Best Budget vs EZ Expense Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Budget
This personal finance app helps you manage your money by creating unlimited income and expense budgets. Track transactions, monitor spending against your budgets, and gain insights into your financial habits. It offers robust reporting and data management features to help you become your own financial expert.
- Create unlimited budgets
- Track income and expenses
- Set budget details (name, amount, category)
- Rollover budget amounts
- Transfer funds between budgets
- View transaction history
- Generate income/expense reports
- Export budgets (HTML, CSV, PDF)
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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 will 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 a reminder 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. ⁃ Clean and tidy user interface. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Support migrating data to pro version. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. If you have any question or suggestion, please email to userfeed@vip.tom.com.
EZ Expense Manager
Easily track your expenses and income with this comprehensive manager. It supports multiple accounts and currencies, allows for scheduled payments, and offers detailed budgeting and reporting tools. Securely back up your data to the cloud.
- Expense and income tracking
- Multiple accounts and currencies
- Scheduled and recurring payments
- Receipt photo capture
- Budgeting by time period
- Data import/export
- Cloud backup and sync
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The widely popular, easy to use and feature rich Expense Manager app comes to iOS: • Tracking expenses and incomes by week, month and year as well as by categories • Multiple accounts in multiple currencies • Schedule the payments and recurring payments • Take a picture of receipt • Payment alerts • Budget by day, week, month and year • Search and reports • Import and export account activities in CSV for desktop software • User chooses to auto backup/sync with Dropbox or iCloud • Customize expense categories, payer/payer, payment methods, date format, button style etc • Account transfer • Auto fill • Convenient tools such calculator, currency converter, tip calculator, sales and tax calculator and credit card calculator • Charts • Free and no In-App purchase needed • Developer support All data is saved on your phone or your Dropbox account or your iCloud account. Nobody but you can access your account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Best Budget at 3.9 against EZ Expense Manager's 2.8. Best Budget also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 35%). EZ Expense Manager's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Best Budget holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 45 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Best Budget's written reviews are positive against 35% of EZ Expense Manager's.
Best Budget ships an update every 6 months, EZ Expense Manager every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Budget | EZ Expense Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (68 ratings) — better | 2.8 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better | 35.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Bishinew Incorporated |
Customer experience
Best Budget
EZ Expense Manager
User reviews
Best Budget
From 68 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Efficient budgeting features
- 💡 Helpful for tracking expenses
- 🔒 Secure and private
- 👍 Great for managing multiple budgets
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 💸 Aggressive advertising in free version
- 🔍 Limited customization options
- 🤔 Confusing interface for some users
EZ Expense Manager
From 45 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy-to-use interface
- 💡 Rich feature set (categories, tags, budgets, accounts, sub-categories)
- 🔄 Multi-account and multi-currency support
- 💾 Data backup and export options (CSV, email)
- 📱 Long-standing reliability on Android version
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- ⚠️ Severe performance degradation over time
- 📱 iOS version significantly inferior to Android
- 🔄 Broken data migration from Android to iOS
- 🔄 Sync issues with Dropbox and iCloud
Bugs and requests
Best Budget
Reported bugs
3 issues- Transactions not saving properly
- Budgets disappearing without explanation
- Incorrect calculations and balance display
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to link accounts and sync data
- More detailed reporting and analytics
- Recurring income and expense options
- Improved user guide and tutorials
EZ Expense Manager
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes on launch or after brief usage
- Freezing during transaction entry
- Cannot import CSV files from Android backup
- Data concatenation when editing merchant names
- Dropbox sync not working properly
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- iCloud sync causing performance issues
- Database file won't download from Dropbox
- White screen after Dropbox restore
- Account transfer not updating balances
- Recurring transactions not displaying
- Calendar display issues (missing day numbers)
- App force closes on iPhone X and newer models
- Screen not utilizing full display on newer phones
- Date picker navigating to wrong month
- Duplicate entries appearing randomly
- Data loss after app updates
- App overheating iPhone
- Blank screen on app launch
- Unable to restore from CSV on iCloud/Dropbox
- Note entry screen not displaying properly on iPad
Requested features
15 requests- Bring iOS version to feature parity with Android
- Add split transactions to iOS app
- Implement auto-fill for payee and category fields
- Add alphabetical sorting for payees
- Create paid/pro version for iOS without ads
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- Add dark mode support
- Implement automatic category prediction
- Add widget support for iOS
- Fix family sharing support
- Add recurring expense improvements
- Implement advanced reporting for tax purposes
- Add calculator in amount field
- Support for iPhone X and newer screen sizes
- Improve calendar navigation
- Add account balance adjustment button
In-app purchases
Best Budget
No in-app purchases
EZ Expense Manager
No in-app purchases
Questions
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