Buddy: Budget Planner App

Buddy Budgeting AB

4.71star9,408 ratings

FinanceBudgeting apps shelf$4.99–$49.99 · 7 tiersUpdated Aug 18, 2026

Biggest complaint · Sync & data

23.3%

42 of 180 negatives · store typical 2.2%

Recent reviews negative

41%

its 10 shelf rivals run 43% · 436 reviews held

Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled

Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent — a 4.71star average beside 41% negative is the finding, not an error.

5 decisions.

Investigate sync & data first

extreme · 23.3% of this app’s 180 negative reviews, against 2.2% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 23.3%; 42 of 180
its shelf: 4.9%; rivals only
store-wide: 2.2%; typical

Investigate ux

high · 9.4% of this app’s 180 negative reviews, against 2.9% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 9.4%; 17 of 180
its shelf: 7.6%; rivals only
store-wide: 2.9%; typical

Watch login & auth

elevated · 24.4% of this app’s 180 negative reviews, against 13.2% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 24.4%; 44 of 180
its shelf: 29.6%; rivals only
store-wide: 13.2%; typical

Watch accuracy

elevated · 15.6% of this app’s 180 negative reviews, against 11.5% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 15.6%; 28 of 180
its shelf: 13.1%; rivals only
store-wide: 11.5%; typical

Watch support

elevated · 11.7% of this app’s 180 negative reviews, against 9.2% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 11.7%; 21 of 180
its shelf: 10.6%; rivals only
store-wide: 9.2%; typical

Billing is left out — the theme’s vocabulary is in this app’s own name.

The shelf in numbers

All 11 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.

App	Ratings	Sync & data
Buddy: Budget Planner App	9,408	23.3%
Budget app - spending tracker	15,540	12.9%
Goodbudget Budget Planner	13,406	9.6%
Monarch: Budget & Track Money	106,114	7.7%
Copilot: Track & Budget Money	30,090	7.6%
EveryDollar: Budget Management	84,025	5.8%
YNAB	61,292	5.3%
NerdWallet: Smart Money App	124,727	4.1%
Rocket Money - Bills & Budgets	383,365	1.4%
Fleur - Budget Planner App	12,644	0%
Budget Bestie	3,097	0%

The whole shelf, counted

Every complaint across budgeting apps, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.

Read the budgeting apps report

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 shelf 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.