Comparison

Home Budget Manager Lite vs SimpleBudget+

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

Head to head
About

Home Budget Manager Lite

Track expenses, incomes, and bills to stay within your budget. This lite version allows up to 30 entries per category. Features include cross-device syncing, account balance overviews, and bill reminders.

Highlights
  • Sync incomes and expenses between devices
  • View account balances
  • Set repeating transactions
  • Bill reminders
  • Password protection
  • Monthly income/expense overview
  • Budget vs. expense statistics
Features
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Home Budget Manager is an integration of Accounts , Bills and Budget. Home Budget Manager help you to track your expenses, incomes, bills and always stay with-in budget. Menu Screen designed in way to do your things in most easy way and as quick as possible. This is a lite version where you can enter upto 30 incomes, 30 expenses and 30 bills Only. Key features: --Sync Incomes and Expenses between Devices. --See All Account’s total balance or individual accounts balance or selected accounts balance. -- Check all Transactions made from particular Account. -- Setup repeating Incomes, Expenses, Account transfer and Bills. -- Unlimited Accounts. -- Dropbox integration. -- Bills Reminder. -- Portrait and Landscape Orientation -- Multiple accounts and make transfers between the Accounts. -- No registration!! -- Add and edit Categories with images. -- Password Protection. -- See All Incomes and Expenses in Monthwise. -- Easy access. -- The overview of your expenses, income and upcoming bills . -- Statistics of expenses and incomes between dates. -- Set budget for categories and always stay within budget. -- See Statistics of Custom Selected Multiple Accounts. -- Visualise the statistics graph and see where your money has gone by categorising all incomes and expenses, Payees, Monthly Income, Monthly Expense, Budget vs Expense, Income vs Expense, Income vs Expense vs Budget -- Add further categories to get a better overview of your expenses. -- Unlimited records -- Export & Import .csv. -- Create backup so you never lose your data. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/siri.homebudgetmanager

About

SimpleBudget+

Features
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What is Simple Budget? A new online budgeting program that makes it easy to keep track of your finances. It is easy to use and does not require any accounting knowledge. Spend less! Save more! https://simple-budget.com Why was it created? To make it easier to manage your finances. It helps you save money by allowing you to manage your utility bills, invoices, and other financial expenses in one place. It is clean and easy to use, accessible online anytime, anywhere, and allows you to quickly and easily record your income and expenses. - Manage your entire assets in one place: cash, bank accounts, businesses, personal property, real estate, etc. - Synchronization across multiple devices: you can access your budget on your mobile phone and desktop computer (simple-budget.com) - Statistics: Statistics make your budget much more transparent. - Expense planner: The expense planner makes it easy to create your financial plan. - Transparent display: You can view your transactions listed by day or month. - Attachments: Take photos of your receipts or attach your digital documents to your transactions. - Customization: You can create your own accounts and categories. - Data export: You can export your recorded data at any time. - Data import: You can upload hundreds of transactions with a single click instead of entering the data one by one. - Transaction recurring: You can set transactions associated with a given bill to repeat automatically. E.g.: monthly electricity bill Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Home Budget Manager Lite4 screens
SimpleBudget+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Home Budget Manager Lite at 12.0 against SimpleBudget+'s 15.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Home Budget Manager Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SimpleBudget+ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Home Budget Manager Lite ships an update every 3 weeks, SimpleBudget+ every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Home Budget Manager Lite versus SimpleBudget+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome Budget Manager LiteSimpleBudget+
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaghunath RamidiGabor Bencze

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Home Budget Manager Lite

One-time1
  • Upgrade to full version$2.99
2 purchases

SimpleBudget+

Subscriptions2
  • 3 month Premium subscription$3.993 Months
  • 12 month Premium subscription$11.991 Year

Questions

Is Home Budget Manager Lite free?
Home Budget Manager Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SimpleBudget+ free?
SimpleBudget+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Home Budget Manager Lite or SimpleBudget+ have ads?
Neither Home Budget Manager Lite nor SimpleBudget+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home Budget Manager Lite or SimpleBudget+?
Home Budget Manager Lite ships an update every 3 weeks, and SimpleBudget+ every 4 weeks. Most recently, Home Budget Manager Lite was updated on October 23, 2026 and SimpleBudget+ on October 30, 2026.

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