It was great until it wasn’t.
I have been using the app for over a year and I used to love it. But since June they have this weird bug that know the credit card balance is showing as negative. So now you don’t really see how much you owe to the cards but how left of the balance to spent you have and it is really weird. I sent a couple of emails , I got one response and that was that yeah it is a bug and they would fix it. Literally 3 month has been pass and they didn’t fix it so I’m not longer using the app. Thank you.
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Bank Connections
Bank connection fail to sync at least a couple times a year. Have to delete and we add. Can be annoying
Was Great ! and then…
I really enjoyed this app and still do ; used it for a year, and then all of the sudden one day it deleted all of my data for a whole year and complied all of my transactions into one month. This was very frustrating because I could no longer look back and see what happened month to month ; I had put a lot of effort into categorizing properly and all of that went out the window. A refund or some sort of reparations would make me update my review because I really did find this app useful until the glitch that deleted all of my data.
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Best budgeting app by far!
I’ve been using Buddy for the past 2-3 years. I love the manual option so I can really manage how much I’m spending. 10/10
Great low key app
I saved $180,000 ish using this app to track every purchase I made and focus myself on my savings. I used the free version and manually updated all spending. It really helped me!
Good but could be better
The app is good and mostly easy to use, however the wallet system isn't intuitive or accurate, the transactions can get posted late and be sorted to wrong categories. I wish there was a better system to correct the categories and the transactions sorted into each category. The wallet system definitely needs to go, it doesn't help me at all, only confuses me. Good app but room for improvement.
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Waste of money
The connection to my bank gets disconnected after a few days and it’s a nightmare to connect the to bank every time. I wasted my money for 1 year subscription.
Terrible
After downloading the app, there are no tutorials, nor could I find anything online.
Also, while guessing what to do, I decided to rename and create some categories for the budget. Unfortunately, I had to pay to create more categories, then after doing so, it still didn’t work.
Trying to create for example one category called “alcohol”, simply impossible as it apparently already exists!!!!! It’s not in the “removed categories” (seriously, what even is that) and it’s nowhere else.
I have spend at least 1hr stuffing around with it, and because I can’t customise it with the categories I want, I am annoyed that I spent that money, when I’m trying to budget. Will be asking apple for my money back!!!
Also, while guessing what to do, I decided to rename and create some categories for the budget. Unfortunately, I had to pay to create more categories, then after doing so, it still didn’t work.
Trying to create for example one category called “alcohol”, simply impossible as it apparently already exists!!!!! It’s not in the “removed categories” (seriously, what even is that) and it’s nowhere else.
I have spend at least 1hr stuffing around with it, and because I can’t customise it with the categories I want, I am annoyed that I spent that money, when I’m trying to budget. Will be asking apple for my money back!!!
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Doesn’t work for Canadians
Numerous times I have attempted to link my accounts and leads to an error
Great for Budgeting
Great app for budgeting and tracking your expenses. Quite ironic for an app like this to have micro transactions but oh well, base version is totally fine without connecting a bank. I’m a person who likes things visual so it helps a ton!
Love it
It is great even without premium!
Very Buggy
Used to be great, but now super buggy. Recently it duplicated all my charges so that I had to manually remove them (and then did it again a couple weeks later) and always undoes any edits I make to titles and categories. Very difficult to use at this point. I’ve complained multiple times about the bugs and nothing has been done.
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Simple Yet Beautiful
So simple yet so beautiful, the UI is so simple yet so premium and elegant. Would recommend to anybody who needs a money tracker/budget tracker. I’m a hard person to please, so take that in consideration.
Great app except for one thing: BRING BACK THE PIE CHART
I use the free version, and it’s fantastic for keeping me on top of my spending. ONLY CRITICISM is that you need to bring back that pie chart that was in the spending tab. That wheel thing that replaced it is NOT as good.
Bad resyncing
My connections were down to more than two weeks and now that I am resyncing them duplicate transactions are coming in and messy my historical months
Won’t connect to bank
App has been down since June 19th with no response from support despite multiple attempts. Can’t connect to bank. Please help!
Super easy to use
I’ve been using it for over a year now (free version) and it’s super easy to go add an expense into one of my ten dedicated categories while I’m out with friends or at the store
Interface is nice, but data sync is horrible
I used this app for a few months to track my budget. I put a lot of time in getting it set up. It’s great it can link to bank account accounts and credit cards and bring in data. However, sometimes it re-syncs and goes back to the past and brings back data that was already reviewed and reclassifies it to different categories or duplicates it. I just can’t trust it. If it would just let you mark a transaction reviewed and never change it or duplicate it, then it would be great, but it just seems to continue to make mistakes that way. So I don’t recommend it for budgeting. I moved to Quicken Simplifi and it seems to more stable so far. Gives you the chance to batch select or mark what you’ve reviewed, unlike Buddy.
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Bank Connections Broke
I’ve been using Buddy for 18 months. The first year it was great! In 2026 I have had consistent issues with bank connections and lost transaction data, which completely ruins the point of using the app. Messages to support have gone unanswered. Don’t waste your money; find a different budget app.
Update is not good
I liked this app up until the latest update. It no longer lets you review transactions before it adds them so now I have to go through and recategorize what’s been added. It also takes so much longer to sync with my credit card and bank. If I use my credit card on Tuesday I’m lucky to see the transaction by Friday which also makes it difficult to budget because I now have to keep a running list of pending transactions in my head. I think I’m going to have to look for other options/apps to use.
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