Budget Software

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

What is a good simple software program for doing and keeping a family budget? I used to use Quicken, but it has become way to complicated for my purposes.

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

I use HomeBudget. Have been using it for 9 years, every single day.

You can add as many accounts as you want and allocate a budget each month for particular expenses. It has reminders for bills or automatic payments etc. Mine's quite complex as we have many accounts and investments but it can be used for the most basic of budgets as well.

It's so versatile. We'd be lost without it.

[basham Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close basham]

Any spreadsheet programme works for me.

My wife unfortunately has difficulty with spreadsheets.

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

Any spreadsheet programme works for me.

My wife unfortunately has difficulty with spreadsheets.

I don't think spreadsheets can seriously be used for a full budget. At least not one where live and linked transactions, accounts and assets are kept. You need things like reminders, automatic budget allocation, regular payments, double bookkeeping, etc, which would be clunky, if not impossible, to do with a spreadsheet.