Comparison

iSpending vs Home Budget Manager Lite

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

Head to head
About

iSpending

Track your income and expenses with this free personal finance app. Organize transactions by category, view instant summaries, and analyze spending patterns with detailed graphs. Secure your data with passcode and Face ID.

Highlights
  • Categorize income and expenses
  • Customizable spending categories
  • Instant daily, weekly, monthly, yearly summaries
  • Detailed graph reports
  • Transaction search
  • Passcode and Face ID lock
  • iCloud sync
Features
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If you are looking for the best personal finance application, this is the app for you and it's free! Millions of downloads cannot be wrong! iSpending helps you to track your income and spendings. You can add transactions under different categories, such as income, food, entertainment. Summaries for today/week/month/year are displayed right at home page. You can view detailed report for each month in beautiful graphs and find transaction easily through search. Try it yourself to see more features, you'll love it! Features: - Add income/expense transactions under different category - Add customize spending category name - Add transactions quickly - Instant summary for today/week/month/year - Passcode lock - Export through email - View history records and compare them - Graph report for 1, 3 or 6 months time period - Separate graph report for income or expense alone - Search for transaction by name, amount, note or any of them - Polished UI, easy to use - Support for saving data in iCloud and sync across devices - Unlock using FaceID Send your comments/suggestions to hanamobiles@gmail.com or visit our website. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. • iSpending Premium subscription will automatically renew each month or year at the duration selected • 1 month (USD 2.99), or 1 year (USD 29.99) durations • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable • Privacy policy: http://www.hanamobiles.com/appstore/privacy/privacy.html • Terms of use: http://www.hanamobiles.com/appstore/privacy/tos.html

About

Home Budget Manager Lite

Track expenses, incomes, and bills to stay within your budget. This lite version allows up to 30 entries per category. Features include cross-device syncing, account balance overviews, and bill reminders.

Highlights
  • Sync incomes and expenses between devices
  • View account balances
  • Set repeating transactions
  • Bill reminders
  • Password protection
  • Monthly income/expense overview
  • Budget vs. expense statistics
Features
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Home Budget Manager is an integration of Accounts , Bills and Budget. Home Budget Manager help you to track your expenses, incomes, bills and always stay with-in budget. Menu Screen designed in way to do your things in most easy way and as quick as possible. This is a lite version where you can enter upto 30 incomes, 30 expenses and 30 bills Only. Key features: --Sync Incomes and Expenses between Devices. --See All Account’s total balance or individual accounts balance or selected accounts balance. -- Check all Transactions made from particular Account. -- Setup repeating Incomes, Expenses, Account transfer and Bills. -- Unlimited Accounts. -- Dropbox integration. -- Bills Reminder. -- Portrait and Landscape Orientation -- Multiple accounts and make transfers between the Accounts. -- No registration!! -- Add and edit Categories with images. -- Password Protection. -- See All Incomes and Expenses in Monthwise. -- Easy access. -- The overview of your expenses, income and upcoming bills . -- Statistics of expenses and incomes between dates. -- Set budget for categories and always stay within budget. -- See Statistics of Custom Selected Multiple Accounts. -- Visualise the statistics graph and see where your money has gone by categorising all incomes and expenses, Payees, Monthly Income, Monthly Expense, Budget vs Expense, Income vs Expense, Income vs Expense vs Budget -- Add further categories to get a better overview of your expenses. -- Unlimited records -- Export & Import .csv. -- Create backup so you never lose your data. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/siri.homebudgetmanager

Screenshots

iSpending4 screens
Home Budget Manager Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iSpending at 4.4 against Home Budget Manager Lite's 3.6. iSpending also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 44%) and ratings volume (634 vs 21). Home Budget Manager Lite's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. iSpending sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Home Budget Manager Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iSpending holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iSpending has 634 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of iSpending's written reviews are positive against 44% of Home Budget Manager Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iSpending ships an update every 6 months, Home Budget Manager Lite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iSpending versus Home Budget Manager Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriSpendingHome Budget Manager Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (634 ratings) — better3.6 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews68.9% of reviews — better44.3% of reviews
Number of ratings634 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHana MobileRaghunath Ramidi

Customer experience

iSpending

All ratings634 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews376 reviews
Positive68.9%
Neutral10.9%
Negative20.2%

Home Budget Manager Lite

All ratings21 ratings
Positive61.9%
Neutral19.0%
Negative19.0%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive44.3%
Neutral21.5%
Negative34.2%

Bugs and requests

iSpending

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Transactions not displaying properly
  • Data loss after app updates
  • Inability to access past year's data

Requested features

5 requests
  • Recurring transaction options
  • Ability to edit/delete past entries
  • More detailed reporting and analytics
  • Multi-currency support
  • Sync across devices

Home Budget Manager Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

iSpending

Subscriptions2
  • iSpending Premium$2.991 Month
  • iSpending Premium$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Home Budget Manager Lite

One-time1
  • Upgrade to full version$2.99

Questions

Is iSpending free?
iSpending is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Home Budget Manager Lite free?
Home Budget Manager Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iSpending or Home Budget Manager Lite?
iSpending is rated higher. iSpending averages 4.4 out of 5 from 634 ratings, while Home Budget Manager Lite averages 3.6 from 21 ratings.
Do iSpending or Home Budget Manager Lite have ads?
iSpending shows ads; Home Budget Manager Lite does not.
Which is updated more often, iSpending or Home Budget Manager Lite?
iSpending ships an update every 6 months, and Home Budget Manager Lite every 3 weeks. Most recently, iSpending was updated on October 17, 2026 and Home Budget Manager Lite on October 11, 2026.

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