Apps to Track Your Spending Habits

When it comes to managing our money, some of us need more guidance than others. Whether it’s poor spending habits or you just simply aren’t saving as much as you should, there’s some technology out there that can help. These are some apps to track your spending habits and help you be more financially responsible.

Mint

This apps helps you create different budgets by showing you your spending habits broken down by category. When you’re nearing the edge of your budget, Mint will show you in the form of brightly colored graphs.

• Free: Yes
• Links to Bank Accounts: Yes

BillGuard

This app keeps track of your spending habits by category, location, and month. You even can get free access to your credit score and add on credit monitoring and identify theft protection tools.

• Free: For the basic use; for the credit monitoring and identity theft add-ons, it’s $83.88 a year.
• Links to Bank Accounts: Yes

Dollarbid

This app let’s you add past or future expenses and income to see how your spending habits affect your overall account balance and breaks down the purchases by category.

• Free: Yes
• Links to Bank Accounts: No

Fudget

This app is better suited for those of you who have a pretty good handle on your finances but want to be a bit more organized. It works very well for planning short term budgets for trips and tracking work expenses.

• Free: Yes; you can also pay $1.99 for a version without ads that features an in-app calculator and exports.
• Links to Bank Accounts: No

As helpful as these apps are, there’s no amount of software that can replace the expertise of a human being. At American Investment Planners LLC, we make it a priority to help you prepare for the best financial future possible. From managing your cash to estate planning, we’re here to help with anything you may need. To schedule an appointment with one of our advisors, please call (516) 932-5130 or email info@americaninvestmentplanners.com.