Canstar: Compare and Save 4+

Useful budgeting tool

I’m impressed with the functionality of this app and it is far superior to that offered by my bank.

A useful inclusion would be to have more flexibility around the budgeting period; for example I am paid monthly but the payment date can be anywhere between the 16th and 21st of the month meaning that some periods have two pays, and some zero.

Similarly, a bi-monthly option for bills would be good (i.e. Water Corporation bills in Western Australia).

Useless for tracking spending

I appreciate that this app is quite useful for pulling all my accounts into one space, however the whole point of having all my accounts together is to see where all my money is going over a period of time - particularly a pay period.
This app does not allow you to view past spending patterns over a specific period. If you select “my cycle” i.e your specified pay period, it only lets you start it within the last 6 days. If your pay period is a fortnight, it will display the future fortnight worth of spending, which funnily enough for most is $0. Even if you select a “monthly” period to display, it only lets you display from the start of the month, so if it happens to be the first week of the month, you can only actually see a few days worth of spending.

I can’t comprehend why they would have designed it this way. Most of the widgets on the dashboard are basically useless because of this. I can see other people have raised this issue over a year ago and they’ve made no steps to correct it.

Very disappointing.

Can’t select fortnight’s

I only just got the app, and so far it’s been very good, however, when I can’t align the travers and expenses with my pay schedule.

I get paid fortnightly, but it’s not giving me an option to select which weeks.

For example - my pay cycle is Friday 16th April to Thursday 29th April, but when I select fortnight, it only comes up with the days of the week. When I select Friday, it shows up as 23rd April - 6th May.

There isn’t any option to change this.

It would be great if it was like the pay cycle at the bottom which lets you select how often you get paid and then which day your next pay is.

That would make it a lot more accurate.

Hope this feedback is taken into consideration for future updates

Developer Response ,

Hi JessieVP1412, thanks so much for giving us your feedback. We will definitely take this onboard for future releases, as we can see how this would be beneficial. - Canstar team