Budget App — PocketGuard

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About this app

PocketGuard is a money and budget planner with a spending tracker and expense manager. A budgeting app will help you save money and manage your monthly budget with confidence.
Join 1.7 M+ people who already Know Where the Money Goes and What’s Safe to Spend!

Plan your budget with a budgeting app, see your real-life spending patterns over time, set money goals, and use a debt payoff planner and tracker — all in one app designed to give you control of your budget and finance.

Always Know What’s in Your Pocket

Budgeting with PocketGuard helps you make smarter spending decisions:

• Your budget planner shows your real-time balance after income and expenses
• The actual safe-to-spend amount after bills, goals, and essentials in your monthly budget plan
• How much you can safely use today without hurting tomorrow’s budget

Spending Pace — You won't overspend anymore

By analyzing budgets, bills, goals, and recent spending behavior, Pace shows:
• On Pace — spending is aligned with your monthly budget plan
• Under Pace — money spending is trending lower than expected
• Over Pace — spending is accelerating and may exceed the budget

Unlike flat daily averages, Pace adjusts to real habits, upcoming bills, and planned contributions — helping you course-correct early and stay in control of your budgeting.

Transaction Rules — Smart Transactions Automation

Create smart, customizable rules that automatically:
• Detect merchant names, keywords, amounts, categories, accounts, and more
• Rename merchants the way you want
• Fix spending categories instantly
• Add hashtags for powerful search and tracking
• Mark transactions as “Don’t count”
• Apply rules automatically to every new transaction

Set it once — and PocketGuard keeps everything organized.

Comprehensive Analytics

Understand your budgeting habits with expense manager:
• Visual spending tracker reports
• Category and merchant breakdowns
• Spending trend analysis

Monthly Budget Review - check the past to build the future.
Review past months to:

• See how spending patterns changed over time with expense manager
• Compare month-to-month budgeting performance
• Identify what worked — and adjust your budget plan


Bills and Subscription Organizer

Connect your bank, and PocketGuard automatically identifies bills, subscriptions, and recurring payments — then adds them to your budget planner.
• Never miss a due date
• Spot forgotten subscriptions
• Cancel subscriptions you no longer need
• Keep recurring expenses under control with a bill payment organizer
• Lower bills using a built-in bill negotiation service

Set and Reach Your Financial Goals
Turn your plans into real progress with a built-in savings tracker and saving money app tools:
• Create personalized savings goals in your budget planner
• See how much you need to save each month in your monthly budget planner
• Track your budget progress with a money tracker
• Adjust your spending to stay on track

Build Your Debt-Payoff Plan

PocketGuard calculates the most efficient repayment strategy so you can:
• Reduce interest costs
• See your debt payoff timeline
• Track progress step by step

Bank-Level Security

Your data is protected with 256-bit SSL encryption, biometric login (Touch ID & Face ID), PIN codes, and industry-standard privacy practices.

PocketGuard connects to U.S. and Canadian financial institutions only. UK need to be mentioned
PocketGuard Plus Subscription

Start a 7-day free trial, then choose a plan:

Monthly — $12.99
Annual — $74.99

Prices may vary by region. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before renewal. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited once a subscription is purchased.

Privacy Policy: https://pocketguard.com/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://pocketguard.com/terms/
Budgeting app: Budget & Expense Tracker, Bill Organizer & Debt Payoff Planner
Updated on
Oct 28, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 6 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.59K reviews
Owen Viana Marques
January 30, 2024
Feels like a good app in general but there needs to be a feature added where you can track spending between specific pay cycle dates. As it stands it only tracks from the start to the end of the month which isn't realistic when looking at "in my pocket". If something like this was implemented I would pay for premium and give a 5 star review.
4 people found this review helpful
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PocketGuard, Inc.
January 29, 2024
Hi Owen! Thanks for your feedback. This has been already added to our roadmap for 2024. Feel free to contact us at support@pocketguard.com in case of any concerns or suggestions.
Spencer Bradshaw
August 17, 2026
After the trial they immediately charge you for a year not a month at $75 fyi. That was a surprise. I ended up deleting the app wasting the money because it pulls in every account. If you have a business account on your bank account this screws everything up. There is a spot to select specific ones two hide which is pointless because it's already pulled those finances in and there is no way to remove that data without deleting your account. I wasted hours trying to figure that out.
1 person found this review helpful
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PocketGuard, Inc.
August 18, 2026
Hi Spencer, PocketGuard offers both monthly and annual plans, so it’s possible the annual option was selected at signup, which resulted in the yearly charge after the trial. Regarding the connected accounts, please contact our Support team so we can review your setup and help resolve the issue.
Rachel Balon
September 1, 2026
I used this app for a year without issues and I loved it! But in the last few months my accounts keep getting disconnected, and when I re-add them all the work I did to categorize everything is gone. I'm going to have to switch apps
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PocketGuard, Inc.
September 2, 2026
Hi Rachel, We're very sorry about your experience. Please contact us at support@pocketguard.com so we can take a closer look at the account disconnections and help resolve the issue.

What’s new

Stability tweaks and other improvements to make managing your money as easy as possible.

Thank you for using PocketGuard! Each update is a step forward in delivering a smoother, clearer, and more user-friendly experience. Keep the feedback coming!