Buddy: Budget Planner App

I spent a week looking for a great budget app, but everyone app I downloaded wanted me to connect my bank account and they budgeted the transactions automatically. Buddy is a awesome app for people who want to manually control their budget without having to deal with automatic settings (automatic budgeting never let me take into account money that was sent to me to pay for something for someone else) The interface of the app has a easily layout and has a perfect amount of personalization options. Buddy has plenty of preset options to choose from for your budget and for adding transactions, plus you can add your own transaction title with a icon and color choice. I highly recommend this app for people who like to be in complete control of their budget and manually entering their transactions.

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My search for a budget/spending app continues. The graphics on this one are about the best I’ve seen, easy to interpret. Seems it would keep just the right amount of data for those of us don’t want to link to bank accounts and credit lines. I know what’s in my checking account. What I want to know is where my money is going and where I could most comfortably save money. My problem with this app is with the user interface. I simply could not get it to let me add a new category to the budget section. And I am not sure why the categories in spending and budgeting are different. These should be the same and linked. Also I should be able to click through on a nonbudgeted item and move it to a budget category. And every time I set up a new category for spending, I should immediately be able to attach it to a budgeted category/amount. I will keep an eye on upgrades to this app if I don’t find the right thing soon because I see the potential. Just not there for me yet.

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I’ll start by saying that I lost all of my data—just gone. Somewhere between trying to create a new budget for next month and deciding to cancel my subscription, everything just disappeared without warning. I’m inclined to give the app the lowest rating possible for this sort of a thing. (If the app loses data, the app actually has negative value.) That being said, I feel the developer did a lot of things well. The app looks great, which was part of what made it stand out among the others. The feature set is decent, and I appreciate being able to do a biweekly budget, but in my opinion the $4.99/month subscription plan doesn’t really make sense. I’ve read the developer’s reasoning regarding it, but as a consumer I’ve got to say that it should probably be priced around $0.99 or $1.99. In conclusion, this app was almost good enough to keep me using it, but the $4.99 per month has me walking away, and the loss of data has me writing the review.

After downloading and trying out many apps, this seems to be the best one for me. First and foremost, it does exactly what I need with a great looking UI and UX as a graphic designer myself. Contrary to what most other apps offer, I actually love the fact that it doesn't need to connect to a bank account to put in transactions! I think having to manually type every transaction keeps me more on top of my spending, and all it takes is a few extra seconds to input expenses. With that being said, I would love a widget where I could type things in on the go since I don't always save receipts etc. for later input (yay environment). Another thing i love is how easily one can add unforeseen income that doesn't affect total monthly salary! Totally awesome app, and I pretty much wouldn't change anything about it!

If you’re like me, you started your budgeting using Mint. The issue is is that Mint is generally only helpful in seeing where your money is going after the fact. I can’t automatically set monthly recurring debts and paycheck amounts. I’m not sure how much I should spend a day. Various business reimbursements and Venmo’s screw up my calculations (eg I spent 2x on my food budget because I paid for the meal and my friend Venmo’d me!) Buddy has been life changing. By necessarily having to manually input every non-recurring expense, it forces you to be aware and mindful of your budget. You know how much money you have remaining for the month, and it even breaks it down into a daily figure. It’s a beautiful app, and super easy to add expenses. I purchased the monthly $5 pro version just to support the developer (is this made by only 1 person?! What an accomplishment). I guarantee this will save you several times that amount of money! Only feedback: add dark mode and more categories for expenses (although I also think it allows you to create expense categories, so this is less of an issue).