The top mobile apps to help you save money

In recent years various mobile apps have been developed to save you money and help you make your money go further. Having an app installed on your mobile device means users are more inclined to use these apps properly so that they do save money. The follow is a list of some of the most popular and effective apps for saving money and reducing the amount of money you waste each year.

The Xpenditure app

The Xpenditure app is a user friendly, cloud based expense management and reporting application. It has been designed to save businesses time and money on their expense reporting activities. Keeping physical receipts is an awkward way to claim for expenses. However the Xpenditure app makes this process much simpler. A user takes a photo of his or her receipts or other expenses. A receipt scanner reads the details of each receipt and then records this information in your account by creating it as an expense.

Foreceipt Receipt Manager app

The Foreceipt Receipt Manager is an easy to use budgeting app that contains a range of useful features including daily expenses, income tracker and a personal financial planner on Google drive. This app let users monitor expenses on a clear and easy to use dashboard. It caters for all currencies and provides easy to view charts and reports.

Mint app from Intuit

This app is available on Apple, Android and Windows mobile devices. It includes a range useful tools that let you manage what you spend, the amount you are saving, your earnings and your budgeting activity. It also syncs your bank account and other accounts to give you a clearer picture of you financial situation. Other features include an analysis component that indicates area of your financial activities where you can save money.

Money Flow app

The Money Flow app lets you track and manage your finances from your mobile device. It gives you an overall view of your finances and manages income and expenses. This app also lets users create custom expense categories, different graphs and a log history of income and expenses.

Debt tracker app

Millions of people around the world are in debt but fail to react to the problem. A large proportion of these people probably don’t even know how much they owe. This mobile app tracks your debt and other financial details so that you can begin to reduce you debt amount. The debt tracker app gives you a clearer picture of your current financial well-being. Once you have this important information you can start finding out how to get out of debt and start taking appropriate action.

Debt payoff planner app

It’s important to have some kind of plan before tackling your debts. The Debt payoff planner helps you to do this. It tracks all of your payments in one place, makes a list of your debts, produces a customised strategy and reports a payoff strategy. It tells you when you will be debt free after completing the strategy. Its summary table is easy to view and understand and the app also provides a plan for every month of the year.