Pocket Expense 6 Reviews

I tried other budget programs.....Microsoft, Quicken, Mint....for me, this is by far the easiest. I can create categories and subcategories, delete the pre-filled categories I do not need. I can create recurring payments on a calendar to remind me of upcoming payments. I can add accounts easily. I can also do a budget for however many months in advance I need to in order to predict my future cash flow and expenses. I have within each item enter into the bank account to record notes such as balance left. I like that you can use a password or fingerprint to get into it so no one can just open the program and view your financial status. My only real issue is that when you add accounts, it only allows for a certain number to be added and to be able to view in the column. I have yet to figure out how to be able to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to chose as it has not let me so far. But that is minor to me. I like that I can view a graph of just where my biggest spending is going and adjust accordingly. Overall, I have been using this program steadily for four years now and have decided to not change to a different program. Plus, upgrading cost very little and it was well worth it to get all the features. Definitely recommend this for anyone who want less complications for maintaining financial situation.

It takes a couple weeks to get used to how it works but once u get the hang of it, easy to use. I find it useful for tracking my kids money. Instead of giving them cash, I hold it and keep track of what they spend or what we owe each other in separate accounts. Also use separate accounts for my and my husbands monthly fuel use, and our monthly "allowances" - it's like we have expense accounts. This is a nice way to track daily discretionary spending. We don't use bill pay or link to our actual accounts. Just needed an app to help us keep up with spending habits of four people with different pots of money, sort of like the envelope system- and PocketExpense6 does this. My complaints are lack of easy backup/restore. Could not get it to work with my iPhone so when I reset my iPhone recently I lost all my data on PocketExpense6 and I'm not sure how much was in each persons budget. Not happy. Would also like to sync with my husbands device so we can share same info.

I have been using PocketExpense6 for several years now. The iPhone version has always worked very well for me. While the iPhone version being nice I wanted to use my iPad to see the reports with the bigger screen. It was always buggy. Not syncing correctly with the phone. I tried to sync and delete the transactions on the iPad that didn’t belong and sync it back with my phone. In doing this the phone synced with the iPad deleting every single transaction that I had in PocketExpense6. So now I have no transactions recorded. The iPad version still will not correctly sync with nothing. Saying that there are category spends on random dates with there being no transactions. Even though I paid for premium it still shows ads on my iPad. Also there is no way of backing up that I can find. Very disappointed with this whole experience and sync function. But Again the iPhone version was very helpful. And will continue to use it even after this mishap.

I am a developer and tried all the popular expense trackers and found Pocket Expense to be the clearest and simplest to use. It has no links to bank accounts which is what I want, a simple way to track our expenses. At first it was syncing between my wife’s phone and mine, then it stopped. Support told me to use the Restore Data function which works on her phone and not mine. I only get “server not found” errors. Many requests for support and no answer. I paid for a lifetime account up front. They really really need to work out the syncing issues between devices either the same account. I see many bad reviews about this issue and no fix. So make PocketExpense6 free or fix the sync problem please.

Wait! Ok so a new update just happened and miraculously everything is syncing between phones. Hopefully it will stick this time so will say that if syncing continues this is the best expense app tracker with or without account linking.

If you log every expense & income transaction do yourself a favor and DO NOT use PocketExpense6. First of all PocketExpense6 has way too many ads (in the free version), such as right when you open it you’re forced to watch an ad. And they’ve even added a banner ad in between the calendar and your transactions. But worse than that is the fact that PocketExpense6 deletes your data!! It doesn’t matter if you back up your phone either. There’s no way to transfer information back into PocketExpense6 . PocketExpense6 deleted ALL of 2018, so I decided I’d just manually put it back in (took 13 hours) just to find a couple of weeks later PocketExpense6 has deleted data again!!! Good luck getting the developers to respond as that takes SEVERAL emails, there’s no customer support number or chat, and once they finally respond they tell you that there’s nothing they can do. FYI Apple won’t be able to help with the data loss either since “it’s how PocketExpense6 developer makes PocketExpense6 ”. PocketExpense6 shouldn’t even be allowed in PocketExpense6 store with how glitchy it is. So do yourself a huge favor and use a different app where hours of data doesn’t just disappear and you can actually get in contact with good customer service agents.

Re-downloaded PocketExpense6 since it recently got updated. I had stopped using PocketExpense6 when version 5 came out and required a login. That’s when it deleted 2 years worth of my financial tracking data, and I gave up on customer support. I saw the new update and decided to give it another a try. The UI is very clean, but not very intuitive. Adding an account is harder than it should be. The “default account” can’t be deleted. You cannot create subcategories like before. I feel as though this version traded user friendliness of the previous version for a neat looking UI. Not too impressed.

On another note, I purchased the “Pro” version on the pre updated version from an in app purchase long ago, and there is no way to restore it on this version. The developers never responded to my email and I refused to pay for it again in PocketExpense6 Store. On top of that, all of the hundreds of reviews for all the previous versions were deleted, leaving only recent reviews. If this doesn’t seem shady, I don’t know what is.

Has great features, but has gone downhill but customer support is an absolute joke.

I love PocketExpense6! However, I would like to suggest to PocketExpense6 developers if they could add the ability to change budget amounts without affecting previous and future monthly budgets. For example...So far I’ve spent $80 for clothing in June. I had set a budget for clothing at $100 in June. Therefore, I’m still within my June budget. I wanted to work ahead and set a budget for July as well. I went to July and set a budget for clothing at $50. If I go back to my current June budget, it changes the budget from $100 to $50 and looks as if I went over my June budget, when I did not go over budget in June. Basically, you can’t work ahead and start the next monthly budget until the current month is completely finished. Otherwise, I would rate PocketExpense6 with 5 stars.

Great app. Started using after my iReconcile app was no longer being updated and became incompatible with my phone. I would like for it to show the reconciled balance to make reconciling quicker when on the go. Also noticed in the last couple month that there have been glitches. I had to delete PocketExpense6 and redone load a couple times because it was duplicating transactions causing serious issues when trying to reconcile and establish my exact balance. Now the new glitch is that I can’t get it to open some days without rebooting my phone which doesn’t always fix it. I select PocketExpense6 and it’ll act like it is going to open but then disappear. It’ll show in the background but again when selected it flashes and disappears. I can’t seem to find a support option to report the problem so my hope is that this review is seen and problem it corrected. I did pay for the year subscription so I would like to continue to use PocketExpense6.

Something off with categories. I deleted their defaults to put in my own and the next day they came back. Then when I when I went to delete their default categories again, any category named the same that I created got removed together. Also if I try to add sub-categories, it gives me an error saying “that category already exists”. I’ve used previous app versions of PocketExpense6 and this is the first one that has this category issue, but at least they resolved the syncing issue found in all previous versions. It’s almost perfect, but please fix categories! I have entries missing now because I was trying to delete the defaults and I have no confidence if those default categories will just pop back up on their own... also I paid for premium lifetime so again surprised to see this kind of bugginess on such a major feature.

PocketExpense6 isn’t reliable. I just got PocketExpense6 a couple weeks ago, and paid for a month of premium to try all the feature.

From the beginning, the sync showed signs of bugs by not syncing deleted transactions across devices, but would sync entry transactions very quickly. However, in the last few days, syncing has stopped working altogether. My phone shows it was last synced 2 days ago, and my wife’s hasn’t synced since yesterday.

Deleting a transaction in general doesn’t work. Syncing aside, a deleted transaction keeps reappearing. I had to work around it by just using the entry for a new transaction and update the payee, date and amount.

I found another bug with the budget categories. For some reason, a couple categories disappeared when trying to split a transaction between categories. If not splitting, I can select the categories, but as soon as I go to split, I don’t see a couple of them as options. What’s more weird is it doesn’t happen on my wife’s phone, and it originally worked fine on mine.

The UI is super clean and well designed, and conceptually, a nice app. BUT, if you can’t rely on simple things like being able to delete a transaction and sync between devices, it’s useless.

I hope the developer, who I’ve reached out to, but haven’t heard from, gets this worked out, but unfortunately I have to move on and find something better.

So much potential, so much failure.

I’ve been using PocketExpense6 for 5+ years and it’s had an incredible impact on my financial health. The act of manually entering every dollar has made me extremely mindful of my spending.

Certainly there are a few things that could be improved. I no longer have the email that my account is registered with - it would be nice if I could add a new email. Although it sounds like there’s no password recovery anyway. My biggest fear is losing my data, so much that I hesitate to upgrade to the paid version.

The ads are annoying but I live with them because PocketExpense6 has changed my life! I’m a big personal finance nerd and this is my go-to recommendation for payment tracking.

I give this a 3 due to the bugs. It has every feature I need. I can’t find any other app where I can easily track tips in cash and regular income from our jobs. Every other app is unable to easily allow you to create a cash account and transfer between accounts.

My main issue is when I make a change and then close PocketExpense6 , when I come back the change returned. For example I’d delete a transaction or remove an unnecessary category. When I return to PocketExpense6 , whatever I deleted is back so my balances are off. Honestly defeats the purpose of PocketExpense6 . I also have trouble syncing between the iPad and iPhone apps. I can’t explain how bad that is. It never syncs basically. Or when it does sync correctly it takes a day maybe. My 3 rating is probably too generous. 5 stars if these bugs weren’t present.

Simple, colorful layout. Easy to use. Free. Needs some improvements to shine.

You have to manually input data, which makes you be more aware about stuff & safer since I don’t have to link it to any of my accounts. But it also allows you to add a photo of your receipt, and diverse categories for expenses.

One problem I’ve had with it is I didn’t receive a password reset email no matter how many times I tried, so it took me a while to find my password and access my account once.

Some other improvements should include:
- allow a way to retrieve previously removed accounts/information/history
- I can’t see my own history or what information they have on me. Be more transparent of what and how our information is stored.
- add a Mac or online feature to use on a computer
- show a sample exported CSV budget report if you want us to purchase the premium version. I’m debating if I should buy the premium since I don’t know what the budget report export looks like, hence it it’s worth it.
- my bills calendar reminders don’t work. Make sure reminders work, paying bills on time is important!

PocketExpense6 does so much and it gives me the flexibility to work my budget the way that I want to with the ability to connect via multiple devices, the ability to set up tons of individual accounts, the ability to track expenses, income, and even returns, and export the data to Excel (after paying for the upgrade which is worth it for that feature). I tried many budget apps that never really gave me the flexibility I wanted for my zero sum budgeting practices before I found pocket expense, which gave me enough I could work with. The only downside is that there is no desktop version of PocketExpense6 that I can access via my laptop, which would be very helpful if there was one.

Still no contact from developer on issue. I just went ahead and deleted the buggy app.

Update 2-6-19* Had a couple of issues with after a expense entry it didn’t subtract the correct amount. I did email developer but have never heard anything back.

PocketExpense6 does what it said it does. Once you get familiar with it it okay. The only down side is there is not bill reminder section that you can check off when you pay a bill. It has a bill section but not a bill you can check off when you pay you bill. The one this one has adds your bill to your day it's due and subtracts it from your app account even if you paid it early. Now it has taken it out two times and your balance is now off from your online account. I did send them a email asking if they were going to add a bill check off section and they quickly replied "no" and did state the have no intensions on doing it.

I do like the new design for the most part.

I would like a more robust camera feature. Specifically I would like to be able to crop photos like you can do in BusinessXpenseTracker.

I usually take receipt photos with my iPhone camera and crop them and then bring them into PocketExpense6, which is a big hassle and waste of time.

The Split still doesn’t work well. Before, if you saved the component expense records and then opened the entry again you lost your Split categories and had to enter them again. Now I can’t even figure out how to use Split.

I still dislike having to go hunting among all those category icons for the one I want to associate with a particular expense. The old system was MUCH faster. Luckily the commonly used categories pop up for each frequent vendor.

I use PocketExpense6 many times a day and I prefer it over in the others I have tried. (At least since wonderful Budget Master was lost to the world when the last Palm Pilot died.)

PocketExpense6 is fabulous. The only thing I would love to see a change to is when paying a bill. I use PocketExpense6 to track all of my credit card debt and bills. I wish you wouldn’t make it a requirement to choose a “from” account when paying a bill. I am more or less using PocketExpense6 as a tracker more than a literal Checkbook. I’ve got all of my Credit cards listed with the amount owed under accounts to give me a grand total for how much debt I currently have, and all of my bills listed. When I am required to put a from account, I have to put a fake account just to pay the bill. Which throws off my debt totals. It’s a weird request, but it would make it a cleaner experience for people using PocketExpense6 the way I do. Otherwise. It is absolutely stunning, and a breeze to you. I love it!

Helps me keep an organized system to manage my own bills. There’s no other app like it. I thank all the developers on creating this project/app. Developers, if you guys would create some way to keep track of saving goals, this would be GOLD! Ex; I’d like to save $3,000 by March 25th 2020.. PocketExpense6 would automatically calculate how much to save per day, week or month. Which ever you’d prefer. This would allow you to keep your goal of saving for that vacation trip you’ve worked hard for or maybe those rims on your car you’ve been dreaming of. Just a thought guys, this would be the next level.

I really want to love PocketExpense6 but it keeps changing and having problems that it has become a nuisance to use. It is constantly having issues syncing between mine and my husband’s phones, so much so that he finally deleted PocketExpense6 because it was so unreliable. In my opinion, the fact that you can’t choose which screen you want to be your auto screen is frustrating to have to press multiple buttons to get to the screen you need quickly. The most recent “bug fixes” have actually made things worse. Every time I add, edit, or look at a transaction, it scrolls back to the top, losing the place of what I was looking for so I have to spend a ton of time scrolling and searching. I’m disappointed that I paid for the premium version of PocketExpense6 and it has been so unreliable.

Out of all of the apps I’ve tried this one has taken the cake. It has a simple layout with the basic colors to customize your different accounts as you can have multiple. Alongside transaction categories and the reconciliation feature, you just can’t be disorganized! Plus, you can take pictures of your receipts and attach it to individual transactions whether you're in PocketExpense6 entering a transaction or taking the picture and saving to enter later. (I’m seriously amazed by this). You can also create your budget, overview your finances on a chart, and enter recurring expenses ALL IN THE SAME APP!

This is a good app. that has the potential to be great. However, the developers don’t take feedback seriously. This is obvious by their automated response to emails. I’ve made many suggestions and never heard back. I’ve reported many critical bugs and never heard back. None of the suggestions were implemented, which is ok. None of the bugs have been fixed, which isn’t ok. It’s been more than a year. And many updates have been pushed out.

Basically the reporting features here are basic. You can’t even see total spending to a single payee. The export feature, which would enable me to do this in excel is flawed. The data formatting isn’t consistent so exporting the data and using excel or another program to analyze it isn’t possible.

If you want basic tracking but don’t want to analyze your data this is a good app. If you want to be able to see how much you’ve spent at your favorite pub over the past year, you should look somewhere else.