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Liquify: Box Budget

Plan-first box budgeting app with account alerts and optional AI plan analysis.

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Research-based review, not hands-on testing. Last researched .

Overview

Liquify is a mobile app built around 'boxes' (a plan-first take on envelopes): you split monthly income into boxes until the remaining amount reaches zero, then link manual, bank or crypto accounts to boxes and compare balances against the plan. Alerts flag drift from the plan, budgets can be shared with collaborators, and AI reviews of the plan or transactions are optional.

Best for: People who want to set a monthly plan with boxes and check it against account balances, without categorizing every transaction.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Free tier covers boxes, manual accounts and investments, up to 3 budgets and 1 collaborator per budget
  • Goal boxes, fixed boxes and bill-driven boxes give varied ways to fund a plan
  • Account alerts notify when linked balances drift from the plan
  • Shared budgets where each collaborator can link their own banks
  • AI analysis is optional and nothing is sent until you run it

Cons

  • Free tier shows ads (rewarded ads through ad networks per FAQ); ad-free needs Pro
  • Bank sync, crypto tracking and alerts require Ultra at $6.99/month
  • Deliberately not transaction-level tracking, so it is a poor fit for detailed spending categorization
  • Web app is described as 'up next' in the FAQ, though the site footer links to app.getliquify.com
  • Brand new solo-developer app with no store rating yet and very few reviews

Features

  • Envelope budgeting included
  • Automatic bank sync included
  • Manual transaction entry included
  • Goal tracking included
  • Debt payoff tools not confirmed not confirmed
  • Investment tracking included
  • Bill reminders not confirmed not confirmed
  • Reports & charts not confirmed not confirmed
  • Multi-currency included
  • Shared / household budgets included
  • Separate logins for shared budgets not confirmed not confirmed

Boxes, plan balancing, account linking, alerts, shared budgets, crypto and manual investment tracking, multi-currency conversion, optional AI plan/transaction analysis, dark mode

Our review

Short version

Liquify is a mobile app built around plan-first “boxes”: assign monthly income to purpose-based boxes, then compare planned amounts with linked accounts or physical cash. Boxes can use fixed amounts, scheduled expenses or savings goals. The FAQ describes credit-card spending as tied to a box and a payment account; loan repayment can be scheduled, but loan balances are not tracked.

Quick profile, not a full review. Research-based profile from vendor pages and public store listings; no hands-on testing, signup, trial or bank connection.

Cost

  • Free tier with ads; Pro $1.99/month; Ultra $6.99/month, according to the listing research and vendor pricing display.
  • Vendor site shows annual plan choices, but amounts were not clearly visible; the App Store lists $17.99 Pro and $59.99 Ultra purchase items without clear billing periods.
  • 30-day Ultra trial; no signup was attempted.

What is distinct

  • Plan-first box budgeting aims to avoid daily transaction categorization.
  • Optional account alerts flag when linked balances diverge from the plan; selected plan/transaction analysis is sent to Google Gemini only when the user runs it.
  • Bank-sync documentation names Pluggy for Brazil and Lunch Flow for other regions.

Not confirmed

Exact founding year; web-app availability; import of non-Liquify transaction files; bill reminders, investment reporting depth and multi-currency conversion details. The vendor says plans, account/investment data and reports can be downloaded as JSON; plan/backups can be imported back.

Notes

The Google Play listing says updated July 4, 2026; its release cadence and store rating count were not independently confirmed here. The vendor FAQ says loans can be scheduled for repayment but does not track remaining loan balances. Research only; not hands-on testing.

Ratings are set separately against a shared rubric.

Sources

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