Is there a good app for track personal budget?
Too Expensive: 112 apps already serve this, and 15 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track personal budget, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| multi-month per-category budget tracking | missing-feature | 1 | Permettre un suivi du budget plusieurs mois, et par rubrique, sur des périodes définies |
| budget linked to specific account | missing-feature | 1 | estaría bueno que se le pudiera asignar una cuenta de banco específica a un presupuesto específico |
| income budgets/planning | missing-feature | 1 | просто добавьте бюджеты по доходам, у вас уже есть по расходам бюджеты |
| budgeting tools web-only | missing-feature | 1 | Бюджет на месяц, разбить трату и осталось потратить -только в веб версии |
| per-budget widget | missing-feature | 1 | Se riusciste a mettere un bel widget per controllare i singoli budget sarebbe fantastico |
| cannot auto-track expenses for goals | missing-feature | 1 | You can only automatically track income for goals. You can't auto track expenses |
| per-category budgets | missing-feature | 1 | increase the quality for budget,like set some categories in a budget |
| paying for a budgeting app | price | 1 | $6 dollars seems a little much for a app about budgeting |
| app roasts user's finances | ux | 1 | it'll turn on you and roast you for your finances |
| custom budget period aligned to payday | missing-feature | 1 | le calendrier du 1er eu 31 de chaque mois est déroutant, ma paye est en fin de mois |
| paywall / subscription to budget | price | 1 | Why need to spend money to budget my money |
| general budget auto-allocation | missing-feature | 1 | poder poner un presupuesto de gastos general y que automáticamente los tome de ahi |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budgetary - Budget Planner | 0.0 | 0 | $1.99 |
| MoneyStats - Expense Tracker | 4.8 | 83 | $4.49 |
| Budget app - spending tracker | 4.7 | 15,179 | Free |
| DaTrack: Daily Expense Tracker | 4.7 | 147 | Free |
| Wallet: Budget Expense Tracker | 4.6 | 379,066 | Free |
| Budgeting App - Spend Tracker | 4.7 | 3,687 | Free |
| Spending Tracker | 4.8 | 19,294 | Free |
| Expense Tracker - FinancePM | 4.6 | 35,699 | Free |
Should you build it?
The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier. Opportunity here scores 42 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.
Who has tried building this
8 attempts, all active and led by an 8k-star project — a thriving, crowded space with strong incumbents to beat.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| ellite/Wallos | active | 8,053 | PHP |
| afaneca/myfin | active | 280 | TypeScript |
| Helius-Finance/helius-finance-tracker | active | 147 | Rust |
| blaiti/Wallety | active | 143 | JavaScript |
| devaldaki3/BudgetBudy | active | 113 | Dart |
| sebastienbarbier/seven23 | active | 113 | JavaScript |
| neeraj542/Personal-Finance-Tracker | active | 60 | CSS |
| azeemba/lpaid | stale | 50 | JavaScript |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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