Cashews

This is my second time trying the app after trying it 2 years ago when it launched—and I still can’t recommend it. I really wanted to love Cashews, but it feels incomplete in too many critical areas. The app offers a manual categorization mode, but there's no way to actually edit your category list manually—a pretty glaring oversight. Basic functions like categorizing individual transactions (both current and future) simply don't work, and the transaction filter is equally unreliable. I wasn't expecting a perfect 1:1 replacement for manual entry, but when the ML makes mistakes, correcting them is so cumbersome that it defeats the purpose of automation. The app fails at the fundamental stuff you'd expect to "just work" in a finance tracker. It's frustrating because the bones of a good app are here, but the lack of polish on essential features makes it more trouble than it's worth. Until these basic functionalities are fixed, I can't recommend it.

I got so tired of other budgeting apps that looked slick but fell apart when looking at any of the detail. These other apps would hilariously misconstrue my transactions, duplicate dollars because of simple transfers, and blow up my phone with unnecessary and irrelevant notifications on red herrings from their poorly categorized interpretations on my spending. Cashews is different. It summarizes the transactions across accounts seamlessly and doesn’t force me to repeatedly relabel transactions over and over. This is a great app and anyone interested in seeing a big picture view of their spending capacity and habits should give it a try.

I’ve been looking around for an easy personal finance that doesn’t force me to categorize every transaction and I’ve finally found it. Would love to see an option to add my personal goals. Daily balance notifications are a plus!