Delete your Spense account and data.
You can erase your Spense account and your budget data yourself, from inside the app, without emailing anyone. It works the same for a guest as for an account with an email, and it can't be undone. The one thing it can't do is stop an App Store or Google Play subscription, so if you pay for Spense, start with step 1.
Cancel a store subscription first
Apple and Google bill your subscription, not Spense, so only they can stop it. Deleting your Spense account doesn't tell them, and the charges would carry on. Open the More tab and, on the Subscription card, tap Cancel Subscription. Spense opens Apple's or Google's subscription page, and you finish there. Cancel or change your plan walks through it.
If you're on Spense's free trial and never picked a plan, skip this step: there's no card on file and nothing to cancel. The same goes if the card shows no Cancel Subscription: Spense only offers it while a store plan is set to renew, so if you already cancelled, the button is gone and you're done with this step.
Tap Delete Account & Data
On the More tab, scroll all the way down. Under the Support card (and Log Out, if you signed in with Apple, Google or an email) there's a red Delete Account & Data button. Guests don't see Log Out, because a guest who logged out couldn't get back in, but they do get the delete button: it's how a guest wipes their data.
Type DELETE and confirm
A box titled Delete Account & Data says what's about to go. With an email on the account it reads This permanently deletes the account for your email, including all budgets, transactions, and bank connections. This cannot be undone. As a guest it says You're using a guest account with no backup email, and that there's no way to recover the data.
Under Type DELETE to confirm, type the word. Capitals don't matter. Permanently Delete stays grey until the word is right, then turns red. Tap it. A spinner shows while Spense erases your data, and then you land on the welcome screen with Your account and all data were deleted. Changed your mind before that? Cancel closes the box and nothing happens.
- Your budgets, categories, targets and goals
- Every transaction and account, linked or added by hand
- Your monthly reports, drops and badges
- Your Ask Spense chats
- Your email choices, and your contact at our email provider
- Your sign-in, so the account no longer exists
What deleting doesn't touch
- An App Store or Google Play subscription. That's step 1. If you deleted first, cancel it in your phone's subscription settings: it still shows there under Spense.
- Apple's and Google's own records of what you paid. They keep those under their own rules, as our privacy policy says.
- Your bank. Your bank accounts and money aren't affected. To see every app you've ever linked a bank to, Spense included, sign in to Plaid's own Plaid Portal at my.plaid.com.
Just taking a break? You don't have to delete anything: cancelling keeps your budget in your account for when you come back. Worried about who sees your budget on this phone? Lock Spense with Face ID. And if you're deciding whether to link a bank at all, is it safe to link your bank to a budgeting app? covers what Spense can and can't see.