Budget Projects vs FundsPlanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
FundsPlanner
Manage your finances by creating custom funds and tracking income and expenses. Visualize your financial health with detailed reports and export your data for further analysis. The app works offline and stores all data locally on your device.
- Create and allocate funds
- Track income and expenses
- Split transactions across funds
- View financial reports and charts
- Export data to CSV/PDF
- Offline functionality
- Customizable currency
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Funds Planner helps you allocate money into funds and track income over time. • FUNDS — Create funds (e.g. Investments, Savings, Travel) and set allocation percentages. The app shows when the total is 100% and ready to distribute. • JOURNAL — Add operations with amount and date. Split each operation across your funds. View and edit the full history of transactions. • REPORTS — See totals by fund, income over time, and charts. Filter by period: this week, this month, this year, or a custom range. • SETTINGS — Choose account currency. All operations and reports use this currency. Export reports to CSV or PDF (including accountant-style export) for any period. The app works offline. Data is stored on your device. Available in English and Russian. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FundsPlanner at 5.0 against Budget Projects's 4.3. FundsPlanner also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Budget Projects's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price 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. Budget Projects sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months. FundsPlanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
FundsPlanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Budget Projects has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Budget Projects | FundsPlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (80 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LINKLINKS LTD | ADEL COMPANY LLC |
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
FundsPlanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Budget Projects
- Premium - 6 months$1.996 Months
- Remove Ads Forever$9.99
- Unlimited Transactions$11.99
FundsPlanner
No in-app purchases
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