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Trying to figure out whether or not you can afford that three-course dinner at your favorite Japanese cuisine restaurant is often like looking into a foggy, financial crystal ball. Through mind calculations and premonition abilities, a cloudy future of possible misfortune and potential prosperity is displayed, leaving you wondering which path to follow.
Turns out, your financial future doesn’t have to be so mystifying. With the right app, you have the ability to conveniently see how much you can spend and save in a day.
Here are five of the best budgeting and personal finance apps that can help you create – and stick – a budget.
By securely connecting to your bank and credit card accounts, PocketGuard is able to examine your monthly expenses and income and automatically calculate how much you can afford to spend on a single day. This makes your personal budget management easy and understandable. The free app is available on Android and iOS.
Home Budget with Sync is a great app for the entire family. Available on your Kindle, Android and iOS devices, this app not only allows you to sync everyone’s income and expenses through its family-sharing feature, but it also allows you to set a house budget that everybody can follow. It tracks spending patterns and helps manage expenses. The app is $5.99.
Level Money is a free, easy-to-use app that not only connects with your financial accounts – tracking expense and calculating what’s “spendable” – but it also helps you reach a savings goal by allowing you to allot a certain percentage of your income to savings. As the site advertises, “It works like a financial GPS, getting you from where you are, to where you want to be.” Level Money is available on both Android and iOS.
This visually appealing app is a must-have if you like to log your bills and receipts. With its photo-snapping feature, Spendee logs your expenses into specific categories and tracks your spending. Aside from expense logging, you can create specific wallets that are available to share with important people in your life. Another great feature is the Travel Mode option that supports all currencies and makes expense tracking easy while abroad. The app is free, but you can upgrade to a Premium account for just $1.99/month. It is available on Android and iOS.
Expensify is a free, simple-to-use expense report app that is perfect for the business traveler. Accessible on Android and iOS, this app not only lets you manually log your spending while away on business, but it also creates real-time expense reports and can detect duplicate costs that may have been reported. It also has an automatic currency conversion feature and allows you to input mileage.
Figuring out what you can and can’t spend doesn’t have to be so premonitory and cryptic. With these apps, budgeting is both easy and realisitic.
