CountAbout Budgeting App Review 2024 – Forbes Advisor

CountAbout vs. PocketSmith

Like CountAbout, PocketSmith makes it easy to organize transactions to manage your spending or create a budget. Pocketsmith offers a more advanced projection feature that can help budgeters looking to forecast future spending.

While the premium version of CountAbout is $39.99 per year, Pocketsmith charges a monthly fee ranging from $9.99 to $39.95, depending on membership tier and payment frequency. There is a free version, but it’s too limited to serve as a long-term budgeting solution.

CountAbout vs. Simplifi

Simplifi is a Quicken budgeting app that connects your bank accounts, credit cards and investment accounts into an easy-to-use dashboard. You can create a customized budget based on your spending habits and financial goals.

Unlike CountAbout, Simplifi allows you to create savings goals and evaluate cash flow projections alongside your budgeting process. At $2.99 per month, Simplifi is more affordable than CountAbout premium and still offers the ability to connect accounts.

CountAbout vs. YNAB

YNAB, short for You Need a Budget, is a popular zero-based budgeting tool.  Whether you’re paying off debt or putting money aside for a rainy day, YNAB digitizes the cash-based envelope method to help put every dollar that comes into your wallet to work. There’s an entire community built around YNAB, which can help provide support in reaching your goals.

Both YNAB and CountAbout help you create tailored budgets, but YNAB offers more functionality and reaches a broader audience. That said, YNAB is a bit more expensive at $99 per year. It also isn’t designed with business owners in mind. CountAbout comes with a few additional features that might appeal to someone budgeting with irregular income like the ability to plan recurring transactions.