When comparing Financius vs SmartAmount, 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 SmartAmount is ranked 18th. 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 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.

Pro Original
SmartAmount has interesting original features, like future fund prediction.

Pro Simple
Unlike other money focused apps, this one is very simple to use and can be learned in few minutes.

Pro Requires only a small bit of time
Users can initially add all recurring incomes and expenses to have a rough estimate. If users forget to register occurrences for long period of time, that is not an issue as all that needs done is for the user to set their current amount and the app will adapt all of its charts and statistics.

Pro Secure
All data is encrypted, and there is a built in user set password.

Pro World-wide availability and currency support
App is available in all world countries, and supports all world currencies.

Pro Chart to see your FUTURE balance
You can easily see how next expenses change your future money availability. You can see it graphically (by chart), or through calendar view

Pro Backup and restore
You can backup in text format (JSON) so you really OWN your data, and you can read it directly from file, if needed
Cons
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.
Con Unstable
App last updated January 2017, which is causing issues with Google Play Services repeatedly crashing.
