Barclays dropped the money tracking features of its app - alternatives?

lostsheep

Hi. Been a long time.
Barclays had a great money tracking feature in their app that would chart your balance over the month and allow you to compare to other months, as break transactions down in to categories, etc. They just got rid of it, and even worse, Yolt, which had some similar features but could talk to many banks was shut down last year.
What’s our best alternative app for this?

impoverishedtraveller

Monzo.    

Emmia

I use Emma - switched over from Yolt when Yolt closed. Emma has a lot more functionality, and was fairly easy to set up.

lostsheep

Thanks both for the quick answers.
Does Monzo require you to have an account?
What made you choose Emma? I noticed looking at the mse articles mentioning Yolt, they often mention Money Dashboard in the same breath…

Emmia

I think it was recommended by a few people on a previous thread on MSE, one in response to Yolt closing. 

*I do have a paid for version of Emma though, I trialled it, and decided the extra features were worth it.

Edit - Monzo may work only in relation the account(s) you have with them, I have accounts with several providers incuding Barclays, HSBC, Chip (I manually edit the balance once a week) Amex... Emma brings all of them together.

lostsheep

Emmia, you’ve been very informative, thankyou.

matrix11001

lostsheep said:

Hi. Been a long time.
Barclays had a great money tracking feature in their app that would chart your balance over the month and allow you to compare to other months, as break transactions down in to categories, etc. They just got rid of it, and even worse, Yolt, which had some similar features but could talk to many banks was shut down last year.
What’s our best alternative app for this?

I use Snoop app - it's great and reminds me when contracts are up so I shop around!

Emmia

matrix11001 said:

lostsheep said:

Hi. Been a long time.
Barclays had a great money tracking feature in their app that would chart your balance over the month and allow you to compare to other months, as break transactions down in to categories, etc. They just got rid of it, and even worse, Yolt, which had some similar features but could talk to many banks was shut down last year.
What’s our best alternative app for this?

I use Snoop app - it's great and reminds me when contracts are up so I shop around!

I just had a look at the outline of the Snoop app in the app store. It looks to have very similar functionality to Emma*, but perhaps not as customisable?

Does Snoop allow you to manually add on accounts which aren't in Open Banking? I use Chip which doesn't auto sync, and have a couple of Crowdcube "investments" which I've manually listed on the app, so I don't forget about them!

*Emma also has bill / subscription reminders.