Budget app

Regaining control of your finances begins with budgeting. Of course, you can create one by recording your income and your expenses in different columns on a sheet of paper or in an Excel file, but there are a growing number of easy-to-use applications that can make your life easier. With a high number of budgeting […]

Spendee was founded in 2008 by three friends in Prague. In launching this app, their goal was to help investors better manage their daily expenses. Hardbacon is a Canadian fintech founded in 2017. Based in Montreal, Hardbacon strives to help its users become wealthier by better managing their money when it comes to planning and […]

You Need A Budget (YNAB) is a US-based mobile application that helps you manage your budget on a daily basis. It was launched in 2015 by Jesse Mecham. Hardbacon is also a mobile application that aims to help its users become wealthier by managing their money better when it comes to planning and budgeting. Hardbacon […]

In Collaboration with KOHO Are you tired of living paycheque to paycheque? Stop watching your bank balance dwindle to zero before payday and take control today. I sat down with Sherry Andrew, a Certified Financial Coach at KOHO, for a money masterclass. She shared incredible budgeting tips that will help you spend less, save more, […]

Adulting is hard, and now we have to teach our kids how to do it too? Send help! Getting them to do anything, like pick up a sock, is a recipe for stress casserole. Luckily, Mydoh app has entered the chat! Now there’s an easy way to teach those tech-savvy sauce-pots the smart money moves […]

Mint was launched in 2007 in the US, and is the grandfather of all budgeting apps that link to bank accounts. The app quickly became popular, so much so that in 2009 it was purchased by Intuit for the tidy sum of $170 million. Little has changed since its acquisition over a decade ago, and […]

You wouldn’t drive from Vancouver to Halifax without a map, would you? Money is like a car that takes you from where you are to where you want to be, and a budget is a map with the best way to get there. But how do you make a budget, and how do you know […]

When you follow a budget you avoid going into debt. That’s what everyone wants, right? We avoid debt, get a good credit score, invest and grow rich, and have a wonderful life in the meantime. Yet, according to the Canadian Financial Capability Survey, one in six Canadians, or 17% of the adult population, spends more […]

In the days before cloud computing, households wanting to maintain a digital budget had to turn to programs like Quicken and Microsoft Money. Every transaction had to be processed and tracked for the software to create models and projections for the future. Today, there are no shortage of online programs helping you managing your personal […]

Emma was launched in London in 2018 and is a mobile app that calls itself “your best financial friend”. Like Hardbacon, the app enables you to manage your daily budget. Hardbacon, for its part, is a Canadian fintech founded in 2017 that not only allows its users to budget, but also plan according to their […]