Fortune City: Expense Tracker

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4.5of 5 · store
4,965ratings on the App Store
500reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A gamified expense tracker: every expense generates a building in a virtual city. It motivates daily data entry, but after a year of accumulated data the app slows down and history is lost when switching phones.

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What people use it for

Young people and students who need external motivation to keep a spending log and are not put off by manual entry.

What reviews praise

The fear of missing a new building drives users to log every expense on the day of purchase, forming a genuine habit of spending awareness.
The game mechanic reduces financial anxiety.

What reviews complain about

After a year of data the app slows down significantly.
History is lost when switching phones.
Backup is unreliable.
Category analytics require extra steps.

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Developers, please read this review from a normal and reasonable adult user. It's tedious to manually input expenses, but it's important because it forces you to be mindful about your spending. The point of the app is to make tracking expenses a habit, and the game mechanic does exactly that.