Money Manager (Remove Ads‪)‬ 4+

I’ve tried many, many budgeting apps & I can honestly say that this app provides the most insightful information, and in the most customizable and organized way. It’s incredibly user friendly, and works flawlessly.

Giving this app 5 stars despite 1 small feature request I have. Often times, when I shop, I buy grocery, household essentials, snacks, etc. All of which I like to track separately. However, then inputting the transactions, you need to enter each one. So the amount for grocery, amount for supplies, amount for snacks, etc. are 3 separate entries. I think the app should allow you enter one single entry- for example a $100 store trip. Then upon clicking the entry, you can edit the amount you spent on different categories. Then those items can be added on just like any other expense on the pie chart, without needed so many entries. If I go to the store once, but bought 5 different category items, I’d much rather see one entry rather than 5. It looks cluttered & makes me subconsciously think I’m making 5 transactions.

Small complaint though. This app is nearly perfect. I recommend it to anyone who doesn’t mind taking the time to micromanage where every dollar goes.

Money Manager is a decent money and account tracking program for the money. The free version is limited but functional, but the purchase addition unlocks additional features and expands it’s capabilities. It was only $5.99. It’s a lot cheaper than Quicken, and the one-time purchase aspect of Money Manager makes it superior to Quicken in terms of cost. Quicken is much better in several areas but it is very expensive. Here are the two improvements that I think Money Manager should make: (1) Allow it to sync data between your PC, IPad and Smart Phone. Current it doesn’t do that and that surprised me when I made entries on my smart phone that did not sync over to my I-Pad. You have to choose one device to use. (2) Allow Split transactions for purchases so that one entry can have multiple categories of expenses. For example if you shop at Walmart and buy groceries, pet food, and health and beauty products on the same receipt you should be able to allocate dollar amounts for each category for the total purchase. Money Manager doesn’t do that (as far as I can tell). My final comment is that Money Manager isn’t intuitive and it takes a bit to get used to using it and understanding how to use it. Getting the program to load a backup file is very confusing because it never really gives you the upload option, it only uses the words to backup. Very confusing, but it works. Hope this lengthy review helps others.

The app is nice enough kudos for what has been created. I know it’s a lot to design and implement an app that has the features it does have. Just a few missed features…shortcomings. 1. The app does not sync in the cloud from one device to another on my account (iPad <-> iPhone) I have to backup and then import to the devices. Boo. 2. On the transaction ledger screen you can’t sort the transactions by date visually, dated transactions are grouped together but only sorted visually in the calendar view not daily. You can’t even set it to sort ledger by date as a setting. Drives me crazy when I see the 02’s after 08’s date (the 2nd after the 8th). 3. Since they don’t have a Mac version (just web access) and you are limited what you can do from the Wi-Fi website, which they do eluded to, when u do turn on ‘Computer Manager’ (which is just web access from your device) you have to leave your device in the app settings page so you then you can not do anything from your device in that application while you have the computer Manager turned on. You have to quit. It’s easy enough to figure out how to use the app the Stats chart is nice and the ability to customize the accounts both expense and income but those simple features really need work. Also, the web version fields are cutoff and looks more like a poor Excel report version. Thanks for your hard work but it needs a lot of work and please just create a good syncing Mac version.