A PocketGuard alternative, when your bank is not in the US, Canada or the UK
PocketGuard works out how much you can safely spend from your connected accounts, and it connects to banks in three countries, so the right alternative depends on whether you are leaving over that number, the price or the map.
Stay with PocketGuard if you bank in the US, Canada or the UK and want one number that says what is safe to spend, worked out from your connected accounts, because Hundo has neither connected accounts nor a number like that. Hundo fits if your bank is outside those three countries, where PocketGuard points you to adding accounts and transactions by hand anyway: Hundo is built to make those entries quick, with suggestions from your own history that fill one in a tap, in 166 currencies, and a tracker that is free forever.
PocketGuard is a budgeting app whose best-known feature is a single figure. Many people still look for it as "In My Pocket". PocketGuard's own help article on it still sits at an address ending in IN-MY-POCKET, and is now titled "What Is Leftover in PocketGuard".
What is PocketGuard's Leftover number?Link to this section
PocketGuard's Leftover article calculates it as income minus expenses minus goals. It is the money left to spend or save after bills, budgets, goals and debt payments. PocketGuard works it out by analysing your connected accounts, and it resets at the start of each month.
That is a genuinely useful idea: one number instead of a page of categories. Hundo has nothing like it. Hundo budgets are monthly or weekly spending limits per category, filled automatically from the categories you choose.
If that single number is what you open PocketGuard for, and your bank is supported, stay.
Which countries does PocketGuard support?Link to this section
Three. PocketGuard's help article What countries does PocketGuard support? lists bank accounts and cards from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Its home page says it connects to "20,000+ institutions" across those countries, through Plaid, Finicity and Saltedge.
For Australia, Europe and Latin America, the same article says you can still use PocketGuard's web app "by adding your bank accounts and transactions manually".
That is an honest answer, and it is worth reading closely. Outside those three countries, you put every entry into PocketGuard yourself, so the question becomes which app makes that fastest. What to do when no app supports your country is the fuller answer.
How much does PocketGuard cost?Link to this section
PocketGuard's pricing page starts with a 7-day free trial and shows three paid options, all in US dollars:
- $74.99 billed yearly, shown as $6.25 a month.
- $12.99 a month.
- $149.99 once, for a lifetime plan.
The pricing page shows no free plan.
The Hundo tracker is free forever, with nothing capped. Pro is pay what you want: $36 a year at the minimum, $72 suggested, or $8 a month.
Does PocketGuard cancel subscriptions and lower bills?Link to this section
Partly, and the details matter.
PocketGuard finds recurring charges in your connected accounts. Its cancel subscriptions page says that to cancel one, "You need to head to each service's account and cancel a subscription directly there". Its lower your bills page says a partner, Billshark, negotiates cell phone, cable and WiFi bills, and takes a cut of the savings only if it succeeds.
If you want a team that cancels subscriptions for you, Rocket Money offers that in the United States. Hundo does neither: it does not cancel subscriptions or negotiate bills.
What is it like to enter everything yourself in Hundo?Link to this section
When every entry is one you add, two things decide whether you keep going: how fast an entry goes in, and whether currencies are handled properly.
Getting entries in. Open "add transaction" and your usual entries are already there, ranked out of your own history: a subscription on its usual day, a regular bill, the coffee you buy most mornings. One tap fills the whole entry, or you type the amount first and pick from the merchants that match it. You can also import a CSV, TSV or Excel file with column mapping and duplicate detection. All of that is free. In Pro you can photograph a receipt, forward an email receipt, dictate, or tell the assistant what you spent and confirm its draft. How to log every expense yourself without it becoming a chore goes further. How to keep tracking by hand after the novelty wears off covers the habit side.
Currencies, properly. Each account, asset and budget keeps its own currency, in 166 of them. Each transaction stores the exchange rate for its own date, so old months keep their old rates. Net worth reports in one base currency, and can split a change into the part that was your money and the part that was the exchange rate. Which exchange rate to record covers a card charge in another currency.
What do you give up by leaving PocketGuard for Hundo?Link to this section
- Connected accounts, in the three countries PocketGuard supports. Hundo has no bank connection, so nothing appears in Hundo by itself.
- The Leftover number. Hundo has spending limits per category, not one safe-to-spend figure.
- Bill negotiation through a partner. Hundo does not negotiate bills.
- Native apps. PocketGuard lists web, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android. Hundo is a web app you install, with no app-store app.
What does Hundo give you instead?Link to this section
- A tracker that is free forever, with nothing capped: unlimited accounts, transactions, budgets and assets.
- Your usual entries, one tap away. Suggestions from your own history are waiting when you open the form.
- Every currency, with each account, asset and budget in its own. What a multi-currency net worth tracker has to get right.
- Assets beyond cash. Crypto, stocks, funds and precious metals are priced automatically, you value property and vehicles yourself, and IOUs are tracked per person.
- Your own AI, if you want one. Hundo publishes an MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT or another client can read your ledger and draft changes that are only written after you confirm. It is part of Pro. How to connect one.
PocketGuard vs Hundo at a glanceLink to this section
| PocketGuard | Hundo | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $74.99 a year ($6.25 a month), $12.99 a month, or $149.99 once for a lifetime plan | Tracker free forever. Pro is pay what you want from $36 a year (suggested $72), or $8 a month |
| Free option | A 7-day free trial. The pricing page shows no free plan | The tracker, free forever with nothing capped |
| Bank connection | Yes, 20,000+ institutions in the US, Canada and the UK | None |
| Countries | Banks in the US, Canada and the UK. Elsewhere, accounts and transactions are added by hand in the web app | No country list |
| Currencies | Not published | 166. Each account, asset and budget keeps its own, and each transaction stores the rate for its own date |
| Apps | Web, iPhone, Apple Watch and Android | Web app you can install as a PWA. No app-store app |
| AI assistant | The pricing page lists "AI chat" next to priority human support, with no further detail | Yes, in Pro |
| MCP server | Not published | Yes, in Pro |
| Safe-to-spend number | Leftover: income minus expenses minus goals, from your connected accounts | None. Budgets are spending limits per category |
PocketGuard column checked 15 September 2026 against PocketGuard's pricing page, home page, countries article, Leftover article, cancel subscriptions page and lower your bills page.
The short versionLink to this section
Banking in the US, Canada or the UK, and living by one safe-to-spend number? PocketGuard does that well, and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.
Banking anywhere else? PocketGuard already asks you to add everything by hand, so pick the app that makes typing fastest and handles your currencies.
Common questionsLink to this section
What is PocketGuard's Leftover, or "In My Pocket", number?Link to this section
Leftover is the money left to spend or save after bills, budgets, goals and debt payments, calculated as income minus expenses minus goals. PocketGuard's help article on it sits at an address ending in IN-MY-POCKET.
Which countries does PocketGuard support?Link to this section
PocketGuard supports bank accounts and cards from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Elsewhere, its help centre says you can add bank accounts and transactions manually in the web app.
How much does PocketGuard cost?Link to this section
After a 7-day free trial, PocketGuard is $74.99 a year, $12.99 a month, or $149.99 once for a lifetime plan. The Hundo tracker is free forever, and Hundo Pro is pay what you want from $36 a year, or $8 a month.
Does Hundo work with banks outside the US, Canada and the UK?Link to this section
Hundo does not connect to banks in any country, so every entry is one you add, and it keeps that quick. Suggestions from your own history fill an entry in one tap, a CSV, TSV or Excel file imports in one pass, and in Pro an entry can be photographed, forwarded by email, dictated, or drafted by the assistant and confirmed by you.