Best Budgeting Apps for May 2025

Why You Can Trust Us

Investopedia was founded in 1999 and has been helping readers find the best budget apps since 2020. Investopedia’s research and editorial teams conducted independent research into budget apps to offer readers the best recommendations for a wide variety of circumstances. Investopedia researched and evaluated ten popular budget apps across 28 criteria, collecting and calculating 280 data points to determine the best picks above.

How We Find the Best Budgeting Apps

Investopedia’s research and editorial teams conducted independent, comprehensive research into budget apps in April 2025. We included 10 different apps in our research. Investopedia collected and calculated 28 criteria for each app, resulting in 280 data points. This information was used to objectively score and rank each app.

Investopedia collected information directly from company websites and through user testing of budget apps. Any data points not used for scoring purposes were collected for background. The 28 criteria were broken down into the following categories with the accompanying weights for scoring:

• Availability/Platforms: 32.00%
• Cost: 23.00%
• Customer Satisfaction: 22.00%
• Features: 20.00%
• Security: 3.00%

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