Simple Budget Planner vs Fundology
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Budget Planner
Manually track your household expenses and income without connecting bank accounts. Plan your monthly budget with customizable categories and recurring bill reminders. Share your budget with family and gain clear insights into your spending habits.
- Manual expense and income tracking
- Envelope-style budgeting
- Bill and recurring payment reminders
- Household budget sharing
- Savings goals tracking
- Spending insights by category
- Offline functionality
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Simple Budget Planner is a calm, manual budget for you and your household. No bank login, no connected accounts, nothing automatic happening behind your back: you write down what you spend, and you always know what's left. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND • Your balance for the period, and Look ahead: where you'll be on any date, with the lowest point on the way • What's left a day or this week, right on the Home screen • A short recap at the end of every period, and your year in review PLAN YOUR MONTH • Give every category a budget, envelope-style, and see what's left at a glance • Bills and recurring payments go out on the day you choose and count before they arrive, so "left to spend" is honest • Monthly from your payday, twice a month (1st and 15th), weekly, or every 2 or 4 weeks • A "Left to spend" widget for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, with amounts you can hide TRACK IN SECONDS • Add an expense in three taps with the quick keypad • Edit anything in place, move entries between categories, undo a delete • Search, filter and sort by date or by due date • A gentle reminder if you forget, and a note that remembers its category SAVE ON PURPOSE • Savings goals with contributions and progress • Money set aside is shown separately, never counted as spending SHARE WITH YOUR HOUSEHOLD • Invite your partner or family to the same budget • Send your partner a link: they join in one tap, no account needed first • Everyone sees the same numbers, on their own iPhone or iPad SEE WHERE IT GOES • Clear spending and income insights by category • Money in against spent over the last 6 months • Look back over any dates: a whole year, the last 3 months or your own range, with every entry in one list • Every chart has a text summary and a table view YOURS TO KEEP • Export everything to CSV at any time, on every plan • Works offline and syncs when you're back online • Your data is never sold and never used for ads • Lock the app with Face ID • Siri and Shortcuts: add an expense without opening the app • On iPhone and iPad, with two columns on the bigger screen PREMIUM Simple Budget Planner is free to download and use. The free plan includes 40 entries for your household, or 80 when you share it, and every feature. Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription that removes the entry limit. One subscription covers your household through Family Sharing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://sbp.sh/terms Privacy Policy: https://sbp.sh/privacy
Fundology
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Fundology shows you what a fund actually did, in figures you can check. Headline returns are the easy part. What is harder to see is the return left after inflation has eaten into it, and after the charges have been taken out. Fundology puts those figures next to each other so you can read them at a glance. REAL RETURNS, NOT JUST HEADLINE ONES Every performance figure is shown twice: the nominal return, and the return after CPIH inflation using the Office for National Statistics series. A fund up 40 per cent over five years while prices rose 20 per cent did not leave you 40 per cent better off, and the app says so plainly. WHAT THE CHARGES COST The ongoing charges figure is shown as a percentage and, more usefully, as a cash figure: what the charge would have taken from a 10,000 pound holding over five years, compounded. Small percentages are easy to wave away. Pounds are not. HOLDINGS OVERLAP, IN PLAIN SIGHT Hold three global funds and you may be holding the same twenty companies three times over. Fundology reads the holdings each issuer publishes and works out how much of two funds is genuinely the same portfolio, position by position. Where a fund only discloses its largest holdings, the app tells you that rather than quietly guessing. THE COMPANIES UNDERNEATH Tap any holding to see the company behind it: sector, market capitalisation, price to earnings, dividend yield, 52-week range, and which other funds you are looking at also hold it. Market prices are delayed by at least fifteen minutes and are labelled as such wherever they appear. A WATCHLIST THAT STAYS QUIET Keep the funds you are reading about in one place, with a private note against each. No push notifications urging you to act, no daily nudges, no leaderboards. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Every figure carries its source and the date it was gathered. A data and sources screen lists each feed, its licence, and how fresh it is, including when something has gone stale. If we do not have a figure, the app leaves it blank rather than filling the gap. PLAIN ENGLISH A built-in glossary explains OCF, NAV, CPIH, Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdown, accumulation versus income units and the rest, with the method used to calculate each one. WHAT FUNDOLOGY DOES NOT DO It does not recommend funds. It does not rank them as good or bad. It does not sell your data, carry advertising, or accept payment for placement. There is no trading, no brokerage and no way to buy anything through the app. Fundology is an information tool. It is not financial advice and we are not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. You can browse without an account; an account is only needed to save a watchlist or notes, and you can delete it in the app at any time. Capital at risk. Past performance is not a guide to future returns. The value of investments can fall as well as rise, and you may get back less than you put in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fundology at none against Simple Budget Planner's 4. Fundology also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Simple Budget Planner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Fundology asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Simple Budget Planner | Fundology |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (283 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 283 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mehmet Cetin | Ali Kemal EROL |
Bugs and requests
Simple Budget Planner
Reported bugs
6 issues- Periodic transactions not recorded automatically
- App freezes or becomes unusable after declining to rate
- Glitching UI elements
- Data export errors
- Subscription sharing/family plan issues
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- Screen size/balance partially hidden on some devices
Requested features
11 requests- Add dark mode option
- Allow sorting expenses by due date
- Add bi-weekly pay period option
- Add weekly budget option
- Improve screen resolution and UI scaling
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- Add option to subtract budgeted items from income
- Separate statistics for savings
- Export data to CSV
- More detail for periodic transactions
- Pleasing icons or artwork
- Option to sort accounts alphabetically
Fundology
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple Budget Planner
- Unlimited Weekly$1.997 Days
- Unlimited Monthly$4.991 Month
- Unlimited Annually14 Days trial$17.991 Year
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- Unlimited Semiannually$24.996 Months
Fundology
No in-app purchases
Questions
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