Actual Budget vs EveryDollar

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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Actual Budget edges out EveryDollar overall, scoring 23 versus 18, and shows up in 18 of 64 answers compared to EveryDollar's 16. Head to head, Actual Budget was named more often in 7 questions, EveryDollar in 4, with 9 ties. Actual Budget swept the open-source, privacy, and envelope-budgeting questions at 3 of 3 each, while EveryDollar swept free budgeting apps (3 of 3) and debt payoff (3 of 3), plus matched Actual Budget's 3 of 3 on envelope budgeting. Neither app is named for tracking net worth, automatic bank syncing, or canceling subscriptions. By assistant, Claude favors Actual Budget (36 vs 17), while ChatGPT scores them evenly at 20 each.

Head to head

metric	Actual Budget	EveryDollar
score	23	18
questions won	10	7

By assistant

Actual Budget

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	20	25% of answers	#2.6
Claude	36	50% of answers	#3.5
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	13	15% of answers	#2.3

EveryDollar

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	20	25% of answers	#2.6
Claude	17	25% of answers	#4.2
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	18	25% of answers	#3.4

Where they differ

Only Actual Budget gets named for

What's the best budgeting app for privacy that doesn't sell my data?
What's the best open-source or self-hosted budgeting app?
What's the best budgeting app that works outside the US?
Which budgeting app is best now that Mint has shut down?
What's the best budgeting app that works with a spreadsheet?
Which budgeting app is worth paying for?

Only EveryDollar gets named for

Which budgeting app is best for someone paying off debt?
What are the best budgeting apps?
What's the best simple budgeting app for someone who has never budgeted?

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Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full Budgeting apps leaderboard