Leave a Review Budget with Back in Black
Awesome, exactly what I needed
These guys got it all correct. I can launch the app and enter my expense before the cashier gets me my change. Easy, and export to excel to incorporate into your spread sheets.Sfthdsxhjnsrd
Pretty brilliant
More features than Savers and more focused on budgeting than the traditional finance apps like Squirrel or Money. Hope they add Dropbox support and it will be perfect. Right now it's a bit scary entering in data you can't reliably back up conveniently.
Update: They obviously fired their designer or sold this app to someone else. The new graph feature is amazingly gaudy and completely ruins the beautiful experience it once had. It feels like they are just slapping things on now so the quality and long term prospects for this app aren't looking good.Show lessmacgeekjay
Incredibly well done.
I downloaded Mint, since that seems to be the standard, but their mobile app wouldn't let me put money aside for savings. This app is 8 steps ahead of Mint in terms of design and ease of use. I still have the Mint app since it links with my bank account but I log my purchases into Back in Black because I enjoy the experience and can understand my finances so much easier in here. If there's one thing I wish the app did, I wish reached goals stayed visible until their end date. I can still see them in the logs though so it's not a huge dealShow lessKhglynn
Fits the ticket--So far
Installed this app a few days ago. Guess what!!! I like it, a lot. Really easy to figure out. Build your cats, input your income, set your budget, input your expenses, and off you go.
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Oct. 1
The more I use this app, the more I love it. Get it, set it up, and use it. You will love it too.Show lessFrenchfri2
Awesome app!
This app does everything. Only thing that would make it better would to be able to share like with my husband. Still awesome!Buy_a_hose
Awesome!!!
Totally worth the price. One thing that would be nice is for those of us on hourly pay at an irregular schedule would be able to enter our income as every two weeks instead of monthly. Along with that, have the goals and the regular expenses show how much you would need to save out of each 2-week paycheck in order to make those goals :)Show lessIamwhoiam026
Looks good, performs not so good
It certainly attracted my attention for friendly looking interface and Goals you can set up and allocate your saving to every month. However performance wise it ruined my attraction completely and I changed to Nexus Money which have less of a fancy design but is still pretty and does its work well. Budget had struggled with deleting expenses entries and roll over of remaining income from the previous month. It also did not have any pie or bar chart to illustrate my expenditure in time and by type, which is quite helpful.Show lessbabybarrista
Avoid for now
Sounded great in the description, I've been looking for something like this for ages, I thought it would work well.
I was wrong.
Bugs galore, doesn't save name changes, transactions or edits to payments. Failed to carry over anything to the next month etc.
I wasted so much time trying to set this up, really not happy!
The fact that you can't even set your monthly start date, I.e I get paid mid month, so I want to start tracking from that date, yeah - you can't!
It paints an unrealistic picture of what you have available because it takes into account payments that are due to come in before they actually do!
So if I get paid on the 25th, on the 20th it says I've already got my salary to spend!
Rubbish.
I may keep this if there are updates soon, but at this point I want a refund, waste of cash!!!!!
AVOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Show lessRob Wolfenden
Monitor your personal finances!
Nice interface, easy to use and good features for us non accountants that only want a good, clear, view of our personal finances. There are some bugs in there that won't let you put a title on a category etc which I trust to be sorted with the next update. Overall, very happy with this app. Still to see how the carry over to next month work.Show lessBenDatmo
Great app--requires some functionality options
I've been using this for a few months now. Very nice look to the app, with its layout and color scheme fitting well together. Accessibility is great, too, having all the important information--including adding a transaction and total spending for the month--all on the main page.
A few imrpovements I have yet to see and have contacted the developers about:
-I find the Goals feature unusable. I do not like that it will automatically add it to my month without me actually validating that I did save that money. An option to show me what I need to do but let me 'check' off when I do contribute to that goal would be nice. To control this, I don't use Goals at all and instead fit them into the Fixed Expenses category.
-Still with Goals, it would be nice to have a feature that would allow me to make additional payments to the goal over and above just the set monthly one. when paying my student loan, I'd like to use some leftover money at the end of the month toward the goal. However, I cannot reflect this in the Goals section because it is set. Also, with student loans, interest needs to be calculated, and the Goals section does not offer any way to do so. Thus, the amount I owe and my monthly payments are different after 6 months, and it is a HUGE hassle to edit the goal and change this. So, once again, I only use Fixed Expenses for these sorts of things.Show lessclfep
