Expense Keep vs Simple Budget Planner Deluxe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expense Keep
This app offers a simple and fast way to track expenses and income, helping users manage their finances and save money. It allows for organizing funds into separate accounts or spending envelopes, with features for recurring transactions and detailed monthly history.
- Track expenses and income
- Organize money into accounts/envelopes
- Set up recurring transactions
- View monthly history and cash flow
- Create custom expense categories
- Transfer money between accounts
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Expense Keep is the simplest and quickest way to track your expenses. It will save you money and improve your financial health. Expense Keep has been downloaded over 500,000 times and ranked top 5 Finance app in 33 countries. "This is exactly what I was looking for. It has cut my spending tremendously. Couldn't be happier with this app." "I have never rated an app before but I feel so strongly about this app that I knew I had to share with everyone how great it is!" "All I wanted was a sole app to track multiple accounts. This does it. I love it and have deleted all of my other expense tracking apps." "This app is the only budget app that I could find which works well with a zero-based budget." "This is the best budget envelope app available. So beautifully designed and simple to use. Includes recurring transactions and transfers between envelopes." "This app is awesome! Super easy to use without requiring so much personal info like other apps (Mint)." "Finally an expenses tracking app that don't force you to connect every single bank account you have. This app is for those, like me, that like to keep their info as private as possible." "This app is helping me feel in much more control of my finances." "This app is fantastic. Don't know how i ever managed without it." "Awesome app. Easy to use. Quick to set up and quick to input transactions." "Have tried a number of apps to track expenses, and this one has everything I've been looking for." Expense Keep is a personal finance app built to be fast and designed to be flexible yet simple to use. Organize your money into separate accounts and track your expenses and incomes. Accounts can be used to track your bank account balances or as "envelopes" for your different spending groups. FEATURES: Accounts + Add/Edit/Delete accounts. + Set starting balance. + Organize your money into separate accounts. + View current balance of each account. Expenses and Incomes + Add/Edit/Delete entries for expenses and incomes. + Create custom expense categories. + Assign expenses/incomes to an account. + Set a date and note for each entry. + Select a category for expenses. Transfers + Add/Edit/Delete transfers. + Transfer money from one account to another. + Helps you stay on budget when you overspend in one account. Recurring Entries + Add/Edit/Delete recurring entries that get automatically entered. + Setup recurring expenses/incomes/transfers for each account. + Set repeat cycles of daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly and more. + Set a start date and end date for recurring expenses. + Or set recurring expenses to be ongoing with no end date. Monthly History + View all entries for current month. + Go back and see previous months' entries. + Go to future months and add entries ahead of time. Cash Flow + See how much you earned/spent for the month. + Cash flow bar chart helps you spend less than you earn. Expense Chart + Pie chart shows your expenses broken down into categories. + See where all your money is going. + Filter pie chart to show only the accounts you select. Report + CSV export Security + Passcode lock feature More features coming soon! Have questions, requests, or feedback? Send them to info@expensekeep.com If you enjoy using Expense Keep or found the app useful, please consider leaving a review. It helps us a lot. Thank you!
Simple Budget Planner Deluxe
This app helps you manage your finances by manually inputting income and expenses. It uses the envelope system to categorize spending and promote accountability for better financial control.
- Manual income and expense tracking
- Envelope budgeting system
- Financial accountability
- Spending category creation
- Personal finance control
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If you don't have a budget, you need one. Plain and simple. Budgeting should be easy. You should be active with your budget. That is why we made the Simple Budget Planner app. We wanted to build a simple budget that holds you accountable. We purposely built an app that didn't automatically sync with your bank and credit card accounts. Those budgeting tools are worthless. You want to be active with your budget daily, you want to see the transactions and know exactly where you money is going. You will be far more successful with your budget if you're putting in the time to see every expense and transaction. With Simple Budget Planner, you need to input your income and expenses manually. It may sound tedious or annoying but it will make you successful with your budget, it adds accountability. Either add your transactions as they happen or do it periodically throughout the day. It's important that you're aware of all of your money transactions, in and out. We've built this app using the famous envelope system. It has been trusted by many and we are taking it to the next level applying it to our app. You create envelopes for all of your spending categories and that is what you have budgeted for the month. Budgeting doesn't have to be hard. Start today by creating your budget and stick with it. In a matter of a couple weeks you'll notice the difference. You'll see money that you're saving. Take control of your personal finances now. With upgrading to a subscription model, the subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Subscriptions options are as follows: -1 month - $4.99 -6 months - $19.99 -12 months - $29.99 If you don’t choose to Upgrade, you can simply continue using Simple Budget for free. Privacy Policy https://blackcigarapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/privacy_policy.html Terms of Condition https://blackcigarapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/terms_and_conditions.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Expense Keep at 77% against Simple Budget Planner Deluxe's 0%. Expense Keep also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 5). Simple Budget Planner Deluxe's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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. Expense Keep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Simple Budget Planner Deluxe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Expense Keep holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expense Keep has 1.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Expense Keep's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simple Budget Planner Deluxe's.
| Parameter | Expense Keep | Simple Budget Planner Deluxe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.7K ratings) — better | 1.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tayson Nguyen | Black Cigar Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Expense Keep
Simple Budget Planner Deluxe
Bugs and requests
Expense Keep
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch after recent update
- Dark mode functionality is broken
- Recurring expense dates not updating correctly
- Unable to export data or send feedback in-app
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for multiple currencies
- Implement a monthly budgeting feature
- Allow customization of expense categories
- Improve data export and reporting options
- Integrate cloud backup and cross-device sync
Simple Budget Planner Deluxe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expense Keep
- Expense Keep Pro$19.99
Simple Budget Planner Deluxe
- Upgrade Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Upgrade Six Monthly$19.996 Months
- Upgrade Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- Upgrade One Time Purchase$59.99
Questions
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