Bills Manager 4+

Super simple out of the box & does everything desired perfectly 👍🏻 I picked another app “Prism” at random as the first bill tracker I tried and while it did technically accomplish the same as this app it is SO CUMBERSOME TO USE AHHHHHHH this is 1000% better in every way. Every interaction is quick & crisp, there is no extraneous information or intermediary pop-up screens/prompts/transitions to slow you down. Everything works intuitively & predictably. I got everything migrated over in about 1/8th the time it took me to set up in the other app, and the available features are better too. 👌🏻 The customization options are good — adequate without being exhaustive. Maybe a few more icons to choose from would be nice, some of the provided ones are pretty weird! (NOTE: the far right column of icons is partially cut off on the 5.4” iPhone screen 🐛🐜🪲🐞) All the provided sections & features of the app are useful & everything is nicely laid out and easy to understand. It achieves what it is meant to with no overreach at all. It’s so nice!!! Thanks a lot! 😊 One small gripe: it can be easy to grab the wrong column in the date picker when setting the due date. And a suggestion: a different-color dot to indicate current day in calendar view, and also showing the bills list underneath the calendar when a date is selected rather than in a new view (this part of the interface is not so crisp as it stands). Thank you goodbye!

I use to keep my bills on an Excel spreadsheet on a flash drive. Long story short, broken the flash drive moving computer and of course, I was not backing up my flash drive. First thought was I don’t believe this, but, with God’s help, I did not panic. Sat on it a couple days then felt led to look for an app to help me manage my bills. The Holy Spirit led me to $Bills Manager (first one I tried) and so far I am pleased with it it thus far. Now I have everything on my iPad and do not have to have both my computer and iPad to pay my bills. Also, I do not travel with my computer and now I can check on my bills anywhere.

PS....my spreadsheet lined up with my checking account and therefore I knew a month in advance how much money needed to be in there to pay my bills at the beginning of each month. It was good, but I could only do it at home. Now I can go to $Bills manager, see what’s do over the next week and make sure the money is in the bank.

Although I loved my spreadsheet, I feel I've moved forward with technology.

Like many other reviewers here, I put in some time trying many apps to simply track my bills – not to create a budget. This is the best I’ve come across, by far. It’s minimalist, elegant, and pleasing to the eye.

It’s a simple bill manager. I use it for 8 of my major bills currently. I highly recommend second excellent app called “Bobby” for subscriptions as well as small bills under 20 bucks. Between them I have a handle on all my bills, major and minor.

I would just advise the developer to respond to every negative criticism in appstore reviews, all of which are rooted in just a couple common problems:

One is the lack a checkbox for “no expiration“ on recurring bills (no end date). If this cannot be done, explain it in a help section and in the appstore description. People are forgetting or don’t understand they can set an expiration date a decade or two out. It’s easy to miss.

The second is people thinking they’ve lost their data when they switch phones, not realizing they can restore from a Dropbox backup. Again, the developer should simply explain this more clearly both in an in-app help section, as well in the app description here in the App Store.

Congrats to this developer for really making a tidy, intuitive app with just the right amount of options, but not too many. It just does what it does so much better than Mint’s bloat, for example. An incredibly useful app, thank you!