Finding the right kind of budget tracking software on the iPad can be a bit of a hassle. While there are several that offer almost everything you could possibly want, it seems there is always one area where it falls a little short. However there is one that seems to come as close as giving you everything you could want as you are going to find on a tablet computer. The first thing that sets Home Budget apart from some of the other banking apps is that you can literally sync your accounts to any other iDevice that has Home Budget installed almost instantly. This means that if you happen to have both an iPhone and an iPad you can go do your shopping with the iPhone, make a few notes and then transfer them to the iPad.
One of the truly great things about this particular app is that when you put in a particular transaction to a certain payee, a number of things can be done with that information. The first thing is that, should you actually enter a category you can already see just how much of the budgeted amount you have spent. Should this be a particular place you do a lot of spending, say like Target you can see the total amount you have spent with the company as well as how much you spent on a certain day. Of course, no income tracking app is going to be complete without the ability to break down how much money is in each of your accounts. There is one drawback to using this particular program and that is that when you enter a transaction you cannot do it from inside the account. Instead you enter a transaction in either the expense or income ledgers and assign the transaction to an account. This is actually a pretty small drawback in the grand scheme of things.
Home Budget allows you not only to track how much money is coming in and going out of your accounts in literally dozens of different categories but it allows you to better plan how much money you are going to have in the future. One of the best parts of this app is that you can set up bills and recurring bills years in advance and the app will actually give you a forecast of what your accounts will look like whenever you want to look. The app will also give you an at-a-glance look at just how much you have spent and taken in over the year, the month, the week and the day so that you can better see where you are spending entirely too much money, and help you find a way to get a larger income.
At just $4.99 for the download, this might be a little pricier than some of the other financial tracking apps that are available and if you are looking for something more basic then there are others that fit the bill, but if you are looking for the whole package then there may not be a better app in the store.
App Store: $4.99
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