After many hours of reviewing, Money.co.uk recently released their top 10 personal financial and budgeting apps for iPad. Here is the list, along with each app’s pros and cons.

PocketMoney ($4.99) – Personal financial manager, keeps your finances in sync over multiple iOS devices over Wi-Fi or to PocketMoney desktop app on pc or Mac.

• Pros: Push notification, information/email summaries and Lite version availability
• Cons: Slow on 3G

HomeBudget with Sync ($4.99) – Integrated expense tracker, includes charts and graphs.

• Pros: Beautifully presented, requires little effort to use, syncing
• Cons: Reported glitches

Bloomberg for iPad (Free) – Provides accurate, timely information about the world’s financial markets.

• Pros: Indispensable app for stock traders, smart design, easy to navigate
• Cons: Unchangeable color scheme

Easy Books (Free) – Professional business bookkeeping and invoicing

• Pros: Customizable to suit any business
• Cons: Not suited for large companies

The Wall Street Journal. (Free app – $17.99/mo. subscription) – Award winning coverage, get the latest news updates and market data throughout the day, market data and videos

• Pros: Well present, excellent source of financial news
• Cons: High monthly subscription cost

PayPal (Free) – Send money to friends, manage your account

• Pros: Simple to process payments
• Cons: Putting funds into your account doesn’t work as quickly as we’d like

Account Tracker ($2.99) – account tracking, budgeting and expense management app

• Pros: Email support, back up, export data, security features
• Cons: No desktop version

powerOne Finance Calculator ($4.99) – Algebraic and RPN calculator with customizable, spreadsheet-like templates

• Pros: All encompassing
• Cons: Hard to set up complex templates

iCurrency Pad ($.99) – Currency convertor and calculator

• Pros: Wonderful graphs
• Cons: Occasional glitch cause graphs to invert themselves

Meter Readings ($1.99) – Monitor household utility meters

• Pros: Massive scope, easy to manage
• Cons: Paper bills still necessary for set-up, time consuming

[money.co.uk]

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