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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Stopped functioning after 2 years
I used and loved this app for 1-2 years, I paid for a life time premium subscription. At times bank accounts got disconnected but that was not an issue as it was easily fixable. As of 2-3 months ago the app completely stopped working. None of my transactions carried over anymore, and the account totals did not update at all. I tried everything to fix it, re-synced, disconnected and reconnected all accounts multiple times, waited months and retried all these things over and over again, emailed customer support NUMEROUS times. Filled out service requests in the app. I NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE AT ALL. Very unhappy as I loved this app when it was working properly so this is extremely frustrating. The life time premium fee was NOT cheap, yet the premium app features (synced bank accounts that automatically update transactions) is now completely nonfunctional after 2 years, the app only functions like the free version.
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Terrible interface
Will update when import functions get fixed.
The app was great and easy to use until recent updates completely rendered the bank transaction import function useless.
Not only does it import duplicate transactions that it previously imported but also no longer allows the user to review and edit imports before they get finalized. The review feature was super nice since it made it quick and easy to update multiple transactions
The app was great and easy to use until recent updates completely rendered the bank transaction import function useless.
Not only does it import duplicate transactions that it previously imported but also no longer allows the user to review and edit imports before they get finalized. The review feature was super nice since it made it quick and easy to update multiple transactions
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Works fine but in app purchase is not great
The App works fine for me. But when I switched to a new phone. It wiped out my life time premium purchase. And their support was not helpful when I contacted.
Help! No one from support is responding
App has been great for two years. Periodically has bugs/glitches but I’ve always received a quick and helpful response from support. My app has been frozen since June 19th. I have emailed support 5 times, tried from different emails, and even found another support email in reviews that I tried and still no response. I just want to be able to keep using without having to delete and reload the app and thus lose all my categorization from this year. Please help!
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Nice if It Worked
Easy to use app to track spending in a few diff ways, but I can’t sync my accounts so there’s no tracking 😅
Good
Good
