Balanced Budgets vs Budget Brief
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Balanced Budgets
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Balanced Budget is tool used to take control of your budgets with just a few taps. Easily create and modify budgets to keep track of all your various income and expenses in a simple, intuitive fashion. Key features of the app include: * Full Dark Mode support (for devices running iOS 13 and later). * Create, edit, and remove as many budgets as you like without spending a single cent. * Re-order budgets and financial entries. * Support for multiple languages.
Budget Brief
Log all your financial transactions to gain insights into your spending habits. The app provides various helpful breakdowns of your financial data.
- Transaction logging
- Financial breakdowns
- Spending insights
- Cross-device support
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Get a variety of helpful breakdowns of your finances by logging all your transactions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Budget Brief at every 5 days against Balanced Budgets's every 5 weeks. Balanced Budgets's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Balanced Budgets ships an update every 5 weeks, Budget Brief every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Balanced Budgets | Budget Brief |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Kapiszka | Yannik Bloscheck |
In-app purchases
Balanced Budgets
No in-app purchases
Budget Brief
No in-app purchases
Questions
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