Best Budget Pro vs ExpenseApp ※
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Budget Pro
Manage your personal finances with this intuitive budgeting app. Create unlimited income and expense budgets, track transactions, and gain insights into your spending habits. Become your own financial expert with customizable features and helpful reminders.
- Unlimited income/expense budgets
- Track transactions
- Customizable budget settings
- Budget rollover option
- Transfer between budgets
- Transaction search
- Passcode protection
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Best Budget is an easy to use app to help you keep to a budget, as a personal finance application, you can create unlimited income and expense budgets with or without recurring, and track the transitions of each budget. With Best Budget, you can check your income and expense at a glance, and monitor which transactions are going on a budget. Best Budget is help you to become your own financial expert. Features: ⁃ Create unlimited expense or income budgets. ⁃ Set budget name, amount, type, category, date range and if no cycle or cycle by a specific date range etc. ⁃ Set if budget available amount is rollover or not. ⁃ Transfer available amount from one budget to another. ⁃ Add transactions to each budget. ⁃ View history of past circular budget. ⁃ Time marker to show the status of current date at each budget. ⁃ Custom reminders to help you manage budgets. ⁃ Report to show your income and expense proportion of a date range. ⁃ Report to show percentage of each budget of a date range. ⁃ Export your budgets in form of HTML, CSV or PDF. ⁃ Custom date range of budgets to be exported. ⁃ Search transactions by name, amount and note. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID passcode. ⁃ Clean and tidy user interface. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports iCloud backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. If you have any question or suggestion, please email to userfeed@vip.tom.com.
ExpenseApp ※
Easily track daily spending by categorizing expenses and adding amounts. View spending patterns through calendar and pie chart visualizations. Offers quick input via widgets and Apple Watch, with passcode protection for privacy.
- Categorize daily expenses
- Add notes and change dates
- Editable category lists
- Calendar and pie chart views
- Quick input via widgets and Apple Watch
- Passcode and biometric protection
- Export data to other apps
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ExpenseApp keeps track of your spending with as little effort as possible. Tap a category, type the amount, done — usually under three seconds. FAST BY DESIGN • Your categories on one screen; tap one to enter an amount • A calculator in the keypad: add, subtract, multiply and divide before saving • Add a note and change the date without leaving the keypad • Today's total always in view YOUR CATEGORIES, YOUR WAY • Create, rename, reorder and delete categories • Pick an icon for each one • Choose a flexible layout or fixed 2 or 3 columns SEE WHERE IT GOES • Records: every month grouped by day, with daily and monthly totals • Calendar: a month at a glance, shaded by how much you spent each day • Charts: spending by category, and a day-by-day breakdown ON YOUR WRIST • Apple Watch app for adding an expense without your phone • Today's total on its own screen, or hidden if you'd rather not show it • Complications: today's total, or a one-tap Add Expense button WIDGETS, CONTROLS AND SIRI • Home Screen widgets: today's and this month's totals, or a grid of your most-used categories • Lock Screen widgets, including one that shows no amounts • Control Centre and Action button shortcuts • "Add an expense in ExpenseApp" and "How much did I spend today in ExpenseApp" PRIVATE, AND YOURS TO KEEP • iCloud sync keeps your iPhone and Apple Watch up to date, in your private iCloud storage • Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode can lock your history • Export any month, or everything, as a CSV file to Files, Mail or anywhere else • No account, no ads, no tracking, nothing sent to us Requires iOS 26. The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 26.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Best Budget Pro at 80% against ExpenseApp ※'s 25%. Best Budget Pro also leads on ratings volume (108 vs 6) and chart position (#101 vs unranked). ExpenseApp ※'s advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads 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
Best Budget Pro costs $0.99 and ExpenseApp ※ $2.99 up front. Best Budget Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. ExpenseApp ※ asks for nothing beyond the download.
ExpenseApp ※ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Budget Pro has 108 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Best Budget Pro's written reviews are positive against 25% of ExpenseApp ※'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Best Budget Pro ships an update every 6 months, ExpenseApp ※ weekly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Best Budget Pro | ExpenseApp ※ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (108 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.1% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #101 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | iReka Soft |
Customer experience
Best Budget Pro
ExpenseApp ※
In-app purchases
Best Budget Pro
- Premium - 1 month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium - 6 months1 Month trial$5.496 Months
- Premium - 1 year3 Months trial$9.991 Year
ExpenseApp ※
No in-app purchases
Questions
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