Budget Bestie

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Misleading - You have to pay to use it!!!. I don’t mind a pay to use app, but not sharing that until after I finish the whole tutorial AND make an account feels shady!!

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   It’s paid, don’t bother.. I spent 30 mins setting it up just to say I need to pay and the only option other than paying is to sign out. So I wasted all that time. All these greedy companies are awful, an app for simply tracking spending and budgeting should not have a subscription, should not even have a login.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   could’ve been cute. not only was it a headache to read with the fonts, but then it completely turned into a zoomed in screen & nothing could be done.. so no thanks

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Lied. Says it’s free, but you have to pay for a plan, and can’t create an account unless you do.

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Deceptive. To claim something is free but have you fill in all your goals and then force you to pay to even use the app is completely deceptive and intentional. They get you to put time into and then force you to pay a subscription fee to use their app. Just out of principle this is completely wrong

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Don’t get. How are you going to make me pay for a budgeting app? Try telling people that the app isn’t free BEFORE they put in all of their information. And OBVIOUSLY you aren’t making it clear enough that it is a “SuBsRiPtIoN bAsEd ApP” if there are so many people in your reviews having the same problem.

7. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Scam!!!!. I tried to do a free trial and when I clicked it it tried to charge me $9.73 I cancelled it and everything through my settings on my iPhone and it’s still trying to charge me. And I have tried everything to get it to stop trying to charge me

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Too Confusing. Had to pay $9 to even use enough of the features to make it worth it, but it was too hard to figure out anyway and too limiting. I was looking for an app where I could just create a monthly budget but this made me reload my funds every couple of weeks. Idk when exactly certain payments hit, or some are only quarterly, and this was really limiting to account for certain things like that.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Wow. Did all that just to have to pay to budget. Insane.

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Deceiving. My response to the developer: It is clear that people are being mislead according to other reviews. Almost all apps have some sort of subscription but they serve ads to generate revenue and allow the user to use the app. I'm not paying for something if I can’t experience the full app and see if it’s something I want to use my hard earned money for. My review still stands. You're collecting our data FOR FREE and your practices are deceiving. I should've read the latest reviews instead of the top ones. Once you spend 30 minutes getting everything entered, your information is held ransom by a pay wall you can't get around. I'd give this 0 stars if I could!

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    THIS IS A PAID APP. once you finish the entire process of making your account and everything, they throw the subscription at you at the very end, and you have to pay to actually use the app. don’t let it fool you if you’re expecting a free budgeting app.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Fraud. The app presents itself as somewhat free. Originally you are told to put in all your expenses. So I went in, and I put every single expense that I incurred every month, which is way over 20 expenses total. After going through the whole process, they wouldn’t let me see anything until I verified that I was paying them money. If you can’t use the app without paying money, you need to make that clear in the beginning. You are not doing anything but pissing people off by going through the effort to use your app only to find out that it is in fact, not free at all. Not make it seem as if somebody can use the app on a limited basis for free. This is not a free app. I was not expecting much, but I wish that my time wasn’t wasted trying to use it, not knowing that I wasn’t going to be able to.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    MISLEADING - ITS NOT FREE. They make you make an account, put in all of your budgeting information, give all the numbers, and then hit you with a paywall before you can use the app. It might’ve been obvious for some, but I’m annoyed that I did all that effort all for an app I’d have to pay for. Ironic for them to not include budgeting for the app with the rest of the information.

14. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    another subscription based app. The app idea is very simple, and while that’s nice, it’s just another app that hits you with a subscription cost AFTER you complete the set up.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    waste of time. i thought this double be accessible for people who wouldn’t like to spend money just to save money. guess not

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    wish there was a free or cheaper option. i was really excited to use this app as i saw it on my fyp and thought it’d be a fun and cute way to help me be mindful of my spending. although i understand that there’s a lot that goes into making an app and there needs to be some kinda profit, but i wish it would’ve been more clear about it when i downloaded the app. it took me through a whole sequence of “stuffing my envelopes” and all that stuff, just to then leave me on a paying screen. felt like a waste of time and lowered my expectations. 8.99 monthly is also just a bit much in my opinion considering this is a budgeting app. might as well just make an google sheets or use notion to track

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    cheaper subscription options needed.. it'd be awesome if there we're a cheaper option, such as $2.99 USD, in order to use the app. i'm struggling with my money and would love to use this app but $8.99 USD is too much for me. it's just making it more difficult on my end. i want to support the app though. please consider cheaper options, even if it limits a feature or two.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Budget Bestie. This app is really difficult to use and I am a collage scholar In computers and electronics this app says 4+ but they are clearly lying seeing how I cannot figure out how to use this complicated app.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    disappointing. i absolutely love the idea and the set up but seriously , $8.99 to budget digitally? it’s disappointing you have to PAY to use a BUDGETING app

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    scam. do NOT download this app. they make you fill out a lot of stuff in the beginning and them after youre done filling everything out, you HAVE to pay for a subscription.

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Must Pay to Use. You do the work to create your budget just for it to be then locked behind a paywall. Unimpressed.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Subscription Only. They make you sign up for an account and make your budget envelopes to get you invested and then they hit you with a paywall. I can see how it would be a useful way of budgeting, but I’m not paying for it… Back to Excel I go.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No free version. It makes you sign up and do x,y and z before finding out there's no free version

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Make this free!!!. I genuinely was excited to try this and I NEVER write reviews but I was supper disappointed after I set up all my little folders ready to finally make a change then boom, hit with a paywall🙄 the whole point of this app is for me to learn how to budget and save my money. And this thing I keep seeing you all respond with the whole “other users say they save more than they spend on our app” is just an easy copy and paste message you keep repeating. I honestly believe, after reading through a lot of other reviews on here, that if you all made this app free with maybe a few purchasable add ons. This app could become viral and really big and successful, more than you might be seeing now. I think that’s something that you all should really consider and then you all could be a great app that EVERYONE uses. But to the average person that doesn’t have extra money to spend and is trying to save, your message comes off as backwards and almost hypocritical. If you’re going to respond to my message don’t let it be one of your copy and paste responses, and let’s actually have that conversation.

25. ★★★★★the calendar month is the only period model, but people live on pay cycles

    Waste of time. The app seemed really good and helpful. I saw the add on tik tok. But as soon as I set everything up, it asked me to pay, and when I didn’t pay, it deleted all the stuff I had planned for the last 30+ minutes. So if you don’t what to pay for the app/ have your time wasted, then don’t download it.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Subscription based app!!. It really needs to state that it’s a subscription based app, before wasting your time setting it up. In BIG LETTERS from the get-go

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Confusing. Cant continue without subscribing. I only wanted to use the free version which I thought the app had. Unfortunately after 20 mins of confusion and setting the “stuffing” I cant continue unless I allow the 3 day free trial which is neat but I dont want it.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Mislead. Saw an ad for this on TikTok and was super excited to try it out as an alternative to my cash stuffing I do now & budgeting I do now. Went through the trial, got everything set up, and then got hit with an $8 monthly fee in order to use the app. What a joke.

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Monthly payments. Now why’d y’all make me set up all that stuff just to make me pay that makes no sense when im trying to save it would’ve paid if it was a one time payment but no its monthly or yearly I wish they averted that you need to spend money to use the app as much as they rave about how good that app is on social media

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Subscribe or sign out. it should be made clear there is a subscription way before users spend 20 minutes setting up their budget. this is misleading. the paywall or a “Try first” screen should pop up the moment you enter the app, which is what apps that require a subscription do.