Comparison

Visual Budget vs Budget Projects

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

Budget Projects

This app helps you manage your finances by creating income and expense budgets. Track your spending against these budgets to gain control and save money. Visualize your financial habits with detailed reports and charts.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited budgets
  • Recurring budget options
  • Progress bar for budget tracking
  • Detailed financial reports and charts
  • Customizable categories
  • Transaction search and export
  • Passcode and Touch ID protection
Features
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Stop asking the question that where my money went, and why there is no money left in my wallet. Budget Projects keeps your money well managed and spent. By Budget Projects, you can create income and expense budgets, which indicate how much money you plan to spend or get, then when you have transactions under that budget, add them into it. When there is less money to spend under a budget, you will automatically control spending. This app helps controlling yourself spending money randomly and keeping your money well organized. After using it for a while, you will be surprised how much money you will save. Key Features: ⁃ Create unlimited budgets with recurring or not. ⁃ Recurring budgets by single or multiple cycles of daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. ⁃ Progress bar to show used amount VS budget amount. ⁃ Over roll amount to next cycles or not. ⁃ Custom order of added budgets. ⁃ Add recurring transactions. ⁃ Editable default categories and you can add your own. ⁃ Pie chart reports to show income, expense and savings. ⁃ Cycle pie chart reports to show percentage and amount of each budget. ⁃ Chart report to show cash flow tendency. ⁃ Search transactions by their name, type amount or note. ⁃ Hide Expired Budgets or not. ⁃ Air print support. ⁃ iCloud backup and restore. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID as passcode. ⁃ Custom week and month start day. ⁃ Create unlimited reminders. ⁃ Export data in form of CSV, HTML or PDF. ⁃ Adds 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). If you have any question or suggestion, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.

Screenshots

Visual Budget4 screens
Budget Projects4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Visual Budget at none against Budget Projects's shown. Visual Budget also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (88% vs 62%). Budget Projects's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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 Budget Projects sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months. 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. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 164 and 80 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Visual Budget's written reviews are positive against 62% of Budget Projects's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Budget ships an update every 2 months, Budget Projects every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Visual Budget versus Budget Projects: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual BudgetBudget Projects
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (164 ratings) — better4.3 (80 ratings)
Positive reviews87.6% of reviews — better62.4% of reviews
Number of ratings164 — better80
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.016 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPascal MeziatLINKLINKS LTD

Customer experience

Visual Budget

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

Budget Projects

All ratings80 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive62.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative29.9%

User reviews

Visual Budget

From 164 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Easy to use
  • 📊 Helpful budgeting and forecasting features
  • 🗓️ Customizable categories and recurring transactions
  • 📄 Useful reporting and PDF export
  • 🔍 Detailed transaction history and search

Room to improve

  • 🗓️ Limited future view (3 months)
  • 🔁 Difficulty managing recurring transactions
  • 🔄 Syncing issues between devices
  • 🔢 Lack of multi-currency support
  • 🤖 Unresponsive customer support

Budget Projects

From 80 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • 💰 Simple, no-frills budgeting approach
  • 🔄 Rollover feature between budget periods
  • 📊 Customizable budget categories
  • 🔒 No bank account linking required

Room to improve

  • 📢 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes
  • ⚠️ Data loss after updates
  • 🔄 Recurring costs sometimes disappear
  • 📅 Date field stuck in January (recent bug)

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

Budget Projects

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App crashes when creating budgets
  • Recurring costs not deducted from associated budgets
  • Date field defaults to January instead of current date
  • Ads appearing in center of screen and not closeable
  • Data erased after app updates
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  • App freezes or becomes unresponsive
  • Transactions showing as 'earned' instead of 'spent'
  • Incompatibility with iOS 15 and later
  • Unexpected charges for in-app purchases
  • Budgets disappearing without explanation

Requested features

11 requests
  • In-app tutorial or contextual help menu
  • Automatic transaction entry from bank accounts
  • Biweekly recurring payment option
  • Default time setting for all transactions
  • Monthly calendar view of expenses
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  • Ability to change budget cycle date
  • Zero-dollar budget groups for tracking unexpected expenses
  • Better UI/UX design and layout improvements
  • Easier decimal entry without calculator
  • Multi-month or year-long budget tracking
  • Improved customer support responsiveness

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Budget

One-time1
  • Unlimited Version$7.99
3 purchases

Budget Projects

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months$1.996 Months
One-time2
  • Remove Ads Forever$9.99
  • Unlimited Transactions$11.99

Questions

Is Visual Budget free?
Visual Budget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Budget Projects free?
Budget Projects is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Visual Budget or Budget Projects?
Visual Budget is rated higher. Visual Budget averages 4.7 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while Budget Projects averages 4.3 from 80 ratings.
Do Visual Budget or Budget Projects have ads?
Budget Projects shows ads; Visual Budget does not.
Which is updated more often, Visual Budget or Budget Projects?
Visual Budget ships an update every 2 months, and Budget Projects every 6 months. Most recently, Visual Budget was updated on October 19, 2026 and Budget Projects on October 21, 2026.

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