Budget Bestie User Reviews

Budget Bestie
Budget Bestie
Budget Bestie Corp.

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.0% of reviews
Neutral9.2% of reviews
Negative experience59.9% of reviews

~ Based on 284 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Budget Bestie Safe?

Budget Bestie appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Budget Bestie is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 3,087 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,087 App Store ratings for Budget Bestie.

Is Budget Bestie Legit?

Budget Bestie appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Budget Bestie is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Lack of transparency

No where does it say this is a subscription based app. I’m very disappointed. It suck’s because for someone who’s trying super hard to be diligent and work hard towards being better with their money - to find out you only get a 3 day trial and then have to pay $9 a month or $70 for the year??? Is absolutely insane. The deception is unreal. I understand companies need to make money but you can’t expect people to be happy when you hide something like that after making the customer go through the entire process of putting in their personal information, to then make them want to purchase a subscription based app. Why does EVERYTHING have to be subscription based. Do we have ANY faith left in humanity?
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Misleading

It’s actually so misleading

Budget bestie is my fav

I love budget bestie been using it on and off for over a year. Wish there was a way to input debt you have to pay back and it not class you paying it back as money you have. Only thing what’s bad is that there’s a subscription but it’s so worth it only budget app what’s worked for me as I have bad ADHD so this app really helps me see actually how much money I have that I can spend and not spend my rent money on accident when I look at my normal bank account and think I have a lot of money I can spend. Love the app 🩷
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Doesn’t work

Every week it doesn’t work. Like I’m trying to press to save my budget for the week and it’s “unable to save”. Does this all the time. What’s the point of PAYING 9 dollars a month

Do not set up without checking things first

I went through the whole set up process because I really wanted to get a handle on my budget, just for it to tell me once everything was finally set up that it was $90 to actually use!! It took like 30 minutes to set up. It was a total waste of time!!

game changer for me!

I've never left a review of an app - but I love this SO MUCH. I've tried probably EVERY budget app you can think of. What I love about this is its manual and holds me accountable. I love that it's aesthetically pleasing. It's really helped me change my relationship with my finances.

Love!

Seriously love this app! I struggled so much with making sure I had enough to pay my bills but now that every dollar has a job I’ve saved so much and find myself stressing less over money. I wish there was a way to track my debts and how much I’ve paid off as well that would just be the cherry on top!
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Not free

Entered all my info then hit a paywall. Could not continue without payment. Expensive. Waste of time.

Misleading

It doesn’t say anything about a subscription when you first sign up and then it has you start and set up all your budgeting and then when you’re finally done and tap next or whatever it tells you that you have to pay for it and you can’t go back and see your progress that you made you either have to pay for the subscription or be logged out immediately deleted off my phone
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Envelopes

Impossible to save envelopes. Total waste of time. Doest work at all.

Why is it so much?

I first got this last year at 4.99 per month and then cancelled and a couple months ago I reinstalled it for $4.99 a month to try again. I cancelled it again. I can’t justify the price. Now it says $9.99 a month. Like it is just a spread sheet/calculator. I love the app, but $9.99 a month is crazy. A one time $9.99 I would pay to input my numbers, but every month paying that is just crazy.
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Misleading - You have to pay to use it!!!

I don’t mind a pay to use app, but not sharing that until after I finish the whole tutorial AND make an account feels shady!!

In <3 since Day 1!

Few suggestions, for each envelope, can we please have a dedicated “Memo” section in the details section and (weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly) added for additional options for “Payment Schedules”? Thanks for the consideration. I plan on switching from YNAB (after six years) to this mainly because FINALLY A BUDGETING APP ALLOWS ME TO BUDGETS PAYCHECKS BIWEEKLY INSTEAD OF JUST MONTHLY.
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I love it

This app is super simple to get the hang of and has been the best budgeting app I’ve tried. I went with the monthly payment for a couple months to try it out and decided to go ahead with the yearly because I loved it.

I was using Notion to track my finances previously but this is so quick and simple, I’ll never go back. Thank you for creating this masterpiece bestie🙂‍↕️💓 I’d loveee to see some features such as a monthly overview/summary of spending in the future!!!
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bug fix and updates needed

the app is helpful for budgeting, but despite having a suggestion page within the app there have been little to no updates in months. i would personally appreciate a search bar for the emojis, being about to see monthly recaps / averages for spending in each envelope, and for them to fix the bug where the “time to stuff” banner stays after you’ve already stuffed. these are all feature requests that i’ve seen being made for a while now (and that i believe the developers have seen as well), but nothing as changed. the monthly recap is especially important for users to know how much they’re spending on each category, which is part of the intentional spending this app is supposed to encourage. if i’m paying $80 a year for this app i expect action to feedback:/ i won’t be renewing my subscription otherwise
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It’s paid, don’t bother.

I spent 30 mins setting it up just to say I need to pay and the only option other than paying is to sign out. So I wasted all that time.

All these greedy companies are awful, an app for simply tracking spending and budgeting should not have a subscription, should not even have a login.

The app has lost my budget twice in one year

The app lost all my budget data twice, once when I bought a new phone and “restore purchase” didn’t work and again when my plan was up for renewal. Huge waste of time.

Regarding the reply, of course I was using the same Apple ID, all my other apps’ information moved over easily.

Love the app

My only wish is that it added all the sections together to show a full total

could’ve been cute

not only was it a headache to read with the fonts, but then it completely turned into a zoomed in screen & nothing could be done.. so no thanks

Not Free

Setup takes a long time only to find out after doing all the work that it isn’t free. The app should have made it clear before I spent an hour on setup.