Budget Buddy

Budget Buddy Free App

Rated 4.40/5 (157) —  Free Android application by Denver Searle

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About Budget Buddy

What if there was an app that could auto-magically track your budget for you? What if this app could capture your income/expenses based on incoming bank sms's? Say hello to Budget Buddy!!

Gone are the days of manually tracking your budget - let Budget Buddy do it for you.

How Budget Buddy Works: you tell Budget Buddy what your budget categories are (Groceries R2000, Eat Out R800, etc), and which words in your bank sms's links to which category (e.g PnP, Spar links to Groceries | KFC, Steers links to Eat Out). Budget Buddy then categorizes your incoming bank sms's into the correct category and tracks your spending against each category allowing you to see exactly where your money is spent.

1. Auto Capture Expenses from bank sms's
- Budget Buddy listens for incoming bank sms's and auto-magically create's the expense for you. Gone are the days of manually adding expenses.

2. Auto-categorize your expenses based on words in the bank sms
- Each budget category can be linked to multiple words for easy categorization of your expenses as they arrive via sms. You can also teach Budget Buddy how to categorize as your go along.

3. Split your expenses
- Allows you to split a expense if needed. For example PnP R400 = Groceries R300 & Clothes R100

4. Choose how want to track your spending
- Track your spending vs your Budget or Income.

5. Supports all major South African Banks
- Works with bank sms's from ABSA, Nedbank, FNB, Standard Bank, Capitec, Discovery Card, Woolworths Credit Card, Investec*, RMB*... more to come.

6. No Internet connection needed
- Budget Buddy does not require a internet connection.

7. Data securely stored on your device only
- All you budget/expense information is stored safely on your device only.

8. No bank logins details required
- Because not all of us are comfortable with sharing our bank logins.

9. Latest Bank Balance
- View your latest bank balance straight from within the app.

10. No Ads!!
- To save on your data costs - another way Budget Buddy helps you save ;)

*Please feel free to suggest improvements to Budget Buddy and please share it with others*

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How to Download / Install

Download and install Budget Buddy version 3.0.0 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.deesoft.mobile.budgetnow, download Budget Buddy.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
25-July-2017
1. Major updates have been done to fix the errors in the newer Android versions (Marshmallow and Nougat) - thank you for your patience.
2. If you experience any further errors, please let us know via the mail address: denver.searle@gmail.com
Once all the errors have been fixed, we will start focusing on what you our Budget Buddy'ers have requested like "Export to Excel", "Multiple Bank Accounts", etc.
Thank you for your support and making Budget Buddy what it is.
Version update Budget Buddy was updated to version 3.0.0
More downloads  Budget Buddy reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update Budget Buddy was updated to version 1.7.4
More downloads  Budget Buddy reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads

What are users saying about Budget Buddy

H70%
by H####:

This is a great app. Would give it 5stars if the app was about to differentiate between the expense and income, so that I don't need to worry about changing my income everytime there's one

U70%
by U####:

Just started using app and it is pretty good. I don't mind purchasing additional budget categories as pricing is acceptable. Only problem is the app only draws (or sees) certain transactional sms's from my bank. My bank uses a different sms numbers for different types of activities witin my accounts. I would love to see, for example, EFT's coming in and or out. The info on my banks sms regarding how much is left in my accounts is also handy and could be used within the app.

U70%
by U####:

I would rate it a 5 star if there was an export to Excel or csv. Other than that it is great. Thanks

U70%
by U####:

Its convenient, user friendly and professional aswell

U70%
by U####:

I never rate any app before. I couldn't leave this left unrated.

K70%
by K####:

Better than I thought it would be,try it out.

U70%
by U####:

Simple the best

C70%
by C####:

Love it

U70%
by U####:

You have to pay for extra categories! Ridiculous.

U70%
by U####:

Very nice please add to lync transactions and balance with your online app notifications also. Would be great

U70%
by U####:

Best app eva,works perfectly

U70%
by U####:

The best !

U70%
by U####:

I like the functionality but it's not automatically picking up my bank SMSs. Also it would be great to be able to rename the "Other" category.

L70%
by L####:

Ek het alle afdelings gedoen maar ek kry nêrens waar inkomste wys

U70%
by U####:

Best app so far. Budget in my pocket !!!!! Great

L70%
by L####:

Great app

U70%
by U####:

Really like it, very helpful, would like if it can scan notifications and not just the message inbox... Ie banking app notifications as amounts smaller than R101 do not show up I'm sure with the great work it will pop up soon, but just putting it out there Great work thank you

U70%
by U####:

Great way to keep track of cashflow.

U70%
by U####:

Awesome and simple app, but i have an issue, i get weekly account balances and it sees it as an expense. how can i set it up to ignore these? Would be nice to choose to include or ignore custom sms search terms?

U70%
by U####:

Hi. Thank you for the app and the time you have invested. I think another suggestion could be to perhaps you have an optional user registration platform where a user can have more than one device, and also where two users can for instance in some categories have a combined budget and other categories an individual budget, for instance an husband and wife both working (or perhaps only one partner workin with a combined account to pay the basics, but each user may also have there own portion of the budget that they feel they would like to do and plan their own things with - that portion of the combined income that is allocated to each user and they may do with that portion what they like. It's almost a main structure sub structure idea. Anyway, hope it helps. Thank you for your app. Best regards.

U70%
by U####:

Great app for expense tracking. Great support on top of it as well!

D70%
by D####:

Great app. Simple clean.

J70%
by J####:

Great app that will definitely help me to manage my budget better. It is easy to use and I love that it automatically submits entries from your sms's received, makes it so much easier! Thanks!!!

K70%
by K####:

I love this app!!

B70%
by B####:

Awesome app! Well done Denver, I think you can make this global

V70%
by V####:

You have to BUY extra catogories? How is that free

A70%
by A####:

I love it, it amazing

Z70%
by Z####:

Great.

U70%
by U####:

Please improve the following, the option to delete categories, add once off budget, category for income... By once off budget i mean budget that is not recurring.

O70%
by O####:

Works like a charm.

U70%
by U####:

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you.

U70%
by U####:

So good and simple that I wouldn't mind paying for it again (if Google adds South Africa to the Google Merchant list) :)

L70%
by L####:

Thank you Denver, for a job well done! I can see all the additional categories that I had purchased. Can I suggest that you get the app to generate a shorter sequencial reference code (say max 10 charecters) because the EFT payment ref space is limited. This will ensure that future clients don't prematurely blame your app for not working, like I did - apologies. Overall great app!! I am certainly going to get my family and friends to install. Thank you once more!!!

U70%
by U####:

While individual budgets amounts are showing the budget total for Jan 2017 does not show, nor the expenditure total. The bar chart for Jan 2017 is not yet showing. Regards Peter What about showing individual categories in the Bar Chart as well as the Pie Chart? Could warn us that more categories come at a cost but particularly impressed that after cleaning out my phone my extra budget categories came back. Thank you Denver.

U70%
by U####:

Awesome App

D70%
by D####:

Worth the try

U70%
by U####:

Google app but not syncing my fnb sms's pls fix this minor issues for xapitec always detect from savings account but the is a ref after that message but I rally like this app thanx my guy

P70%
by P####:

Can not add autolink words manually, to category. When item in "other" category is edited by editing the text, and autolink to category, is selected, then the word(s) is added. When refreshing the transactions, the new autolink transactions is not categorised. This makes it very tedious to use.

U70%
by U####:

What's the purpose of this app? It cannot differentiate expenses and income. All you get is transaction updates, you don't see money spent and available balance. I will settle for my bank notifications, thank you very much.

U70%
by U####:

Thanks it's now working with all accounts


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