Goodbudget decides how much goes in each envelope. Smartbills keeps the receipts you spend from them, read item by item, so a shared purchase can be split and a faulty one returned.
At a glance
Goodbudget is an envelope budgeting app for the web, Android and iPhone. You divide money into envelopes for groceries, rent or savings and spend from them, and a household can share one budget across devices. A paid Premium plan is also available.
Best for
Households who want receipts kept and split fairly.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Households who like the envelope method and want to share one budget.
Where it's stronger
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Side by side
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Envelope budgeting
One budget shared by a household
Itemized receipts kept and searchable
Splitting a purchase by item
Return and warranty reminders
Tax receipts sorted by category
No need to give up your budget. Keep it where it is, and let Smartbills keep the receipts behind the spending.
Smartbills doesn't replace your budget. Keep it in Goodbudget.
Connect your card, upload emailed receipts and photograph paper ones.
See what each purchase was made of before you log it in an envelope.
Tap who had what, and settle up when they pay you back.
FAQ
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Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Goodbudget.
YNAB plans every dollar before you spend it. Smartbills keeps the itemized receipts behind your spending, for splitting, returns and tax time.
Read the comparisonPocketGuard shows what's left to spend after bills. Smartbills keeps the itemized receipt for what you did spend, for splitting, returns and tax time.
Read the comparisonMonarch Money brings all your accounts, budgets and net worth together. Smartbills adds the itemized receipt behind each purchase.
Read the comparisonSplitwise keeps a tally of who owes whom after you type each expense in. Smartbills starts from the store's itemized receipt, so splitting is tapping what you had.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
The Smartbills receipt wallet for everything you buy: itemized receipts, email receipts you upload, and photos of the paper ones.
Split a bill by what each person actually had, starting from the receipt already on your phone, and the balance clears when a friend pays you back.
A tax receipt organizer that sorts medical, childcare, donation and tuition receipts by category as they come in and keeps a running total all year.
Get started
Get the app for free and connect the card you shop with. Receipts sent through Smartbills arrive on their own, and you photograph the rest.
