Expense & Budget App Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.6% of reviews
Neutral12.4% of reviews
Negative experience35.0% of reviews

~ Based on 2,200 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Expense & Budget App

Is Expense & Budget App Safe?

Expense & Budget App: Spendee appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Expense & Budget App is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 6,274 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 6,260 App Store ratings for Expense & Budget App.

Is Expense & Budget App Legit?

Expense & Budget App: Spendee appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Expense & Budget App is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Option to View Expenses as a Percentage of Income

I set my budget goals based on my income, but the pie chart currently shows expenses as a percentage of total expenses. It would be helpful to have an option to switch the chart to show each expense category as a percentage of my total income, making it easier to track my spending against my budget goals. It should feel the circle with surplus or if it’s over show it as borrowed from user’s own wallet.
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Response from developer

Hello, thank you for the review. Regarding the changed format of the date – this would be corrected in the Spendee 5.0.26 – the version should be released this week. We made some changes also for the performance! Let us know what you think!

Terrible new UI

I’ve been using Spendee for over 5 years but planning to stop the paid subscription since the UI is so annoying. It’s very difficult to find anything and you can’t review the expenses properly. If I try to check certain category for the last month or any other period I can only see first few transactions and the app won’t allow me to scroll to the bottom to see everything. It’s really annoying and makes overview useless. I used to recommend this app to friend but honestly I don’t anymore, it’s just very frustrating and annoying
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Shortcuts Integration Add

Needs to add shortcuts integration to automate this with wallet.

Bug in the latest update

The currency issue is now stabilise and the freeze between entries fixed.
However there are automated currency conversions - ie. I put a recurring entry of £10 which converted to £104.6HKD and on the schedule page it becomes £9.2 for the same amount.

Ótimo app, porém…

Não dá pra classificar o Spendee com menos de 5 estrelas… mas após a atualização que modificou bastante a interface, ficou lento DEMAIS para fazer qualquer procura pela barra de search, coisa que nunca foi problema antes. Outra coisa é que eu preferia quando a timeline ficava travada em cada mês. Agora ao ir rolando para baixo, a lista inteira está disponível. Uma pena…
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Response from developer

Obrigado pelas 5 estrelas! Sentimos que a busca ficou lenta após a atualização e entendemos sua preferência pela visualização mensal da linha do tempo. Envie mais detalhes para hello@spendee.com para que nossa equipe possa ajudar. 💚 Com os melhores cumprimentos, Equipe de suporte do aplicativo Spendee

Hate the update

Why change something when it worked just fine. I’ve been using this for years and the new update frustrates me. Why would you round up or down a wallet amount. Shouldn’t I be able to choose if I wanted to do that? Why can I not look at my bills budget per month. $13.99 a month for this is extremely frustrating. Your response asks me to subscribe. I pay for this app every month, and have for years!
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Très bon suivi budgétaire

Mise à jour nécessaire et très utile ! L’application permet d’avoir un suivi précis des dépenses et des entrées.

Response from developer

Merci beaucoup pour votre avis ! Ravi que le suivi précis de vos dépenses et de vos entrées vous soit utile 😊 Cordialement, Équipe d'assistance de l'application Spendee

Update after a month

Yay!!! Line breaks are back!
The unexpected update was such a lovely surprise. Thank you so much!

The lag I mentioned before seems to have improved, too.
Previously, switching months by swiping may have been a little too fast for the data to keep up.
Now that has been replaced with a month selector at the top, everything loads so much more smoothly! 👌🏼
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Response from developer

Thank you for the detailed feedback and kind words about the update! We’re sorry about the lag and missing line breaks in transaction descriptions. We’ll share this with our team for review. Please email hello@spendee.com with more details about the lag so we can investigate further. Best regards, Spendee support team

Slow after update

Still getting used to the new look after a long-needed update but really hoped the today/yesterday button would come back. It is much more convenient to mark expenses the day after with the ‘yesterday’ button than having to choose all the dates manually now. 2) Another thing is the week starting on Sunday now and it is impossible to change it back unless I custom the date range for each week manually with only one week showing a time, another huge inconvenience. 3) Also, inputting numbers and changing categories has been extremely slow since the update, especially for decimals. It’s like typing with an old laptop: have to blind-type all the numbers, wait and hope I did it correctly until the numbers finally appear.
Would prefer the old UI more for clarity and usability honestly. Might consider changing to other expense tracker if this continues :(
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bug fixed (finally!)

Now the app is usable again (with new UI matching new iOS glassmorphism) so I'm updating my stars. (whew! Now I don't have to change the app that I've been using over a decade!)

Transfers

Transfers not marked automatically and cannot do it manually. I’ve always had a good experience with Spendee so I’m willing to put up with the bugs in this new version for a while, but I’m not impressed that it was put out with this many issues

Terrible update

I regret updating this so much. First the big UI change made the app basically unusable for me with its constant freezing and glitching, and now the latest "fix" from a couple days ago crashes the app before it can even open properly. I've already deleted and reinstalled a couple times to see if that would help, but nothing has changed.

I really liked Spendee before, enough to pay for a subscription, but if things stay this way, it wouldn't make sense for me to keep paying for something I can no longer even access. Please give us a way to change back to the old UI.
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Great way to keep track of your money

I’ve tried all the money organizer apps and this one is my favorite so far. It’s easy to quickly input how much you’re spending, make your own categories, and see how much you’re spending in them monthly (apparently Amazon and ue basically get my whole paycheck smh). Anyways, I love it. The updated look is great too. Don’t change anything else Spendee!
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Mise à jour défaillante

Malheureusement, depuis la dernière mise à jour, il n’y a plus le reste à vivre, dynamique quotidien

Response from developer

Merci pour votre retour détaillé. Nous comprenons que le calcul quotidien dynamique vous soit utile. Nous ne pouvons pas confirmer ici s’il s’agit d’une modification ou d’un problème. Envoyez plus de détails à hello@spendee.com afin que notre équipe vérifie votre situation et vous aide. Cordialement, Équipe d'assistance de l'application Spendee

weird bug after update

loved the app for tracking my server/bartender lay, but after an update, the app keeps freezing anytime i try to add a new expense or payment. no matter how many times i try to close the app and re-enter the info, it still freezes at the main screen.

Old version

Me too.. I want the old version back too but hopefully you’ll improve this one. I liked the old one cuz it was so simple and I liked the colours, the simplicity

Poor customer service

Yeah they sound nice and all and the problems are never resolved.

Have tried to connect to welathsimple and I do not get a code and every time customer service doesn’t provide a clear answer as to why.

Waste of $100

Broken, but has potential

Tried this app several months ago, but had serious issues with synchronization with my bank account. Decided to try again, and now it’s even worse. Constant crashes. Syncing to my bank account is now separate from my wallets, which makes that feature completely useless. Also, still no subcategories. Labels are a poor substitute. Only redeeming feature is that it offers a lifetime license, which few other money apps offer. Not sure if this app is worth the price, though.
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Regret updating

Wish there was a way to keep or revert back to the old ui layout

Ui became more “modernized” with the update but it actually made pages bloated and less functional. All ui elements components increased in size and now there is less information readily available on the page without having to continuously scroll. Why would I want to see less information on an app meant to track a long list of transactions?!

There’s some weird ui choices that were made. Dates are hard to see between huge transaction bubbles. Editing transactions does not have a save button displayed, only the x button to close it out, but that will save the edit. Adding a new transaction forcibly scrolls me away from where i left off. That is extremely frustrating since it’s already harder to scroll through the cluttered list to get to where I want. Afterwards, there is a brief popup to view the transaction added but the popup lasts for half a second before disappearing and clicking it only opens up that transaction, it doesn’t bring you to the placement on the list. Clicking on the tabs for a specific time period doesn’t stop the page from displaying other time periods upon scrolling. When I click the button for this months transactions on the home page, i DO NOT want to end up in last months transactions by accident especially with dates being harder to read now.

On top of that, buttons and inputs are less responsive and actually lag pretty bad. I have to wait between every tap when entering the cost of items because the clicks don’t register fast enough. I’ve using this app for a while now but it’s so frustrating to use currently that I probably have to find an alternative.
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unusable after upgrade

what happened??? app keeps crashing after the new big upgrade.