Buddy: Budget Planner App

The main thing I need in a budget app is to link my bank account to it. This wants $10 a month or $50 a year to do that. The entire point of me getting a budgeting app is to SAVE money, not spend more

Downloaded but App was corrupted, not able to click and use. Bummer!

Bank connection fail to sync at least a couple times a year. Have to delete and we add. Can be annoying

I really enjoyed this app and still do ; used it for a year, and then all of the sudden one day it deleted all of my data for a whole year and complied all of my transactions into one month. This was very frustrating because I could no longer look back and see what happened month to month ; I had put a lot of effort into categorizing properly and all of that went out the window. A refund or some sort of reparations would make me update my review because I really did find this app useful until the glitch that deleted all of my data.

Used to be great, but now super buggy. Recently it duplicated all my charges so that I had to manually remove them (and then did it again a couple weeks later) and always undoes any edits I make to titles and categories. Very difficult to use at this point. I’ve complained multiple times about the bugs and nothing has been done.

My connections were down to more than two weeks and now that I am resyncing them duplicate transactions are coming in and messy my historical months

App has been down since June 19th with no response from support despite multiple attempts. Can’t connect to bank. Please help!

I used this app for a few months to track my budget. I put a lot of time in getting it set up. It’s great it can link to bank account accounts and credit cards and bring in data. However, sometimes it re-syncs and goes back to the past and brings back data that was already reviewed and reclassifies it to different categories or duplicates it. I just can’t trust it. If it would just let you mark a transaction reviewed and never change it or duplicate it, then it would be great, but it just seems to continue to make mistakes that way. So I don’t recommend it for budgeting. I moved to Quicken Simplifi and it seems to more stable so far. Gives you the chance to batch select or mark what you’ve reviewed, unlike Buddy.

I’ve been using Buddy for 18 months. The first year it was great! In 2026 I have had consistent issues with bank connections and lost transaction data, which completely ruins the point of using the app. Messages to support have gone unanswered. Don’t waste your money; find a different budget app.

I liked this app up until the latest update. It no longer lets you review transactions before it adds them so now I have to go through and recategorize what’s been added. It also takes so much longer to sync with my credit card and bank. If I use my credit card on Tuesday I’m lucky to see the transaction by Friday which also makes it difficult to budget because I now have to keep a running list of pending transactions in my head. I think I’m going to have to look for other options/apps to use.

I used and loved this app for 1-2 years, I paid for a life time premium subscription. At times bank accounts got disconnected but that was not an issue as it was easily fixable. As of 2-3 months ago the app completely stopped working. None of my transactions carried over anymore, and the account totals did not update at all. I tried everything to fix it, re-synced, disconnected and reconnected all accounts multiple times, waited months and retried all these things over and over again, emailed customer support NUMEROUS times. Filled out service requests in the app. I NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE AT ALL. Very unhappy as I loved this app when it was working properly so this is extremely frustrating. The life time premium fee was NOT cheap, yet the premium app features (synced bank accounts that automatically update transactions) is now completely nonfunctional after 2 years, the app only functions like the free version.

Will update when import functions get fixed. The app was great and easy to use until recent updates completely rendered the bank transaction import function useless. Not only does it import duplicate transactions that it previously imported but also no longer allows the user to review and edit imports before they get finalized. The review feature was super nice since it made it quick and easy to update multiple transactions

The App works fine for me. But when I switched to a new phone. It wiped out my life time premium purchase. And their support was not helpful when I contacted.

please fix, i paid but im unable to use

I can’t link my accounts without the app crashing - beyond frustrating as you’re trying to get set to use

Pros: -can set a custom date for the beginning of the budget cycle -a reminder to input expenses -ability to input expenses, and can make expenses recurring or not. But the thing that kills the app is that it ROUNDS the transactions you put in. If it you put 1.26, it’ll add $1 to your expenses. If you put 1.99 it’ll add $2. Because of this, it has said I spent $7.20 more than I actually did since I downloaded this app 10 days ago.

I downloaded this and this is NOT FREE!! ONLY 7 day free trial!! Scam!!!

Doesn’t sync of upload expensives or make a budget

Free trial offer after you spend all of the time entering your information and creating the account. Seven days to try it for free and then I’m sure they’ll be happy to charge my card creating yet more debt that I don’t need. No thanks.

7 days free and then you have to pay.

Why does a budgeting app need to track your precise location across apps? Not sure to feel safe with this app anymore. Recent updates have been collecting more and more data. Edit: every update needs more and more permissions:/. For what’s essentially a spreadsheet (as most trackers are) very disappointing, as I originally tried this bc it had minimal tracking.

My friend that introduces me to this app said it’s free but why are they asking for $50 subscribers before I can be able to set this up, if I have money would I be finding budget app?

This app duplicates many of my transactions. It also cannot figure out how to reconcile when I make a payment from my checking account on my credit card. This all messes up my budget. There should also be a way to make sure it classifies future transactions of the same type under the category you want them to be in. For example, I have one that it thinks a shopping, but it is healthcare.

I have the paid version, and I was hopeful. The app is trying to do five different things at the same time, but it doesn’t do any of them right.

Make a cross platform app so I can budget with my partner we both really like this app but he only likes using android.