Budgeting applications

sarenu1 · December 2014

Does anyone use an application to help with budgeting?

I just don't have time to keep track of everything. Even better if I can access it on my phone.

Kelly11235 · December 2014

Two of my friends swear by "You Need A Budget".

I've never used it, but they love it.

RachelCA29 · December 2014

We use Money Dance and love it. It does not have a phone app, but I think that is an advantage since you have to sit down and go through your transactions to enter them, it makes you more accountable. Great reporting and budgeting functions with running totals for your monthly expenses versus income.

One licence can be used on multiple computers for a family, so we keep the file in a shared network folder so both my husband and I can keep track of everything together.

welly01 · December 2014

I also like Mint.

flummadiddle85 · December 2014

We put income and expenses into quicken. It gives you pie charts, bar graphs, and other fancy things. You can import credit cards, bank accounts, and most things if there are online accounts available. DH does get pretty mad at it too though.

CLLDLL · December 2014

flummadiddle85 said:
We put income and expenses into quicken. It gives you pie charts, bar graphs, and other fancy things. You can import credit cards, bank accounts, and most things if there are online accounts available. DH does get pretty mad at it too though.

I used Quicken for a year back in like 2006. I really liked it. It syncs with Tax Cut for taxes too!! It did annoy me sometimes too though.

redrockmama · December 2014

We used mint when we were saving up to buy a house and living on a pretty tight budget. I don't know if it has an app, but the goals were helpful and all the various charts and reports, and it's free!

violajack · December 2014

I'm pretty deep into Quicken. I've been using it for about 10 years, so I've got a lot of history all in one place. I also use Turbo Tax for taxes and it imports from Quicken nicely. I have toyed with the idea of switching to Mint, but I use the small business version and use it to make my invoices. I like tracking all the business stuff in the same place, and having that, and all my business expenses, import into Turbo Tax. But the budgeting stuff in Quicken is fussy. I've never gotten farther than just playing with it a little. That could be a shortcoming of the software, or a shortcoming in my ability to face the reality of our budget.

RockiesNugget · January 2015

Our household likes Mint. I set everything up on the website and DH uses the app.

flummadiddle85 · January 2015

violajack said:

I'm pretty deep into Quicken. I've been using it for about 10 years, so I've got a lot of history all in one place. I also use Turbo Tax for taxes and it imports from Quicken nicely. I have toyed with the idea of switching to Mint, but I use the small business version and use it to make my invoices. I like tracking all the business stuff in the same place, and having that, and all my business expenses, import into Turbo Tax. But the budgeting stuff in Quicken is fussy. I've never gotten farther than just playing with it a little. That could be a shortcoming of the software, or a shortcoming in my ability to face the reality of our budget.

Oh yea, I should probably mention that we have a small business too. So well track all odd our expenses with it, and then we can impetus our business expenses into turbo tax. And now we're landlords too, so we can track and import tower expenses too.

MapleMomma · January 2015

I use good old fashioned excel. It works for us

unaveragejane · January 2015

This thread prompted me to discuss budgeting with DH. Apparently our credit union offers something like Mint for free, so we're going to try that. I have used Excel off and on for years, but that takes a lot of time b/c my spreadsheet skills are super rusty at this point.

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