Simple Home BudgetFeatures
Simple Use, Total Control
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!
Enter right here
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!
Straightforward Search
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".
Top 10 in two clicks
Want to see your "top spending" list? Just click the amount column header to sort!
We are really spending less!
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!
Let me check my schedule
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!
Interesting Chart
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.
Budget... without budgeting
Budgeting is boring and depressing process. Nobody likes the idea to put ourselves in the "cage" to limit our spending. But we all have to do it, unless your credit card has "no limit"... Simple Home Budget makes the budgeting easy exercise since it has no budget table or form to fill! Instead it uses all available information to show what you should expect. Each time you transform your regular transaction to recurring, you are freeing yourself from entering that transaction again (since it is the same transaction, why should you fill it again and again?). From the other side, you are telling Simple Home Budget what to expect. As a result, you won't have to enter recurring transactions ever again (just confirm), and also have the budget provided to you for any selected month!
Little Powerful Helpers
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.
Color-marked Categories
Every category may have specific color assigned to it, so you will see transactions that require your additional attention right away.
Running Total
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".
History right in place
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.
Silent Backup
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).
Open to integrate
Simple Home Budget uses the Access MDB format to store your data. There is no password on the database, and you can use any database tool to export, analyze or even import your data. If you add any tables, queries, forms, etc. to home_budget.mdb file, those items will not be touched by Simple Home Budget, and they will be carried over to backup. Simple Home Budget does verify the integrity of its tables only, and is not interested in removing anything not on its list.
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