# Pennies Mini - Share budgets with your friends

> Collaborative budgeting app for sharing expenses with friends and family. (iPhone/iPad app by The App Shop, Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pennies-mini-share-budgets-with-your-friends/id1147674973 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [The App Shop, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1746511328)
- Category: Finance, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.10/5 from 17 App Store ratings · 33 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 10.0 · 25 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2016-09-12
- Data updated: 2026-08-12
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pennies-mini-share-budgets-with-your-friends/id1147674973/reviews.md

## What is Pennies Mini?

Pennies Mini is the killer iMessage app to help you share and collaborate on spending budgets with your friends and family.

Our award-winning iPhone app Pennies is Apple Editors Choice the world over, with hundreds of 5 Star reviews, and over half a million downloads so far. It is THE budgeting app for everyday people.

Now you can enjoy the same fun and simple approach to budgeting right inside Messages - sharing budgets with your friends has never been this easy.


** Main Features **

• Create simple spending budgets to share with your friends in a matter of seconds.

• Share as many budgets as you like – have more than one budget that you want to keep on top of? No problem, Pennies has got you covered.

• Made a purchase? Sweet, just tap on the message, add it in, and send it back to your friends in your message thread.

• Use any currency in the world for individual budgets.

• Clever & fun to use. Pennies Mini does all the hard work for you by telling you how much you and your friends have left to spend. 

• Should you spend or should you save? Pennies Mini shows your spending health with bold colours, helping you slow down or speed up to keep you and your friends on track.


Pennies Mini has been designed and built independently Emile Bennett and Dave Roberts. Our aim is to simplify budgeting and make it a fun and exciting experience that will help everyday people in their everyday lives. The world of personal finance and money manager apps has been complicated and boring for too long - Pennies Mini and its parent app Pennies are here to make budgeting something you actually want to do, it’s personal finance that puts the ‘personal’ before the ‘finance’.

If you enjoy using Pennies Mini please rate the app! If you have any feature requests we’d love to hear them. If you want to send us chocolates and roses, that’s cool too.

Follow Pennies on Twitter – https://twitter.com/PenniesApp
Contact us – hello@getpennies.com

## Key features

- Share spending budgets with friends
- Create budgets in seconds
- Log purchases easily
- Use any currency
- Visual spending health indicators
- Track remaining budget amounts

## Recent user reviews (10 of 33)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pennies-mini-share-budgets-with-your-friends/id1147674973/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Unzuverlässig

*2025-03-06*

Wenn die App funktioniert ist sie super - allerdings ist das (gefühlt) ein mal alle zehn Jahre. Meistens passiert einfach nichts wenn man auf Pennies Mini klickt. Deinstallieren lässt sich das ganze leider auch nicht.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work anymore

*2023-11-05*

It doesn’t work with new update, otherwise- 4 stars

### 4/5 — Buena

*2020-11-23, version 1.0*

Está bien y es fácil de usar

### 1/5 — Wo ist die App?

*2020-08-04*

Habe das gleiche Problem! Wenn ich im App Store suche wird diese mir als installiert angezeigt
mit dem Button „öffnen“! 😳 - Wie kann ich die App loswerden! - Bitte um Hilfe!

### 5/5 — 这个东西怎么卸载啊疯了

*2020-02-27*

咋卸载，没啥用

### 1/5 — Installation fehlerhaft

*2019-07-14*

Die App wird als installiert angezeigt ist aber nicht zu finden. Wenn ich im App-Store auf „Öffnen“ klicke, werden meine Sms geöffnet. 
Besorgniserregend!

### 1/5 — 開けない

*2019-04-27*

アプリ起動せず。メッセージ画面が開きます。なぜ？

### 1/5 — No instalar

*2019-03-01, version 1.0*

La he instalado y no sale nada estafa y no me deja borrarla. La abro desde la app y me va a los mensajes. Como se puede desinstalar ??

### 1/5 — 삭제방법이여

*2018-12-21*

앱 다운받았는데 삭제하는 방법은 뭐에요?

앱도 없고 메세지 부가기능쪽에 있던데

삭제하는 방법 좀 알려주세요

(구매내역삭제를 말하는게 아닙니다 오해없길)

### 2/5 — Great until we noticed a problem

*2018-09-01*

This was a great solution until we noticed that there’s no way to actually refill the budgets. You have to “top up” the budget which strangely gets calculated back into the original total (if you had $100, spent $50, then refilled $50 back, it’ll state the total incl top-ups is $150.) This also results in the visual indicator/watermark becoming inaccurate, since it seems to be based on this strangely calculated total.

If you simply allow crediting a budget without this incl. top-ups concept, it’ll be perfect/5-stars. As is, we have to consider deleting all budgets every month which is a headache (something we’re trying to avoid with budgeting app.)

## Frequently asked questions about Pennies Mini

### What does Pennies Mini do?

Pennies Mini is an iMessage app designed to help you share and collaborate on spending budgets with your friends and family. It allows you to create simple budgets, log purchases, and track how much you and your friends have left to spend, all within your message threads.

### How do I create a budget with friends?

You can create a spending budget to share with your friends in a matter of seconds directly within the app. Once created, you can easily add purchases as they are made and send them back to your friends in the message thread.

### Is Pennies Mini free to use?

Yes, the application is free to use. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned in the provided description.

### What currencies can I use?

Pennies Mini supports the use of any currency in the world for individual budgets. This flexibility allows you to manage shared expenses regardless of your location or the currencies involved.

### How does the app help me track spending?

The app provides clever and fun ways to track spending. It shows your spending health with bold colors, helping you understand whether to spend or save, and keeps you and your friends on track by displaying how much is left to spend.

## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2016-09-12

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

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