When comparing Home Budget with Sync vs Financius, the Slant community recommends Financius for most people. In the question“What are the best personal finance tracker apps for Android? ” Financius is ranked 3rd while Home Budget with Sync is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Financius is:
Financius - Expense Manager was recently redesigned to follow Google's Material Design guidelines.
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Pros
Pro Backup to Dropbox automatically in regular intervals
You only have to enter your Dropbox sign-in data and backups will happen automatically.
Pro There is a free (lite) version for you to try before you buy
Free version does not have the option to synchronize across multiple devices, but you can try all the options.
Pro Easy to use, fast to enter data
You even have Android widget that helps you enter your expenses in 4 taps (start, amount, account, expense category).
Pro Multiple accounts, multiple expense categories and subcategories
You can have as many accounts you want (and you can group them - either by currency or by type: credit cards, cash/wallets/envelopes), as many expense categories you want and subcategories (only 1 level in depth).
Pro Multiple platforms
Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Kindle.
Pro You can set up multiple user accounts
The whole family uses the same database which synchronizes in the background.
Pro Material Design
Financius - Expense Manager was recently redesigned to follow Google's Material Design guidelines.
Pro Handles multiple money accounts and currencies
Financius - Expense Manager is able to utilize multiple money accounts so the user can have their bank, credit card and online money accounts such as Paypal listed within the same app. the user is also able to record different currencies within these accounts.
Pro Completely free with zero advertisements
Financius - Expense Manager is free to download and use, has zero advertisements.
Pro Offers backup to Google Drive accounts
Financius - Expense Manager offers users a way to backup all of their data to a Google Drive account.
Cons
Con Mixing different currencies in reports
It has a problem with adding up amounts in different currencies when making reports.
Con Very few reports
Reports are very simple, but you can export data (send to e-mail) into CSV format and use some reporting tool like Power BI (which is free and very powerful) to make your own reports.
Con Windows PC version is too expensive and doesn't have that many options
$14.99 is too much for nothing to add to the smartphone version.
Con Development may be slow
Financius - Expense Manager may not have features or bugs fixed as fast as other app as it is developed by a one man team.