Personal Finance

Taking Control of Your Finances

With the 10 most useful money apps.

While finances can often be tedious, the ever evolving financial world can open your eyes to a whole new way of looking at your money. For anyone and everyone, this list will certainly provide at least one app that will change your financial life for the better. From investing to active stock-trading to managing subscription costs, this list covers it all. So, let’s dig in.

10: PayPal

PayPal is everywhere. From paying for shopping/services online with the click of a button to sending money instantly to friends and family, they have you covered. PayPal owns Venmo, the popular money-sending app. Their iOS platform will give you access to a digital wallet, home to your credit/debit cards, bank accounts, and, often overlooked, your prepaid gift cards. Thats right — if you have Visa prepaid cards, they can be loaded into PayPal and used for online payments, direct or split. PayPal will even let you send money to other users using them! When online, instead of remembering or finding your credit card number, expiration, CVV, shipping address, billing address, and other hundreds of necessary fields, you can simply click ‘pay with PayPal’ and have all of this information provided for you. There are a few such services with…