Personal expense managers

The best personal expense manager apps, compared.

Since Mint closed, the category has split into three shapes: full dashboards you pay for, free trackers that make their money elsewhere, and small manual apps that never touch your bank. Which you want depends on what you are trying to fix.

We make Splitkaro, one of the four apps below.

The short answer

Splitkaro if you want every kind of money in one app, personal, couple, business and anything shared. Monarch for one paid dashboard over every account, Rocket Money for the strongest free tier, Monefy if you would rather your bank was never connected.

Monarch

A complete household picture

  • Banks, cards, loans and investments in one view
  • Budgets, savings goals and net worth
  • A partner joins at no extra cost
  • Full web app as well as phone apps
  • No free tier after the trial
  • Does not split a bill or track who owes whom
Monarch vs Splitkaro, in detail

Rocket Money

Getting money back, for free

  • Budgeting, subscription tracking and bill reminders are all free
  • Finds subscriptions you forgot and cancels them on Premium
  • Negotiates bills down for a share of the savings
  • Credit score and custom budget categories need Premium
  • Bill negotiation takes a cut of whatever it saves you
  • No expense splitting
Rocket Money vs Splitkaro, in detail

Monefy

Manual entry, on your own cloud

  • Two taps to record a spend
  • Backs up to your own Google Drive or Dropbox, not a company server
  • 150+ currencies, converted automatically
  • No bank connection at all, statements import by hand
  • Recurring transactions are premium
  • No splitting or shared groups
Monefy vs Splitkaro, in detail

Splitkaro

That’s us

Spending that tracks itself

  • Card and bank feeds bring transactions in, and bank text alerts do too if your bank sends them
  • PDF statement import, receipt scanning (3 a month free), and CSV export of your data
  • Free unlimited expenses and free overall analytics
  • Set a recurring expense once and it is created for you every month
  • Personal, couple, business and group money, all in one app
  • No budgets, goals or net worth
  • Card and bank feeds via Plaid are still in beta
  • Custom categories and expense search are Premium
  • No web app beyond view-only shared links

monarch.com · rocketmoney.com · monefy.com — checked September 2026

Which one should you actually pick?

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Questions, answered

What is the best personal expense manager?

It depends on which job you are hiring it for. Splitkaro if you want every kind of money in one place, personal, couple, business and anything split with other people. Monarch if you want one paid dashboard over every account. Rocket Money for the strongest free tier. Monefy if you would rather your bank was never connected at all.

Which expense manager is free?

Rocket Money, Monefy and Splitkaro all have real free tiers. Monarch is a paid subscription with a 7-day trial.

Do any of them split expenses between people?

Only Splitkaro. Monarch lets a partner see the same budget, which is not the same as splitting one bill several ways and tracking the balance.

Which is best after Mint shut down?

Monarch is the closest replacement on features and Rocket Money is a good free option. We compare that move in more detail on our Mint alternatives page. See the Mint alternatives

Stop typing in what your bank already told you

Card feeds, bank texts and statements fill in your spending. Anything shared splits too. Free on Android and iOS.