HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) vs Patterner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
Track expenses, income, and bills with integrated budgeting and account balance management. Features family sync for multiple devices and detailed reports with charts and graphs.
- Expense and income tracking
- Bill management and reminders
- Budgeting by category
- Account balance tracking
- Family sync across devices
- Expense reports and charts
- Receipt photo attachment
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Lite version of the HomeBudget software, which is available as a paid application. Limited to 20 expense entries and 10 income entries. -- 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).
Patterner
Track your spending habits with ease. This app helps you visualize where your money goes by highlighting categories with higher expenditure. Create and customize spending categories monthly to gain a clear overview of your financial patterns.
- Consumption pattern visualization
- Category-based spending highlights
- Detailed item recording
- Monthly category editing
- Easy spending tracking
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Easily track your spending patterns! Categories with higher spending will appear at the top, making it easy to see where your money goes. Create detailed categories and record your expenses. You can customize your categories each month. 'Patterner' makes it easy to keep track of your spending. [ Contact ] momots_works@naver.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Patterner at 100% against HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)'s 55%. Patterner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3). HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Patterner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) asks for nothing beyond the download.
Patterner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Patterner's.
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) ships an update fortnightly, Patterner every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) | Patterner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anishu, Inc. | AHN YOONJI |
Customer experience
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
Patterner
Bugs and requests
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Recurring expenses/income not working properly
- Crashes when trying to restore from Dropbox backup
- Unable to edit or delete existing entries
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to change budget period (weekly, monthly, etc.)
- Improve recurring expense/income handling
- Integrate with bank accounts for automatic transaction import
- Provide more detailed reporting and analytics
- Allow custom icons and categories
Patterner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
No in-app purchases
Patterner
- Patterner Pro$3.99
Questions
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