My Budget vs Basic Expense Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Budget
Track your daily income and expenses across cash, bank, and credit card accounts. Generate financial reports and export your data. Premium features include recurring transactions.
- Fast and simple transaction entry
- Manage multiple cash, bank, and credit card accounts
- Financial reports (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Data export to CSV or OFX
- Backup and restore functionality
- Recurring transactions (Premium)
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My Budget is a simple and fast money management app. You can manage your daily cash income/outgo, bank, and credit card accounts. Features: 1. Fast and Simple Transactions With just a few taps, you can create a new transaction or adjust the balance of an asset. 2. Multiple Assets You can manage multiple cash, bank, and credit card assets. My Budget supports transfers between the assets. 3. Reports You can create daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports to get an overview of your finances. 4. Data Export You can export the data as CSV or OFX file. 5. Backup & Restore You can backup your data and later restore it, even on another device. 6. Recurring Transactions (PREMIUM) You can create recurring transactions that recur on a regular interval (e.g., wage or rent).
Basic Expense Tracker
Easily track your daily spending and cash flow with this finance app. It syncs across your iOS devices and offers features like expense rating and currency switching. Export your data to spreadsheets for further analysis.
- Daily expense tracking
- iCloud sync across devices
- Expense rating indicator
- Currency switcher
- CSV export/import
- Daily reminders
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The straightforward expense tracker that syncs across all your iOS devices. This expense tracker was inspired by the book "Your Money or Your Life" by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez and Mr. Money Mustache. - Daily reminder - Currency-switcher - Good-Neutral-Bad indicator to rate your expenses. - Did I want to buy this? - iCloud-sync - CSV Spreadsheet (export/import)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Basic Expense Tracker at 5.0 against My Budget's 4.5. Basic Expense Tracker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). My Budget's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. My Budget sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Basic Expense Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Basic Expense Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of My Budget's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basic Expense Tracker's.
My Budget ships an update every 3 weeks, Basic Expense Tracker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Budget | Basic Expense Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandro Stricker | Ivo Maag |
Customer experience
My Budget
Basic Expense Tracker
In-app purchases
My Budget
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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- Premium$7.99
- Premium$14.00
Basic Expense Tracker
- Tip$1.99
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