App Profile: Best Budget Pro

Thispartisdumb

Rating: 4/5

This is actually one of the best budget apps I could find. I've been using it only for about 3 months now so I'm still trying to learn. I love that it's simple and that you can enter manually and not have it linked with your bank account. Those other apps like that were a nightmare to me and too complicated. I DON'T like...Lets say you set $60 to spend on the dog. You spend $70. You transfer $10 from another budget to balance it. The dog envelope doesn't tell you that you actually spent $70. It just will say you're balanced. The only way to know what you spent that month is to manually calculate it. That would be an easy fix. You budgeted for $60 and somewhere within that budget should have in red or something what you actually spent so you'd easily know for next month. I also haven't quite figured out the rollover feature when I want to change the amount of that budget from month to month. I'm still learning when all that can be done and have it be a smooth transition to the next cycle.

Mandy3mili

Rating: 2/5

I really like the envelope style of budgets with this. I have used it for years and it worked great for me. Then within the last week, an automatic update changed everything for the worse. Suddenly, it added extra stuff on the screen that made the font smaller for the budgets - so the things I want to see are harder to see. Second, when I go to add a transaction, the budget name automatically fills in the transaction name. So I have to backspace to delete that before I can enter where I’m actually making the purchase. Third, when I go to fill in the amount, I now have to manually add a decimal point. It used to be automatic. Fourth, I loved the dark mode because it was easy on the eyes, but now they’ve added white or light sections to the screen that bug my eyes. They’ve also added hideous yellow, orange, and green colors. It reminds me of my parents’ couch from the 70s. This used to be the best, simple budgeting app. Now it’s clunky and harder to use, takes longer to create each transaction, and is just aesthetically unappealing and harder on the eyes. I paid for the full version back when it was a one-time payment, but now they want $10/year for the Pro version, and there are constant pop up ads for that. Unfortunately, they’ve removed all the features I liked about it and just made it more annoying, so I especially don’t want to pay a monthly fee for it. I wish they’d revert it to the old app’s look, feel, and features. It used to be so great.

tsimonds

Rating: 4/5

I wish Apple would show us how much an app currently costs. (Financially-speaking.) because nothing with Best Budget has apparently changed in the past 2 years or so. As long as you’re paying no more than $1.99 then I totally recommend Best Budget. Great search functionality. One qualm I had in the past doesn’t even come to mind- so I must have found a decent workaround.