HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) vs Pocket Expense 6
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).
Pocket Expense 6
Manage your personal finances by tracking accounts, categorizing transactions, and monitoring bills. Set budgets to control spending and achieve savings goals. Gain insights into your financial habits with powerful statistics and reports.
- Track multiple financial accounts
- Budget management and spending control
- Bill tracking with reminders
- Transaction categorization
- Savings goal achievement
- Detailed financial statistics and reports
- Password protection
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Pocket Expense is a full-featured finance software that you can carry in your pocket. It is a powerful and easy to use program that will help you track and understand your personal finance. Designed and developed by polycents! Pocket Expense brings all your financial accounts together, categorizes your transactions, tracks all your bills, lets you set budgets and helps you achieve your savings goals. In just minutes, you’ll see where your money is going and where you could save money. TRACK YOUR ACCOUNTS You can easily input and manage your accounts. All your accounts will be displayed in one place. You are supplied with a set of icons for your accounts. All transactions related to the same account will be displayed in one page so that you can manage them easily. √ Support multiple account and account type √ Statistic for daily/weekly/monthly/yearly overall √ Track balance of each account BUDGET MANAGEMENT Stay in control and monitor your spending with the help of this budget tracker feature. Set yourself a limit and debit all your payments. You can always see how much money is left until your budget is gone and whether you might better postpone a purchase. Over time this should help to save some money instead of going into dept. √ Support multiple budgets √ See your income and expenses of one budget through charts √ Recurring and non-recurring budget √ Move funds from one budget to another in a single operation √ At the end of each cycle, all information for a budget is archived and can be easily viewed for comparative purpose TRACK YOUR BILLS Pocket Expense will make sure that you’re never late for even one bill. By tracking each bill, which is customizable with different reminder alert periods. √ Support multiple bills of different recurring √ Set alerts to remind you of which bills are close to due dates or overdue √ Allows for the payment of bills in full or in part √ Support multiple payments of each bill √ Support calendar view √ Show total amount of all and overdue bills √ Mark bills with icons according to their status Other Key features: - Password protection - Simple, attractive interface - Payers & payees management - Category management - Provide help document - Powerful statistics and reports of all your transactions - Quickly search for transactions and edit from the same screen - Complete world currency list - Backup and restore all your data over WiFi # Subscription Details # - Monthly and annual subscriptions are available. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription. - Subscriptions can be managed by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/7775087 Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/7775087 If you have any problems or suggestions please send a mail to expense@support.polycents.com, you’ll get the response in a short time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Expense 6 at 3.9 against HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)'s 3.3. Pocket Expense 6 also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 27). HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Pocket Expense 6 sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Expense 6 holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Expense 6 has 2K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)'s written reviews are positive against 54% of Pocket Expense 6's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) ships an update fortnightly, Pocket Expense 6 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync) | Pocket Expense 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (27 ratings) | 3.9 (2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews — better | 53.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 2K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anishu, Inc. | Beesoft Apps |
Customer experience
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
Pocket Expense 6
User reviews
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Helpful for tracking expenses
- 💡 Useful budgeting features
- 🔒 Secure sync between devices
- 🎨 Customizable categories and icons
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues between devices
- 🔢 Limited number of expense/income entries in free version
- 🤔 Confusing or unintuitive interface
- 🔍 Lacking advanced reporting and forecasting features
- 💰 Expensive paid version
Pocket Expense 6
From 2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 📊 Helpful charts and graphs
- 💰 Useful for managing finances
- 🎨 Nice design and interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues between devices
- 🗑️ Data loss after updates
- 💸 Excessive ads in free version
- 🔒 Account recovery issues
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
Pocket Expense 6
Reported bugs
4 issues- Transactions being duplicated or deleted unexpectedly
- Incorrect account balances after updates
- Inability to delete or edit recurring transactions
- Sync failures between iPhone and iPad versions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set custom budget cycles
- Option to exclude credit card balances from net worth
- Improved backup and restore functionality
- Integration with bank accounts for automatic syncing
In-app purchases
HomeBudget Lite (w/ Sync)
No in-app purchases
Pocket Expense 6
- Premium - 1 Month$1.491 Month
- Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$8.991 Year
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- Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$19.99
Questions
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