When comparing Personal Capital Finance vs BillGuard, the Slant community recommends BillGuard for most people. In the question“What are the best personal finance tracker apps for Android? ” BillGuard is ranked 15th while Personal Capital Finance is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose BillGuard is:
While it may not use the lollipop design guidelines, it still has a clean, simple, elegant interface.
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Pros
Pro Is capable of linking bank and credit cards
Personal Capital Finance has an in built function to allow users to link their personal bank accounts and credit cards.
Pro Net worth and performance graphs
Net Worth allows users to see their total net worth and valuate their personal improvements.
Pro Has an online web interface that syncs with the app
Personal Capital Finance offers a web page interface for those that want to input info through a regular PC or browser, giving more flexibility and options to the user.
Pro Tracks investments and shows up to date valuations
Users can track their investments by account, asset class or individual security. These accounts are then easily comparable to other market finance benchmarks allowing the user to have an even more informed outlook of their finances and potential investments.
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.
Cons
Con May receive soliciting calls
Users may receive calls from Personal Capital Finance soliciting further expenses and purchased features.
Con No budgeting features
Unlike other popular finance syncing sites/app, Personal Capital Finance has no budgeting features.
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.