Fortune City: Expense Tracker 12+

First of all, the icon for this app really sets up what the app is going to be about. It’s fun-looking, like a game, but it also has a serious name and a pencil in the design to indicate that the app does involve tracking and budgeting. The App Store description does a good job, and the app itself is so user friendly and cute. I would say this app is for anyone needing motivation or just starting out trying to budget. It makes it fun to pay attention to how money is spent, and the collection aspect is very addicting. The app is free and very professionally done.

The main focus of the app is motivating people to engage in mindful spending by having users track their expenses. By being aware of what you are spending, you can build a better budget plan. The design is absolutely adorable, and it uses a lot of game mechanics to create a motivating experience. The content, however, can be a little complicated to understand. I found that it throws you right into the game. Some scaffolded learning may benefit users. That being said, it was easy to navigate and use, the cost was perfect, and many people love this app, myself included.

I find this app to be both fun and useful. As I make purchases throughout my day I will log them into the game and have been able to categorize each one to my specifications. There are major categories and subcategories in order to track your purchases. It does incur you to spend more IRL just to gain new building types, but it’s not necessary, because those will come with time.
The free version itself offers a good range of capabilities, but for a few bucks a month you can also use more extensive graphing features, which is quite helpful for long-term budgeting.
The game interface on top of that is quite easy to maneuver and play around with. Even when not doing anything with your city for a day, you workers will build additional parks to liven things up.
Overall, I absolutely enjoy this app, and would also recommend some of the partner apps as well, Walkr and Plant Nanny. Those encourage positive and healthy daily routines, like exercise and drinking more water. Thank you dev. team! Well done!

I've been using this app daily for almost 2 years. The game part of it is only really a passing piece of entertainment and sort of a silly visualizer for my financial choices. It's only somewhat useful as an app if you aren't paying the 20$/year for the full app, though I still don't use Owdy's features (frequency), and I only barely understand Fisher's (necessity?). I personally especially like the fox's section in the full app, since it allows you to compare "trends" in certain categories or specifically tagged purchases overtime.

That said, I am desperate to be able to zoom out further when looking at my city. It is abysmal to manage an overgrown city (or even a functioning city) without being able to see it all, or even half of it all, at once. I also really would appreciate an "automerge" function. There's mass recycling of buildings, but nothing to expedite the merging process, even though it can tell me clearly where each specific tier of building is on the map. These two functions alone being added would make the game part of this app 1000x more enjoyable in my opinion.