45
BU Score
Emerging
Simple Envelope Budgeting
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Simple Envelope Budgeting is an iOS app from Frank Herring in the Finance category, currently rated 4.0★ across 8 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Finance app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (8 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.4🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (3y old)
📝 About this app
All The Features You Want:
- Syncs Via iCloud to All of Your Devices
- Goals for Savings
- Color-Coded Envelopes
- Supports iPhone and iPad
- Search Function to Quickly Find Envelopes
- Simple and Straightforward
- Reliable
- Indicates When You Are Over Budget
None of the Features You Don't:
- No Ads
- No In-App Purchases to Unlock Full Functionality
- No Syncing with Your Bank Account (I've never found an app that does this in a useful manner anyways)
- No Fancy Graphs / Pie Charts That You Don't Really Care About
Creating a budget is a crucial element of financial success.… View full description on the official store →
- Syncs Via iCloud to All of Your Devices
- Goals for Savings
- Color-Coded Envelopes
- Supports iPhone and iPad
- Search Function to Quickly Find Envelopes
- Simple and Straightforward
- Reliable
- Indicates When You Are Over Budget
None of the Features You Don't:
- No Ads
- No In-App Purchases to Unlock Full Functionality
- No Syncing with Your Bank Account (I've never found an app that does this in a useful manner anyways)
- No Fancy Graphs / Pie Charts That You Don't Really Care About
Creating a budget is a crucial element of financial success.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.4
- Envelope balances now animate more naturally when moving between funded, empty, and overspent states.
- Adding funds, adding expenses, editing transactions, deleting transactions, and resetting envelopes should feel more consistent and reliable.… Full release notes →
- Adding funds, adding expenses, editing transactions, deleting transactions, and resetting envelopes should feel more consistent and reliable.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Simple Envelope Budgeting
- Developer
- Frank Herring
- Bundle ID
- com.HerringFrank.Simple-Envelope
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
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Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews4 latest · avg 4.0★ · 75.0% 5★ · 25.0% 1★
5★3 (75%)
4★0 (0%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (25%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: perfect ×2 great ×1 recommend ×1 love ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Perfect
This app is user-friendly and simple - just what I needed to hold myself accountable with spending.…
★★★★★ Great App!
I’ve been looking for an app like this for a few months now. All the ones I’ve tried either have a monthly/annual fee or have ads plastered all over the screen. This app is cheap, straightforward, and easy to use. The only thing I feel that…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Recurring transaction
This is a monthly fee???…
★★★★★ Perfect
This app is user-friendly and simple - just what I needed to hold myself accountable with spending.…
📈Ratings growth8 ratings+700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (6 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Simple Envelope Budgeting: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.