Is there a good app for track spending against a budget?
Prime Gap: 54 apps already serve this, and 43 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
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 spending against a 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 |
| spending-rate/salary-usage tracking | missing-feature | 1 | ناقصه ميزة أنه يحط معدل للاستهلاك أو لاستعمال المرتب |
| budget linked to specific account | missing-feature | 1 | estaría bueno que se le pudiera asignar una cuenta de banco específica a un presupuesto específico |
| budgeting features | ux | 1 | it needs to improve on the budgeting part |
| invasive spending monitoring | other | 1 | They monitor every dollar you spend in your bank account and tell you what you shouldn't spend it on |
| no easy way to sort/save past budgets and back-assign costs | missing-feature | 1 | Need easier way to sort and save past budgets and send costs from previous months to their correlating budget |
| per-category budgets | missing-feature | 1 | increase the quality for budget,like set some categories in a budget |
| daily spending analysis | missing-feature | 1 | could improve with more updates like daily spending analysis |
| budgeting tools web-only | missing-feature | 1 | Бюджет на месяц, разбить трату и осталось потратить -только в веб версии |
| credit-card transactions in budget | missing-feature | 1 | Missing piece is allowing credit card transactions to be categorized in the budget |
| 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 |
| spending-data accuracy | bug | 1 | spending and saving information is wildly inaccurate |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoneyStats - Expense Tracker | 4.8 | 83 | $4.49 |
| Spending Tracker | 4.8 | 19,294 | Free |
| Budget app - spending tracker | 4.7 | 15,179 | Free |
| Budgeting App - Spend Tracker | 4.7 | 3,687 | Free |
| Expense Tracker - FinancePM | 4.6 | 35,699 | Free |
| Budgetary - Budget Planner | 0.0 | 0 | $1.99 |
| DaTrack: Daily Expense Tracker | 4.7 | 147 | Free |
| FinArt: AI Expense Tracker | 4.4 | 6,124 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 80 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
Only 3 active attempts, none above 46 stars — lightly explored with no breakout, despite a crowded adjacent budgeting market.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| codesam2005/ExpenseTracker | active | 46 | JavaScript |
| kanishkakumaravel07-max/expanse-optimizer | active | 3 | C |
| uhbhy/expense_tracker | active | 2 | Python |
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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