Let me tell you- all of the previous reviews are old. I’ve been on this app for the since 2019 & will honestly be here until I die. Hoping it lasts that long. 🙏🏽 I’ve been searching for a way to understand my spendings between categories, month over month & watching my budget. This is everything & more. I love the personalization that I can add my own catergories, mark a specific merchant as something once and never have to touch it again & even exclude things like transactions between my accounts. This is the app if you’re anal about how you spend your money & it even helps if I want to budget for let’s say shopping. I love it. Please note I am a premium user & to me it’s worth it. But I’m sure the free version is equally as good. The other apps mint, your bank, random ones only work if you have a goal. But for me, I want to know where, what & compare my spendings month over month so I can see how I’m doing. Or if I need to stop spending! Anyway highly recommend. And two last things- 1) they’re IT or support literally responds within 48 hours. You’re never left hanging and no question is stupid. 2) the app is constantly evolving. It’s not the same as it was two years ago, it’s better! If there’s a bug, report it! If you have a suggestion, suggest it! I love all the latest updates & it really helps me think of how I’m spending my money which was my ultimate goal. Thank you!!

I’ve literally never written a review for an app before, but I had to because I felt so strongly about the quality of this app. I used mint for a long time bc it was free and got the job done, but recently, Mint stopped supporting my bank (USAA). So, I was on the market for a new budgeting app and stumbled upon PocketGuard. I have to say, I’m extremely impressed. I love the ability to save for my goals without having to think about it. I love how it calculates my estimated monthly income so that I don’t have to do the mental math when it comes to budgeting. I love the notifications it gives me when I spend too much on a particular category. I love the customizable budget categories (not an option under Mint). This is truly the greatest budgeting app I’ve ever used, and I’ve been budgeting my money very persistently for about a decade now. Also, the customer service is probably the best I’ve ever come into contact with, across any business or platform. You have a question? Email them and you’ll get a response back within 24 hours. In fact I emailed them once with a question and received a response back within 30 minutes. Overall, this is a fantastic budgeting app and I couldn’t recommend it more.

Works way more simple than rocket money, ynab, etc. does and I have TWO jobs which means, have you guessed it? TWO sources of regular income. the biggest reason I got rid of the other budgeting apps I tried out was because you couldn’t have more than one scheduled repeatable income source, which means my projected weekly budgets were not correct and I had to mentally remember to add the income from my other job to every budget because inevitably all the budgets would end up projecting negative amounts in them because half of my income was missing. it’s nice that this app lets me have both of my jobs. However there are two issues I have with this app: 1. this app doesn't have a calendar function. I really like when the budgeting apps have a calendar built into the app so you can open it and visually see what your bills are going to be for that week with your projected income to see if you'll have enough money. A basic check list of my upcoming bills is about as useful as me writing out a list of my upcoming bills on paper which obviously didn’t help me much or I wouldn’t have bothered downloading an app. 2. There’s not an option for a light theme. I cannot stand dark themes, I personally find them annoying and difficult to read because I keep my screen brightness down fairly low to avoid eye strain and conserve battery making it irritating to try and navigate around a dim black phone screen.