Expense & Budget App: Spendee

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1. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Charged me full price immediately instead of letting me use the free trial. I was extremely disappointed they didn’t make it clearer I was spending $35 on some premium subscription instead of the FREE TRIAL like it said. Now I’m stuck with an app for a year that I now found out, after inadvertently purchasing it, I don’t care for it much anyway. 😖

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Too invasive. I deleted it as soon as it started asking me stupid emotionally focused questions

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App does not open. App does not open up

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Terrible app. Bank of America integration is not working properly. Transactions are not synchronized, have to delete and connect again bank connection to pull up transactions every time, sync button does nothing. Transactions from bofa with the same amount are merging and the app shows only one transaction. I have two transactions $1000 each one, in app I can see only one charge for $1000 and spend is $1000 but spend is $2000. Support is silent. Buggy and useless. Had to cancel a subscription.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Let me at least try the dumb thing. Can’t use without purchasing a commitment … yea no thanks.

6. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

   App keeps crashing. Hi, not sure if this is due to daylight saving change, but after I delete a record. The app keeps crashing whenever I try to open it. Can you please fix it?

7. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

   Crashing ever since the update. I’ve been a fan of the app but ever since the update, it crashes immediately upon startup and it’s unusable. Please patch this right away.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Don’t Buy if you use AmEx. I made the mistake of buying a lifetime subscription before thoroughly trying this out. It will not let me hook up American Express, which is my primary cards that I use. Been back and forth with customer service and they are blaming on a third party software integrator that they use. Salt somebody. I’m being frustrated as I’m having to manually enter in everything.

9. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   No privacy. The app is not working unless you give it your email and give the developers all your personal private financial information. This should not be required just to save some financial data on my phone. If the developers force you to do this they probably sell your financial information to advertisers.

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Horrible. This app is terrible. No support from within the App, when I click on help I just get Mac OS help. The appearance of the app is similar to a grade school presentation for children. I attempted a few times to make this app work for me with no luck. I requested a refund, on day one, thru Spendee they say go thru the App Store, they also would not refund????? AVOID this app unless you are a total beginner (I am not) and then good luck!!

11. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Spender charged me despite on trial. I signed up for trial for three days but was instead charged for 35.99 before the trial even begin. This is such a scam practice

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Customer. This apps in not worked for me, complicated and any instruction for traning

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Couldn’t even get started.. Due to the app pushing for the subscription I couldn’t even look around or connect an account. Every time I tapped on something there was the ad again.

14. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Misleading “trial” – be careful!. They advertise a 7-day free trial, but as soon as you confirm the subscription, they charge you for a full month right away. The 7 days are just added on top, but that’s not a free trial — it’s a paid subscription with a bonus. I contacted their support but got no response. Very disappointing. This kind of trickery shouldn’t be allowed on the App Store. Be careful — and honestly, better avoid this app.

15. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    No option to connect AMEX USA. Wasted time, connecting to my accounts then there is no connection to Amex. Deleted app after an hour.

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No me deja consultar mis gastos específicos. Soy cliente Premium de por vida, mas sucede que en los últimos meses, no puedo consultar mis gastos específicos, por ejemplo mis gastos de compra en restaurantes en el mes. Se toma bastante tiempo ya sea con data de celular (LTE) o conexión de internet (Cable Modem de 150 megas). Tengo registros desde febrero 2022 y se demora bastante tiempo en dar la información que se requiere consultar.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesnt work….. I wish I could put zero stars. Worked the first month and then it kept saying “no transactions”…. re-added my bank which takes hours. And it says the same thing. If you like throwing money away then this is the app for you.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Mala. No puedo conectar mi cuenta de banco y pague la anualidad, solucionen eso.

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Paid premium for nothing and support doesn’t respond. I paid for the 1yr premium on the account and after about 5 months it stopped populating my credit card purchases from 2 cards. I reset the connection and emailed the company and got no reply or refund.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App crashes or doesn’t open. Sadly, I didn’t get any help so far about that. I would love the app otherwise, but it’s not usable if I can’t open it …!

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Charges after cancelling subscription. Downy interface with my bank, but was still charged 22.99 after cancelling my subscription. Good luck

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Error message on bank sync page. I need an affordable budget app so I can leave expensive YNAB. (Oh, the irony!) But when I click “connect a bank” on your app all it shows is an error message: “An error occurred. Please try again.” No luck with closing the app and signing in again. :/ Thankfully I’m doing the free trial before paying for premium 😅 I’ll update this review if the issue is fixed. I would LOVE to leave YNAB for spendee if this is fixed.

23. ★★★★★account bans or deletion without explanation

    Doesn’t support Apple Card. I recently downloaded the app and attempted to add an Apple Card, but regrettably, Goldman Sachs bank is not included in the list of supported banks. deleting the app.

24. ★★★★★account bans or deletion without explanation

    Couldn't even get it work. I linked my bank account information twice, and it won’t come up. if I can’t even do that, the app is unusable for me.

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    WARNING SHOPPER. Even if you buy the premium pass, it will always ask you to manually sync data because 2FA is enabled everywhere and that is a technical challenge Spendee didn’t overcome yet.. and you will have to click the sync button everytime you want new data. I don’t understand why not the are not developing an in-app setting that I as a user can enable that it will sync it for me….

26. ★★★★★cross-device sync is unreliable

    Doesnt work. I used this app for months and it was great. However, now for 4 months my info wont sync. I have contacted customer service to fix the issue and they do not seem to be able to get it working. It has been a huge waste of time.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App doesn’t work. Can’t open the app.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not ready for 2024. Honestly too many disappointments. Bank doesn’t connect properly, reading articles to learn how to use the app is daunting. Why not have a step by step intro like every other app? None of the features for tracking or creating personal recommendations didn’t work….at all! Do not download, waste of time. Better off carving your budget into a stone tablet.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No Longer Works. I’ve been using this app for the past few months. At first, everything was great. And now, my balances are off even after I triple-checked everything.

30. ★★★★★account bans or deletion without explanation

    Waste of time and money! No support, the app has a lot of bugs. I’ve been using this app more than 1 year but at once it stopped to sync my 2 main bank accounts. As I was very loyal to company because I really liked but over month of talking with support team they didn’t solve my issue. Only one solution- to make new connection and categorized all my transactions for whole year from the beginning. I’m disappointed! Even worse they suggested me to merge my old wallet with recent added wallet, I did it and as result I lost access to old wallet and all my categorized transactions. Trying to ask about new solution of new problem, they just closed my case and have not replied for 5 days. How is it possible? Such approach and app doesn’t have to be placed at the store. You can’t trust them your data.