SpendBalance vs Basic Budget+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpendBalance
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SpendBalance shows you where your money goes, without the setup. Add a purchase in two taps. Set rent, subscriptions and allowances once and they track themselves — daily, weekly or monthly — so you only log what you actually choose to spend. Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, nothing collected. WHAT YOU GET - Two-tap entry — log a purchase in seconds - Recurring transactions — set repeating income and expenses once and let them run daily, weekly or monthly - Four dashboard widgets — month's overview, balance trend, budget situation and spending split - 38 categories in groups like Campus Life, Food & Social and Personal Wellbeing — pick the 7 that matter to you - Day, week, month and year views - 66 currencies - Custom colours and a dashboard you arrange yourself - Dark mode, following your system setting HOW IT WORKS SpendBalance doesn't connect to your bank. You enter what you spend, which takes a couple of seconds — and means the app works with any bank in any country, and that your financial data never leaves your device. Recurring items handle the predictable spending on their own. Start in under a minute. No sign-up screen, nothing to connect.
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
SpendBalance and Basic Budget+ are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
SpendBalance ships an update every 3 weeks, Basic Budget+ every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpendBalance | Basic Budget+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steven Sbarbaro | Furious Rhino |
In-app purchases
SpendBalance
No in-app purchases
Basic Budget+
No in-app purchases









