Friday, August 25, 2017

5 Android apps as your personal expense manager or home budget planner

In the previous post, I have discussed MyUniverse app which is a personal finance management app. Here I will discuss 5 exciting Android apps (Daily Expenses 3, Expense Manager, Money Lover - Money Manager, Spending Tracker, My Budget Plan) which may help you to control your monthly expenses more efficiently. These apps are more simple to use and you do not need to add your bank account details or investment account details. These apps will help you to manage your expenditure and work as your personal expense manager or home budget planner.

Know more about those personal expense manager apps

Daily Expenses 3

Daily Expense is a home budget planner or personal expense management app where you have to add your earnings and expense and rest will be taken care of by this app. You can control your daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and yearly budget very efficiently.

Technical info: Android - 4.0.3 and up, Size - 9.1M

Pros:


  • Categorization of income and expense
  • Editable data for modification in future
  • Scheduling of recurring records
  • Daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and yearly reports and graphical representation
  • Data back up option and data protection (password)
  • Multilingual and multi currency features

Cons: 


  • Annoying ad pop up (Free version)
  • Some users faced issues during updating of this app

Expense - Manager


Expense manager is another absolutely free excellent home budget management app or personal finance management app and works as your personal expense manager.

Technical info: Android - varies with device  Size - varies with device

Pros:


  • Manage and track tax, credit card, debit card and many more things
  • Easy bill organizing feature
  • Easy auto back up (Dropbox, Google Drive) features
  • Easy helpful tools (Regular, loan & interest calculator, currency converter etc)
  • Multilingual
  • No registration and internet access needed to use this app

Cons:


  • No specific problems as such reported till now but only a few number of users faced data missing issues but that may be due to individual's issue as not many users complained this issue

Money Lover - Money Manager


Money Lover - Money Manager is a stress-free, user-friendly app to manage your personal and family finance. It is free to use.

Technical info: Android - varies with device  Size - varies with device

Pros: 


  • Customize category beyond default categories
  • Graphical representation of expense and income
  • Scheduling of all upcoming bills (Cable subscription, mobile bills etc)
  • Multi device users love this app as it enables clouds with top notch security features

Cons:


  • Can't add to your bank accounts

Spending Tracker

Spending Tracker is free to download, easy to use app. It helps users to track their spending and limit overall budget according to user's pre-decided level.

Technical info: Android - varies with device  Size - varies with device

Pros:


  • Tablet users will be benefited as special design feature is added for larger screen
  • Track expense weekly, monthly or yearly
  • Suppose in a particular month, your expense is less than your fixed budget for that month  then you can carry forward  remaining budget to next month
  • Export data to CSV for further analysis by using spreadsheet or take a print out or keep soft copy in PDF file
  • Editable expense and income category for future requirement
  • Data back up (Dropbox)

Cons:


  • No bill reminder feature
  • Annoying pop-up ads

My Budget Plan

My Budget Plan is free to use and user-friendly app. It allows users to have full control over their money.

Technical info: Android 3.0 and up, Size 2.6M

Pros:


  • Graphical representation of your expense and earnings by category, by account, by time period
  • Export your data anytime to your device as Excel file
  • Multi lingual and multi currency features
  • Customizing category or classification of expense and income
  • Managing recurring operations

Cons:


  • Annoying pop-up ads
  • Little bit slow in operation

These 5 Android apps are very helpful. It will work as your personal expense manager or home budget planner and you can concentrate on your daily works. These apps will take care of your budget limit and help you to control your expenditure and meet your upcoming obligations (bills, rent, EMI etc). Before installing any app, it is always suggested to know all the issues and limitations of any such app and read properly the reviews by users. If you are using any such app, then please share your experience by leaving your comment.

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