Features & Capabilities

Lite version of the HomeBudget software, which is available as a paid application. Limited to 20 expense entries and 10 income entries.

HomeBudget is an integrated expense tracker designed to help you track your expenses, income, bills-due and account balances. It offers support for budgeting, and allows analysis of your expenses and income, including charts and graphs. Two key differentiating features of HomeBudget are:

  1. Integrated set of features. The features within HomeBudget are well integrated such that a bill can become an expense (when you pay for it) and also adjust the account balance at the same time.

  2. Family sync. HomeBudget includes Family Sync, an advanced feature that allows a group of devices within the household to exchange expense and income information, and work together within a single budget. Once setup, the devices sync with each other automatically over the air. Family Sync works across all features including Bills and Accounts. Please refer to the Family Sync Quick Start guide at http://www.anishu.com for information on configuring Family Sync.

KEY FEATURES:

Expenses:

  • Create/Edit/Delete expenses and recurring expenses
  • Browse expense entries by month, by category/date with the ability to drill-down
  • Optionally associate an account and payee with an expense
  • Attach photo images of receipts; drag and resize images on screen
  • Support for multiple currencies and automatic exchange rate conversion
  • Search expense entries

Income:

  • Create/Edit/Delete income and recurring income
  • Optionally associate an account with the income

Bills

  • Create/Edit/Delete bills and recurring bills
  • Support for Payees, and track payments by Payee.
  • Make payment on bills either an as expense or as a transfer (to avoid double accounting your expenses)
  • Calendar and list view of Bills
  • Bill reminders

Categories and Budget

  • Create/Edit/Delete expense categories and sub-categories
  • Set a budget, and track expenses at the category/sub-category level.
  • Associate icons with the categories and reorder category display order
  • Budget rollover
  • Classify expenses into fixed, variable and discretionary and compute your disposable income

Accounts

  • Support for Accounts such as Checking, Savings, Credit, Debit, Cash, etc.
  • Associate your expense and income entries with your accounts and accurately track account balances.
  • View transactions, and do transfer between accounts.
  • Ability to choose a different base currency for each account

Reports

  • Trend chart for Expense, Budget and Income for the last 6 months
  • Pie/Bar charts for expense break-down (Available in the Expenses screen).
  • Export data/reports by email or via WiFi

Family Sync

  • Automatically sync multiple devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch) in the household and see the same numbers on all devices over 3G and WiFi
  • Work within the same budget with other members of the household

Other

  • Backup/Restore complete application data, including all receipts
  • Choice of color schemes: blue, iOS, orange
  • Ability to upload your own list of category icons
  • Large numeric keypad for expense/income data entry with decimal point placement automatic for your locale/region
  • HomeBudget follows the locale/region setting on your device and shows date and currency symbols appropriate for your region

Visit http://www.anishu.com to see more screenshots, and to download the user guide (PDF, 42 pages).

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Anishu, Inc.
Rating:
3.30
(27)
Version:
3.6.5 Last updated: 2026-05-14
Version code:
885634665
Creation date:
2009-03-27
Compatible devices:
Size:
17.10MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-04
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Anishu, Inc.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/homebudget-lite-w-sync/id307620907
Website:
http://www.anishu.com

User Reviews

Reviews consistently highlight strong cross-device syncing and a clean, easy-to-use UI, plus helpful documentation. Repeated drawbacks include strict lite-version entry limits, poor or nonfunctional CSV import/backup options, unstable or crashing sync across devices, and a confusing UI with limited budgeting customization. Support issues are also noted. Overall sentiment is mixed: users value the app’s core budgeting/sync features and show willingness to upgrade, but significant usability and feature-limitations barriers hinder broader adoption.
Pros
  • Syncs across multiple iOS devices with cloud backup (Dropbox)
  • Clean, intuitive UI and generally easy to use
  • Helpful PDF user guide / documentation
  • Positive overall usability with clear budgeting features and willingness to upgrade to the full version
Cons
  • Lite version limits the number of entries (10–30) and requires upgrading to add more
  • Import/export limitations: CSV import not working well and CSV backups/restoration not available
  • Sync reliability issues: devices often fail to stay in sync or cause crashes
  • Interface can be confusing or overly complex for some users / frequent alerts
  • Budget customization limitations: cannot change the budget period (monthly only) and other budgeting flex limits
Recent reviews
I really would like to like this app and purchase the full version, but there’s no intuitive, efficient way to import expenses and income. The user guide outlines methods to import, but they just don’t work! Please incorporate the ability to easily import CSV and/or QIF files. Otherwise, this app is useless.
by th*****, 2024-12-28

So far this app is really cool. I like that you split expense categories but, I would really love to see split accounts for ways of paying. Example paid my restaurant bill on credit card but left cash as a tip. Or had a gift card for part of the meal and paid cash. Or at a grocery store, you pay with a snap card and part you pay cash. So you can split the expenses up but not the ways of paying on the same receipt without making a separate entry. Fix that, and this is close to 5 stars.
by N&*****, 2021-01-22

I’m using its paid version. Very good app. BUT: I started living in another country and I wanted to change its home currency. Nope! It has no CSV backup and restore, only binary. No income definition ability.
by gr*****, 2020-06-26
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