36,800 | Scanning and filing receipts for taxes |
| SimplyWise Company Mileage | 4.9 | More than 360 | Automatic trip logging and deductions |
Ratings re-pulled live from Apple’s lookup service on August 20, 2026. The Cost Estimator count moved during the same morning. As a result, it reads as “more than 31,400” rather than a fixed number. The SimplyWise reviews quoted below run from March 2025 to August 2026.
Speed: the estimate goes out before you leave
Above all, this is the theme that comes up most. Contractors are not describing a faster spreadsheet. They are describing an itemized estimate that comes together in minutes instead of the half hour or more they say it used to take, detailed enough to hand straight to the client.
“What usually took me 30 mins or more I had done in mins..found out I was way under biding on jobs too thanks to this app it’s a big help wish I had this years ago..thank you”
“It was able to create a detailed estimate in seconds. I am impressed have been a contractor for 10 years and I’ve never used a program that was as accurate in detailed as simply wise I give it to thumbs up.”
“This app saves me boocoo time. Does everything for me from measuring down to the last screw or nail. Gives me accurate estimates and clear prices for my clients.”
“Making bidding accurate , professional and in seconds”
In fact, the product claim behind those reviews is narrower than the enthusiasm: SimplyWise Cost Estimator turns a photo into an itemized estimate in about 6 seconds, with material quantities on the line items.
Winning the job, and keeping the margin
The second cluster is the one that matters more. Speed is a convenience, but catching an underbid is money. For example, a few reviewers describe running a job through the app and finding out they had been pricing their own work too low, and another reports the profit margin moving after the company started building its estimates in it.
“Simply wise has been a very wise decision for my company to start implementing in building estimates. Since we started using simply wise, we have increased our profit margin significantly!”
“You can be the greatest installer that ever lived, if you can’t generate a proposal that is priced correctly and transparent , you can loose a job quickly. This app has taking all that worry away”
“This app instantly changed my business for the better, not only does it help you visualize what needs to get done but the estimator is very accurate.”
“This app was a game changer for me! It helped me grow and maintain a successful, professional and smooth running business!”
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Receipts and mileage: the companion apps
Receipts and mileage live in separate apps, and they pull a different crowd. Meanwhile, the reviewers are one person shops, landlords, and at least one CPA, and when they compare the app to what they used before, the knock on the alternative is cost and clutter.
Receipts and expenses
“SimplyWise is a phenomenal receipts tracker. Take a photo, select your category, print reports, and download and print your receipts, if necessary. As a CPA, I recommend SimplyWise to all my clients, whether they have a business or not.”
“Love SimplyWise for tracking receipts and expenses! I use it for my business and my rental home. QB had far too many bells & whistles for my needs at a high price. SimplyWise is affordable and easier to use than QB. I wish I’d switched sooner!”
“You don’t have to manually type anything, one picture of the receipt and it does the work for you! I love that you can assign them to different folders and even export to excel!”
“Great app! Literally I use this all the time now for my cleaning business. I was looking for something to help me keep track of all my expenses w/out having to keep a bunch of receipts that by the end of the year I can’t even read!”
Mileage
“I love how easy it is to categorize drives as business or personal, and the reports make tax season a breeze. I’ve already saved hundreds by catching drives I would’ve missed.”
“I really like how this app stores it as a round-trip and then gives you the option to split it. So far, it has tracked all the trips perfectly accurately.”
Support, and the people who stayed
Reviews written in the first hour of use are cheap. Instead, the ones worth reading come from people who were still there a year later, or who hit a problem and wrote about what happened next.
“The support team reached out very quickly and were extremely communicative on how to resolve the issues I was running into. The app has been working great for me since!”
“What really sets it apart is the developer’s commitment to users! Every suggestion I’ve made has been taken seriously and often shows up in an update within weeks.”
“Going on 3 years using this app to track business expenses and income. Very helpful when doing taxes. We can email our accountant the excel document and jpgs.”
“I use this every day with my company! I love it!”
What reviewers want fixed
A reviews page with no criticism on it is an advertisement. So here are four real ones, in the reviewer’s own words, from three and four star reviews. We are not going to argue with them here.
“The one thing it’s missing…a native iPad application. Only thing keeping it from 5 stars for me!”
“Numbers are a little off on the low end and not as detailed from my description I guess the initial description has to be very specific”
“The invoices are too basic. They use to be more detailed”
“Render needs work. Takes a while to get it where you want it for a simple task.”
Still, the pattern worth naming in the critical reviews is actionable for you: a thin project description produces a thin estimate. Indeed, the reviewer above who reports numbers landing low says it himself, that the initial description has to be very specific. In short, photos and a detailed scope give the estimate more to work with.
What SimplyWise costs
Pricing is $29.99/mo, or $239.99/yr, which works out to about $20/mo on the annual plan. There is also a 7-day free trial. One subscription opens every app in the SimplyWise suite, so the receipts and mileage apps quoted above are included in the same plan as the Cost Estimator rather than billed separately.
Consequently, that answers the most common question underneath a review page, which is whether the good reviews came from people on a plan the reader would actually be on. There is one plan and no feature gating, so there is no better tier the reviewers above could have been on.
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Sources
- SimplyWise Cost Estimator on the App Store (4.8 rating, more than 31,400 ratings; verified live 2026-08-20).
- SimplyWise: Receipts, Expenses on the App Store (4.9 rating, more than 36,800 ratings; verified live 2026-08-20).
- SimplyWise: Company Mileage on the App Store (4.9 rating, more than 360 ratings; verified live 2026-08-20).
- Apple customer review feed, SimplyWise Cost Estimator (source of the 13 Cost Estimator quotes on this page; verified live 2026-08-20).
- Apple customer review feed, SimplyWise Receipts and Expenses (source of the 5 receipts quotes on this page; verified live 2026-08-20).
- Apple customer review feed, SimplyWise Company Mileage (source of the 4 mileage quotes on this page; verified live 2026-08-20).
- SimplyWise, Pricing (pricing, trial, suite access; verified live 2026-08-20).
Found out I was way under biding on jobs too thanks to this app.rebelup, App Store, May 31, 2026
SimplyWise reviews: common questions
Is SimplyWise legit?
Yes. SimplyWise, Inc. is the developer of record and publishes four apps under its own name. SimplyWise Cost Estimator holds a 4.8 rating from more than 31,400 App Store ratings, and the receipts app holds 4.9 from more than 36,800. Of course, those counts are public and can be checked on the App Store listings.
What do contractors say about SimplyWise?
Two themes dominate the five star SimplyWise reviews. The first is speed: reviewers describe producing an itemized estimate in minutes instead of the 30 minutes or more one of them says it used to take, and a few put it at seconds. The second is money, with a few reporting they found out they had been pricing their own work too low.
Where do the reviews on this page come from?
Every quote is a verbatim App Store review pulled from Apple’s public customer review feed on August 20, 2026, across the Cost Estimator, Receipts and Expenses, and Company Mileage apps. In addition, each quote carries the reviewer’s display name, star rating, and date. None of them were written or solicited for this page. Some are trimmed to the passage under discussion, and no wording inside a quote has been changed.
SimplyWise reviews: the practical questions
What do the negative reviews complain about?
The three and four star reviews on this page ask for a native iPad app, more invoice detail, and project renders that need fewer passes, and they note that estimate numbers land low when the project description is vague. However, that last one has a fix on the user side: a specific scope and good photos produce a much tighter estimate than a one line description. Across the one and two star reviews in Apple’s public feeds, the complaints run wider: estimates that came back too far from what the job actually cost, app bugs, and frustration at having to subscribe before trying it. Billing turns up in about one in six of them, often an unexpected charge after a trial.
How much does SimplyWise cost?
Pricing is $29.99/mo or $239.99/yr, about $20/mo on annual, with a 7-day free trial. In addition, one subscription opens every app in the SimplyWise suite, including the receipts and mileage apps, and there is no feature gating between plans.
Are receipts and mileage part of the same app?
No. Receipts and Expenses and Company Mileage are separate companion apps with their own App Store listings and their own reviews. They are covered by the same subscription as the Cost Estimator, so you download them separately but do not pay for them separately.
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