What Users Really Think About Buddy: Budget Planner App

Confusing interface and frequent crashes.

"The UI is a mess, hard to navigate."

"App crashes every time I try to use it."

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.

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 wa...

I’ve tried several budgeting apps but Buddy is the only one I’ve found that allows users to create multiple independent budgets and to delegate specific purchases to different budgets, which keeps me coming back but it’s not without its tradeoffs. My biggest frustrations are the following: 1) I have...

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.

Unfortunately, the bank connection feature is almost unusable. In the transaction details, the app does not clearly show which bank account a transaction belongs to , it only displays the memo/description. As a result, you have to guess which account the transaction came from. This is a very basic a...

I love this app, super easy to use and a great design but the wallets get super messed up with positives and negatives sometimes so it gets really really confusing and frustrating to start over. It also doesn’t calculate totals correctly in the budget sections. Would also be nice if it had a web a...

I’d like to use the app but can’t afford it. It looks very user-friendly and I love the aesthetic but it’s really unfortunate it doesn’t let you know that it costs to use. Would love to return if it ever has a free plan.

I get paid every two weeks, but you can’t change your budget for each payday. It’s just a set list of your budgets. For example if I want to pay one bill for one payday and a different bill the next, this doesn’t allow you flexibility to do that. You also can’t add due dates so I would have to still...