# monthly - easy personal budget — income - expense = SAVED MONEY

> Fast personal finance app for budgeting, expense tracking, and saving money. (iPhone/iPad app by Marek Ekes.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/monthly-easy-personal-budget/id789876133 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Marek Ekes](https://appshunter.io/developer/789876136)
- Category: Finance
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.50/5 from 117 App Store ratings · 83 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 136 MB
- Languages: American English, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, French (France), Galician, German (Germany), Hungarian, Italian and 7 more
- Released: 2014-01-08
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/monthly-easy-personal-budget/id789876133/reviews.md

## What is monthly?

#1 best selling Finance app in over 20 top countries
"quick and easy" - AppAdvice
"does its one job incredibly well" - MacStories

FAST. Your personal finance app has to be FAST. Why? If you want your budget to work for you, you need to keep track of every espresso you buy and every single grocery. It you don't track all, you get lost. Now:

other finance apps go: tap '+add expense' > [enter amount] > [choose category] > [enter name?] > [enter different date?] > [add a note?] > Done? Every time you buy a coffee. You just stop using those apps. Bad design.

monthly redesings this action to: 1-SWIPE > [enter amount] > Done. It's like suddenly having wheels under your luggage.

SAVE MONEY BY THE METHOD. We believe there's just one sure way to SAVE MONEY. At the beginning of the month you have to put a part of your income away, on your savings account. Then go spending the rest. Then the month ends and all the money is gone, only there's still MONEY on your savings account! monthly.

monthly also keeps track of the money you spend, GPS's the expenses and render them to you in a form of simple, beautiful Stats. In the Stats you'll find your favorite spending places, good-job savings, and so on - but this you'll have to use yourself [DOWNLOAD monthly NOW!].

monthly has this MONEY-SAVING method and the superfast 1-SWIPE expense tracker embeddded. Together they work like magic, you'll see next month.

GET monthly

** IMPORTANT **
monthly is NO-DECIMALS SIMPLE. we round the amounts up to full dollars. If you guys prefer having cents too, please encourage us by reviewing monthly in the App Store ("5-stars, but give me this feature" reviews make us go THE FASTEST! :)

[UPADTE] the NEW monthly 3 works with decimals

monthly is a PERSONAL budgeting app. This means that monthly currently doesn't offer "multiplayer" sharing capabilities, so you can't see the expenses your husband or girlfriend added on her or his iPhone. We'll be working on it soon. Currently monthly automatically syncs your PERSONAL income and expenses data across all your devices, connected to one iCloud account. If you have any questions, feature requests or good ol' love - please just contact me: hi@budgetmonthly.com // twitter.com/budgetmonthly.

## Key features

- One-swipe expense tracking
- Income and expense management
- Savings method implementation
- Beautiful stats and spending analysis
- Automatic iCloud syncing across devices
- No-decimals (optional) or decimal tracking

## What do users think of monthly?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Simple and user-friendly
- 💡 Easy to understand
- ✅ Helpful for tracking expenses
- 🚀 Quick data capture
- ✨ Elegant design
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🎯 Straightforward functionality
- 💯 Highly recommended

**Cons**

- 🐛 Does not allow decimals
- 🐛 Font is too thin and light
- 🐛 Inaccessible with VoiceOver
- 🐛 Swipe commands are slow to register
- 🐛 Lacks versatility and usefulness
- 🐛 No settings or comprehensive instructions
- 🐛 No iCloud sync mentioned in older reviews
- 🐛 Data loss issues reported
- 🐛 Accidental deletion of expenses
- 🐛 No sharing capabilities
- 🐛 User interface not intuitive
- 🐛 Colors are too washed out
- 🐛 No adjustments within a category
- 🐛 App won't open
- 🐛 Updates erase budget information

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Does not allow decimals
- Font is too thin and light
- Inaccessible with VoiceOver
- Swipe commands are slow to register
- Lacks versatility and usefulness
- No settings or comprehensive instructions
- App won't open
- Updates erase budget information
- Accidental deletion of expenses
- No sharing capabilities
- User interface not intuitive
- Colors are too washed out
- No adjustments within a category

**Most requested features**

- Change balance font color
- Allow decimals for accuracy
- Enhance font readability for visual challenges
- Update the app icon
- Add a calculator for income estimation
- Add pending transactions
- Add a 'next' button for field advancement
- Implement categories
- CSV export option
- Multiple account support
- Reconciliation features
- Add decimal points
- Allow for a longer list of expenses
- Total saved over a longer period
- Repeating actions for semi-monthly payments
- Organize expenses in categories
- Ability to export reports
- Optimize for 6 or 6+
- Sharing capabilities for multiple users
- Carry over unspent money to savings automatically
- Fix accidental deletion of expenses
- Improve swipe command responsiveness
- Add dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard

## Recent user reviews (10 of 83)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/monthly-easy-personal-budget/id789876133/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Font color

*2023-07-14, version 2.3.2*

Hello, great app!! Is it possible to change the balance font color from yellow to a different color? I have vision challenges and it’s hard to see. If I can’t, can you change it in your end?

### 3/5 — Does not allow decimals

*2021-03-20, version 2.3.2*

I love the app and how simple it is. However, it does not allow decimals so the math of my income and expenses is not accurate. If they change this I would definitely stick with the app but for now I’m going to look for one that fits the need of accuracy.

### 5/5 — SIMPLE, USER FRIENDLY APP

*2021-01-11, version 2.3.2*

I am older and APPRECIATE this app so much! To the developer /creator... could you PLEASE enhance one thing? The print is light, and it is hard on people with visual challenges. Everyone I have shared the app with says the exact same things. “I can’t see what I typed!” Then... it would be PERFECT for us! Thank you!

### 5/5 — Love it

*2021-01-07, version 2.3.2*

Just what a need. No more, no less

### 5/5 — Muy minimalista

*2020-12-17, version 2.3.2*

Me encanta que sea tan práctica, se adapta muy bien a lo que buscaba

### 4/5 — Simple But Helpful

*2020-06-23, version 2.3.2*

Love the app.
Very Simple But Helpful Application..
Please change/update 
the icon(Very poor, Not Standard)

### 5/5 — i wish i should’ve known this app sooner!

*2020-06-07, version 2.3.2*

ok ok so its simple

and yes its might not be able to do cents like it cannot do $0.00 but only $0, 

unless that can be updated? idk but it doesn’t really bother me cos if its $53.44 then i would just put $54, i got no problem with that honestly!

i love how simple it is, it really helped, i can see everything so clearly, add anything to each month and if i know that’s something that will recur then i would make it recurring 

easy as that!

each month its separeted with what you have and what you will spend!

you just scroll it down and add anything, u put in what it is and how much

honestly its so easy to quickly summarize my budget each month! 

cos if theres smth unexpected that comes up i can just add that quickly 

saves time and easy to see everything and add anything

love it!

### 5/5 — Buena App

*2020-04-23, version 2.3.2*

Mejorar la interfaz en IPhone 11

### 1/5 — Not Accessible with VoiceOver

*2020-02-29, version 2.3.2*

Can you work on making this app accessible for VoiceOver users?

### 3/5 — FONT IS TOO THIN & LIGHT

*2019-12-18, version 2.3.2*

It’s actually a very good simple app, but the Font needs to be more BOLD and DARKER.  The light and faint FONT is VERY ANNOYING.  When dealing with dollar amounts and bookkeeping, I WANT PRINT THAT IS DARK AND EASY TO READ.

## Frequently asked questions about monthly

### What does this app do?

This app is a personal finance tool designed to help you budget and save money. It features a quick expense tracker and a method for setting aside income before spending, with clear visual statistics of your financial habits.

### How does the expense tracking work?

Unlike other apps that require multiple steps, this app uses a streamlined one-swipe method for logging expenses. You simply swipe, enter the amount, and you're done, making it fast and easy to track every purchase.

### Is this app free to use?

Yes, the application is free to download and use. The provided information indicates no in-app purchases or ads, suggesting a completely free experience for users.

### What devices is this app compatible with?

The app automatically syncs your personal income and expense data across all your devices connected to the same iCloud account. This means it's compatible with Apple devices that support iCloud.

### What is the main money-saving method promoted by the app?

The app promotes a method where you allocate a portion of your income to a savings account at the beginning of the month. You then spend the remaining amount, ensuring that money is still available in your savings at the month's end.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3.2 — 2019-04-08

- small improvements
- [NEW APP ALERT!] monthly 3 PROMO OFFER until the end of April

### 2.3.1 — 2017-10-26

iOS 11 compatible. Side widget temporarily removed since iOS 11 makes widgets quite unusable anyways. Working on the next gen widget. And something else, something BIG! It you like this app - you'll LOVE what's coming! Stay tuned.

### 2.3 — 2016-01-17

monthly 2.3 looks better and is FASTER then ever. It's the most advanced version, enriching the User Experience with all the latest iOS 9 features.
1. beautiful new icon
2. the game-changing 1-SWIPE expense tracking is THE FASTEST on the App Store
3. multitasking! work more efficiently with Slide Over and Shared View on iPad
4. 3D Touch Actions - record expenses right from monthly's icon on your home screen
5. find any income or expense by type, name, month, year - right from iOS Spotlight Search
6. enjoy the convenient iPhone 6 Plus/iPhone 6s Plus horizontal mode
7. 100% responsive layout to make best use of your screen size: be it iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad, or iPad Pro
8. almost invisible UX improvements (to give you an example, now monthly opens directly into the 'expenses' view to spare you one tap every time you want to record an expense)

9. 1-GLANCE Today widget shows you how much you've got left to spend this month
10. monthly now speaks Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Spanish, Basque, Galician, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Polish, Italian and French

### 2.2 — 2015-05-20

- 1-SWIPE exepnse tracker records expenses quicker than any other personal finance app
- 1-GLANCE TODAY WIDGET shows you how much you've got left to spend this month

- new localizations: monthly now speaks Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Spanish, Basque, Galician, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Polish, Italian and French
- TouchID authentication
- many other small UI/UX tweaks

### 2.1 — 2015-04-16

- 1-GLANCE WIDGET shows you how much you've got left to spend this month
- TouchID authentication
- better iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad

new in monthly 2:
- the ultra-fast 1-SWIPE exepnse tracker

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