Spendee Money & Budget Planner Reviews

Love SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner ... super easy to use and intuitive. With this last update, the functionalities are there but the user interface is not user friendly. Before, each transaction added, the budget and hire much is left is clearly shown on top so you can easily track your spending. Now the monthly budget and more importantly the amount of the budget remaining is hidden and you have to click on another screen to see it. This might seem trivial but the point of having a budget app is to teach how much you spend and hopefully stay within budget. So why hide the budget remaining? Hoping this can be revised... it’s very annoying to have to switch to another screen to see your budget with each transaction. So annoyed that I might switch to another budget app.

Edited review: I’m downgrading this to 1 star. Spent a couple hours customizing SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner when I first downloaded so different expenses would be categorized the way I want them. Despite this, when I just updated a weeks worth of new transactions from my bank accounts, they didn’t take the new categories and just defaulted to the way SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner started off. Which means I have to recategorize every expense. Kind of pointless. Would take less time to manually enter every transaction to an excel spreadsheet than manually changing every category.

Thanks for wasting my time, Spendee!!!

Initial review: Spent a couple hours setting up my account. So far it’s buggy but I’ve gotten it to do what I need. A few specifics:

—took some time to figure out how to use. No clear instructions I could find. Could be there but hidden.

—crashes multiple times (iPhone 6s with up to date iOS)

—the whole interface isn’t intuitive. There’s no main menu you can return to that lets you start over and get your bearings.

—while they allow you to customize categorization (which some competitors I’ve tried lack), its a very clunky. I’m hoping SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner will recognize how I recategorize expenses upon future bill importing and updates. If not, I’ll close account.

Hopefully they’ll work some of these kinks out soon. Otherwise it does what I need, which is record expenses so I can look back month to month and see where my money is going.

My husband and I have been using Spendee for almost two years now and we loved it. We are premium members and have referred our friends to SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner for their budget needs. I hate budgeting and loved SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner and it’s simplicity.

However the last 4 updates they have released it has completely undone our accounts to the point that it has rendered SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner useless to us. We have not been able to add anything to our wallet via SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner or online for 3 weeks. We have contacted the support every other day for 3 weeks with little to no support or movement toward a solution.

I urge you Spendee to focus on making SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner work for your customers and improving the customer support. 3 weeks with very little response and help is completely unacceptable. We desperately want to stay with Spendee but you are actively forcing our hand to change. I look forward to your prompt response here since email doesn’t seem to be the way to get your attention.

I tried out a bunch of different apps to meet my needs. I just needed a simple app where I could add recurring expenses along with other one off expenses and see how much money I have left to spend for the month. This does that and more. Love the design and the user experience. My only suggestion would be to let users pay a one time fee of 2-3 dollars for every member they want to share their wallet with. I don’t really need any of the other premium features. Really an excellent app though!

Another suggestion would be to allow users the ability to see the amount of money they will have left to spend for future months instead of waiting for the month to end before I get to see the current month. This will allow users to prepare for upcoming recurring expense and purchases.

2 years Spendee subscriber here, absolutely loved SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner but lately I have seen multiple problems that can’t be fixed.

1. Web app and mobile app hasn’t been able to sync since Jan 2020
2. My premium account bought just a few months ago, has been downgraded to a free (trial) version, and the dev team does not know why and hasn’t been able to fix the problem. I cannot add a wallet and do all the other premium functions despite having paid money for it.
3. The function “Restore in-app purchase” when clicking on it, always shows the message “error”
4. SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner has become pretty slow, it might be because I have been using it for two years, everyday, SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner does not seem to be able to hold that much amount of data. It takes time to load once I opened SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner .


It’s a good app if there weren’t so many problems ,I would not pay for it if I didn’t think it was good, but so many bugs that has not been fixed over months since I have started emailing supoort team, who were trying to help, but only kept suggesting that use the web app, and disregard the fact that I told them many times my web app hasn’t been syncing with my mobile app for over 6 months. Nobody (staff) has offered me a solution or a refund option which I have asked for over the past two months.

I have been using Spendee for years. I enter each transaction by hand and I’m fine with that method and not connecting my bank account. My issue comes with the recurring payments that keep shifting dates. I like to double check and review all my transactions from time to time and compare them with receipts I have, but then I have to remind myself to change all the dates for my recurring bills as well. It’s highly obnoxious as I don’t have a clear idea of my monthly spending until I have done so. I was going to switch to the ‘every 4 weeks’ setting, but I know that will still cause my dates to be wrong. Please work on fixing this as many people would like to use that functionality for monthly payments (something virtually every person has).

I used to love SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner. I first downloaded it when you didn’t need a premium subscription to connect your bank. It was so easy to use and by far the best budget app I had used. I upgraded to the “plus” subscription for multiple wallets. Then after a few months I would try to sync my transactions and it kept telling me “cannot connect right now please try again later”. So I tried again later, over and over, for a month. Nothing ever happened. Then I realized I needed to upgrade to premium just to connect my bank accounts. I was annoyed but said “you know what sure let’s do it”. However my plus subscription lasts until July, and when I tried to upgrade to the premium it won’t let me. It’s telling me to wait until my plus subscription is over just to upgrade to premium. How annoying, not even going to bother redownloading SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner once my plus subscription is over.

It’s ok for budgeting and tracking current spending. I like the aesthetics, font, and colors. It’s pretty. Functionality though felt limited. Bought the plus version hoping for more detail and organization for weekly breakdowns and balances, but was sorely disappointed. The free version of spending tracker is better for this actually, though not as pretty layout.

Wish it would have these features:
- be able to swipe left to see what month by month for upcoming months balance in real-time reflection of current spending
-have the option to show future weeks and balance for each week. Right now the balance is what is current, without taking into account future scheduled expenses. It’s confusing bc you can’t see your balance at the end of each week
- have the option to show scheduled expenses in the upcoming weeks under the month view so you get a whole month overview and can anticipate the next week or two at least or the rest of the month
- in budgets section, show the remaining amount out of total budgeted amount. Right now you don’t see the total budget, you just see what’s remaining

I’ve been using SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner for over 2 years and I have hundreds of transactions listed. The new updates changed dollar amounts, categories and I lost nearly 40% of my previous reported transactions. One example is my monthly mortgage payment was counted 6 times in one month or paychecks being reported as a few hundred instead of a few thousand. I’ve already spent a few hours looking over my exports and either re-entering the transactions or correcting them. I’m still no where near though making all of the corrections. I’m so upset I lost all of this information despite always using the back up. I gave to completely start over from the beginning of when I started using SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner . I’m wondering if it’s worth using SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner anymore. So upset :(

I’ve tried over a dozen other apps to do one job.......track my expenses throughout the year. I like how SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner doesn’t force you to give up your bank or credit card info to automatically track expenses. I personally like the manual entry method as it makes me go over each transaction individually. SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner also provides a great user-interface for iPhones & iPads; my two go-to devices.

For an app that doesn’t charge you a penny for tracking day-to-day college life expenses, it’s a no brainer.....just download it!

I think SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner is really great, used it to keep track of my money for long. Thanks for making a such great and useful app.

But I am wondering if you could make the different categories of wallets like “Credit card” “Loan” “mortgage”and provide different icons to choose to disdinguish the wallets. The idea is just to catogorize the money I have, because now if I want to manually create a wallet i have just no choices every account is like a cash wallet.

Also, if you could make a function like widge or fast record from the home. That would be much much helpful!!!

Anyway, great app for financial manament, been using a lot of apps but decided to go with this one. Really like the syncrynizing function(don’t know if the transitions on the bank account is automatically updated or not)

I have tried other apps and this one is the one I have loved. But, with the new updates (which is great that you want to keep improving), it’s a bit confusing to use.
1. When updating it, some transactions were lost, can’t find them anymore.
2. I usually made a transfer from wallet 1 to wallet 2 and for some reason, it doesn’t give me the option anymore. It only allows me to do the transfer from wallet 2 to wallet 1. Don’t understand why.
3. As other comments state, the remaining balance at the top was super great, easy to understand. I now, feel it confusing to see the total of my spending. Please update this.
4. The graphs on the overview section, on the other hand, are really great. Easy to understand the total of my spending.
5. The font size (now smaller) and other changes can be ok (not too happy though), you just need to get used to them I guess.

Hope you can read our reviews and some new fixes can be done. Thanks for your work!

I was looking for an app that would let me enter expenses by hand and track categories, spend limits etc. Spendee does that perfectly. I’m sure it’s great when you sync it to a bank account, but I really appreciate that I don’t have to do that in order to meet my needs.

UPDATED: ever since I upgraded my phone to a 12, I get a generic “error” pop-up message after every transaction I enter in SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner . Super annoying and sometimes seems to result in the transaction not being recorded. Hope this is fixed in an update soon!

I’m quite young and don’t have many things which I need to add and my transactions are generally simple. I had been looking for an app which could help me record my finances better than manually adding everything on something like a Google sheet (which is what I did beforehand) and I found lots of apps which looked great but then they were usually exclusive to US or require paid subscriptions (at least for SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner it’s optional) and I couldn’t really use them. SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner is incredibly simple and shows all the information I want and need to see. UI & UX are great and overall really nice.

Possibly one of the best out there. However keeping my family budget and my personal and all the investments is a pain due to the fact it doesn’t support transfering between accounts without logging an expense.

What i have to do now is make a category in both “Expense” & “Income” called “transfer” in all my wallets. Which is crazy because almost every single app I’ve tired does offer this.

Then log an expense and income in sperate wallets to fake the transfer. The problem with it is that showing an expense and statistics are broken due to that. Not sure if I’ll stick around and pay the subscription just because of such simple but necessary feature. Might just jump over to competition that makes managing multiple wallets and family budget easy.

If that gets fixed then no brainer - Spendee is awesome for managing money.

P.s just read some reviews about few months ago that asks for a transfer feature. Still not here by the end of 2017. Why is that?

I have not been able to use SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner after months of having it because I cannot even login! I set a password on SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner , and when I tried to login the computer it didn’t let me, and there is no way to recover password from the computer. It asked me to change the password and I tried, but their password requirements are insane! No password option I set Hera approved! Keeps telling me the password is too short! I have been trying for months! Then I write to their customer service and all they answered was, “maybe try a longer password”, and that’s it, replied and explained and they never answered again! I wish I could get my money back for this trash!

Hi, Spendee is a fantastic money tracker, it does almost everything I want from such an app, however I really miss money transfer between wallets as someone already said in one of the reviews. I have one question though: I can’t seem to figure out how to create a universal budget that account for any spending from any wallet. I’d love to set up a budget for lets say groceries but sometimes I use my credit card, sometimes I use cash and I only seem to be able to set up a budget for a specific wallet which is useless for my purpose. Maybe I’m overlooking something?!

I've tried many budgeting apps and this one is the best by far!!! Track multiple accounts, decide which accounts should impact your overall totals, add loan accounts by initiating them with negative value and transfer from your current account to the loan account. Excellent all the way!

They finally offered lifetime premium one time purchase, I prefer that over subscriptions. I'd recommend leaving that as an option for people who prefer one time purchases. Keep up the great work.

I have used Spendee on and off for several years. This new update has made it not user friendly and has made what I previously loved about SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner difficult. I can no longer see at a quick glance what my remaining account balance is, it is now showing me a number in the negatives. What does this mean and what is it for. If I wanted to log back into my bank account to see how much money I have in my accounts anyways what do I need SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner for. Not a fan of the update and may not keep using it/paying for SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner .

This is one of my most frequently used apps! I’ve tracked my spending with SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner for almost 2 years now by utilizing the category options within Spendee to make everything super simple. I can get any type of data I want from SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner with just a few clicks that help me budget everything! The Spendee team also have phenomenal customer service. My account accidentally got deleted, all my data from 2018, and they were able to restore all of it within a day or two!

I’ve been using SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner on and off for almost two years and I’ve loved it! But I recently updated SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner and it failed to initialize on my phone so I downloaded it again and logged into my account and I can’t find any of the transactions I added from the last 8 months. I also logged in online to see if it was a bug on SpendeeMoneyBudgetPlanner but I also couldn’t find them there.

I tried to contact Spendee via the support button on their app but the “send” button wouldn’t work and there is no other way to contact them.
I’m hopeful that this is just a glitch and my data will come back because there was a lot put into adding those transactions...