Simple Shopping List vs Basic Budget+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Shopping List
Create and manage multiple shopping lists with item prices. Automatically calculate expenses based on item cost or quantity and price. Track total paid, unpaid, and overall expenses for each list.
- Multiple shopping lists
- Item pricing
- Automatic expense calculation
- Quantity-based pricing
- Paid/unpaid tracking
- Total expense summary
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This simple app helps to: + Prepare many lists of shopping items with price. + Can input expense of item directly or input number of items & price for each item, then expense is calculated. + Each list is calculated with 3 conditions: total paid, total unpaid and total expenses.
Basic Budget+
Manage your finances with a simple ledger. Track multiple account types, transfers, and view basic reports. Quickly record transactions and understand your spending habits without linking financial accounts.
- Multiple account types
- Transfers between accounts
- Basic reporting
- Quick transaction entry
- Transaction recall
- No financial account linking
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A basic ledger that allows for multiple account types, transfers between accounts, and basic reporting. Quick entries on app open and transaction recall make this a simple and quick way to manage your finances and see where your spending habits are without connecting your financial information anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Basic Budget+ at none against Simple Shopping List's shown. Basic Budget+ also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Simple Shopping List's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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.
Basic Budget+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Shopping List has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Simple Shopping List ships an update every 8 months, Basic Budget+ every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Shopping List | Basic Budget+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | giang pham | Furious Rhino |
Customer experience
Simple Shopping List
Basic Budget+
In-app purchases
Simple Shopping List
No in-app purchases
Basic Budget+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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