Comparison

Budget Projects vs Simple Budget Planner Deluxe

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

Head to head
About

Budget Projects

This app helps you manage your finances by creating income and expense budgets. Track your spending against these budgets to gain control and save money. Visualize your financial habits with detailed reports and charts.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited budgets
  • Recurring budget options
  • Progress bar for budget tracking
  • Detailed financial reports and charts
  • Customizable categories
  • Transaction search and export
  • Passcode and Touch ID protection
Features
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Stop asking the question that where my money went, and why there is no money left in my wallet. Budget Projects keeps your money well managed and spent. By Budget Projects, you can create income and expense budgets, which indicate how much money you plan to spend or get, then when you have transactions under that budget, add them into it. When there is less money to spend under a budget, you will automatically control spending. This app helps controlling yourself spending money randomly and keeping your money well organized. After using it for a while, you will be surprised how much money you will save. Key Features: ⁃ Create unlimited budgets with recurring or not. ⁃ Recurring budgets by single or multiple cycles of daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. ⁃ Progress bar to show used amount VS budget amount. ⁃ Over roll amount to next cycles or not. ⁃ Custom order of added budgets. ⁃ Add recurring transactions. ⁃ Editable default categories and you can add your own. ⁃ Pie chart reports to show income, expense and savings. ⁃ Cycle pie chart reports to show percentage and amount of each budget. ⁃ Chart report to show cash flow tendency. ⁃ Search transactions by their name, type amount or note. ⁃ Hide Expired Budgets or not. ⁃ Air print support. ⁃ iCloud backup and restore. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID as passcode. ⁃ Custom week and month start day. ⁃ Create unlimited reminders. ⁃ Export data in form of CSV, HTML or PDF. ⁃ Adds 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). If you have any question or suggestion, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Manual income and expense tracking
  • Envelope budgeting system
  • Financial accountability
  • Spending category creation
  • Personal finance control
Features
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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

Screenshots

Budget Projects4 screens
Simple Budget Planner Deluxe3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Budget Projects at 62% against Simple Budget Planner Deluxe's 0%. Budget Projects also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (80 vs 5). Simple Budget Planner Deluxe's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Budget Projects sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Budget Projects holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Budget Projects has 80 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Budget Projects's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simple Budget Planner Deluxe's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Budget Projects versus Simple Budget Planner Deluxe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBudget ProjectsSimple Budget Planner Deluxe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (80 ratings) — better1.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews62.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings80 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLINKLINKS LTDBlack Cigar Apps, LLC

Customer experience

Budget Projects

All ratings80 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive62.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative29.9%

Simple Budget Planner Deluxe

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Budget Projects

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App crashes when creating budgets
  • Recurring costs not deducted from associated budgets
  • Date field defaults to January instead of current date
  • Ads appearing in center of screen and not closeable
  • Data erased after app updates
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  • App freezes or becomes unresponsive
  • Transactions showing as 'earned' instead of 'spent'
  • Incompatibility with iOS 15 and later
  • Unexpected charges for in-app purchases
  • Budgets disappearing without explanation

Requested features

11 requests
  • In-app tutorial or contextual help menu
  • Automatic transaction entry from bank accounts
  • Biweekly recurring payment option
  • Default time setting for all transactions
  • Monthly calendar view of expenses
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  • Ability to change budget cycle date
  • Zero-dollar budget groups for tracking unexpected expenses
  • Better UI/UX design and layout improvements
  • Easier decimal entry without calculator
  • Multi-month or year-long budget tracking
  • Improved customer support responsiveness

Simple Budget Planner Deluxe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Budget Projects

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months$1.996 Months
One-time2
  • Remove Ads Forever$9.99
  • Unlimited Transactions$11.99
4 purchases

Simple Budget Planner Deluxe

Subscriptions3
  • Upgrade Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Upgrade Six Monthly$19.996 Months
  • Upgrade Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Upgrade One Time Purchase$59.99

Questions

Is Budget Projects free?
Budget Projects is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Budget Planner Deluxe free?
Simple Budget Planner Deluxe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Budget Projects or Simple Budget Planner Deluxe?
Budget Projects is rated higher. Budget Projects averages 4.3 out of 5 from 80 ratings, while Simple Budget Planner Deluxe averages 1.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Budget Projects or Simple Budget Planner Deluxe have ads?
Budget Projects shows ads; Simple Budget Planner Deluxe does not.

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