Website: whostolemymoney.com
What it does
This is a dedicated budgeting website. You define your spending categories, download your past transaction data, tag it with your expense categories and compare what you actually spent with what you planned to do. The data analysis is processed quickly.
Who it suits
Who Stole My Money was popular with our reviewers. Nigel said it was the website he was most likely to use – it seemed suited to people who mainly used bank cards and online banking rather than cash.
Smart bit
The illustrated analysis of your spending is easy to understand and you can see when your spending is going off track. One reviewer reported the interactive online help was “fantastic”.
The only difficulty seemed to be incorporating more than one financial goal within the budget. Kate got around this by setting up expense categories for each of her goals (having first used Sorted to work out what she needed to put aside). Scott solved it by using the site’s interactive online help to find an answer.
Cost
The site has a significant amount of free content. It charges $49.95 a year for full access.
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