Monarch: Budget & Track Money

Monarch: Budget & Track Money

By Monarch Money, Inc.

  • Category: Finance
  • Release Date: 2020-11-18
  • Current Version: 2.0.97
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 79.41 MB
  • Developer: Monarch Money, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Score: 4.88891
4.88891
From 93,065 Ratings

Description

Consider Monarch your home base for money clarity. Simplify your finances by bringing all your accounts into one easy view, have confidence in always knowing where your money is and where it's going, and collaborate with your partner or financial professional to track, budget, and reach goals together. Monarch has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as the “Best Budgeting App,” by Forbes as the “Best Mint Replacement” and by Motley Fool as the “Best Budgeting App for Couples and Families.” Getting started is simple. Connect your accounts and Monarch will auto-categorize your finances, giving you actionable insights in minutes. Customize your dashboard to give you the information you need at a glance, including your net worth, recent transactions, how you’re tracking toward your budget, investment performance, and upcoming expenses. Monarch makes it easy to take steps today to build toward your long term plans, all in one simple and collaborative financial tool. Track - Connect your accounts and see everything in one place so you can get a clear view of how your money is moving and track progress on your net worth. - Always know what’s around the corner with subscriptions and bills tracked in one easy calendar or list view and notifications so you don’t miss a payment. - Keep an eye on subscriptions so you can cancel what you no longer need. - Sync with your credit cards and loans and Monarch will provide statement balances and minimum payment due. - Search for any transaction, across all of your accounts - no shuffling between apps to find charges or refunds. - View and customize reports for quick insights on your spending across groups and categories and trends over time. Budget - Monarch offers two ways to budget - Flex Budgeting or Category Budgeting - so you can choose to have the structure or flexibility you need and make budgeting feel easy. - Get a quick view of your budget progress with visual progress bars and a dashboard widget. - Customize your groups and categories, emojis, and your notifications to keep you on track. Collaborate - Add your partner or other household members and team up on your finances, whether you choose to have joint bank accounts or not. All at no extra cost. - Invite your advisor, financial coach, tax professional or estate planning attorney so they can give you accurate advice with little effort required of you. Plan - Create and track progress toward your medium and long term goals. - Set up contributions toward your goals within your monthly budget, and watch your savings compound over time. A Membership With You in Mind Our focus is on building a product that can transform your relationship to money, bringing clarity and confidence to your financial life. As a Monarch member, you’ll get access to all the new features we build and have the opportunity to vote on and provide feedback for new features on our roadmap. We build with the feedback from our community in mind. No Ads Monarch is not supported by advertisers and is designed with the sole purpose of making it easy and intuitive for you to manage your finances. That means we will never interrupt your experience with ads or try to sell you another financial product you don’t need. Private and Secure Monarch uses bank-level security, and we never store any of your financial credentials. Our platform is read-only, so there is no risk of your money moving. We take your privacy seriously and will never sell your personal or financial information to third parties. MEMBERSHIP DETAILS Monarch is free to try for 7 days. After your trial period, a membership fee will be billed either monthly or annually, depending on which plan you select. Privacy Policy: https://www.monarchmoney.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.monarchmoney.com/terms

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Reviews

  • Clean UI, great budgeting tool

    5
    By JDSundevil
    For years I created my own spreadsheets that I often procrastinated to do. Monarch has helped me take this burden off my to-dos and now I have live cashflow and budget tracking. I only have the standard subscription. Tried plus but didn’t have a need for the forecasting and small business tools. I’ve been able to identify savings for myself and have used the goals feature to out more money in savings.
  • Not quite a Mint replacement

    3
    By PricacyTraveler
    The original mint.com app and website won users over from Intuit Quicken in part from how it elegantly handled transfer transactions between accounts, such as credit card account payments from a checking account. In Aaron Patzer’s original product, this was automatic. Monarch, otoh, has to be trained to do this, account by account— and if the transfer transactions signatures change in the slightest, it forgets this training, and reverts to booking credit card payments received as income, and the corresponding checking account transactions as expenses, wrecking cash flow reporting. So I’m effectively back to Quicken 98 behavior, in 2026, with the added bonus that I pay annually for the privilege of having my financial data online to be mined. Reconsidering my options now.
  • I feel like I wasted my money

    1
    By Bmorr1123
    I started using Monarch in January. I didn’t use every feature, but I did use the budget and the goals feature. I just wanted to make sure I understood what was going in and coming out of my account. It worked great for me. It helped me feel a little less anxious about my finances. Now, like any other ill-advised company, it seems that Monarch has decided to focus fully on AI. It seems like every week I find a new transaction that was missed by the rules feature. I constantly find duplicate transactions that my budget look like I spent twice what I thought I had. The worst is when I transfer money between accounts. It thinks that I’m getting more income, even though it’s pretty clear that $300 came out of my savings into my checking. The trustworthiness of a financial tool to give you good data seems like it would be vital. Unfortunately, I find myself directly, checking the numbers and transactions in my banking app because I have stopped trusting Monarch to tell me the truth. Worst of all, it seems that Monarch opted me into AI analysis of my finances even though I specifically hit cancel every single time I accidentally clicked on that stupid AI logo. I don’t trust the slop. I don’t want them to use my data to train their models. I can’t trust the basic features. I can’t trust them to not mine my data. I can’t trust the budget feature. Why am I paying for this? I have contacted support and added suggestions to their built in suggestions feature, but at this point I’m giving up on Monarch. I feel like I wasted my money.
  • Must have

    5
    By tkhouk
    This is so useful!!! I use it daily to track revenue expenses and investments all in one place
  • Love Monarch! So great for family finance planning

    5
    By LaurenFC0210
    My husband and I use monarch to have visibility across all of our accounts and help us better budget and save! It’s been so much easier than spreadsheets or checking our accounts at the dinner table to make sure we were on track! I love that we can sync our accounts for auto updates and set our own budgeting goals! As someone who hates budgeting this has made it soo much easier!
  • Doesn’t work if you use credit cards

    1
    By Effie St Claire
    This app is much more like a money spend tracker than an actual budget. It’s passive, it lets you work off of projected income (so it will let you bounce a check, because you never know how much money you have available at any given moment). Worst of all, it’s not really compatible with credit card usage. Let’s say you spend $300 on groceries on a credit card. You categorize the expense, but it never tells you how much you have available to pay on your credit card. It’s bonkers. Not a real budgeting app, imo. It’s fine if you want to see like, how much do I spend on groceries every month, but not really designed for managing money.
  • Charged me without warning!

    1
    By T.Mont819
    I had downloaded this app and plugged everything into it but never really made any sense of the way the app flows. It is about 3 days behind the other budget app I was comparing to. I was going to cancel because I do not like the UI at all here compared to others. I would love a refund of my yearly subscription like you said you’d warn me before the charge. Seems predatory.
  • La mejor

    5
    By McSafe
    Hace años, mas de 8 vengo buscando esta aplicacion. Tiene todo lo que se necesita para llevar un tracking de la riqueza y las finanzas diarias. El valor que ofrece paga con creces la subscricion
  • easy to use

    5
    By Christy_babe3
    So great and user friendly
  • Organized my finances

    5
    By eva617
    This app is amazing! It has helped me organize my finances and keep track with my budget. Worth every penny. Provides so much peace of mind.

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