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HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 4560 ratings )
Finance
Developer: Anishu, Inc.
Free
Current version: 3.6.4, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 27 Mar 2009
App size: 24.6 Mb

Lite version of the HomeBudget software, which is available as a paid application. Limited to 20 expense entries and 10 income entries.
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HomeBudget is an integrated expense tracker designed to help you track your expenses, income, bills-due and account balances. It offers support for budgeting, and allows analysis of your expenses and income, including charts and graphs. Two key differentiating features of HomeBudget are:

1. Integrated set of features. The features within HomeBudget are well integrated such that a bill can become an expense (when you pay for it) and also adjust the account balance at the same time.

2. Family sync. HomeBudget includes Family Sync, an advanced feature that allows a group of devices within the household to exchange expense and income information, and work together within a single budget. Once setup, the devices sync with each other automatically over the air. Family Sync works across all features including Bills and Accounts. Please refer to the Family Sync Quick Start guide at http://www.anishu.com for information on configuring Family Sync.

KEY FEATURES:

Expenses:
- Create/Edit/Delete expenses and recurring expenses
- Browse expense entries by month, by category/date with the ability to drill-down
- Optionally associate an account and payee with an expense
- Attach photo images of receipts; drag and resize images on screen
- Support for multiple currencies and automatic exchange rate conversion
- Search expense entries

Income:
- Create/Edit/Delete income and recurring income
- Optionally associate an account with the income

Bills
- Create/Edit/Delete bills and recurring bills
- Support for Payees, and track payments by Payee.
- Make payment on bills either an as expense or as a transfer (to avoid double accounting your expenses)
- Calendar and list view of Bills
- Bill reminders

Categories and Budget
- Create/Edit/Delete expense categories and sub-categories
- Set a budget, and track expenses at the category/sub-category level.
- Associate icons with the categories and reorder category display order
- Budget rollover
- Classify expenses into fixed, variable and discretionary and compute your disposable income

Accounts
- Support for Accounts such as Checking, Savings, Credit, Debit, Cash, etc.
- Associate your expense and income entries with your accounts and accurately track account balances.
- View transactions, and do transfer between accounts.
- Ability to choose a different base currency for each account

Reports
- Trend chart for Expense, Budget and Income for the last 6 months
- Pie/Bar charts for expense break-down (Available in the Expenses screen).
- Export data/reports by email or via WiFi

Family Sync
- Automatically sync multiple devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch) in the household and see the same numbers on all devices over 3G and WiFi
- Work within the same budget with other members of the household

Other
- Backup/Restore complete application data, including all receipts
- Choice of color schemes: blue, iOS, orange
- Ability to upload your own list of category icons
- Large numeric keypad for expense/income data entry with decimal point placement automatic for your locale/region
- HomeBudget follows the locale/region setting on your device and shows date and currency symbols appropriate for your region

Visit http://www.anishu.com to see more screenshots, and to download the user guide (PDF, 42 pages).

Pros and cons of HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) app for iPhone and iPad

HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) app good for

I used iXpenseIT for years, but two weeks ago they destroyed the app with a worse version. Then I decided to start using HomeBudget, an app that I bought 3 years ago. For my surprise HomeBudget has very nice tools and views to manage cash flow, which I think is one of the most important things to manage after controlling your budget. I do recommend HomeBudget.
Its good to keep track of your monthly expenses but you can only add so many expenses in this version and cant delete them afterwards to replace it with another expense.
I like the ability to link expenses with the accounts, specify recurrent expenses, and do budgeting (would not mind more icons though... like Gym? Golf? or Student Loans?). So far, I had no problem deleting expenses. (Also, I do regular transfers from my Checking to Credit Card; why should not this option be present?) In the end, I like it quite a bit.
I dont know if its because of the free version but i cant see the reports with my expenses and income that i input. Very simple to use, theres a help at start screen to explain how it works.
This app works great. Exactly what I was looking for. Downloaded a diif app at first bit this one works way better and is simpler to use.
As a University student, I have to budget my money. I was never good with numbers but this app made my life so much easier. I downloaded lite and within 3 hours I was downloading the full version.

Some bad moments

Great visual, fast, easy to work, but needs to have more possible expenses, its really bad to be limited to only 10 expense entries and 5 income entries! This is not the reality, life is full off expenses, come on!
The app does not let you input multiple entries for the same category/subcategory. For example it will only let you enter 1 car loan payment expense. But if you have two cars it wont let you add the second car expense. Very disappointing. I cant even combine the car payments in one expense as they occur on seperate dates within the month. Maybe this only occurs in the lite version but I wont take the chance and buy the paid version if I have no way of knowing if the other version is more versatile. From the app description I thought the only difference between the two versions was that the number of income and expense input was limited to 5 and 10 respectively in the lite version.
I was looking for a free application for basic budgeting tools, and this appeared to be the perfect solution. Until I tried to add my tenth expense - still within the first day of use! I am uncertain if anyone could use this free app. If I wanted to pay for an app, perhaps this would be a good one. Otherwise, like I have seen from others, this should be a trial, not just lite. Do not try to use the lite version for your budgeting needs.
This app is great for university students or anyone looking to keep track of expenditures on a casual level. Its easier to use than the other finance apps and offers alot of features, like graphs for trends, etc. But for more professional users the free version might be somewhat limited...
Very dissapointed. This is VERY limited. You can only input ten expenses. This is great when you purchase the full version otherwise the lite is a waste of time.
Too rigid with little value over a fairly simple Excel spreadsheet, which has full flexibility.

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