Comparison

Visual Budget vs Finances

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Visual Budget

Manage personal and business finances with advanced analysis and consolidation. Track income and expenses across multiple accounts, set budgets, and visualize financial data with charts and graphs. Import transactions or input them manually for comprehensive financial oversight.

Highlights
  • Multi-account management
  • Customizable expense/income categories
  • Budget assignment and monitoring
  • Manual and automatic transaction import (CSV, OFX)
  • Recurring transaction setup
  • Financial overview and visualization tools
  • Graphical breakdown of transactions
Features
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With Visual Budget, easily manage your personal and business accounts using powerful, advanced analysis and consolidation features. Visual Budget can be used to handle several accounts simultaneously and sort them into different groups. Expense/income categories are automatically created based on a standard model that fits most needs. You can of course modify this category list to suit more particular requirements for each of your accounts. Two levels of categories/sub-categories allow you to define your budget plan in an easy but precise way. Assign a budget to every category, and accurately monitor the evolution of your income and expenses. You can input your financial transactions manually, or automatically by importing CSV (spreadsheet) or OFX (bank standard) files with iTunes file sharing. Check off your transactions to ensure that they match your bank statements. Define recurring transactions, such as a monthly Internet subscription, once and for all. Visual Budget also features Overview tools, allowing you to visualize the breakdown of your transactions and the changes in your balances in the blink of an eye, and to monitor your budgets efficiently Several graphs (bar or pie charts) provided by the application give you a clear and synthetic view of your transactions and their breakdown into expense, income, category and budgetary changes. The application comes with an example account featuring a dozen transactions which will allow you to quickly become familiar with it. Freemium version, limited to 50 transactions per account. Integrated purchase unlocks unlimited transaction creation. Universal application for iPhone/iPad, iOS 7.1 and above. Mac Version available on the Mac App Store.

About

Finances

Manage your finances with this app that tracks expenses, income, and investments. Set budgets, monitor cash flow, and view detailed reports. Cloud sync ensures your data is backed up and accessible across devices.

Highlights
  • Expense and income tracking
  • Budget management
  • Investment tracking
  • Bill reminders
  • Multi-currency support
  • Cloud sync
  • Financial reports
Features
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The Finances application provides an integrated set of features to help you manage your cash flow and investments: - For cash flow, Finances supports tracking expenses and income, and includes support for budgets, accounts, payees, and bill tracking. - For investments, Finances supports tracking cash and stock investments and automatically fetches daily stock prices. - Finances allows flexible cycles for managing your cash-flow: Monthly (default), Weekly, Every 2 weeks, Every 4 weeks, and Semi-monthly. - The Finances application provides the ability to group your expenses into categories and sub-categories, and lets you set a budget and track expenses at the category/sub-category level. - The features within Finances are well integrated such that a bill can become an expense (when you pay for it) and adjust the account balance at the same time. - Finances includes Cloud Sync that automatically backs up your data, and syncs entries across multiple devices (iPhone, iPad). 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 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) - 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 - Budget rollover - Support for one-time budgets - 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 Investments - Support create/edit/delete of Investment accounts - Support for add/edit/delete of investments - Support for Cash and Stock investments - Automatic fetching of stock prices every for accurate tracking of investment values Reports - Trend chart for Expense, Budget and Income for the last 6 months - Trend chart for Accounts and Investments for the last 6 months - Pie/Bar charts for expense break-down (Available in the Expenses screen). - Export reports in PDF/CSV format by email or via WiFi Cloud Sync - Automatic backups - Automatically sync entries across multiple devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch) - Sync works over 4G and WiFi - Ability to work within a single budget with other members of the household Other - Import data in OFX/CSV format into accounts - Large numeric keypad for expense/income amount entry - Finances follows the locale/region setting on your device and shows date and currency symbols appropriate for your region Finances is free for the first 100 entries. You can upgrade to unlimited entries by subscribing to either the monthly plan or the yearly plan. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the current subscription price. The subscription auto-renewal can be turned off by going to your iTunes Account Settings. Please refer to http://www.anishu.com/privacy.html for privacy policy, and http://www.anishu.com/terms.html for terms of use.

Screenshots

Visual Budget4 screens
Finances4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Visual Budget at 4.7 against Finances's 4.3. Visual Budget also leads on ratings volume (164 vs 7) and review sentiment (88% vs 75%). Finances's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Visual Budget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Finances sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Budget holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Budget has 164 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Visual Budget's written reviews are positive against 75% of Finances's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Budget ships an update every 2 months, Finances every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Visual Budget versus Finances: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual BudgetFinances
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (164 ratings) — better4.3 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews87.6% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings164 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPascal MeziatAnishu, Inc.

Customer experience

Visual Budget

All ratings164 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral4.3%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews387 reviews
Positive87.6%
Neutral4.9%
Negative7.5%

Finances

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Visual Budget

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Transactions shifting dates unexpectedly
  • Keyboard covering input fields
  • Inconsistent app performance over time

Requested features

5 requests
  • Extend future view to 6-12 months
  • Improve recurring transaction management
  • Seamless cross-device syncing
  • Add multi-currency support
  • Enhance reporting and analytics

Finances

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Budget

One-time1
  • Unlimited Version$7.99
2 purchases

Finances

Subscriptions2
  • Finances Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Finances Subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Visual Budget free?
Visual Budget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Finances free?
Finances is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Visual Budget or Finances?
Visual Budget is rated higher. Visual Budget averages 4.7 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while Finances averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Visual Budget or Finances have ads?
Neither Visual Budget nor Finances shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Budget or Finances?
Visual Budget ships an update every 2 months, and Finances every 4 months. Most recently, Visual Budget was updated on October 24, 2026 and Finances on October 24, 2026.

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