Imagine if your credit cards were paid in full every month automatically, and you never accrued any interest.
Credit cards can be amazing tools. They offer travel rewards, discounts, hotel deals, cash back—and it all adds up over time. But, there’s a catch…
When we sit down and talk to Spend users, they always tell us, “my finances are a little wonky right now.” For example, I just sat down with someone recently to talk about how he uses Spend, and he mentioned that he stopped using it because a multi-thousand-dollar property tax bill landed last week and totally threw him off his budget.
Spend has four ways to stay on budget when a big expenses happen.…
We’ve been focused on building a product that takes the guess work out of budgeting so you can spend with certainty. From the moment we started building, we knew that mobile apps would be a valuable addition to our users—in fact, having a single glanceable number on our phone’s homescreens was a huge part of our motivation to build Spend in the first place…
Launching the first version of anything is a big deal and there’s plenty of popular advice on how to do it, most of which encourages creators to build as little as possible as quickly as possible. But there’s another approach, one where at the center is passion, craftsmanship, and faith in vision. This is how we’re building Spend…
Today, we’re excited that the personal finance app Morgan and I have been working on for the last two years has a new name: Spend.…
Spend helps you stay on budget by providing you with a single, glanceable number that updates as you spend. We call this Safe to Spend and it finally takes the guesswork out of answering the question, “Can I afford it?” In this post, we explain why Safe to Spend is key to budgeting, spending with certainty, and ultimately achieving financial independence…
With Black Friday looming on every website, social media post, and physical letter in your mailbox, the pressure and urge to spend is higher than ever. With Spend’s goal to help you spend with certainty, we’d like to talk about one of the most useful features of Spend…
Before Spend, if I needed to look up a transaction and didn’t remember which card I used, I had to sign in to multiple banks to find the transaction. Signing in to banks is a difficult ordeal…
With two software engineers as co-founders, we spend most of our time writing code to improve the capabilities of Spend. Lately, as we feel the product is becoming more and more feature-complete, we’re realizing it’s time to get back to the roots of why we’re building Spend in the first place: to help people with their money.…
For those of you that have been using Spend for a little while, you may have noticed that:
We just launched a new feature to eliminate these problems and to make Spend more useful on a regular basis…
When we decided to build Spend, we had to decide which part of a person’s finances to focus on—what part of their financial journey to streamline, to simplify, to make obvious…
We just rolled out a bunch of new improvements to Spend that we think you’re going to love…
Morgan from Spend reviews finwiseapp.io‘s budgeting application and provides insights…
Almost all the popular personal finance apps out there, encourage you to categorize every transaction. These are apps like EveryDollar, Goodbudget, Lunch Money, Monarch, Wally, and YNAB. They follow in Mint’s footsteps but now that Mint is shutting down, it’s a good time to ask yourself…
On October 31, 2023, Intuit announced that it’s shutting down Mint in favor of Credit Karma. In response, the internet is searching for alternatives and some Mint competitors are clamoring to acquire their customers…