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PocketGuard

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Overview

What PocketGuard does

PocketGuard helps you track spending, create budgets, and understand your financial health with an easy-to-use mobile interface and real-time spending insights.

What people use it for

  • Tracking spending and bills against a personal budget
  • Finding and cancelling recurring subscriptions

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about PocketGuard.

  • Every budgeting feature requires a paid subscription, with only a 7 day trial rather than a free tier
  • Paying monthly is $12.99 against an effective $6.25 on the annual plan, so the flexible option costs roughly double
  • The lifetime option is not offered to everyone and is described as available only inside the app

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Pricing

What PocketGuard costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • Expense tracking
  • Budget creation

Premium

$9.99 /mo

  • Advanced insights
  • Goal tracking
  • Bill negotiation

Capabilities

Features

  • Real-time spending alerts

    Real-time spending alerts capability

  • Budget tracking

    Budget tracking capability

  • Goal setting

    Goal setting capability

  • Spending insights

    Spending insights capability

  • Bank accounts

    Integration with Bank accounts

  • Credit cards

    Integration with Credit cards

  • Web support

    Available on Web

  • IOS support

    Available on iOS

  • Android support

    Available on Android

Behind it

Who makes PocketGuard

Company
PocketGuard Inc.
Based in
San Francisco, California
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