Is there a good app for track cash expenses manually?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
72
Opportunity /100
84
Demand /100
98
Competition /100
78
Execution gap /100
21
Apps serving it
19
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track cash expenses manually, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no manual cash expense entry | missing-feature | 1 | How can I keep track of my cash if I can’t write down my expenses |
| biweekly expense tracking option | missing-feature | 1 | would be nice to have a bi-weekly expense tracking option |
| too complicated to track expenses | ux | 1 | Too complicated for trying to simplify something that is already tedious |
| no way to record cash transactions | missing-feature | 1 | There is zero way to record cash transactions at all |
| no clear way to manually input spending amount | ux | 1 | trying to figure out how to manually input the amount that I’m spending, but there doesn’t seem to be a way |
| too many steps to create expense from receipt | ux | 1 | Why do I have to hit so many buttons to create an expense from a receipt? |
| no simple manual bill/budget entry and tracking | missing-feature | 1 | I JUST WANT TO ENTER MY BILLS AND BUDGETS MANUALLY AND TRACK MY PROGRESS WHY IS THAT SO HARD |
| income tracking - see money coming in | missing-feature | 1 | I wish you could put in your pay day and put in how much money you make and see what's coming in and going out |
| manual expense entry takes far longer | ux | 1 | This new version takes 10X longer to submit a manual expense |
| cannot auto-track expenses for goals | missing-feature | 1 | You can only automatically track income for goals. You can't auto track expenses |
| rating prompt after every expense | ux | 1 | Every time I input an expense I am interrupted by the App asking me to rate the app |
| insufficient app complexity for income vs expense tracking | ux | 1 | way too basic of an app to use for keeping track of income versus expenses. The layout and organization is just not easy to determine |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Money Manager Expense & Budget | 4.8★ | 18,025 | Free |
| Spending Tracker | 4.8★ | 19,164 | Free |
| SimplyWise: Receipts, Expenses | 4.9★ | 35,466 | Free |
| NerdWallet: Smart Money App | 4.8★ | 123,552 | Free |
| EveryDollar: Budget Management | 4.7★ | 83,779 | Free |
| Expensify - Travel & Expense | 4.6★ | 154,019 | Free |
| Hours Tracker: Time Tracking | 4.8★ | 54,960 | Free |
| Hours Tracker: Time Calculator | 4.7★ | 76,887 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 72 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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