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EasyBudget - Budget planning
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Top complaints - extracted from 29 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"paid"
7 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paid for this app but STILL served ADS! Edit: Also took away my ability to back up to the cloud so I cannot even download an older version. Note that ads showed up and Premium was removed remotely WITHOUT updating the app." - John Wayne
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"version"
7 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paid for this app but STILL served ADS! Edit: Also took away my ability to back up to the cloud so I cannot even download an older version. Note that ads showed up and Premium was removed remotely WITHOUT updating the app." - John Wayne
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"month"
7 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendo…" - Wendy Dailey
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"subscription"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendo…" - Wendy Dailey
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"star"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendo…" - Wendy Dailey
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"been"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I have loved this app for a few years now. Paid the reasonable monthly fee to have the check boxes, backup, etc. I logged today and I'm overrun with ads. Checked to see if I needed to log back in. No, the price has gone up to $15 a month wi…" - Jenn Bradford
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"free"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendo…" - Wendy Dailey
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"price"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendo…" - Wendy Dailey
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"budget"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "awesome app, but a $15 wkly charge is ridiculous and ironic for a budgeting app." - Deborah “Deb” Elaine
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"premium"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paid for this app but STILL served ADS! Edit: Also took away my ability to back up to the cloud so I cannot even download an older version. Note that ads showed up and Premium was removed remotely WITHOUT updating the app." - John Wayne
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"review"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendo…" - Wendy Dailey
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"simple"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I agree with the other users. I liked the app before the ads started. The ads are annoying. I wanted a simple way to track the money in my checking account. I don't know if there is a simple way to have something similar to a spreadsheet be…" - Susie S
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Paid for this app but STILL served ADS! Edit: Also took away my ability to back up to the cloud so I cannot even download an older version. Note that ads showed up and Premium was removed remotely WITHOUT updating the app.
I recently paid for a monthly subscription, but I got a new email address, and now it won't let me subscribe back to that monthly subscription for $2.18 per month. Now it's 14.99/weekly after trial. Who can afford that? The ads are horrendous for the free version, but these devs are offering to keep removing the ads and keep the checkboxes for only $780/yr vs the previous price of $26/yr. My old 5 star review: I couldn't stay on track without it!! It's one of the most used apps have! Love it!
awesome app, but a $15 wkly charge is ridiculous and ironic for a budgeting app.
I have $1.99/mo subscription for this, and now suddenly the app is ignoring that, and saying I need to $14.99/mo for this! And devs, don't you dare give me the same canned response you're using for all the other 1-star reviews. That's an absurd price for any subscription, much less a mere budget planner. You're not Netflix. You're a glorified calendar with a calculator built in. There's no reason for that level of pricing.
As others have said, it used to be great. Now it's an ad filled, vastly overpriced mess. Shame.
paid for the app years ago and it was great! referred it to everyone, used it daily. recently got a new phone and now the app is full of ads and it's 14.99/weekly to use the app?!? and you took away the check mark box. awful app now. Worse then ever now.
The app used to be great when it was $5 a month. $60 a month is ridiculous! The free version is useless as it is overtaken by a game that you cannot back out of.
EDIT: purchased premium version in the past and is now it's gone as they switched to a subscription model. Features are great but being a budget app and wanting you to pay per month to use is wild. Having to view ads before using the free app is insane having paid for a premium version. I have reached out to support and have not heard anything in over a month. Great app for tracking income when living paycheck to paycheck Wish it had an option for weekly or bi weekly income/expenses
I have loved this app for a few years now. Paid the reasonable monthly fee to have the check boxes, backup, etc. I logged today and I'm overrun with ads. Checked to see if I needed to log back in. No, the price has gone up to $15 a month with no notice. Deleting the app and now on the hunt for something different. update to clarify. I have been a premium user for a long time. My premium membership is now gone and I'm expecting to pay $15 a month instead of the reasonable rate it used to be.
Impossible to use after changes. Price is ridiculous
This app is no good A ad for a game comes on and after 5 minutes still going stay away from this app
This app used to be worthwhile. However, the free version has been overrun by ads and the premium subscription costs more per year than Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Dashpass COMBINED. If you're trying to get your budget in order, my best advice is to not pour money down the drain on a budget app.
It was great until..so I been paying their low monthly cost membership to get the checkboxes enabled and data backup. While it had some hiccups throughout the year of using it, like the account kept desyncing, where it doesn't recognized you got an paid version. so I must uninstall and reinstall. NOW I get ads (eventho paying), and no way to login to get my info back & now it wants the NEW $20 per week subscription instead. Edit: their support is no help. ignored me.cant get my info back. sad.
I loved this app. it was perfectly simple. Now after the update the tick marks the check off when you've reviewed a transaction are gone. I had been paying 1.99 a month for the upgraded version now im basic to the basic and the upgraded version is 14.99 a week! thats ridiculous! I will be deleting
Once the perfect budget app. Simple, clear and no nonsense. Now they're showing ads and the payed option is outrageously expensive. They also have constant pop-ups where they ask for a review. So here you go. I've edited my old one from 2020. You've gone from 5 stars to 1 star for being obnoxious with ads and for not having a payed option that is at least decently priced. It would have been worth it if the price was right.
decent and simple budgeting app but its a very frustrating user experience with the full screen ads upon every load up it used to only do that occasionally, now it's every single time you open the app
ads
A year ago I rated this app 5 stars but since the Ads have pretty much taken over, I am changing my rating to 1 star. Really disappointed. I'll be looking for a new app to use.
This has been my favourite budget app for a couple of years now. I did subscribe for 1.99 a month and cancelled for a month and now it's £9.99 a week! and ads are happening all the time. I am sad I will be looking for a new budget app.
Here's a budgeting tip: don't spend $780 on this app! The ads are so intrusive it's insulting. I don't mind banner ads, but launching a fullscreen ad the moment you open the app is absurd. Even the trashiest mobile games let you play a bit before they start pelting you with forced ads The developers dismiss every negative review with a nearly identical reply, so I doubt they'll be improving the ads or pricing in response to feedback. I'll delete and find a better app that has less greedy devs
I can't get past the ads. Since they added ads, you open the app and immediately an ad opens which wouldn't be too bad if it were a normal ad. 4 times I tried opening the app and all 4 times it went into one of those ads that you have to play the game for a while before it lets you close the ad and access the app. If that wasn't annoying enough, the x to close the ads never appeared. I closed and restarted the app 4 times. Same thing every time. This app is useless if you can't get past the ad.
I'm changing my five stars to one star because as soon as I rated you guys five stars anytime I try and open the app it goes directly to some sort of game or add and I can't even use the app anymore I'm so frustrated so thanks but no thanks
$60 a month. what a joke
I agree with the other users. I liked the app before the ads started. The ads are annoying. I wanted a simple way to track the money in my checking account. I don't know if there is a simple way to have something similar to a spreadsheet because that's all I need. BTW, virus alert came up the last time I opened up the app so I ended up deleting it. I'm going to have to start over with something else.
the ads have worsened my experience
I really like the app to track cash flow. I would love to support with a subscription, but $15 a week is effin outrageous. Please let me know if you want to offer something more reasonable.
Does what I need ..list out each day in calendar formate & calculate my expenses to income such as Doordash meals, which one meal can be 50 dollars, or a bill. T Be 5 stars if I could do seperate tracking of two or more Financial accounts..such as investments, with compound intrest cal., vs savings and checking accounts otr even crypto tracking...that way I can see rather or not I can stop investing to do savings & so on. Started opening ads in browser and can't stop it.
unskippable ads on start up. doesn't send any type of notification/reminder that a payment is due. No Check box to mark if it was paid or not. I just went back to my older app but transferred it to my new phone. this is almost the full solution I was looking for but not all the features I wanted.
I deleted my 5 star review due to it being impossible to get out of the ads. I get it if they need ads so it remains free but at least give us the option to click out of them! Some of them do allow me to after waiting a little bit but others only give me an option to go to the app store to download games and nothing else. So frustrating. May need to uninstall and find a different app.
Sentiment summary
70%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
28%
Negative (1-2★)