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Simple Home Budget is easy to use money manager for home, small business, freelancers, non-profit or charity organizations. It offers carefully selected features to manage your finances in simple, fast and effective way.
Simple Home Budget records transactions of all kinds and lets you analyze income, expenses and net income for selected month, year to date or the last 12 months.
With only a glance at the total on the sidebar or summary charts, you can review your current financial position, the progress of finances, pinpoint costs and areas of excessive expenditure.
You can project expected expenses and income and know how much money you will have at a future date.
See exactly where your personal finances are at for the year and plan your expenses. Simple Home Budget shows you all of your income, expenses, net income and running total in a summary color-coded Overview chart. At one glance, you can see what you have and will have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over each month to spend or save. Start spending money in a savvy way!
Get started right out of the box as there is almost no learning curve. The program opens to the main window that displays the sidebar in the left and tabbed main area in the right. The sidebar shows the calendar to select an active month of data, the form to add new transactions and totals of income, expenses and net income for a selected month, as well as expected totals for scheduled transactions for an active month.
The main tabbed area provides a quick access to transactions for a selected month or day, recurring transactions, summarized monthly view of income and expense by categories and graphic overview for a year. Thanks to the easy-to-navigate design, the majority of data entry, maintenance operations and graphic charts are less than two mouse clicks away!
Adding a new transaction is a breeze to do. You can quickly add a new transaction from the sidebar form or the 'New' dialog on the toolbar of the appropriate tab: Transactions or Recurring. Specify the type of transaction: Expense, Income, or Refund. Then select the start date, the category, type in comments for the transaction and finally set up the amount. Save the transaction and that's it. Now the transaction record is displayed in the list of all transactions and in the Overview chart, showing your current financial position and progress for 12 months.
Protect your peace of mind with the Backup / Restore options. In case of hardware crash or virus attack, you can easily restore the database from a backup copy and it'll be up and running in minutes. The database can be set up to be automatically backed up each time the application closes. The number of backups is defined by the user. The Backup option can also be used to move the database from one computer into another, which is ideal for synchronizing.
Keep track of your budget without advertising bells and whistles, which are nothing but annoyance to the users. There are no flashy banners, no ads embedded in icons, no links to sponsors luring you into buying the products or services you do not need, no corporate logos in bright letters - nothing that has no practical value for managing your budget. Simple Home Budget is calm and keeps you that way.
You can try Simple Home Budget in action FOR FREE. Get started with a 30-day fully-functional trial today to gain control of your finances and start on the path to financial freedom and stability.
Managing your money could be very boring exercise. And it is! Grocery receipts, gas bills, and that receipt for your "dream come true" HD cable box receipt...
Simple Home Budget is designed to make this experience really enjoyable, so you spend less time to enter your transactions and also spend less time actually managing your money, so you have more time for your life and more money to spend save!
The form to enter new transaction is the part of the main form - just select category, enter short description, amount, press Enter and... done! Repeat until all those receipts are done, with speed 5-10 receipts per minute!
Want to find that transaction with "12 hundred something" amount? Just enter "12" in the search box and see it right away.
Searching for specific description or category? Just type letters in the search box and see the results "as you type".
Want to see your "top spending" list? Just click the amount column header to sort!
Want to see how much you spend on food for this month? Go to to "Categories" tab and click on the food category and see all your food expenses at glance! Plus compare it with previous six month right on spot!
Always forget what bills you will get tomorrow or this week? Just take a look at expected income and expenses and see your situation right away!
Want to see the chart for your total financial health? Just take a look at the "Overview" tab to see how you performed for the last twelve months.
And there are many other features to help you to have easy, "just one click away" control over all your expenses and income.
Simple Home Budget is very simple application to make everything clear to you. On other hand, Simple Home Budget cares about you, providing powerful helpers without compromising the simplicity.
Every category may have specific color assigned to it, so you will see transactions that require your additional attention right away.
Running Total is calculated from the beginning of your transaction history and shows the amount of money available to by the end of specific month. To have full benefit from this feature, it is required to enter the "initial balance" in the first month (at the beginning of that month) of your transaction history.
The "Recurring" tab highlights expected amounts (income as green and expenses as yellow). Total expected income and expenses also shown in the "Totals" section on the sidebar.
The "Totals" section shows actual net income, expected net income and running total with color rectangles behind them. Green means "good", yellow means "pay attention", red means "stop your expenses". Actual "temperature" for specific amount is somewhere between green and red, something like "solid green", or "the green is more yellow now", or "that light orange color is telling me something".
The "Categories" tab shows you graph for selected category in the right bottom corner. This graph represents the amount for this category for the last months. You can see right away if your new grocery store is really cheaper, or the result of changing light bulbs to "eco" ones on your hydro bill.
Simple Home Budget will backup its database file every time you do the change and close the application. By default, the backup file will be stored into the same directory where its database file actually stored. The application maintains by default one back copy, deleting the old one when creating the new one.
It is recommended to set backup directory and the humber od history files to maintain (three should be just enough, but it's up to you). The backup directory could be a directory on your backup drive (thumb drive?), or the directory that is used in backup application (you do backup your data, right?).
The database file is really small, and it will be several years until its size will reach, let's say, one megabyte (yes, just one megabyte, not gigabyte).
"The Simple Home Budget program is an easy interface, with everything I was looking for in a program to set up our home budget while being able to track where on earth our money goes!Ê I find it so helpful to see in a glance who we owe, who we have paid, when things are due!Ê It is a wonderful program and I will share it with my friends and family! When my laptop crashed, and had to be taken back to factory configuration, I lost the program. I emailed their support team, explained my situation, and in the same day, I was able to reinstall it, reactivate it and tomorrow will be setting it all up again!Ê On a scale of 1 to 10 and 10 being the best, I rate Home Budget Software a 10." - Deonna Bishopp, Indiana
"I am glad that you offered a 30-day free trial. I might not have tried Simple Home Budget otherwise, and, after about a week, I realized that I finally had found the right budgeting software for me -- not too complicated nor too basic. Because Simple Home Budget is so fast and easy to use, I find that I enter my data pretty often (I'm usually lazy about doing that sort of thing). I now have a realistic budget based on my actual spending habits and a quick, easy and flexible way to stay within it. Kudos to you for creating such useful, helpful and inexpensive software and for your quick and helpful customer support." - LP
"Simple Home Budget is perfect. Beautiful. Most home accounting software is complicated bloatware for us simple folks." - John H. Colton, NY
"Easy to use program. Finally, I can manage my finances without spending too much time on it. Can see right away if i can go shopping today :)." - Olenka T., ON
