If you consume much personal finance content on YouTube, you may have noticed that Lunch Money has a new fan!
Recently, Rob Berger highlighted Lunch Money on his popular YouTube channel in not one but two videos! Our team met Rob a few months back at FinCon, a financial conference, so we are very grateful that he mentioned us!
Rob is a popular personal finance personality with close to 250,000 YouTube followers. The former lawyer has been writing about personal finance since 2007, is a contributing editor at Forbes Advisor, and is the author of Retire Before Mom and Dad.
In a recent YouTube Live Q&A titled “My New Favorite Budgeting App,” Rob gave viewers a quick overview of some of his favorite Lunch Money features.
Here’s what Rob had to say:
“I really like this app, and I’ve started using it for our budget…I like the look and feel of it, I like the simplicity of it. I think it does about everything I think someone would want a budgeting app to do.”
He goes on to highlight several Lunch Money features, mentioning that he likes how budgeting categories and recurring expenses work.
“It will track recurring expenses…If you link your accounts, it will sort of auto-detect when it thinks something is a recurring (income or expense). You ultimately have control over whether you say, ‘Yes, this is a recurring expense’ or not. I like this feature a lot.”
Later in the Q&A, Rob responds to a viewer who asks if he considers Lunch Money an alternative to Tiller, another popular budgeting app.
“No, I would say not,” Rob replied. “Tiller is for people…who really like working with spreadsheets.”
Later, when asked whether he likes Lunch Money better than Tiller, Rob says that while he likes Tiller a lot, he’d probably use Lunch Money if he had to use just one tool today.
In a more recent YouTube video titled “3 Financial Apps Worth Paying For in Retirement,” Rob answers a viewer who asks him which paid versions of financial apps he would recommend owning for those in retirement or approaching retirement.
In his response, Rob mentions three paid budgeting apps: Tiller, RocketMoney, and Lunch Money!
While he points out that RocketMoney is the way to go if you want a mobile budgeting app, he says of Lunch Money:
“I like (Lunch Money) a lot…I like the way this app works, very easy to enter data, very easy to evaluate it. There’s a calendar view – it’ll show you your recurring expenses, so I like this a lot.”
Thank you, Rob, for the kind words about our app! 🙏 We hope you continue to enjoy using it, and we look forward to rolling out even more helpful features throughout 2025!
