HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) App Reviews

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!

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.

Played with it for 5 mins & got frustrated.

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.

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.

It would be nicer if you can add a calculator.

I tried this lite version to see how it works and whether I would be able to actually see myself imputing all this information on a regular basis. I found that its not that time consuming once youve set up your basic accounting info and its very quick and convenient to add items as they occur. I tried several accounting aps and found this one by far the easiest and most comprehensive. It covers everything I need. Now that I see how useful and easy it is to use I will definately buy the paid version and thankfully I can automatically transfer my info to it from this one. Its a no brainer to set it up but there is a downloadable user guide on the developers website if there is a need for understanding any aspect of it further. I think this is one of the best and most frequently used aps I will ever buy. Its worth the purchase price but having this free version to try it out was helpful. Thank you developers.

Yes, it could show off what it can do in maybe 40 transactions instead of 10. Still, its a great program to track your expenditures (as long as you have even a very basic understanding of accounting).

I have budgeted using Excel on my home PC for a number of years and had grown accustomed to tracking my expenses and budget in quite a detailed way. So when I was looking for an app to replace it I was quite hesitant. However so far I am really pleased with this one. I particulalry like the feature to add your banking account balances (Checking, Savings, VISA etc) and then these are updated as you enter expenses, allows you to know your balances without necessarily logging on to your online banking or passing by an ATM also I like being able to add payees so that you can track within expense types where you have spent money. Dont pay attention to the poor reviews here, these are all linked to the lite version which has some serious limitations, the full app is easy to use and does not impose any restrictions on expense entries etc that I have come across at least. It does take a while to learn all the ins and outs of how to operate it but the user guide on the website does a pretty good job of explaining it.

Its hard to find an app thats both easy to use AND doesnt have skimped down features. This is both - nice GUI and easy to understand.

The lite version is great to play around with to get to know what the app is capable of. Im still playing around with it and so far the only major glitch I can find is that you cannot edit an entry made by another device. To the developers: this fix will make the app that much greater. My husband and I are working at imputing our expenses together to cut the initial setup time in half but weve run into this problem! Please come out with a fix!

Can anyone tell me if you can split categories in the newest update and how?

Too rigid with little value over a fairly simple Excel spreadsheet, which has full flexibility.