Use DollarBird for Simple, Easy Budgeting
There is no shortage of budgeting apps, but sometimes instead of looking for categories, charts, graphs and daily alerts that you are running over a pre-set budget or have “irregular expenses” in a certain category (ahem, mint), you just you need something simple to keep track of the money you spend.
DollarBird fills this gap. Users manually fill in their monthly budget and expenses on the calendar, and as such, this is a great app for actually tracking and cataloging your expenses. Instead of looking at the summary that the app gives you, you pay all the costs yourself.
The application is simple and intuitive to use. In the free version, you enter a monthly budget, and then each day you can add expenses (or income) to the calendar, as if you were adding an event to your iCal. You can also mark what you spent your money on and the app categorizes it for you and you can view your transactions by day, week, month or category.
You can upgrade to the version for $ 4.99 per month or $ 39.99 per year, which gives you access to more calendars (allowing you to keep track of different accounts) and allows you to collaborate with other people.
As someone who has a hard time sticking to the money app, I enjoy using it because it mimics what I already did in my planner. However, unlike the planner, my phone is always with me, which means that I can cover minor expenses that I might otherwise forget about. This is not the case for everyone, so use what works for you, but I believe that relying on Coinage invariably means that I am an ostrich every now and then, avoiding opening the app. With DollarBird, it has become a habit to enter the money I spend and know where I can make changes.
And the best part is, if you are afraid to connect all your financial accounts to the application, you do not need to connect anything. You enter information manually. Not only are things not garbled, you don’t have to worry about the app collecting all of your personal financial information. Again, use what works for you; I love the simplicity of DollarBird.