Homebudget With Sync App Reviews

I’ve been using this app for about 3 years now and I’m very happy with how it’s allowed me to manually track m expenses and balance my bank account month to month. Some improvements I would like to see would be some tweaks in the “transfer” areas. First of all, it’d be nice to have a little more confirmation of a completed transfer. Like maybe a next screen that shows the completed transfer. Just something with a little more visual feedback so mistakes aren’t made. Also with this, I’d love the option to include transfers as a budgeted expense. For example it’d be nice to add a transfer into the budget in order to track that as an “expense” and have it all together. But maybe this could be optional unlike a typical expense. This would help a lot with people like me that want to have a zero-based budget where we budget out 100% of our expenses including savings. I would also love the addition of some realt-time feedback in the "split categories" menu so that I can see (after putting the first category and amount) how much is remaining from the original dollar amount so that I don't have to do math in my head and memorize the numbers!

I have tried quite a few app to manage my spending and income. This app is my stopping point. It gives me real time acct balances and forecasts which include reoccurring bills and income. The owners manual is quite helpful also. Another feature is that you can add devices to your group list and they will automatically get updated with your entries from another device.......nice!

I have tested all app and it’s my favorite.. the cross platform works well PC/IOS, split expenses, multiple accounts, recurrence expenses, bills reminder and etc... To be better just develop WIDGET to IOS to facilitate input new expense .... and to be perfect give us news themes !

needs to have icloud

The app is overall decent, but the lack of modifying functions and syncing with multiple devices is not user-friendly.

Hi! I’m using Home Budget more than 3 years and I like it very much! That’s what I need! Strange thing happened with my Home Budget 1 week ago. I have 2 iPhone on one of them my kids deleted Home Budget. On second one app working perfect. I tried to re-install deleted app from my App Store. It’s asking me to pay again 4.55$! I can’t understand what is it and how could it be? Who can help me?

I love how I can take pictures of receipts and attach to the entry. I wish they would extend that to deposits. I would love to be able to add a picture of my pay stub to the deposits. It would make the app that much more efficient!

I've been using HomeBudget for 7 years and in my opinion it's still one of the best. However, recently I started looking for some alternatives, due to some annoying errors and the lack of updates, which previously, were constant. There is still no possibility to change the language, there is no possibility to customize the desired functions and mainly it seems that Anishu has not bothered to keep the application. I reinforce that I have tried several financial control applications and HomeBudget is still, if not the best, one of them. It is easy to use, it controls your expenses very well, it shows complete reports, it has a very good payment control schedule, it shows the forecast of expenses, it allows synchronization with other devices of the family, in fact, much that is not found in others applications. I ask Anishu, if you still read these reviews that reconsider this product and start to take care of it. You have an excellent product on hand, but you do not seem to be worried about taking care of it.

Been using for 3+ years and would be lost without it!

We have been using Home Budget for several years just as an expense tracker. I find it “good not great” but it gets the job done. One improvement I would like to see is on the “Reports” page, an ability to add comments or notes (there is an empty column already there that would be perfect for this...) to remind myself of out-of-normal expenses or income, or why one month was so different from another.

It will be good if the app doesn’t lock itself so quickly. It had better give the users a grace period ( say 2 minutes) for them to come back the app before it requires to verify password or face ID again.

Doesn’t work properly on laptops with high resolution display. Letters and content are too small and tiny letters.Impossible to read.

This is the best app for doing a manual budget. Anytime I try a different app, I always come back to this one. You can make a simple budget or a complex budget with this app. I like the sync feature. Please bring iCloud sync support.

Good app, has a lot of nice features. It could use some quality of life improvements For example, I would like to be able to duplicate expense or income entries (hold down > duplicate).

I have been using this app for over five years. They have clearly worked hard to add upgrades that are useful over the years. It keeps me on task with my bills and i can run reports when I need to know where I am with my budget. Great app!

I just wanted something I can use to set myself a monthly budget to save money. And this was the best app I could find. Very easy to set yourself a monthly limit on any category you want. Very easy and intuitive to use and and quickly enter in items without all the clutter. Has lots of features in it that look very well laid out.

Have been using this since August 2015. I like how my husband and I share this app. I like how credit card purchases and bank card purchases meld. TERRIFIC! I want to be able to archive info. I would like to be able to edit categories when there are already entries in them. Not to delete the entries but move them to another category as a unit not individually. I think this need had developed over time and usage.

Edit: Latest Update July 2018 that allows for scrolling in the reconciliation area has a bug. If you reconcile some expenses and then scroll down past the check mark, the check mark goes away as if you never marked it. Solution for now is to hit done before scrolling down. I am happy to report that this app has been the most used app on my iOS devices for over 6 years now. Most 1 star reviews I have read are from lazy folks who can't be bothered to categorize their expenses and enter things manually. I enjoy the fact that this app is non-obtrusive and does not link directly to your bank account. I have been categorizing every receipt and know exactly how much my wife and I have spent on necessities and areas we should cut back on. This app is powerful because you can customize just how detailed you want to go with categories and sub-categories. Here is a hint - when you first start using this app just enter your starting balances and track expenses from that day forwards, don't feel overwhelmed by having to enter past expense history. This app gives me piece of mind in knowing knowing exactly what's going on and helps ,me find banking or overcharge errors. Also if you have syncing problems, you may need to simply reset your family devices and then send the data back out to get syncing working again. This is handy when you swap devices. Make a backup first and email it to yourself just in case.

Have been using this app since 2012 or maybe even early. Can’t leave without this app. Developers do me a favor add some more icons for expenses. It’s never been changed

I have tried 167 expense style apps on iOS, windows and Mac and this is unquestionably my favorite. The closest alternative is money by jumsoft and it doesn’t even come close. I asked the author to recharge or make a subscription of $5 a year or something to keep up development as That’s about my only complaint at this point. I love this app. It requires a lot of initial effort but once you get it setup, holy cow it’s the best!

Overall I like the app, but it is a budget app only. It’s not really a check register (which for me is fine, but others may want to know). The only issue I have with it is the cycles for budgets to reset don’t seem to automatically reset and I’m not sure how to reset them vs deleting and recreating. The user guide is ok for the very basics but not very in depth to issues like that.

Bought the app to use with bank and my bank isn’t even on the list. Anyone with frandsen bank and trust don’t try to use

SAVE YOUR MONEY!! When we first got this app I thought it was great, but it hasn’t even been 30 days and all my info is gone and the app and computer program are GONE! I realized there is no phone number for customer support and I have sent tons of emails with ZERO reply! Just ridiculous and a waste of money and time!

How do I set up expense type. Ty

I’ve used HomeBudget for probably the past 4 or 5 years. It’s how I keep track of all of my expenses on the go and at home. Of all the apps I’ve tried and used off and on, this one stays consistently in my top three. It’s the best, most useful app I have on my phone. I could not at this point live without it. In the four plus years I’ve used it, I’ve never had a problem until the other day. My budgets weren’t showing up correctly. So I emailed support and they got back with me and helped me solve the issue very quickly. Great app. Great service. If you don’t have a budget app on your phone, you need to download this now.

We need some improvements to app , such as new icon and best reports and most importantly to track any transaction, that mean i want to know how much was specific transaction in every month and totally, we need good visual design... thanks

This app is great for what I need. It keep thing simple and allows your to manage you accounts pretty effortlessly. I just wish that the UI would get an update. I’m a stickler for branding and I hate seeing their app icon on my home screen lol. That may be silly, but that’s how I feel. The user experience is feeling a bit dated as well, although it still works very well. I still recommend it.

Was a good app, but do not switch platforms (Windows > OS) or you will have to purchase it all over again which makes no sense. A lot of tools , but takes time to set up and without a good back up can be frustrating. Will keep looking.

Great app overall. Can you add a feature that allows for notifications every time a new expense is added to a specific account? Would help for those of use using the family sync option to track others spending.

This has been our go-to app for keeping track of finances and bills. But I recently got a new phone and the family sync will not work. Any fixes for this? It’s incredibly frustrating. ESPECIALLY since I’ve had to pay for this app 3 times now.

I’ve been using this app for about 3 years now and I’m very happy with how it’s allowed me to manually track m expenses and balance my bank account month to month. I would love to see a feature added though. It would be great to be able to have a different “budget” tab for each month. A lot like how you can scroll through previous months and future months in the expense category. It would give a lot of flexibility to look back and look forward in the budget tab to be able to plan better. And having iCloud integration would be great too! I love how the family sync is working with my wife as well! Great app!

Home Budget works great for my wife and I except for 2 major sources of frustration: 1. Recurring expenses, income and transfers are device dependent, and only update/sync when you open the app on the device that entered them. I never know if I’m looking at current data, because my wife and I have entered recurring items on 4 dif devices (2 iPads and 2 iPhones) unless I remind my wife to open the app on both her devices first. Also, when upgrading to a new phone or iPad, any recurring entries entered on that device get lost. 2. If I find an error in an expense that I spread over 6 or 12 months, I have to individually delete each monthly entry and then re-enter the expense. There’s no way to simply correct the amount.

I have an iPhone 6S Plus. I used to love this app, it seemed almost perfect. But with the latest update it seems that they changed some useful things. It no longer allows me to change the exchange rate between currencies. When I make transfers from one account to another with different currency. However I have the app on my Android, and it still works well there.

It would b nice to have them.

Good app. But seriously needs the possibility to allow you to access your data in a web browser.

Love the app, but need full screen support for iPhone X please!!

I’m so annoyed with this app on my phone and desktop. Every time I go to use it on my desktop I have to send initial data from my phone to my Mac. Things hardly sync up correctly, I see duplicate account names or transactions categorized as multiple category when it is not. And now I just deleted an account with its data because I deleted a duplicate account that had no transaction data thinking it was a duplicate and looked on my phone and the real account is now deleted. I’ve had this app for my phone for so many years and it did the job but now it seems so antiquated that it’s pretty useless. 2 stars because it’s good if you like basic, I rather give it just 1 star.

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I do not like the fact of this app does not sync with any of your financial institutes. Unless that is something you have to do from the computer rather than your phone. I want something user-friendly that just automatically connects. If I wanted to enter things and 15 times I wouldn’t have half the problems I do keeping a budget now.

Automatic Dropbox backups were being taken until sometime in September, when they just simply stopped with no alert from the app. Upon checking the settings, it says my Dropbox account needed to be linked. If it became unlinked, I should have been alerted that the problem needed to be fixed. My data has not been backed up for the last 3 months!

User friendly and reliable. Really useful synchronization feature. My wife and I used it in during European tour to track our expenses by country and by category. The data generated confidence in our budget planning and will help in planning for our future trips. Highly recommended app

Friendly application and really easy to manage.

Please add import option to add bank transactions in excel to automatically populate. This feature is available in most competing budget apps.

I have been used this app since 2012. It has changed a lot since then. Some changes were great, but others, not so much! This list is extensive, but I would like to focus on some of them: - The app has changed its skin a lot: leave to the users the possibility to customize all the app, as they want. - They just removed the option to generate the future entries on due date. This option could give us the possibility to check the account balance in the future without seeing all the account entries repeated on the future list: bring it back. If it causes instability, try to fix it. - Extend the multi-language to other languages. This is a great app, but used to be better.

Why the grey icons after the update? Also there used to be a way to see all of the income as a pie chart or columns with a date range - now you can view them month by month only. Also automatic back up doesn’t work. Get the income date range and icon colors back and I’ll update my review. Thanks.

I have been using this app for almost 5 years. I'll admit this app takes time to understand and adjust to using, but once you have all your accounts setup, reoccurring expenses, reoccurring bills, reoccurring transfers setup you will NEVER need to worry about knowing your financially standing again. I absolutely endorse this app as the MUST HAVE financial app if your truly looking to track day-to-day expense, bills, and account transfers. Or just trying to stay within a budget The family sync option via Wi-Fi I did have issues with but a simple email to Customer Support cleared up the issue. Be certain when using Family sync you setup the device you will use everyday as the primary device. Also before setting up Family Sync be certain to have all your transfers, expenses, bills entered as well. If your accounts offer statement downloads offering QIF files you can download your statements directly into the app. I track everything daily so I haven't really used this function much but have to test it out. It does work but you have to be certain while in the import screen to ensure you have the correct account selected to import the transactions into, and is a bit tricky as I experienced when using the downloaded files aren't saved and you work off one file at a time to import. So remember the name of the file your importing so you link it to the correct account. Take the plunge and pay for this app and start all the financial tracking at your fingertips needed. Also have peace of mind knowing if you have any questions or concerns if you email Support you will get a response. Emailed them on several occasions and received a respond the next day with resolution.

We have been using this and I love the family sync feature. Works for what we need it to do.

I have tried nearly all the finance apps on the AppStore, but none come to having the best but simple functionality as this. Unlike other apps, this has a bills and expense tracker combo, which is great. You don't need to have 2 separate apps. The only reason for a 4-star is because they only allow bills to be entered from the past 5 years. I'd like to enter bills earlier than that but it currently does not support it. Once it does, I'll update my rating! UPDATE: I concur with mochibear911, this is still the BEST expenses/bills app in the AppStore. I also have tried dozens of others and this is still the most useful finance app out there. I have not seen a single finance app so far that allows users to upload their own customized category icons, and is one of the main reasons I still stick with HomeBudget. I really WISH they would update the app to show a wider range of graph details, as the current graphs are really out-dated and does not provide a very good visual of expenses.

It's hard to understand report and I couldn't see monthly report easily.Needs work

Really great app that makes keeping track of expenses super simple. I like that I have to manually enter my expenses, helps remind me not to spend money! It also has lots of powerful tools for a phone app.

This update occurred some bugs. I am suffering with sync problem. And when I add a new recurring transfer, I cannot choose if future entries should be generated on due date or now.

I like this app, but I would like to see a way where you can specify "transfers" (like moving money from checking to savings) rather than listing them as income/expense. Entering transfers as income/expense skews the data. That is my only suggestion so far. Thanks!

I love this app but I sometimes get issues with syncing between devices. Sometimes if I do a transfer from one account to another and then sync, I check my other device and the account I transferred to is missing which throws my balance off on the device. I have to go in and manually fix

I moved to Home Budget after losing Quicken with upgrade. Very happy with results. I was hesitant after using Quicken for many years but worked great for my needs. Can sync with I phone and I pad to keep control from anywhere.

Easy to use interface – the idea of syncing between iPad, iPhone and computer remains an idea. A constant problem syncing the thre devices. I don't have time to spend fixing these issues myself – this app is still below par for me.

Even for major banks like Chase and Wells Fargo, the bank import feature stopped working a long time ago. I emailed support asking for help and they implied that that feature was some sort of nonessential, extra bonus that we should be happy to receive if it works, but not hold the expectation that it'll work. I can't manually enter 100s of transactions each month. I never would have bought this app OR the Mac app if I'd known their 'support' would be this flippant about such an essential feature.

Can't use the app because after installing I found out they don't support import from my financial institution. In fact, according to their documentation, importing directly from financial institutions is not the supported method of importing data and not a priority. Of course this wasn't mentioned in the app description before I paid for it. I can't believe in 2016 this is considered an optional or bonus feature.

I will give 5 stars when recurring Excesses/Incomes is fixed to be able to add a 'end date' greater than 2 years!

For me budgeting via spreadsheet is the best way to go. That being said I use this app to support my spreadsheet . It is very powerful due to its flexibility. Budgeting expense, Creation of various accounts. You will have to play with the design, and figure out what works for you. I have used this app for years, I cannot imagine using anything else.

I previously used YNAB but quit once they started charging yearly payments. This app improves on YNABs capability of linking multiple devices to your budget. For example, my wife can input a purchase from her phone that will automatically sync to all devices in the same group. Syncing happens over our cellular network so there is no need to have Dropbox. Very easy to use and does everything I need!

This is a great app, I use it every day. But it would be great to be able to write down new expenses on the Apple Watch! Without the need of opening the iPhone. This would make life so much easier and faster! Its a must!

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Quick take: No support other than a few PDF guides Not intuitive Elementary design & functionality Should be free for this low level of functionality and support Way to high price tag I would not recommend to anyone, go with Mint instead.

Couldn't even link my accounts, minimal features compared to other apps, quite cheesy to be honest.

Just found the issue after recent update, all icon lost their original color!

I love using this app but recently they made the icons gray so it becomes really hard to differentiate between categories also it should be a way to add and then select if it’s a expense or an income. Another thing that needs fixing is having a drop down menu for selecting the income the same way when you select a payee

I am happy to report that this app has been the most used app on my iOS devices for over 6 years now. Most 1 star reviews I have read are from lazy folks who can't be bothered to categorize their expenses and enter things manually. I enjoy the fact that this app is non-obtrusive and does not link directly to your bank account. I have been categorizing every receipt and know exactly how much my wife and I have spent on necessities and areas we should cut back on. This app is powerful because you can customize just how detailed you want to go with categories and sub-categories. Here is a hint - when you first start using this app just enter your starting balances and track expenses from that day forwards, don't feel overwhelmed by having to enter past expense history. This app gives me piece of mind in knowing knowing exactly what's going on and helps ,me find banking or overcharge errors. Also if you have syncing problems, you may need to simply reset your family devices and then send the data back out to get syncing working again. This is handy when you swap devices. Make a backup first and email it to yourself just in case.

This app would of been great but it does not show the recruiting bills that I added for the following months after initial bill was created. Due to this I was late on several bills since a trusted that my bills that were showering were accurate. I contacted customer service by email and explained what happen and asked if they could correct this issue but they have yet to respond or fix it!

Easy to use, the sync between devices is fast 🛩 and easy, yes this app is the 🏆!

Long time user for over 5 years now with my wife! Does what we need 😄

What are you waiting for? my favorite app in category but it’s time to implement Face ID... almost 2 yrs that it’s available

It would be super nice if you could view only unchecked items so you could easily find a check you wrote 8 weeks ago that finally cleared

Don't buy it. It's worse than free apps

I have been using it for years . No report can't be send by email. It need a major overhaul update. It's been the same UI since when! Still stuck at Ver 3.x

Every time I add a second device, it deletes the first one, (even though on the device itself it says I'm in the group), so when I go to send initial data it says I must have at least 2 devices in the group for me to sync my data. Until this problem is fixed I may have to find a different app.

Update 9/22/17 received excellent technical support when I was creating a "family sync" with my iPad. It was simple and having it on multiple devices makes my life easier and that is good :-) This app is excellent. I use it every time I spend, have income and save. It is easy to access, easy to use and easy to BACKUP. It makes it fun and fast to track income , expense and budget. The old saying. "If you can't measure it you can't manage it." is true. Now that I know where my money was going I am making better choices, paying off bills and saving more. I am having a "Total Money Makeover" and am becoming financially free... Imagine not worrying or owing a dime... I am grateful to HomeBudget for this App. BTW, it keeps getting better. I'm glad I bought it. Very glad it's made such a difference in how I live my life with my money...

Likely the best budgeting app EVER!! The wife and I use our 2 iPhones and the iPad is the master device. Here's the tricks: - Read the user guide. Understanding how it works is important. - Follow the startup suggestions. The wife and I plugged in everything for 2 weeks (my pay period) before setting budgets in the app and then set/tweaked budgets from there - Use the app religiously!!! Plugging everything in; Savings accounts not included in summary; and with every paycheck, overtime is plugged in manually (80 hrs is recurring). These tricks set the wife and I on the way to success. We've been using the app 3 months now and our finances have turned around!! The main reason: We now make educated decisions on what we can spend if an impulse hits us.

Why can't I get a bank connection beyond set up?

It just won't open. I keep clicking and nothing happens

My favorite budgeting app. Not perfect but definitely the best I've found.

Just updated the app now it won't even open!!

Finally I found an app that can I use to control my home budget. My wife and I use this app to control everything we spend every month. We were using excel spreadsheets before, but now we can use this app

I have been using this app for over 5 years along with Credit Karma. I am never late paying bill because of their forecast shows you how and when money is being paid out and income deposits. Just like anything in life, you really have to put the time in so you can get control of your finances. This app works great for me so I give it 5 Stars.

Works great. If you keep up with the entries, you can sort and get history on any transition or payee. Very useful!

This has been my go-to expense app for over 2 years, but when I recently restored my phone to discover HomeBudget was a blank slate, I was reminded of two things: (a) HomeBudget doesn’t leverage iCloud for backups, and (b) its Dropbox backup settings had mysteriously reverted from Daily to Never, meaning the past 6 months of data are now gone. Using Dropbox to backup app data is a fine if ersatz way to go, but not defaulting those settings to daily is completely incomprehensible to me. Why would anyone *not* want daily backups of a data payload that is so miniscule? It begs the question why the developers didn’t just implement iCloud backup in the first place. Set it and forget it. So, I’ve had enough. Goodbye Home Budget. And hello to Money Pro. An app which has stayed with the times, leverages all the iOS hooks properly, and even has some nice predictive AI to streamline the expense entering process. Money well spent, and I’m glad I made the switch.

Using this app for very long time, probably one of the first customers... The only issues that I'm facing is data size. For example, if you saving receipts with your expenses then your data file becomes HUGE and there is now easy way to remove old receipts. Also, Backup/Restore to Dropbox doesn't work. It creates empty remote folder and never stores the data. It would be nice to backup your data to google drive too. Dropbox gives too little space if you on free version. Would be nice to be able to delete receipts for specific time frame. For example, I do not need receipts if they are older then 3 years. Or give us a chance to store those receipts in the cloud so data file would smaller.

Update on iOS 11 iPhone 6s Plus. After updating to iOS11 the backup using dropbox broken. It wont initiate the backup anymore. Please fix this thanks. Just to update the review, everything works smoothly and the recent update doesnt break the auto backup anymore 👍🏻 but the update break the foreign currency conversion. Hope it will be fixed soon. Is there any major update to replace the current one ? 1. shortcut for frequent added expenses 2. Option to move sub category. 3. Overall interface enhancements because been using this app for a few years i think a redesign is good. Dont mind to pay again for another major update to support the dev. Hope this app will be always supported.

We Love this app!! The only thing that would be good is more icons and a way to request icons for certain things.

Great app, been using it for years. What I most like it's the customizable part of expenses. Put down everything where you want.

The app is great but we need bills that never end on recurring bills. Some bills have no end or end later than 2 years. Fix those issues and this app will be a 5 star.

Add more icons

Very helpful app in order to track your expenses in categories and subcategories. I would like the option of more filters at search tab and more options at report tab.

Was our go to app for a long time, to track our budget and expenses. However, now we can’t get our new iPhones to join our family‘s group so it’s useless to us. Switching over to another app.

1)Let us use emojis for the account icons!!! 2) on the dashboard where you show percent utilized of budget, tell me what % I am into in the month!! So if I’m 60% through of my monthly budget, but I’m 90% of the month I’m in rough shape! I need to know the 90% too!! Give me two circles in ☝️ 😄👍🚙🔌🛒📱🚰🏡🚽

This app has made tracking my finances and making sound financial judgements easy. Perfect for those who are trying to keep their spending and savings in order and figuring out a way to be financially savvy.

Let us use emojis for the account icons!!! 😄👍🚙🔌🛒📱🚰🏡🚽

This app changed my life; you can schedule your bills, keep track of expenses, log all of your accounts and export monthly and yearly reports. The only draw back is not being able to link your accounts directly to credit cards, checking, etc.