About Double Money
This app is for someone who wants a basic, manual check on their small daily spending, like coffee or snacks. It’s not for anyone serious about budgeting, investing, or syncing bank accounts. I fit that initial profile—I needed a simple tool to shame me out of buying a third oat milk latte every afternoon. I’ve used it on my Pixel 7 for over a year, and my opinion has soured from “this is neat” to “this is barely adequate.” The 4.3-star rating feels generous for what is essentially a digital notepad with a pie chart. It gets the job done if your job is incredibly simple.
Core Features
The expense tracker is the whole app. You tap, type an amount and a category, and it’s logged. It’s fast, I’ll give it that. Creating custom categories is easy. The visual reports are colorful but shallow; the pie chart shows you the problem but offers zero solutions or trends over time. The goal-setting feature is laughably basic. You set a target, and a progress bar fills up when you log savings. That’s it. There’s no projection, no interest calculation, nothing. The so-called “insights” are just blog posts ripped from the web. After a few months, you realize you’re just maintaining a diary of your own guilt.
Real-World Use
The manual entry is the point, and it works for a while. Typing “$5.75 – Pretzel Stand” at 3 PM on a Tuesday does make you pause. But the novelty wears off. I found bugs others might miss. If you edit an entry from a previous month, the monthly total sometimes doesn’t update unless you force-close the app. The widget for my home screen stopped refreshing for a week last November, showing stale data. It’s these little frustrations that break the trust in a tool that’s supposed to be about accuracy. For a year-long project tracking client lunch expenses, it was useful for raw data, but I had to export everything to a spreadsheet to actually analyze it.
Pricing & Value
It’s free. There are no ads, no subscriptions, no sneaky in-app purchases. For the price of zero dollars, you get a functional, if simplistic, tracking tool. The value is entirely dependent on your patience for manual data entry and your tolerance for its limitations. Compared to clunky ad-filled alternatives, its clean interface is a plus. But “free” also explains the lack of depth and the occasional bug. You get what you pay for, and here you’re paying nothing.
Updates & Support
Updates come regularly, but they’re almost always marked as “bug fixes and performance improvements.” I rarely see new features. Once, after an update, all my custom category icons reset to default. I contacted support through the app. They got back to me after four days—not hours—but the agent, named Marco, was helpful. He acknowledged the bug and said it was logged for the dev team. A fix came in the next update two weeks later. So, support exists and can be effective, but don’t expect a rapid response.
Data & Privacy
Since it doesn’t connect to your bank, your data stays on your device. That’s a huge privacy win in my book. The privacy policy is standard for a free app, saying they collect some anonymized usage data. I’m more comfortable typing in my coffee spend than giving a random finance app my bank login. However, there’s no cloud backup or export option built-in, which is a massive oversight. If you lose or change your phone, your entire spending history is gone. For a long-term user, that’s an unacceptable risk.
What can I track with Double Money?
You can log daily expenses by entering an amount and a category, like coffee or snacks. It's designed for quick, manual entry of small purchases, but it won't sync with your bank or offer advanced budgeting tools.
Does Double Money have goal-setting features?
Yes, but it's very basic. You set a savings target and a progress bar fills up when you log savings, with no projections or interest calculations included.
Why won't my monthly total update after I edit an old entry?
This is a known bug where editing a past month's entry doesn't refresh the monthly total unless you force-close the app. Try restarting the app to see the correct amount.
My home screen widget stopped updating. How can I fix it?
The widget can sometimes show stale data, like it did for a week last November. To fix it, remove the widget, restart your phone, and add it again from the widget menu.
How does Double Money compare to Mint?
Double Money is much simpler than Mint—it only tracks manually entered expenses with no bank syncing. Mint offers automatic transaction imports and detailed budgeting insights, while Double Money is just a digital notepad with a pie chart.
