Canstar: Compare. Budget. Save 4+
Your all-in-one money app
Canstar
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
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Description
The all-in-one money app to streamline your finances.
Canstar is Australia’s biggest financial comparison site*. Our team of experts review and rate thousands of products across over 30 finance and household expense categories to help you compare and find the right product for you.
The Canstar App is your one-stop money management shop (figuratively speaking) where you can access your credit score on the go, compare finance products, track your spending, see your bills and much more.
Over 1.6 million Australians visit Canstar each month#
2600+ brands researched and rated for you to compare^
330+ product and service categories across banking, lending, insurance, energy, internet and more^
Features
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1. Track your credit health
Now you will be able to check your credit score on the go. What’s more, you’ll be able to see what’s impacting your score, get tips to help you maintain or improve and get access to special offers.
2. Compare finance products
The comparison function on our website will now be available in the app. This means you can compare products from 17 different finance categories to see if you could be getting a better deal on things like home loans, car insurance, credit cards and much more.
3. Real-time financial summary
See a clear picture of your real-time overall financial position when you sync your accounts to the personal finance manager (powered by Frollo) in the Canstar App.
4. Get a handle on your spending
Get familiar with your spending habits so you can decide what changes you need to make and where you can save money. With automatic categorisation, it’s simple to track your tax-deductible expenses, home renovation costs and upcoming holiday funds.
5. Stay on top of regular payments
Track your regular bills to identify the big expenses that could be worth switching providers.
6. Improve your money literacy
Show off your financial knowledge when you can read articles written by our talented journalists across a range of topics.
*We are Australia’s Biggest Financial Comparison Site. Visit www.canstar.com.au/biggest-original to learn more.
#Google Analytics for canstar.com.au and canstarblue.com.au combined, 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023.
^Source: ^Combined total from Canstar as of June 2022 and Canstar Blue as of May 2023
What’s New
Version 4.9.3
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Ratings and Reviews
Useful budgeting tool
I’m impressed with the functionality of this app and it is far superior to that offered by my bank.
A useful inclusion would be to have more flexibility around the budgeting period; for example I am paid monthly but the payment date can be anywhere between the 16th and 21st of the month meaning that some periods have two pays, and some zero.
Similarly, a bi-monthly option for bills would be good (i.e. Water Corporation bills in Western Australia).
Useless for tracking spending
I appreciate that this app is quite useful for pulling all my accounts into one space, however the whole point of having all my accounts together is to see where all my money is going over a period of time - particularly a pay period.
This app does not allow you to view past spending patterns over a specific period. If you select “my cycle” i.e your specified pay period, it only lets you start it within the last 6 days. If your pay period is a fortnight, it will display the future fortnight worth of spending, which funnily enough for most is $0. Even if you select a “monthly” period to display, it only lets you display from the start of the month, so if it happens to be the first week of the month, you can only actually see a few days worth of spending.
I can’t comprehend why they would have designed it this way. Most of the widgets on the dashboard are basically useless because of this. I can see other people have raised this issue over a year ago and they’ve made no steps to correct it.
Very disappointing.
Can’t select fortnight’s
I only just got the app, and so far it’s been very good, however, when I can’t align the travers and expenses with my pay schedule.
I get paid fortnightly, but it’s not giving me an option to select which weeks.
For example - my pay cycle is Friday 16th April to Thursday 29th April, but when I select fortnight, it only comes up with the days of the week. When I select Friday, it shows up as 23rd April - 6th May.
There isn’t any option to change this.
It would be great if it was like the pay cycle at the bottom which lets you select how often you get paid and then which day your next pay is.
That would make it a lot more accurate.
Hope this feedback is taken into consideration for future updates
Developer Response ,
Hi JessieVP1412, thanks so much for giving us your feedback. We will definitely take this onboard for future releases, as we can see how this would be beneficial. - Canstar team
App Privacy
The developer, Canstar, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Financial Info
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Canstar Pty Ltd
- Size
- 32.6 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 CANSTAR Pty Limited
- Price
- Free