Money Lover: Expense Manager Reviews

by Jmcl95

I bought the yearly link wallet service. When I tried to connect to my bank, it said “Ops, it is taking too long time, please try again later.” I tried multiple times but the same error persists. When I requested for a refund from them, they said it is a third party service so they can’t provide a refund. After that, I asked for help with the issue but they did not reply. What? Is that how you deal with your customer? By ignoring their request for help? SO BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO PAY FOR THEIR SERVICE. IF IT DOES NOT WORK, YOU CANT GET YOUR MONEY BACK. TAKE YOUR OWN RISK.

by Egornat

The reason I am writing this negative review is that if you have the words “budget planner” in the name of your app and ask a few bucks for it, please, be so kind and make the “budget” section usable, thank you! Right now, it has no sense because the developer thinks you only use ONE source to pay for the things you've decided to track by using “budgets”. So if pay for your food not only exclusively in cash or not exclusively by a specific credit card - MoneyLover is 100% useless for you if you want to keep to a budget. Guys, read the comments below your articles on your web site, people are asking you to fix it FOR MONTHS!!! One last thing: Make it possible to turn off the notifications about getting new “credits” in your app, this is useless info for me. Thank you.

by Kavabuggy2

I downloaded MoneyLover because of the aesthetics. I also was looking for something to replace the old school “checkbook balance ledger,” so I could enter in expenses/transactions as I make them and always know how much money I have. Basically, I don’t want to have to log into my bank’s app.

I entered in a starting balance and also my monthly recurring transactions, but I’ve noticed that they aren’t automatically added on the dates I have specified. I have checked the details I entered - repeat monthly, starting on xxxx date, etc., but still never see the recurring transactions, so I have to enter them in manually and still check my bank’s app for my balance. Also, even though I have entered in a starting date for a recurring transaction, when I save it go to my list of recurring transactions, the list has them starting a month after I indicated, although when I tap the individual setup transaction from the list, it has the correct start date. It’s very confusing.

I’ve contacted the developers through MoneyLover as well as with the email, but have received no response. I will update this review once things are fixed and I can use MoneyLover as I intended.

by ShivaPersad

this app is an awesome app. I use it to keep track of my finances and I’ve been using it for over 5 years now.

My only complaint about MoneyLover is that about a month ago I noticed when I select a date for a transaction it would be saved as the day before e.g. I would select 21-Jul-2021 as the transaction date but the screen show 20-Jul-2021 and saves it. Not sure if the developers can investigate and fix this bug as it can be annoying to keep track of expenses accurately.

by Expertiam

Pretty good app in general, giving the closest experience yet to Mint. The biggest drawback however is that it makes updates of your bank account details on its own schedule. This means your transaction data is never up to date when you check it.

Mint of course runs an update each time you login, meaning you’re looking at the latest data each time.

But kudos for this existing in the first place. Are used with banks in Thailand, and works well aside from this point.

by Acupunch

I’m a 14y/o who has been using this app for a month and MoneyLover has a lot of great features, most of the options necessary for tracking spending is there for free, there is no need to pay an extra fee to use the options needed, such as being able to add budgets, adding transactions easily, as well as adding your own categories for specific items you spend on. However, I feel like if an adult or a business man were to use this and they wanted to link their bank accounts to MoneyLover it would be a bit troublesome as they need to pay extra to link their bank accounts and track some other spending aspects of their life, considering this is supposed to be a “free app.” I suppose it isn’t too much of a big deal for the spending aspect to go premium in MoneyLover , but I feel like there should be a lot more different aspects in the premium package than just adding onto other aspects of the options already available for free. As well as to elaborate what the “new features” of the premium package are, as I can see how people don’t want to be ripped off for options they may never use. As for suggestions on what they can do to improve MoneyLover is mainly just make a bit more features for free. I think its unfair for business men or adults who use MoneyLover have to pay a premium to use features that would make tracking their money easier, where as for kids or teens, its easier to use MoneyLover due to the fact that we can use all the free features of MoneyLover and don't need any add-ons.

by Roy Calderon

I have been using this app for almost ten years. Overall it’s a simple but sufficient solution for most users. The one critical aspect that does not include is the possibility to make a global (total) report merging the categories. Right now if you have the same expense category in two account they will not be listed as one

by Wajyb

Very good app to keep track of all your finances and budgets, the features in a rich and helpful and they keep adding on them.

My only problem is, some times, when they new features, it doesn't reflect on current wallets or settings you have and you have to create a new wallet to get these new features.

by Scarbez

Very good tool. I have been using it for several years. Works great across devices. You can add and modify categories, add debt, and other functionalities. The icons are cool too. Why not give stars? It took a while to get where it is. Categories are sorted in a seemingly random fashion. Makes it hard to find what you want. They added category look up when adding a new entry, which is great. Yet, I would prefer better sorting. Finally, I have gotten issues with dates: adding a new expense/income, I would select a custom date and, MoneyLover would save the previous date to the one selected. Selecting the desired date plus one day, sometimes gave me the right date, sometimes didn't. Not sure if the issue was caused because of traveling and using it in different time zones. It took several weeks to get the bug fixed

by Braden 753

I have been using the free version of MoneyLover for the last couple months and it has been able to do whatever I needed to do related to my personal finances. MoneyLover has kept track of spending over the past months. MoneyLover takes note of my income compared to my spending to show how much money is left over. MoneyLover makes nice charts to show me net income which are very helpful if you are careful on how one spends money. MoneyLover allows me to put what category of expense the purchased object falls into. That could be for example, food, entertainment, clothing, ect.

However MoneyLover is very basic, and does not have all the features that the top budgeting apps have. Money lover does not have multiple features that are completely useful. MoneyLover does not allow you to hook up a credit card or connect to your bank (which is what a quality app usually has). Due to me having the free version, if they ever in the future added a way I could link MoneyLover to the credit card, I would not feel completely safe adding it.

I would want for Money lover to add a feature that you could just take a picture of your receipt to make it a little quicker than having to manually type it in. MoneyLover seems unsafe to me. Maybe they should improve the free version of MoneyLover so that there are no ads. When apps have ads MoneyLover feels cheap. In conclusion, it is a pretty decent app but very basic. It has worked for me and believe it can work for some of you.

by AO_art

Long time user of MoneyLover(2 years). Love the simple and clean look. It’s easy to understand and even easier to keep up with on a daily basis- tracking all my purchases as I do them throughout the day.

MoneyLover is the best spending tracker I have used so far, and would recommend trying it out!

I didn’t give it full stars b/c there’s still room for improvement in regards to the billing/planning feature. It doesn’t sync with other devices and you can’t see all active bills at once. This makes it easy to accidentally add duplicate recurring bills if you can’t see the ones you’ve already put in for the future.

I also wish there were more graph options. The circle graph is cute but for me, a trending line graph would be more useful.

by Akjshh

I have paid 2 days ago but my account still showing as free and premium features are still inactive which is quite disappointing. Request you to resolve the issue.

by Witty_knitty

I can’t imagine a more intuitive, better designed app for my budget tracking needs. From multiple wallets to multiple currencies with automatic conversion when needed to gorgeous UI, everything is so pretty and functional at the same time. The premium version is more than worth it!

by Muyeedul Islam

This is the best app for managing personal finance. I’ve been using MoneyLover to manage my personal expenses for more than 5 years now without any issue. MoneyLover is packed with lots of features yet it’s very easy to use thanks to it’s sleek UI. Overall I’m extremely satisfied with MoneyLover .

by Giang Gy

I have been record my budget for 3 years by Li Ka-shing way on Evernote. I started using Money Lover in April and I kept using Evernote. But I stopped using Evernote for recording my budget in May and now I’m only using Premium Money Lover. It not only help me keep recording my budget by my own way but also supply me many helpful features else.

by Lbend

This has worked way better for me than apps like mint where you spend money but are not really aware of what is going on. With MoneyLover you can review what is your real situation every time you use it.
Needless to say that you have to put the time to use it and assign your categories well, this habit can be even fun actually. So yeah, download this and use it!

by Ethanwwm

I'll keep it simple. MoneyLover has a ton of tools and can be a little overwhelming at first. But my paid version is able to tell me on my projected spending based on my current overall spending for each category. In other words, I may overspend in one category but underspend in another and it tells me that it evens out.

by Maite.arte

There are many wallet apps in the market, making hard to choose the right one for you. Being Cuban and not having credit cards, is like most of the apps weren’t right for me, as most of my money is in cash and we do not have subscriptions, nor can link apps with my bank accounts, nor I wanted to build a credit, as it doesn’t exist in my country. I just wanted an app to track my expenses and help me see where my money was going, and how to plan better. After trying a few, this was the best app for me and I’ve used it for a few years now. Just wanted to thank the developers and recommend MoneyLover to everyone in a similar situation.

by Obito Lodoza

I have been use MoneyLover since the first versions a couple of years ago and it was very good since the start, now is very great and easy to manage our money with it, I have bought the premium pass since a time (I did it with a discount offer hehe) and I think was the best bought I ever did in an app. Thanks for everything and i can’t wait for next features. One thing I would like to have is a option of add a debt without discount my actual money, bc sometimes I sell something to someone but will pay me in the future, so this person owns me money but isn’t paying right now, so for add this transaction I have to put the sell, and later add the debt, that’s not that good for me, I would prefer a debt without discount, like a future debt.. idk if I have explained well but in any case MoneyLover is awesome. Thanks for it

by Pocketgodruls!

I’ve used Money Lover for an extremely long time (more than 3 years). I’m a very picky user but Money Lover is so easy to use, it’s simple, user-friendly, cute, and works great for budgeting and other money managing things. I really love that sometimes iPhone can watch ads to get cool stuff like stickers. I’m so thankful for MoneyLover!

by Mzh021

I’ve tried many budget apps and this is the one I liked the most. It has everything I need and I love that you can personalize it to your own needs. I am constantly moving countries so other apps like Quickbooks that only work in the States aren’t as useful as this one.

by Peaceandlove08

So easy to use!! I’ve been looking for one of these for such a long time and I FInALlY found something that’s FREE and not overbearing with ads :) I recommend this if you want to take the time to figure out your monthly expenses !!!!!! Or of all the ones I’ve tried, this one is the best :)

by Ivanbk12

First app I pay for and it is totally worth it, there is only a one time payment of around 5$ and that’s it, unlike the other apps that charge you around 50$ anually, and it also works better than the other ones. Just excellent

by DylxnJ

I got Money Lover Pro and it is honestly so worth it, it really does help me manage my money a lot better and ever since getting it I’ve actually started being able to put money into savings since I’ve cut back on some spending. Great app!

by Dacolion

They say that 80% of money management success comes from good habits and this app helps you keep track of it. I love how easy and fun it is to add transactions, but the best part is seeing all the budgets in the iPad app! This wasn’t just a small investment, MoneyLover is essential!