MoneyCoach: Budget Planner

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1. ★★★★★transfers between your own accounts and money put into savings count as spending

   Brent D Budget planner. great attention getter but the app has been completely useless for me since it doesn’t even have real money on it in an account accessible to me…so why would I be happy with something like that?

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   United States is unavailable. Can’t use if you’re in the United States. They’ll still charge your card. Absolutely useless

3. ★★★★★transfers between your own accounts and money put into savings count as spending

   Inaccurate Claims. The net worth feature should be taken out. Ones net worth is comprised of investments, assets, and cash. Not just cash. The only thing this app does is tell you your cash balances. It’s very pretty yes, but it’s not useful.

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

   Forms that waste your time. They make you fill a whole form just to ask for money at the end. They should warned you first so you dont waste your time

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

   No. The first thing you do is ask for money. Not a start which inspires confidence.

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

   Very unreliable entries. I have kept on entering debts in and also income in that disappear on the spreadsheet. This app is extremely unreliable and makes it useless or even dangerous.

7. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Recurring payments and income is not working. Recurring income and payments do not show up in the future projections but the program says it is set for recurring. This makes it useless to do projections. It used to work. I got very poor support the last time I tried to solve a problem. Also projections on go to one month (when recurring worked) which is very limited.

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

   Not good. Very user unfriendly

9. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Support unhelpful. While saving a transaction using the MoneyCoach the program would crash. I sent an email to the developer. His response was that I need to make a video of the issue. I explained to him that my personal information was on this and I didn’t want to send a video. I asked him if we could work through this a different way. His response was no this is the only way he couldn’t figure out what kind of transaction it was. it seems to me that he could’ve asked me What kind of transaction it was. It is unfortunate that he is not flexible enough to solve problems with the needs of his customers as his priority. I have to rate this low as with no support and my program crashing it is useless to me.

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

    Crashes. I can’t access the app

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Could Be a Good App IF IT WEREN’T SO PRICEY. You can only have one “account” (ie. debit card, credit card, checking, or savings) without spending $9.99/month. That seems to completely negate the entire point of having this app. I doubt I could save more than $9.99/month using this app. And even if I did there is no proof that the app is the cause or if it’s merely a coincidence. Honestly, it’s not that worth it. I get that they have to make money somehow, but I think a MONEY SAVING app shouldn’t COST THIS MUCH, or should be a flat-out paid app.

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

    Warning for new users. Would be a lovely app if it wasn’t for the constant “50% off claim your offer” pop ups. Literally press one number and it pops up. Every single time you use the app. So if you have more than one transaction you input a day it gets real annoying, real fast. And the app didn’t use to have the pop up but now it does and it’s making me hate the app honestly.

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

    Certainly not Mint.com. It was so easier with mint.com where you can sync up your financial account and it does the rest. That way you can actually customize the names of your purchases. But this applications doesn't even do that. You have to do it manually you can't even have an option to do so anyway so why bother with this application?

14. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

    Come on guys. Don't hide a $30 price. Don't wait until I download to find the price. That's sketchy. Lost a customer by pricing yourself out.

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

    No QIF import, no full trial. No QIF import, no full trial

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Fancy, not functional. 11/1/22: I wanted to try a new budgeting add as I have outgrown my old one. First off, icons and text are so large that very little information is visible on screen. You can only have 2 types of accounts, savings or other. There are no other options. Accounts can’t be sorted, so checking, savings, credit cards, loans, investments, etc. are all mixed together. Budgets are the same way. All categories are just int one big list. It’s a huge mess. Budget categories are huge and only 4 are visible on screen at a time. All transactions are assumed cleared, which is a problem for people who record transactions daily, but also record them as the day the clear, not when first visible. Some buttons open a pop up that can not be closed unless you go though a whole setup process, even if you don’t want to set up something. You have to pay to sync data and all you do is backup the data. Sync mean synchronizing, like between 2 systems. Not just saving to iCloud. My iPad and iPhone created 2 independent files that don’t sync. All in all, this app was made to look fancy, not be functional. Guess I will be filing the cost of this app under mistake.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not user friendly. Tutorial is useless. Downloaded and deleted but only after being asked to pay for the annual “pro” mode. Highly recommend avoiding this one.

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Terrible app. Virtually everything you do in this app is just a misleading feature that appears to be useable but is really just going to force you to upgrade to a recurring subscription fee to use it. If I could actually use the app before subscribing I might consider it but I got far too frustrated that I couldn’t do anything without being prompted to pay first!

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

    Okay. Okay

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    I hate this app. This app is not at all intuitive. Instead of saving me money I wasted it. I want a refund

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Helping me save money by making me spend money!. Really! This is a solution. At least prove yourself before bombarding me with requests for money and reviews! At least show your worth before asking me to pay for it!

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    As automatic as a notepad (not at all). This app is far far more manual than it seems at a glance. All the expense tracking is manually inputting the data, there is no bank or card syncing. Even the Apple Card import feature is extremely hard to use. I am a tech/apple enthusiast and after about 5 minutes I gave up trying. Also, basically all of the features are locked behind a paywall.

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

    Terrible interface. This budgeting system is terrible, literally was confused the entire time I tried using this. Too many buttons to click here and there, can’t just set up a simple budget and build from there… using this would take too long balance out and I had to pay to upgrade just to figure this out. Trash.

24. ★★★★★transfers between your own accounts and money put into savings count as spending

    $39.99 yr subscription after collecting your data. To use this app you need to enter income and expense (use fake numbers as your data per privacy policy will be anonymized and sold). When you are done entering financial info, to see results and try the app out you need to subscribe for $39.99 a year, because selling your data for money is not enough for them. So you click cancel and delete the app - well, they still have your data to do as they please, so remember to put in fake number when trying out. So even at its minimum it is spyware to get your private personal finances to be sold to ?, well they don’t say who it’s sold to. Spying + secrets = bad 1 star app.

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Why charge. Why charge for this

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

    too expensive. too expensive

27. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Can’t do anything for free and no trial period for subscription. No way for me to figure out if I want to pay for it without first paying for it. The free stuff you can do is a joke. Let me know when I can trial it for free. Phhfft.

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

    Seriously?. I JUST got the app. It’s taking me through some opening questions and it pops up asking me to rate it. So that’s a 1 star for asking me to rate you in the first 60 seconds of using it. In fact, not even really getting to use it yet. If the rest of the app is as thoughtless as this experience I’ll just delete it in the next 60 seconds.

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    🙁. Don’t like it. Too simple and don’t feel safe. Hi lease refund my money. Thanks

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Unless you PAY for this app- you can’t use it. I need help with overspending and this app charges you to use it for ANYTHING. Funny