Honeydue: Couples Finance Reviews

I was so excited for my husband and I to get all our accounts in one place so we could keep better track of spending by category. We just got married, we have some rental property, and he’s self-employed, so we have several different accounts at different institutions that serve different purposes. Seemed great for the first two days, and I was having a great time sorting historical expenses and customizing categories. Then it lost touch with our primary bank. I emailed support multiple times, got ambiguous answers, with the final one being, “This is impacting a lot of other users … Want me to contact you again when/if we get an update?” What?! Your app has access to all of our personal financial information, it’s had some sort of connectivity glitch for almost two full weeks, and you’ll “keep checking” to see if there’s ever a solution?? We also hadn’t been able to sync my husband’s auto loan account from the beginning, which is with a major financial institution that should’ve been available but was “currently unable to connect.” Maybe those are little bugs that can be worked out quickly, but it’s hard for me to trust a FinTech company that can’t figure out basic app functionality over the course of 10 full business days.

Before we started using Honeydue, my fiancée and I didn’t have a good way to split our expenses. We would try to alternate who bought groceries (sometimes they cost $20 sometimes over $100). One would take care of the phone bill, another would do power and gas. It was awkward reminding your partner to pay if they forgot. With Honeydue, you can go through your bank transactions and mark the ones that need to be split. You can split them evenly or just share a portion of the cost. You can even add expenses manually Incase you paid by cash. I love Honeydue. And it’s FREE!! No ads, the creators occasionally ask for a voluntary tip which I was happy to give for a wonderfully well designed app.

The idea of Honeydue was intriguing. My spouse and I have our own bank accounts, but we always openly share how much money we have, what bills to pay, etc. this simplified it a little bit. It doesn’t seem to update balances very often so usually I would be seeing a balance that was from the day before. We decided to give that this app Visa card a try. The cards came in the mail. I decided to deposit a small amount of money into the joint account just to see the time it took. We are almost to day 6 and the money still hasn’t cleared. It cleared the funding account quickly of course. They blamed it on the holiday...which was day 4. My bank clears money the next day, weekday or weekend. My paycheck clears almost as soon as HR posts them. The time it’s taking this app to clear money that they’ve had for days is a huge turn off and I don’t foresee using this joint account anymore. I can’t imagine how long it would take if I moved my direct deposit to this account. I would be waiting a week for my paycheck. If the bank transfer is going to take this long then there should at least be an option to use a debit card to fund the account without the huge wait.

My fiancé and I started using this app to track our spending and stay on budget. Honeydue ’s functions are great - really helpful to see all the accounts laid out, all transactions, and track our spending by category. However, Honeydue can be incredibly buggy, which makes it very annoying to work with. A great feature of Honeydue is being able to create new budget categories (for example, Wedding or Pets) and move items into this categories to track spending. So, it’s incredibly frustrating that Honeydue can never seem to figure out recategorizing items! I had to recategorize a Whole Foods charge three separate times - I’d make the change, see that it was moved to the correct category, and then log in later and see that it had reverted to the original (wrong) categorization. Other problems - sometimes the Transactions tab won’t load at all and changes you make do not show up automatically (you have the force quit Honeydue and reopen). So much potential here if they just fix all the glitches!

I really like Honeydue but it definitely has some room to develop. If it does so it will be a great app. It is really nice how well it syncs between my wife and I without having to use Dropbox or some other service. It is also well designed with a clean look.

One of my dislikes is that the navigation can be a little clunky. For example, if I tap “bills” navigation when I am already under the bills, but not on the main screen, somewhere further in a sub-area, Honeydue does nothing. I would like Honeydue to take me back to the main screen without having to tap “back.” Second, when I add a new budget item there is no place to put how much I want to budget. This seems like an oversight and should be corrected. Third, on the main budget screen, and on each budget category, I would like to see not just how much I have spent, but also how much I have remaining to spend.

Honeydue is on a great track and I hope it continues to develop!

So I have contacted them a long while ago because I desperately wanted to try their app but my main focus is going to be my balance in my Venmo account (& Venmo card) and cash app and tracking that spending and what it goes for etc. I contacted them and heard back that I could add an account and keep track of it manually but that they were working on an actual solution and one that doesn’t actually cost me more time. TheyThey responded to that email caramel although the three suggestions they made about tracking besides adding every transaction manually didn't work.

So fast forward to a month ago, I emailed them again just to see about an update because I wanted (& still do) to be able to use their app or abandon ship. I’m tired of getting my hopes up or wasting my time up if it’s not gonna happen. I have emailed them two more times to get an update and not a single response about this...if it’s not going to happen then just say as such so I can start hunting again for the right app and not count on your finding a solution.

Been using Honeydue for about a year now, and it used to be pretty clunky, but it’s getting better! I LOVE the Pull Down to Refresh option now, vs having to go into the Bank Tab, into the Account, Options, then Refresh. I only really use it for a basic overview of my husband and my finances, and it gets the job done! The only other thing I wish they would improve on is if Honeydue could better “remember” categories. Like I get my paycheck every 2 weeks, and change it to Salary every time, but it still autos to Miscellaneous Earnings the next time it comes in. I also love the little logos they do now for the bigger companies like McDonalds and Netflix, so cute!

Edit: Everything I said still stands, but Honeydue hasn’t updated bank balances in almost 2 weeks now, so I have no idea what our total balance is. Not good. Also I wish there was an option to Pull Down to refresh from the Balances overview page, so all your accounts will update at once.

Been using Honeydue for maybe 3 months now. I really enjoy Honeydue, much better than I did Mint though there were things I liked better in Mint. Those things are now included in the most recent update. I had problems with the reminder dates for bills here and there. Noticed that if you were to go in and modify a date, the date picker automatically went a year ahead of the date you are actually trying to change. No biggie.

But now after the new update and the features I enjoyed about Mint came about, all of my due dates are messed up. Everything marked as paid for the last month are now showing as past due and they are also showing due on incorrect days. Things that are due today are showing due three days later. No clue what happened but now I have to go through all my accounts to figure out correct due dates again and reset the due dates for each one over again.

This far surpasses any other budgeting app in terms of partner connection. We are really in sync now and has been a huge help in that regards, but functionality is where it is pretty dull.

1) there is no way to set a yearly budget goal. Say you have a travel budget for the year, breaking it out monthly can make you severely over spend one month when you travel yet not spend it at all the month you don’t. This really needs to be implemented for long term budgeting.

2) The auto categorizing is really bad. It does not remember transactions and where they are categorized. If I buy from a location and manually place it into a category, then buy from the same location a few weeks later it doesn’t remember the category that it should have been placed in.

3) Bank sync issues. Many banks or institutions are available to be linked with PLAID but often just don’t work. Their fix is just input it manually or the it is issues on the institutions side. Which is incorrect as other budgeting services link them fine for me.

There are other small issues and glitches that you have to deal with but this is on the right track. If they pick up on user input and start adding the features commonly requested I really think this will be the best out there for couples.

I’m fairly new to Honeydue. So far I’ve had mostly good experiences with it. I love the concept of being able to monitor various accounts involving both me and my spouse. I especially love that it’s free (at least for now). I do believe this can help any couple see where they can make financial improvements together, so it’s definitely worth trying out. I gave it only 4 stars instead of 5 because it seems to be very slow to update so our balances are rarely accurate. But then, we do our banking at a place that isn’t as common/popular as others; so I’m guessing that may have something to do with it. Also, I believe I have my notification preferences set up correctly and yet I never get any of the notifications I would like at all. Other than that room for improvement, I am enjoying Honeydue and I look forward to what’s next.

This would be our preferred budget app if it kept more than 6 months of data. I keep checking in hoping it will allow us to see a medium or long term view of our budget, but so far that isn’t an option. I would gladly buy a one time addition to Honeydue that allowed for a longer duration of transactions to be kept (I don’t do subscriptions). For now I’m still using that app occasionally, but we had to move our primary focus for budgeting somewhere else. I just lost all of the data from January because I didn’t screenshot it in time (it was gone July 1st). No one should be keeping such a limited view of their budget. Moving the data to being stored on devices or allowing people to choose where their data is kept would also be nice. I’m a little uncomfortable with our data being stored on remote servers when I can very easily store it on my phone and back it up from there.

I love Honeydue! HOWEVER, I cannot have more than one custom category under the budget tab apparently. Because whenever I have two, click budget, and start to scroll Honeydue closes. This is very annoying.

Changed from two stars to one star because I have deleted ALL of my custom categories, hard reset my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled.....AND IT STILL CLOSES EVERY-TIME I TRY TO SCROLL DOWN UNDER THE BUDGET TAB. All of the other tabs work fine. I downloaded Honeydue yesterday and it was working 100% fine. This is very annoying.

Thank you very much for the response! I really do appreciate it. I love the way Honeydue is set up. It really is the perfect app for budgeting. I even recommended it to my parents and friends. I am so happy that the issue was able to be resolved! 5 STARS!!!!!

this app is excellent. It’s well thought out and lets you see where you’re spending your money, set budgets, and give you real-time looks at expenditures vs. budget for each category. You can change the category that an expenditure is in and this app will learn to put that expense into that category. You can split categories for expenditures. Let’s say that you go to Walmart and get household food, then you stop at the McDonalds’s inside for lunch, and then buy gasoline there. this app will let you split that bill up into as many categories as you want. This is even though your debit card or credit card only has the one entry.

I highly recommend this app for the budget-conscious.

This really could very well be the best Couples budgeting app out there. My fiancé and I gave this a shot as we normally use YNAB (You Need A Budget), and we were looking for a cheaper alternative. We were totally willing to tip regularly, as long as it was a little less than the $10 YNAB costs. However, the reason why we use YNAB is because it has always seemed to be the only app that could authenticate and STAY authenticated with our bank (USAA). When we set up Honeydue , the interface and the transaction import was remarkably promising, but now that a couple of days have passed, only the balance updates (not the transactions/deposits). It’s an outstanding concept, and you seriously contended with our present budgeting tool (we love how simple this is to use), but with this hiccup, we cannot commit to making the move to this app just yet!

I’ve been using this app for over a year now. The concept is great....the execution is okay.

One of the major pain points is that your bank accounts don’t update in real time, so you don’t really have an accurate view of your finances at any given point. The other is that your banks often disconnect. When this happens, support will always tell you they’ll switch you to a more stable data aggregator, but it doesn’t always work and some of these integrations seem unstable.

Lastly, the user experience could greatly be improved. I’ve gotten use to navigating around all the noise, but it seems like more efforts and resources should be dedicated to make sure the core product works correctly, rather than push out half baked ideas like the activity feed, bill splitter, or Visa card. I would happily pay for Honeydue if it was more reliable.

I love Honeydue and I can tell that it's made with care and thought put into it. However, it doesn't play nicely with some bank accounts, specifically with certain Credit Unions and JP Morgan/Chase. If we could get a version of this app that talks to the bank apps that I already have on my phone to authenticate instead of going through fincity or whatever to login, that would be great. IMO, the onus is on the big banks to make my accounts more easily accessible, but unfortunately I am not going to change my bank accounts to work with my 3rd party financial consolidation app. I'm just going to find a different app. I love you this app, but it's just not going to work when you can't login to my accounts to verify balances. #stillfriends

I was excited to use Honeydue and connected all the accounts, but there were immediately weird issues. One of my bank accounts just shows that I have like 25% more in it than I actually do. It’s listing transactions from the 18th, but my balance was never even close to what it showed on that day, and the balance has never updated since.
I was thinking I was going to be happy with Honeydue on day one, but after having it a few days, it doesn’t seem to have loaded a single transaction from either my or my girlfriend’s accounts. Literally the only thing it has done since I checked it last night is unassign a few items I had assigned on the 18th. It was a nice way to categorize purchases I had made this month up till the 18th, but I suppose it will now be frozen in time, forever commemorating my finances up until - and no further than - June 2018.
(This problem is across all accounts and my girlfriend’s is the same.)

This is a really solid app for couples. This allows my husband and I to share and manage our budget as we see fit. However, there are some key features missing that I know many others would like to see (rollover budgeting, ignoring certain transactions from its budget, as well as some bug fixes). I emailed support and was told they’d pass it along and get back to me. They didn’t. I followed up three weeks later, and again about two months after that, and haven’t heard anything at all. Doesn’t feel good to know they’re not interested in user feedback. We will continue to use because of the great reliability, but we’re looking around for an app that can meet our all our needs.

I had a problem with my cards and loan accounts connecting. One by one they were all having an issue with connecting to their respective bank. Contacted customer service for help and got a reply very quick. It was next day in the morning when I realized I had a team member on the case. I really like the projection maps and how my family credit card shows the total balance but only my charges show on my individual sheets so once it was all working I got set to budgeting. Super easy app to figure out. The set budgeting is extremely helpful and that’s exactly what I wanted but it also shows retirement accounts and now I can see my stocks and bonds too. Very very please with this app.

So I have to admit that I just got Honeydue today but I love it. Categorizing my poor purchases is pretty fun! I love this transparency between my husband and I. Our before marriage counseling said it was fine to have separate accounts but that we should be open and save together, this seems right in line. Mostly I’m writing this review before I make my final verdict because I had a great experience with customer service. I emailed them this afternoon to ask about one of the features. I assumed it was user error but hubs couldn’t figure it out either so what the hey. I got an email back within an hour with a clear and thought out response. So amazing! I’m excited about combing though all the things Honeydue can do!

Finally someone made the perfect app for couples wanting to get control of their budgets and spending. We had tried several different apps and many of them “glitched-out” while syncing with one another or just flat out didn’t perform or have the features we needed. But so far so good with Honeydue!! We definitely enjoy the customization that we get and the fact that we don’t have to type in every single purchase but rather Honeydue seamlessly imports our transactions from ALL of our accounts and allows us to customize which budget category to assign the expense to, is quite frankly a huge blessing!! 👍🏻🙂
In short...we love Honeydue !! Keep up the good work!!

I am using this app as my split expense app with my wife for some time now, and we're using it on our iPhone X. Recently, Honeydue is so bugy and some main features are not working or not properly functioning. These are the issues we face currently:

1- The "Settle Up Balance" feature is not working AT ALL. Whenever we try to settle up the balance as paid, it just add it to the log but the balance stays the same without being zeroed down. I tried even to edit it after that to add the settlement expense manually but it doesn't allowing me to edit.
2- The dates of transactions in "Transaction" tab is not visible anymore, so it became a bit hard to track from the "Split Expenses" tab the dates of the transactions or splits done in the past.
3- Not able to add new categories for my transactions which I could do seamlessly at the beginning

Honeydue is updating automatically so I don't think it's update problem.

We are currently searching for other apps to replace this app since it became so frustrating to use it anymore. But since we're using it for some time, we don't want to change. So, this is our last chance with Honeydue . If you couldn't provide us with solutions, we will change Honeydue .

Would be great if it would leave the transactions in the order that I enter them. We use it manually like a check book, and enter in upcoming auto payments etc... so we know what we have for spending after that weeks bills are covered. But when we enter a transaction, it just kinda randomly sticks it somewhere?! Sometimes I have to scroll down through to find it. I like to sit down each week and balance it out to make sure it matches our online balance - and it’s hard to find the transactions. They should be in the order I enter them, and have the option to manually sort them to keep uncleared items at the top till they clear the account?

Also a reconciliation mark would be awesome. To show that it’s shown up on your account and cleared. Right now we use the thumbs up lol

It works half the time. The other half I spend countless hours back and forth with customer service just trying to log in to Honeydue . It literally kicks me out of Honeydue every other day and doesn’t let me log back in. It’s very difficult to trust this company with my finances when I can’t even log in to Honeydue. On top of all of that, the reset password email links don’t work AND verifying my phone number doesn’t work. How in the world am I supposed to log in to my account? This incredibly small issue should not even be an issue! If I can’t even log into my app, we are going elsewhere for our needs.

Honeydue is slow to update. My husband and I think it’s a great concept, but it causes distress in both of us. Just today my husband got a notification that I “spent $600” at a club downtown this weekend. In fact I spent $17 at the club, and Honeydue grouped together my purchases from the last week and a half to let him know I spent $600. Of course he called me furious, and then once I told him to look into the transactions, everything was fine. Honeydue starts fights because of miscommunicated information. Luckily my husband and I are “great at fighting” so it’s not like Honeydue will break us up, it’s just that the timing of how it updates and sends notifications is very poor. It also doesn’t update for days. When I go to my bank account it may list 4 transactions from this last weekend. On this app, all of the transactions and balances won’t show up until they are processed. It’s misleading and slow.

A few issues. I frequently see it counting a pending transaction as well as when the transaction goes through. So essentially, it looks like we’re spending twice as much sometimes which is really misleading at a glance. Also, it’s really horrible at auto-categorizing. Ideally I would like to categorize transactions by myself so I can 1) notice what I’m spending and 2) make sure things are correctly categorized.
I also really hate how you can’t delete the default categories. Not all are relevant/broken up the way I prefer, and it’s more junk to go through and re-categorize.
I do, however, really appreciate how easy it is to sync accounts with your partner. If things worked right and they made it a little more thoughtful of the user. it would be perfect.

I was looking for budgeting apps for couples and there are so few. I used to use mint and add my wife to it but notifications and alerts were sent only to me. When I saw the story of this app on App Store I was hooked. Downloaded Honeydue and updated my bank details and made a small purchase at petco and suddenly I saw a notification category under family and pets !!! So quick and intuitive and the best part is that the transaction merchants are mentioned in the subscripts so you don’t have to open each category to check.

Please keep working on it folks this is really helping us. Happy savings