Investigate sync & data firstextreme
10% vs 0.9% typical store-wide.
How it compares
- this app
- 10%
- 18 of 180
- its market
- 2.2%
- rivals only
- store-wide
- 0.9%
- typical
Buddy: Budget Planner App
Buddy Budgeting AB
4.71star9,408 ratings
10%Sync & data
41%Negative reviews
Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent. A 4.71star average beside 41% negative is the finding, not an error.
Ratings.
4.5out of 5
9,449 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily
5star8,047
4star720
3star282
2star111
1star289
5 decisions.
Shares of this app’s 180 recent negative reviews.
Investigate UXhigh
12.2% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.
How it compares
- this app
- 12.2%
- 22 of 180
- its market
- 11.8%
- rivals only
- store-wide
- 4.9%
- typical
Performance is at typical. Skip it
17.8% vs 16.3% typical store-wide. Normal for the store.
How it compares
- this app
- 17.8%
- 32 of 180
- its market
- 9.9%
- rivals only
- store-wide
- 16.3%
- typical
Watch accuracy. Recount before actingelevated
2.2% vs 1.5% typical store-wide.
n = 4. Too thin to act on. We recount weekly.
How it compares
- this app
- 2.2%
- 4 of 180
- its market
- 2.5%
- rivals only
- store-wide
- 1.5%
- typical
Watch supportelevated
10.6% vs 7.8% typical store-wide.
How it compares
- this app
- 10.6%
- 19 of 180
- its market
- 7.9%
- rivals only
- store-wide
- 7.8%
- typical
Billing isleft out. The theme’s vocabulary is in this app’s own name.
The market in numbers
All 11 panel members · 2026-09-02 snapshot.
| App | Ratings | Sync & data |
|---|---|---|
 Buddy: Budget Planner App | 9,408 | 10% |
 Budget app - spending tracker | 15,540 | 5.9% |
 Goodbudget Budget Planner | 13,406 | 5.8% |
 EveryDollar: Budget Management | 84,025 | 3.8% |
 Copilot: Track & Budget Money | 30,090 | 2.7% |
 YNAB | 61,366 | 2.3% |
 Monarch: Budget & Track Money | 106,114 | 2.2% |
 NerdWallet: Smart Money App | 124,727 | 1% |
 Rocket Money - Bills & Budgets | 383,365 | 0.8% |
 Fleur - Budget Planner App | 12,644 | 0% |
 Budget Bestie | 3,097 | 0% |
The whole market, counted
Every counted complaint across budgeting apps, and the gaps nobody in this market has fixed.
Read the budgeting apps reportCounted from real App Store reviews · 2026-09-02 · nothing estimated or modelled
How this is counted
Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the market figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares, never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.