THE BEST of 124 expense tracking apps I have tried!
I have used HomeBudget since 2014 and I have also downloaded/purchased ALL expense trackers on the App Store that I can find and also tried many PC software. As of July 2016 the count is at 124.
I would consider myself an expert in home budget and the only features I dont use are
Family sync, forecast and bills.
The bottom line is if you want a razor accurate expense tracker that you enter data yourself, this is unquestionably the best one by a large margin.
Life changing is the only way to describe HomeBudget. The interface is colorful, well designed and overall gorgeous. It is abundantly clear that everything is placed with deep thought. I even imported custom icons from the web!
I cant tell you how many hundreds if not thousands of dollars I have saved from this app. Please buy it and support the author. I keep telling him to charge us for major upgrades to speed development, but he seems against that idea. Take my money!! I along with many other fanatic home budget users want to see its continued, rapid development.
July 2016- I now store my receipts on OneNote but the ability to delete receipts in the newest version is a very welcome addition! it might be my imagination but things looks smaller as well and perhaps the font changed? Overall, it looks outstanding!
Some things home budget really needs:
1) clean up pie grasp interface. Most of the graphs are not very useful in my opinion. Its nice to see but the percentage should also be listed on the bottom. Also some of the graphs are "Movable" which is a little awkward. A finger swipe moves the interface.
2) quick summary changes-- calculate percentage saved and spent for look back time period when running reports. This is really a big deal for me as I imagine a lot of us try to shoot for saving a percentage of our income. I currently do this manually :(
Also it would be great if quick summary would have a "all data" listing under the year quick summary. I have completed data since 2014 so its nice not to have to see this quickly.
3) iPhone 6s Force-touch feature for adding expenses, income, etc... This is admittedly overdue.
4) black or dark theme . This is also badly needed for those of us who have sensitive eyes. I wonder if Apple is bringing this in the future? It seems like a trend and currently the only workaround is to use invert colors assigned to triple home click on accessibility settings. This Is an inelegant solution, however.
5) I love empty space, but there is a lot of wasted white space on my iPhone 6! Not sure if this is done intentionally to make it easier to support older low res phones but it seems crazy how much room is wasted!
6) make notes section in expenses a little larger!
In its current iteration, I am extremely pleased. I have saved so much money by tracking my expense spending in relation to my income. I have my budget now and I add all purchases to home budget immediately and try to titrate my purchases accordingly to meet my goal.
Support is very prompt and considerate with their responses. One things wish is to charge again for the app so development is accelerated :)
I hate paying for apps again and again, except for apps that are truly the highest quality and this is one of them.
Hope this helps!
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HomeBudget with Sync, v3.2.5