Paymaster: My Spending Tracker
★ 4.2What it actually doesPaymaster is an expense and income tracking app with support for multiple accounts, automatic bank SMS recognition, and budgeting, but with limited cross-platform availability (iOS only) and occasional synchronization and shared accounting errors.
Actually does
- ✓Expense Tracking80% of reviews
- ✓Income Tracking50% of reviews
- ✓Budget tracking40% of reviews
- ✓Expense Categorization30% of reviews
- ✓Financial Reporting20% of reviews
- ✓Теги и классификация транзакций10% of reviews
- ✓Backup / restore20% of reviews
- ✓Sync across devices(bonus)15% of reviews
- ✓Совместный учёт с другими пользователями(bonus)30% of reviews
- ✓Ad-free20% of reviews
Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews
- ⚠Multi-currency
- ⚠Распознавание банковских SMS
- ⚠Reminders
- ⚠Расщепление транзакций
- ⚠File encryption
Common complaints
- ✗Shared account bugs: transfers between accounts not displayed15% of mentions
«In shared accounting, transfers between accounts are not visible even though all checkboxes are enabled!!! We spent ages trying to figure it out but couldn't see transfer transactions»
- ✗SMS recognition not working on iOS15% of mentions
«I used this app on Android for 5 years, everything worked fine 95% of the time, I don't know how to live now. Manual entry is a pain, bank SMS come through only sometimes»
- ✗Transactions not displayed in history8% of mentions
«Transactions stopped appearing in the history from a certain date. The entire history ends before the current date»
- ✗Transaction date lock error12% of mentions
«The transaction date lock stopped working, the date is fixed but a week has already passed»
- ✗App crashes when accessing shared account and other operations10% of mentions
«The app crashes when entering a shared account - adding a user»
What people praise
- ★Excellent tag system (like sub-accounts)
«The tag mechanics are amazing. It allows you to mark expenses with additional information like sub-accounts»
- ★Simplicity and convenience of use
«Nothing unnecessary, everything is clear and convenient»
- ★Responsive developer support
«The support team responds and helps within the first few minutes of reaching out»
- ★No ads even in the free version
«No pop-up ads at all, the free plan covers everything I need»
- ★Fast and convenient backup and synchronization
«Transferring a backup from Google to iCloud took just a couple of minutes for me»