BetterBudgets vs Roo Money

Budget for Tomorrow, Today. BetterBudgets is a personal finance app built around one idea: your budget should work toward your future, not just track your past. Most budgeting apps connect to your bank and show you what you've already spent. BetterBudgets is different. You enter your income, bills, and debts, and our algorithm builds up to 5 personalized budget plans, projecting your financial future up to 10 years out, in under 10 seconds. No bank account access. No syncing. No privacy risks. HOW IT WORKS Our hand-built algorithm uses your real numbers to generate multiple payoff scenarios side by side. See exactly how much sooner you could be debt-free if you redirect just a little more each month. Pick the plan that fits your life and follow it paycheck by paycheck. This is Future-Based Budgeting: a method designed to help you stop reacting to your finances and start planning toward a goal. WHAT YOU GET • Up to 5 personalized budget plans, generated in seconds • Paycheck-by-paycheck breakdowns: tick off bills as they land • Coming Up: the next bills across the checks ahead, so nothing lands by surprise • Debt payoff timelines up to 10 years out • An Analyze dashboard: income, expenses, net worth and savings over time • Every financial calculator you need: early mortgage, auto loan, student loan, debt payoff, consolidation, 401K, emergency fund, and more • Canvas: freehand your financial ideas, with a calculator built in • A Budget Archive that keeps every plan you've ever built • A Library of guides, articles, and video series KNOW BEFORE YOU COMMIT Thinking about a big purchase? Add it to your budget and see exactly what it does to your plan before you sign anything. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS BetterBudgets never asks for your bank login, SSN, or credit card. We collect only what you enter manually. Your financial data is not sold, shared, or used for advertising. FREE TO START Download free and build your first budget today. The Free plan includes the Budget Builder, paycheck-by-paycheck tracking, core dashboard tiles and charts, every calculator, and the Library. Upgrade to Thrive for every plan the Builder generates, the reasoning behind your recommended plan, the full Analyze dashboard, editing amounts as you go, your whole Archive with restore, and Canvas. BetterBudgets. Built for where you want to go. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.betterbudgets.io/privacy-policy

TRADITIONAL BUDGETS WEREN'T DESIGNED FOR YOU They were designed for a business. Same categories every month. Same rigid cycles. No room for the dog eating a sock or you getting invited to the movies. Traditional budgeting assumes you just need more discipline. More categories. Better reports. More automation. It's wrong on all five counts. ———— THE 5 LIES TRADITIONAL BUDGETING TOLD YOU — Lie 1: You're the problem. — Roo Truth 1: You don't lack discipline. You had a system built to fight your psychology. Willpower is not a financial strategy. A system that requires you to fight how your brain works is a system designed to fail. — Lie 2: More categories mean more control. — Roo Truth 2: More categories mean more decisions. More maintenance. More mental energy managing the system instead of living your life. That's decision fatigue, and it's why every budgeting app you've downloaded eventually feels like a second job. — Lie 3: Reports tell you everything. — Roo Truth 3: By the time the report exists, every decision that created it has already been made. Regret is not a strategy. You don't need a summary of what happened. You need a signal you can act on today. — Lie 4: Humans live monthly. — Roo Truth 4: You don't live monthly. You never have. You wake up, spend, decide, repeat — every day. A monthly plan was never designed to guide a daily life in a digital world. — Lie 5: Automate your money. Let your budget do it for you. — Roo Truth 5: What you don't pay attention to disappears. Invisible is not the same as solved. Pure automation removes the awareness that makes good financial decisions possible. You need to stay in touch with your money. ———— ROO IS BUILT DIFFERENTLY Four pouches replace the endless list of categories. Daily Cash paces your spending so you have one number, one signal, to tell you where you stand. The River automates what should be automatic. And swiping a transaction takes one second: enough to stay connected without burning out. Whether you're managing daily expenses, planning for bills, tracking cashflow, building savings, or paying off debt — Roo gives you a system that actually fits your life. No monthly guilt sessions. No category shuffling. No spreadsheets. Just a system your brain actually wants to use. Download Roo and build a budget built for how humans actually work.