10 Best Apps to Control Your Finances

 If you are one of those people who find it difficult to efficiently manage their money and have control over income and expenses, these  best expense tracker apps  will help you avoid surprises.

Savings and financial planning applications are tools that make it easy to keep personal accounts in order and manage savings efficiently. 

A big step from those heavy Excel spreadsheets that need to take notes of all the operations, that take so much time and in which we always end up forgetting something. 

Nowadays, with mobile applications, you can control all the transactions of different banking entities on a single screen and, in addition, most of them are free and totally secure. 

Here are the 10 Best Apps to Control Your Finances

1. Fintonic



A very “friendly” application (friendly or easy to use) and one of the most popular. Notify if there are any strange movements (discovered, commission charges, unusual income), send personalized messages and everything wrapped in an attractive design. 

It groups all expenses by categories: gasoline, electricity, loans or insurance and allows us to know how much we are paying for them, as well as the option of looking for other cheaper alternatives. Available for Android and IOS.

2. Spendee

It has been chosen several times as one of the best expense  tracker alternatives due to its design and the functions it offers. 

It allows planning expenses with certain alerts and limits. It also controls cash disbursements to be able to keep an up-to-date record of actual spending. 

As an additional benefit, you can create a fund to share expenses with your partner, family and friends. Available for Android and IOS.

3. 1Money



You can add transactions, make budgets and change currencies. It automatically generates reports that show where the money spent is going and how our savings account has grown - or not - over the weeks. 

The data can be synchronized in the cloud so that it can be accessed from anywhere and through any device. Available for Android.

4. Mint



One of the most valued. Connect all bank accounts, track expenses, analyze consumption habits and give recommendations to reduce them. 

Through this application it is possible to set monthly goals and savings, as well as schedule reminders of future payments. Generate graphs on the evolution of our personal economy by periods to see them from a comparative and conscious perspective at all times. Available for Android and IOS.

5. Wallet 



With a very neat, visual, easy and intuitive interface. The application allows you to compare the evolution of expenses and income from month to month, to know at a glance how they are distributed and, in addition, it performs an analysis to optimize daily disbursements and improve financially through comparative graphs with previous periods. 

In addition, it establishes scheduled payments, to have a visual knowledge about what we have to face next. 

Prepare budgets, control debts, make shopping lists and set savings goals, among others. Available for Android and IOS.

6. MyValue 

Gather all the bank accounts and show the money available to consume taking into account recurring expenses. Very useful for making forecasts and budgets. 

It informs about how our investments are going, what is the value of our house or car, etc. 

With a very visual development where you can see and recognize by icons the expense that we have made in a supermarket or the issuer of the receipt that they have charged us. 

It can differentiate in which category we spend the most and which provider we are paying the most money to. Available for Android and IOS.

7. MoneyWiz

Although it is easy to use for beginners, this app is packed with features for the professional user. 

In addition to monitoring the accounts, it makes forecasts about our financial behavior in the future. MoneyWiz can be used from any desktop or laptop computer. 

Releases new updates with new features almost every week. Available for IOS.

8. Toshl Finance

It allows you to create different budgets per month, week or day, depending on the needs. 

In addition, it advises of expenses and income and can be exported to Excel, Word, Google Docs, Text file or PDF. 

It allows us to write down the expenses right at the moment in which we make them, thus avoiding the hassle of having to remember what we have spent those missing euros on. 

It offers the possibility of calmly analyzing our finances from the comfort of the computer and not only from the mobile. Available for Android and IOS.

9. Money Lover 

One of the most popular and most complete, very multifunctional. It has budget planning, notifications and organization of expenses by different categories. 

Another aspect to highlight is the detailed monitoring that can be done on debts and loans that we have, as well as the option to create shared portfolios with friends or family, and even a "travel mode", designed for those who are going to spend a time away from your country. 

Likewise, it offers the possibility of creating backup copies in Dropbox. Available for Android and IOS.

Conclusion...

These ten financial apps are a selection of the most used, but there are countless of them. 

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