Daily Budget Original Pro

The Daily Budget app is truly a genius approach to budgeting. Kudos to the developers, who continue to respond to their clients and provide updates. Other budgeting approaches I have tried soon became tedious and, despite my best intentions, I would find myself avoiding the dreaded “Budget”. This one is different. It is simple, user-friendly and flexible. I think the key to my success with it has been: 1) getting into the habit of recording my expenses daily; 2) creating “Big Expenses” for grocery shopping, etc., that are outside of my regular bills; and 3) making sure to record credit card expenses in the budget as they occur. Within the app, there is access to a forum on Reddit. It is really helpful to see how others are using their budget. I did purchase the upgraded version of the app which has more customizable features, which I have enjoyed. Overall a great app and useful money management tool!

A lot of apps prompt me to make reviews if I like them but I never do it because it’s a hassle. This is my first ever App Store review and I’m doing it because I’ve used this app religiously for 3 years, it’s the only budgeting solution I’ve ever found that works for me, the creators of the app listen to feedback and implement it, customer service is great—the one time I had problems I got quick responses, good help, and was given an upgrade to the pro version for free for the hassle. As far as I understand it’s kind of a one man (or at least small) production behind this app, but whoever’s running the show is doing a great job. Can take a bit of figuring out to get the app to work for you the way you want it to based on your specific circumstances, but experiment, hop on the subreddit and ask questions, or reach out otherwise to the creators and you’ll figure it out. Best app I own.

This app is great at helping me stay within my budget as it is easy to use and having a daily “allowance” with an forecast of where I will be 1 and 2 days later really helps me know exactly what I have to spend and what it will take to get back on track if I spend more than your allowance on any given day. I love that! What would make it even better would be if you were able to keep track of your exact recurring expenses in the app - for example, I added to my recurring expenses an average monthly amount for babysitting so I am less likely to get surprises in my daily allowance, but this amount does vary from month to month and it would be helpful if I could keep track of my babysitting expenses somehow in the app without the app deducting it twice from my budget. Right now I do that in a separate excel spreadsheet and that gets cumbersome and time consuming. One more thing that would make this app even better is if you had the option to add a transaction in the “transactions” tab. When I go through my credit card statement to make sure I have added everything into my app, it is really annoying and very time consuming to have to get out of the transaction tab, go into the main page, add the transaction, get out of the main page, go back into the transaction tab, then scroll down to where I left off. After several times doing this, I don’t want to continue keeping my budget up because it is such a pain! It would be so great if I could just add the transaction in the transaction tab, then continue where I left off.