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Add to SafariWhen comparing BillGuard vs Money Lover - Money Manager, the Slant community recommends Money Lover - Money Manager for most people. In the question“What are the best personal finance tracker apps for Android? ” Money Lover - Money Manager is ranked 4th while BillGuard is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Money Lover - Money Manager is:
Money Lover is not connected to the users bank accounts. By not being connected that means users have to manually input (at least once) their recurring transactions or singular transactions..
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Pros
Pro Nice User Interface
While it may not use the lollipop design guidelines, it still has a clean, simple, elegant interface.
Pro Strong protection against fraudulent activity
Many finance applications have this feature but BillGuard was designed to be first an applications that protects you against fraud and second finance tracker. BillGuard's data breach alert will send an alert if the application believes that a card's information has been hacked. Users can also help to report fraudulent charges to improve the service. If a gray charge is encountered, BillGuard will contact the merchant directly.
Pro Read-only access
BillGuard has a focus on privacy and security. All access to bank accounts is read only, so money can't be moved from within the application.
Pro Free and no advertisements
BillGuard is free with no advertisements. It is unclear how BillGuard makes money.
Pro All bank accounts and investments can be viewed in one place
Like a few other finance tracking applications out there BillGuard makes it convenient to make a budget and track spending by pulling in all bank accounts and investments into one convenient application.
Pro Flag or Approve all transactions
With a simple right swipe to approve or a left swipe to flag a transaction for review (a la Mailbox).
Pro Web applications
If you need to plan your budget or check on a fraudulent transaction BillGuard has you covered with a web application.
Pro Ability to add manual transactions
Money Lover is not connected to the users bank accounts. By not being connected that means users have to manually input (at least once) their recurring transactions or singular transactions..
Pro Useful graphs and charts
Money Lover offers the normal pie chart of your spending and also bar graphs to help you identify trends in your net income.
Pro Option to add details with each transaction
Similar applications to Money Lover only offer a few details to add when inputting a new transaction but Money Lover offers a lot more besides the normal category and title. Money Lover allows you to add notes, contacts, a picture, location, and reminders.
Pro Supports everyone
Money Lover is completely independent of all financial institution so anyone in any country can use Money Lover.
Pro Elegant interface
Elegant and user-friendly interface.
Pro No connections to your banking accounts or investments
Money Lover is completely independent of your financial institution. This is great for those that are worried about sharing their bank account details but of course this is less convenient.
Cons
Con US support only
BillGuard is "currently limited to US credit cards and debit cards only, but our goal is to protect everyone and every bill around the globe." But if you are really interested in using BillGuard in another country then you can request that the BillGuard developers prioritize your country here.
Con Somewhat basic visuals and analytics
While other applications provide especially useful charts and graphs of income and spending, BillGuard's are somewhat basic and uninformative. The visuals consist of a simple pie chart of your spending for each month or each account and a line graph that shows the current month's transactions.
Con No budget for all wallets
You can't set one budget to all wallets. For example: if you have 9 wallets in your family, then you need to have 9 budgets for food, 9 budgets for clothes and so on.
Con Difficult to update debt
There is no guideline for updating debt. Every debt goes to the wallet including Mortgage Bond. When updating the opening balance of (for example) the Mortgage Bond, it appears in the bank balance as part of the total positive balance.
Con No import
Cannot import data from my previous app. Transitioning to Money Lover became a very time-consuming task.
Con You have to pay for icons
When buying premium, you should get all features. Unfortunately, you still have to pay for icons.
Con No support for credit card accounts
Con Basic app is free but with advertisements
The free version of Money Lover includes small banner advertisements at the bottom of the application. They aren't too intrusive but they can be annoying. Removing the advertisements is a $2.00 in app purchase. Getting the whole Money Lover experience requires an upgrade from the basic application to the premium application without advertisements and the ability to have more than one wallet, a budget plan, and an event plan for a $4.99 in app purchase.
