Tired of keeping track of your credit card and shopping receipts? Surprised at how your money keeps dwindling down to nothingness in your bank account? Considering to hire an accountant just to manage your own finances? Well, as hard as it seems, there’s always a solution to every problem. Here we have a list of apps that are really helpful in keeping track of your finances. Create a budget, scan a receipt, and check your balance with just a touch here and a click there!
1. My Budget Book (Android/iOs)
Price: $1.67 (Android); $1.99 (iOs)
Rating: 4.7/5
My budget book is an application that gives you a detailed description of your bank account, and your transactions, and create a comprehensive budget according to your balance. You can add the information to any account that you own and manage it through the application. Once you input several transactions, the app will create a bank statement type of a document for your analysis. It also generates graphs and charts to pinpoint where your expenditure is the highest.
The app is a great pleasure to use due to the accuracy and details it provides. It's comprehensive, sophisticated and helps you manage multiple accounts at once.
2. Left to Spend (iOs)
Price: $4.99
Rating: 4.5
If you don’t want to put in all of your account information and go through those charts and graphs to manage your income, Left to Spend is an app that would suit you best. Taking a clear cut approach to show you an immediate overview of your current financial situation, this app will tell you how much money do you have to spend, help you set up a daily allowance that won’t disrupt your monthly budget and manage it. It’s simple, cuts to the core of the issue, and doesn’t need a lot of information to begin with!
For Android users, there’s a similar app called Left for Spending.
3. Expensify (Android/iOs)
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5/5
Tired of manually entering all of your transactions and keeping track of those credit receipts? Expensify’s SmartScan feature can be a lifesaver. Just scan your receipt and the app will take care of the account heads and also assign them to their respective income/expense accounts. Can it be any easier than this?
Expensify takes all the hassle of manually entering data and does it all for you, and can even scan your credit card transactions in case you lost your receipt, which makes it one of the best personal finance apps available.
4. BUDGT (iOs)
Price: $1.99
Rating: 4.5/5
BUDGT is an application that helps you maintain your income and expenses accounts under their respective heads, and makes it very simple to add a transaction which you can just tag under either your income or expenses, and also helps you toggle the transaction between each account.
It also takes your daily budget and divides it with the days of the months, creating a monthly allowance timeline to help you go by, and automatically carries over any money left to next month’s account.
5. Spendee (Android/iOs)
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5/5
The best thing about Spendee: you won’t get bored while using it. A very efficient budget tracker, Spendee has a great interactive and colorful UI that would make managing your personal finances a little more interesting! Although the features that it has are more or less similar to Mint, this app is more effective, and a lot easier to use as well.
6. Wallet (Android/iOs)
Price: Free
Rating: 4.4/5
This Android and iOs app is a web and mobile platform that helps you to organize and manage your financial status, create and handle your budget and track your expenses. The record of the data entered in the application is saved across all the devices the account exists in, and synced online. In this app you can put in your monthly income and make it a benchmark, and create budgets, record expenses and save records of bills and recurring expenses.
However, this app has better budget management functions available on its android version.
7. Mint (Android/iOs)
Price: Free
Rating: 4.4/5
Mint is a very efficient and easy to use personal finance software. If you’re in for maintaining your credit score, create a budget, and set up updates for upcoming bills, this app is the one for you. The user interface is easy and simple to use, and once you enter your basic account information, the app does all the hard work for you. It can integrate with major banks and financial institutions and is highly automated to save you any hassle.
8. HomeBudget with Sync (Android/iOs)
Price: $6 (Android); $4.99 (iOs 40% off limited offer)
Rating: 4.1/5
HomeBudget with Sync is an expense tracker that allows you to monitor your income and bills and manage your account balance by generating graphs and charts that are easy to understand and help you oversee your expenditures.
One of its main features is Family sync that allows multiple devices to connect with each other on the same time to facilitate sharing of income and expense information with different people at once. It’s search feature helps in looking for a particular transaction without any issue of manually looking for it.
9. 52 Weeks Challenge (Android/iOs)
Price: Free
Rating: 4.1/5
The idea of this app is simple. It gives you a timeline, it enters the amount you mean to save, and then it helps you keep track of your saving routine. The application is a great way to save money and is fun to use, which is a plus! The app helps in reimbursing the amount you saved into planned expenditure and also keeps updating your account to create a better saving plan.
10. Daily Spender (Android/iOs)
Price: Free
Rating: 4/5
On a trip and cannot keep track of your money? Daily Spender can do it for you. A simple and easy to use app that divides the total amount of money you put in and divides it with the number of days you want to spend it in, and also gives you options to spend, save, or redistribute the allotted amount.
A plus is that it rounds off the amount, not giving you a fraction amount, which is even better as the app cuts directly to the chase!
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