Budget Bestie Reviews: Is It Legit?

Budget Bestie
Budget Bestie
Budget Bestie Corp.

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.1% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience59.6% of reviews

~ Based on 302 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Budget Bestie

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 3,162 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
7.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,162 App Store ratings for Budget Bestie.

Is Budget Bestie Legit?

Budget Bestie appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Budget Bestie is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Stopped working

This app stop working for me all of a sudden. I tried deleting it and adding it back, and it still won’t work, and I’ve already paid for a yearly subscription. I’m not sure what they did with the update, but it will not work on my phone anymore, and I don’t know how to get the rest of my money back before the glitch the app was perfect. fine, help me track my finances. Let me know what I was spending the Most money on, but now I feel like it’s a complete waste of money to have to pay for a yearly subscription when my app won’t work for a year
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please bring back the old layout!

I absolutely LOVE this app and have been using it for a while now, it’s made budgeting so much easier for me and has helped me become way better with managing my money, but this new layout is awful. The old layout was perfect!! Please reconsider switching back to it!

New Layout

I love this app, but the new UI update is not it. It was much easier to navigate and more intuitive before. Now if you have a lot of envelopes, it’s very clunky. Please please please create an option to use the old layout!

So good for my adhd brain

This app has genuinely changed my life. I’ve never been good at budgeting, and after some big life changes I was forced to figure it out. Well I found this app on tik Tok and it looked promising,and I’m so glad I tried it. I’ve had it for about. A year and it’s helped me build a savings account, pay off debt and take control of my finances! Thank you!!
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Disappointed with the new features and layout

Hi! I wanted to share some feedback about the new update.
Is there any possibility of bringing back the old version, or at least giving users the option to choose which features and layout they want to use?

Honestly, the main reason I chose your company was because the app was so cute, fun, and visually appealing. I loved being able to see all the small folders and categories — it made budgeting feel enjoyable and actually motivated me to use the app. I’ve tried many budgeting apps before, but Budget Bestie was the only one that made me genuinely want to budget because of how cute and condensed everything was.

With the new update, I find the app looks much more bland, and unfortunately, I’m really disappointed with the change. I’m also paying an annual fee, so it’s frustrating to feel like such a big part of what made the app worth paying for has been taken away.

I really hope this feedback reaches the team. Even just giving users the choice between the old and new layouts, or allowing us to customize which features we see, would make such a big difference.

I really loved the old version and would genuinely love to see the option to use it again
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Best budget app!

Absolutely love this app! It has been sooo helpful as a single income household with so many bills to manage throughout the month! Really helps me to not spend more than I need as well and helps with paying off debt and saving money as I can see exactly what is going out all throughout the month so I know what I have left! Just looking at the app today tho and looks like the dates are out by 1 day, it’s Friday 2nd October today but the 2nd is showing as the Saturday? Not sure if it’s me or how to fix it?
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Response from developer

Hi Kirstie, thanks so much for sharing this! I’m so glad the app is helping you manage your bills, pay down debt and save. I’m sorry about the calendar dates. This bug is affecting a few users, and we’ve identified the issue. It will be fixed in our next update, which we’re hopeful will be available soon. Thanks for your patience!

Cant use app without paying.

Yeah i liked how it was going when i was setting it up but it disappointed me when i realized im apparently not even able to use the app with paying for it. So no thanks, if im paying for an app then i’d like it to be something actually benefiting me. Theres other apps that do the same thing for free :/
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NEW LOOK

this new look is awful and ugly. there should at least be an option for both the old version and new. it’s so hard to read! might be switching apps

Maybe a totals category?

This app has made it easy to stay within my budget, just wish it had a totals category of my spending so I can see how much I spent on specific envelopes monthly

Locked behind paywall

Why bother requiring someone to go through full app set up just to have all usage locked behind a paywall? Delete!

Best budgeting app ever

Love this app for biweekly budgeting. It’s easy to use and keep up with. Super bummed now that I switched to a Google phone. Please create a version for Android phones quickly so I can subscribe again!

Not Free

The app isn’t free. It walks you through setting up each envelope but a paywall blocks you from actually using the app. Leaving a 5 star review so more people will see this.

Free

It’s not actually free

Monthly Subscription

It would’ve been nice but I’m so over monthly subscriptions for everything.

?

Never mentioned that you had to pay, when the whole purpose of the app is to help save.

SUBSCRIPTION BASED

What a way to advertise without saying it costs anything. Talk about misinformation. And to use an app that looks like a toddler coded it on a computer. I want my 14 dollars back yall took from me AFTER I PUT IN AL MY BILLS. Had me excited use it after sitting there typing in all my bills for what. NOTHING . Waste of time.
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NOT FREE

Ironic that a budgeting app is so expensive

Costs money to use this btw!

Why would anyone want to pay a bunch of money when the whole point of the app is to save money?? Marketing also never mentioned it costs money.

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