Home Budget Lite
Written by Heather Leister
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I am allergic to budgeting. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. But every once in awhile I get the urge to try and “cure” my allergy so I decide to give budgeting a try again. Now that I’ve got my iPhone I’ve been searching for a magic app that’s going to suddenly make me not spend money like it grows on trees. Let’s just say I’m still looking.
But in the meantime I’ve been trying out a couple of the free budget apps that are available and I have to say that Home Budget Lite is a decent app. It allows you to keep track of your income, expenses and set up a monthly budget. You can also enter in your accounts (savings, checking) and how much money you’ve got in each one. Once your accounts are set up and you’re keeping track of expenses you can mark which account the expenses are coming from and your balances will go down.
When you set up your budget there are plenty of categories and sub-categories to choose from. If you can’t find just the right one you can always create a custom category. On the budget screen you can watch a green line that shows you how you’re doing with your spending. As you spend money in each category the line will turn blue. If you spend more than your budgeted amount the line turns a dreaded red.
If you visit the help section before you start using Home Budget Lite you’ll find that it’s pretty easy to get started. For a free app it does a fine enough job of helping you track expenses and budgeting. I’d like to find an app that will allow my husband and I to share a budget. Something that we could both update and share using our separate phones. If anyone knows of an app that can do this please leave me a comment or send an email.
Price when Reviewed: Free
See the app at iTunes
Seller: Anishu, Inc.
A full version of Home Budget Lite is also available at iTunes for $4.99
By Katina on Dec 14, 2009
You can share with your husband using the full version of HomeBudget.
By iphone lover on Apr 14, 2010
So as long as your hubby also has an iphone, you can share the same budget through the HomeBudget Lite app…Settings.Family sync and then create a group. Hope this helped.
By `will on Jun 3, 2010
GREAT app. My wife and I use it for budgeting and the sync properties make it excellent for us to know where our money is (and isn’t) when it’s time to spend. Well worth the $5 or whatever it cost.
By Tessie on Sep 14, 2010
The app that allows you and DH to share is called “the mint” it also syncs with your bank as well as a website. http://Www.themint.com. Some banks block the syncing due to security issues. So we had to switch to manual entries but if you’re lucky your bank won’t.
By daniel on Oct 29, 2010
I found app that helps me to decide how much I need to save, and then spending the rest, instand of seeing how much I spend and then saving the rest… try Budget Protector
By Sun on Oct 7, 2011
Thanks for the tip on HomeBudget Lite. I wish it was a little simpler interface wise… but it might do the job. I’m a little scared to share with people who are not so tech savvy though.