Comparison

Balance Guide Lite vs EasyBudget Pro

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

Head to head
About

Balance Guide Lite

Easily manage your finances and plan your budget. This app helps you track your account balance, upcoming bills, and spending habits. It offers forecasting for future finances and allows for quick correction of your balance without needing to enter every transaction.

Highlights
  • Dark mode
  • Recurring transaction setup
  • Financial forecasting
  • Pie charts and graphs
  • Customizable categories
  • PIN security
Features
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HOW MUCH MONEY WILL YOU SAVE ? A guide to your account balance, simple to use and not aimed at accountants. Makes it easy to plan a budget and see the status of your account with upcoming bills and see where your money is going. With Balance Guide you can quickly setup your recurring bills and deposits and produce a forecast of your finances for the months ahead. Later, you don't have to worry about entering all your transactions from your bank statement with the added bonus that you can easily correct your balance at any time. FEATURES - Dark mode - NEW - Multiple Accounts, transfer between account (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Setup recurring transactions for forecasting - Forecast calendar (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Now includes optimisation for iPhone X, XR and XS Max. - Clear / light colour scheme - All accounts summary information (not available for iPhone 4s / ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Pie charts / graphs to show your financial status - Backup / Restore with Dropbox (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Simple customisable of categories to group your transactions e.g. "Utility Bills" - Tutorial / walk through showing you how to get started - Help pages, if you need to read about functionality in more depth - Correct balance at any time, so you don't need to enter all your transactions - PIN security, to protect your information from prying eyes REVIEWS This App is so good! ***** Really easy to use, looked at loads of others, but this has all you need. Your income v outgoings and lets you know where you stand on a monthly basis! I will and do recommend! Great App. Excellent tool ! ***** I have been looking for a handy app to organise my finances for ages. This is simple to use & very helpful when planning ahead. Would highly recommend Checkout our Demo video - http://youtu.be/3NrxZE_yFag SUPPORT Balance Guide uses the default currency set on your device, so there’s no complicated setup / installation. If you need help there are several methods available. Firstly, the tutorial, which is a kind of walkthrough. There’s also helps pages, providing in depth information. How to ask questions and contact us - - Use the contact form via my website, I'm happy to help. - Follow the app on twitter http://twitter.com/BalanceGuideApp - Like the app on facebook https://www.facebook.com/balanceguideapp NOTE: I'm unable to respond to bug reports left in reviews. Each new version wipes out all old reviews so please take the time to leave a review for the new version. As it’s not possible to reply to reviews on the app store, please use the new feedback features to tell us what you think. You can also join our beta programme and gain access to new features early.

About

EasyBudget Pro

Features
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EasyBudget Pro helps you plan your spending, keep track of your accounts and see the bigger picture of your finances. • Create multiple budgets, organise money into categories and see what is available at a glance. • Record income and spending, split transactions and move funds between categories. • Import bank transactions from CSV files, review them before saving and spot possible duplicates. • Set categorisation rules and remember a category for a payee when adding a transaction. • Reconcile account activity against bank statements. • Schedule recurring transactions daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly, and spot potential subscriptions and other repeated payments. • Choose alerts for upcoming bills and low budget balances. • Track assets, debts and net worth, with reminders when values are due for review. • Explore reports and plan how extra payments could help pay off debts. • Share budgets, while keeping funds-transfer payees specific to each budget. • Create encrypted budget backups, restore a backup as a separate budget, export data by email as CSV and delete budgets you no longer need.

Screenshots

Balance Guide Lite4 screens
EasyBudget Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Balance Guide Lite at Free against EasyBudget Pro's $2.99. Balance Guide Lite also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). EasyBudget Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads 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

Balance Guide Lite is free to download; EasyBudget Pro costs $2.99 up front. Balance Guide Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EasyBudget Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Balance Guide Lite ships an update every 5 months, EasyBudget Pro every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Balance Guide Lite versus EasyBudget Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalance Guide LiteEasyBudget Pro
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.2 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindwarp Consultancy LtdMark Hodgkinson

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Balance Guide Lite

One-time1
  • No Ads, Multiple Accounts + Dropbox backup$2.99
None

EasyBudget Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Balance Guide Lite free?
Balance Guide Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EasyBudget Pro free?
EasyBudget Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Balance Guide Lite or EasyBudget Pro have ads?
Neither Balance Guide Lite nor EasyBudget Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Balance Guide Lite or EasyBudget Pro?
Balance Guide Lite ships an update every 5 months, and EasyBudget Pro every 6 months. Most recently, Balance Guide Lite was updated on October 23, 2026 and EasyBudget Pro on October 3, 2026.

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