Spend – Personal Budgeting

Spend is a budgeting app and it’s a very thorough app for its $.99 price tag. It’s taken some focus for me to figure out exactly how to use it. I’d highly recommend visiting the website for the app (http://www.adamcode.com/spend/index.html). Scroll to the bottom of the webpage and you’ll see a link for the FAQ section, it’ll walk you through setting up your budgets. Once I read through that the app started to make sense. I’m not even going to try and explain how you go through all the steps to create/edit a budget because I know I’d only end up confusing everyone. So visit the FAQ for the site and hopefully the light bulbs will go off for you too.

Overall I’m happy with Spend. I’m going to have to carve out some time to get all my budgets entered and setup but once I’ve done that it’ll be easy to keep track of expenses. I really like the idea of having my budgets on my iPhone, it might help when I’m in Costco and debating back and forth whether I need something or not. I can pull up Spend and see what damage that big bag of M&Ms is going to cause. Damage to my budget that is – my thighs are a whole other story.

One nitpicky complaint – the plus sign that you use to add things to your budget is at the bottom of the screen. I’m sure there’s a design reason for this but it feels odd to me. I’m so used to that plus being in the same spot on most other apps that it’s taking some getting used to with Spend.

Lastly, something I’d like to see in future updates – a way to share your budget with another iPhone user. My husband and I both dine out somewhat frequently, but not often together. It’d be nice to be able to share a budget and both enter in expenses that’d then show up on the other’s iPhone. Something along the lines of what Grocery Gadget has done with their app.

Price when Reviewed: $.99

Available at iTunes

Seller: Adam Williams