My Check Register Reviews

I hated sitting down to pay the monthly bills mainly due to bringing the checkbook up to date. We’re down using an actual check maybe 1 time every couple of months. This makes keeping the paper checkbook current more difficult because we pay everything online or through apps on the phone... the checkbook is not always handy to add a payment made on the fly. MyCheckRegister has made keeping our checking account up to date practically effortless. The registry is a touch away when ever I pay a bill, withdraw or deposit from the account. No more planning to sit down with the paper version and sorting out what I paid and when. The wife and I both have MyCheckRegister on our phones and “synced” to where when one of us makes an addition it shows on the others register. Highly recommended for its simplicity and ease of use. Wonder why the banks themselves don’t have similar functions in their own apps. Doesn’t matter, this one serves me perfectly.

First time I've written a review. For the $4 to upgrade to premium (which I believe is a one-time fee), it is doing what it says. I ultimately picked MyCheckRegister because the others appeared to be a subscription service for the syncing, whereas this one does not appear to be a subscription.
I created balances for my shared checking account and two credit cards. I put MyCheckRegister on two phones and one iPad and I've been able to see the balances for each shared account.
I like that I can include my recurring transactions, as that will be helpful in the shared function.
The downside so far is really only in the lack of instructions. It wasn't intuitive at all how to edit my opening balance, though I eventually just edited the # that showed on the account display. Getting the access key to allow for the shared account functionality is described well, but is a bit clunky.
It would be great if the "register" balance could show the current balance as well as the balance with a forward looking view to include the upcoming "recurring" transactions.

If you need simple, MyCheckRegister is for you! I am posting this after using MyCheckRegister for several years now. All I wanted was a simple app to do everything my paper register did, but do the math for me as well. It does just that. Toward the end of each month, I put in all my expenses for the next month and I can see what I have to budget. Perfect. I have it on my iPhone and iPad, and my husband has it on his phone so he always knows our finances as well. The only thing I have a complaint with is a little glitch that showed up a while ago. If I need to delete a transaction, I have to do it on my iPhone because the red delete spot doesn’t show up on the side so I can swipe it to clear the transaction. It only barely shows up enough on my phone to get the job done. It may just be a setting on my devices that I need to adjust, but it’s not that big of a deal.

I've had MyCheckRegister for years my husband and I pay for the premium and it seems perfectly between both phones. There are glitches here and there where when I bring it up there's nothing there several times and then eventually it will load. In the past it never loaded but they seem to have corrected that.
However for the past six months it will not allow me to email myself dates like my register dates that I hit keep it says I do not have the subscription to do so. I do have the subscription to do so I've been doing so for years and I am unable to get a hold of anybody I'm unable to re-purchase the subscription I've gone into there app looked all over the place went into MyCheckRegister Store looked all over the place can't find anything at this point I have remove MyCheckRegister and I'm looking for a new one to try to get this to work for me again I love this out but I can't deal with the issue any longer.

I downloaded MyCheckRegister many years ago and it has been great! I wanted something to use to keep track of my everyday transactions so I don’t accidentally overdraw in my bank account. I didn’t want an app that synced with my accounts and this doesn’t make you. It is great to use if you keep up with the transactions. Every paycheck I get I type it in MyCheckRegister and pay all my bills and record that in MyCheckRegister and I also put in the upcoming auto payments then when I’m finished I see what I have left to use till my next paycheck. I’m very happy that MyCheckRegister has kept going. This is one of the oldest apps I have kept on my phone and I just thought I’d let you know how much I love it. It has really helped me financially. Thank you!

I love MyCheckRegister for many reasons. I love that it automatically enters the latest entry where it belongs chronologically instead of at the bottom of the page. I love that I don’t have to worry about decimal points. Making entries in general is a breeze. I would love it if the new entry page started with the date of the last entry, but that is icing. My only complaint, (and it is entirely possible I just haven’t figured out this function) is that the register page returns to the bottom of the page automatically. This makes it hard to compare with the bank and see where errors are. On the whole I find it easy to use and it gives me the information I want in a straight forward way.

I really like this register because my wife and I can both see what our balance is in our accounts without having to constantly login to our bank.

The "recurring" payments definitely needs work as it doesn't usually update the register the day the transaction is supposed to happen and the export will only export one months worth of one account. Not one account at a time or one month at a time, I mean one month from one account, period. Regardless which account you select, it only does the same account every time.

Good app but could be better. But then again it could be updated more frequently than 7 months and three developer could actually respond to questions...

MyCheckRegister works pretty good on a solo device I.e. My I phone. It isn't perfect, like searching for a transaction is hopeless . However, I am extremely disappointed with it's inability to sync with my iPad. I have done the upgrade, both devices show that they are upgraded to premium but the iPad has nothing. Any ideas?
Otherwise app great, I can export to an excel file, editing a transaction is awesome. I have not experienced lost entries like I have read,
I have transferred MyCheckRegister through three iPhones and it has kept perfect records. I am now using an iPhone 10r and it is still running perfect Any way I wouldn't change to another app.
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The biggest thing I see wrong is MyCheckRegister does not show the cleared balance. I would also like to be able to more easily hide cleared transactions like many other apps do.

When I shared the account with my wife, it worked flawlessly. I then went to show her how I set it up, and deleted the account from her device, and it deleted it from mine as well. MyCheckRegister should not allow someone other than the account owner to delete it in my opinion.

Overall it does what I need it to, and that is let my wife and I edit the register in real time no matter where we are.

I use this stupid app because it’s the only one I can find that does what I want it to do across multiple devices, but it is extremely frustrating. I’ve spent the last 20 minutes trying to find specific transactions from about a year ago, but every time I scroll up to that date range and start skimming the entries MyCheckRegister glitches after a few seconds and shoots back to the bottom of the least. I’m so frustrated I was ready to throw my phone against a wall.

Other frustrating glitches are that it is frequently unable to load, sometimes it doubles up an entry when you hit submit, and sometimes when I open MyCheckRegister it’ll open up to a balance that was current months ago.

So I thought I found a good app to help keep track of purchase materials for my clients. And that part did work, I could log the expense and then it would keep a running balance. The issue came when I wanted to print it or share it. Unless my clients have to app as well you can’t share it, you can’t print it, so I was left with a bunch of itemized reports that I couldn’t give my clients. So 3 star only. Oh! And there is no support button, so if you need help your on your own. It would be nice to be able to speak with someone to answer questions. Total disappointment. I do not recommend. Thumbs down.

This is what it is. Perfectly flawless if used as a check register. Recently I’ve tried to find “budget” apps that were simple. Easy to use. MyCheckRegister is what it is, for those negative reviews- they’re doing it wrong. It is a check register. Spend it. Write it down. It has never failed me and only felt compelled to review again bc I’m searching for a new budget app and realize how much nonsense and fluff there is out there that does nothing more than cause headaches.

Got MyCheckRegister several years ago and use it all the time. It’s a simple way to set up a spending limit each month if your diligent to enter all of your debit or credit transactions. Best way is to use cash and make fewer entries. There are still export issues that I requested to be fixed literally, freaking years ago but the export feature is still a waste of time. It emails the same transactions over and over even after changing your export ranges. Booooo!

Does what it's supposed to, except in the case where you want to delete a single transaction. I entered a single transaction twice with different dates and was not able to delete the single entry. It only allowed me to delete be transaction date. This issue was a big inconvenience. To correct it, I waited until I had another transaction and just edited the duplicate.

Other than that I think that app works just fine.

I have been using MyCheckRegister for years…… i dont know any other way to balance things out!!!! If i had to balance with something else or paper i truly wouldnt know what to do. MyCheckRegister has taught me a better And simpler way. It works great, everyone NEEDS this. Its not complicated, you just have your start balance, and as you spend, you enter it and it deducts. As you deposit, enter it and it adds in, Simple!!!!

I noticed one thing that I would like to see corrected. When I’m inputting an entry and I have to put in a description, MyCheckRegister remembers my past entries, which I like. When I start inputting letters for the entry, a scroll list forms under it to quickly choose my entry. However if my entry is at the end of a long list I can’t freely scroll the list to choose it. I have to put in many letters to get to it. I would like to be able to freely scroll the list to choose the last entry with ease.

I looked at so many apps that provide graphs and pie charts, but what I wanted was a report that listed the transactions so that I could print it out for taxes. MyCheckRegister delivers with simplicity. I’m using the free version without the extras and I’m satisfied because it provides what is really needed. You don’t have to link your accounts. You don’t pay a monthly fee. Very happy.

I have used this for years. About six months ago, I couldn’t log in anymore. I contacted support and got no response but then it starting working again. Today, I opened it, no problem, switched to my online banking app and then came back and I could no longer log in. I deleted and reinstalled MyCheckRegister and now I have lost everything. I started loading numbers from scratch and had to close it again and when I tried to reopen it, I couldn’t log in. Will have to try another app. Something has gone wrong with this one.

I have used MyCheckRegister for a couple of years from one device to another with no problem and liked that it was an easy to use check register like the paper ones that come with your checks. I changed phones from an iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6 and I cannot get my files restored to the new phone again. Wrote to the publisher for help but never heard back. I guess I have to enter everything by hand again.

I have been using MyCheckRegister for years (paid version). Sometimes it just will not work. I can’t get it to load my account balances correctly or show my transactions correctly. Right now, I can’t see anything or add anything; keeps “loading” then telling me there is an error. This happens far too often for such a simple task. I’m seriously thinking of dumping MyCheckRegister and starting all over on a different one that has higher reviews because it…works. 🧐