Comparison
CrestCast vs Money Dashboard
Start with the thing most comparison pages will not tell you: Money Dashboard is gone. Both of its apps closed permanently on 31/10/2023. If you have landed here looking for it, this page explains what happened, what has replaced which part of it, and which parts of it CrestCast replaces and which parts it does not.
Closed since 31/10/2023
Money Dashboard shut down Neon and Classic on 31/10/2023, saying it “could not find a sustainable business model for the apps”. The app store listings are gone and moneydashboard.com now redirects to data.one, a business-to-business open banking service for lenders.
| CrestCast | Money Dashboard (closed) | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Live. Launched in 2026 | Closed. Both apps shut down on 31/10/2023 |
| Main job | Forecast where a UK household is heading | Showed where your money had already gone, across all your accounts |
| Bank connection | None. You enter what it knows, or import a CSV | Yes. Automatic aggregation, and Open Banking in the Neon app |
| Looked forwards or backwards | Forwards. Cashflow, profit & loss and net worth, plus debt clearance dates | Backwards. Categorised spending, balances and trends from your history |
| Household | One subscription covers the household, with joint, personal and household views | Built around one person and their own accounts |
| Price | £7.99/mo or £79.99/yr for the household | Free to the user, funded by anonymised market research insights rather than subscriptions |
| Country | UK only | UK only |
| Where the website goes now | crestcast.co.uk | moneydashboard.com redirects to data.one, a business-to-business open banking service for lenders |
Every figure on this page correct as at 14/08/2026. Money Dashboard's own closure notice and blog, both read from web archive captures because the live site now redirects, its Crowdcube campaign data, and Companies House. Press coverage of the closure was deliberately not used as a source for any figure.
Money Dashboard is a trademark of its owner; this comparison is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Money Dashboard or ClearScore.
What Money Dashboard was
It deserves better than being remembered only for shutting. Money Dashboard was an Edinburgh company, incorporated in 2006, long before Open Banking existed, and for years it was the biggest UK account aggregator there was. It pulled current accounts, savings and credit cards into one place, categorised the transactions automatically, and charged the user nothing. Its rebuilt app, Neon, moved it onto Open Banking connections, and the original app carried on alongside as Classic. In 2019 it raised £3.69m on Crowdcube from 3,331 investors, part of a wider round it described as £4.6 million raised mainly through crowdfunding, which tells you how much affection there was for it.
It was not short of users either. Money Dashboard's own site invited people to join 600,000 or more of them in late 2022, the year before it closed. That is not a product nobody wanted. It is a product that could not turn wanting into revenue, because it was free, and the anonymised insights business it sold alongside was not enough to keep the apps alive.
What CrestCast does not replace
CrestCast does not connect to your bank. It cannot log into your accounts, cannot pull your transactions in, and cannot categorise last month's spending for you, because it never sees it, which also means it never holds a credential and nothing about your accounts ever leaves your control. If the thing you miss about Money Dashboard is opening an app and seeing everything that happened without lifting a finger, CrestCast is not that. Snoop and Emma still do the aggregation job in the UK, and Snoop was the one app Money Dashboard itself named to leaving users. Worth knowing before you take an old recommendation at face value: Moneyhub has since closed its consumer app too.
CrestCast is paid for by the people who use it: £7.99 a month or £79.99 a year for the whole household. Given how Money Dashboard ended, that is the safer arrangement, because a product its users pay for does not depend on another revenue line staying viable.
What CrestCast does instead
Money Dashboard answered “where did it go”. CrestCast answers “where is this heading, and what happens if we change something”. It builds a forward model of your household: a cashflow and a profit and loss alongside a net worth statement, with the date each debt clears falling out of the same numbers. You can save a version of the plan, change something, and compare the two.
It is built for a household rather than a person: both incomes, joint and personal accounts kept separate but added up, children, one subscription across the lot. And it takes CSV import, so if you kept the export you took out of Money Dashboard in 2023, the history is not wasted.
For what a forecast can and cannot tell you before you rely on one, we wrote about how accurate a financial forecast can actually be.
The other direction of travel
Figures shown are the sample profile, not a real household.
Common questions
›Is Money Dashboard still available?
No. Money Dashboard announced in early October 2023 that both of its apps, Neon and the older Classic, would close, and they shut down permanently on 31/10/2023. The company said it could not find a sustainable business model for the apps. The websites and app store listings are gone, and moneydashboard.com now redirects to data.one, a business-to-business open banking service aimed at lenders rather than a consumer app.
›What happened to my Money Dashboard data?
Users were given until 31/10/2023 to export their transaction history to CSV from the web app. After that date bank connections were severed, accounts were closed, and the company said it would delete or fully anonymise the personal data it held, subject to its legal and regulatory obligations. If you exported a CSV back then and still have it, it is not useless: CrestCast can import CSV data.
›Is CrestCast a replacement for Money Dashboard?
Only for part of what it did. Money Dashboard aggregated your accounts and told you where your money had gone. CrestCast does not connect to any bank, so it cannot do that job at all. What CrestCast does is the thing Money Dashboard never really did: forecast where your household is heading, model decisions before you make them, and show when debts clear. If what you miss is automatic transaction tracking, look at a bank-connected app instead. If what you miss is having one place where your whole financial picture lives, that is closer to what CrestCast is for.
›What are the alternatives to Money Dashboard in the UK?
For the aggregation job Money Dashboard did, the UK options include Snoop and Emma, which connect to your accounts through Open Banking. Snoop was the only app Money Dashboard itself named to departing users, offering a three-month trial of Snoop Plus, its paid tier, and that offer belongs to the 2023 closure rather than to anything running today. Be careful taking older recommendations at face value: Moneyhub, which was on most of those 2023 lists, has since closed its own consumer app. For the planning job, which is a different question, CrestCast, PocketSmith and Lumio are all worth a look, and there are comparisons of the latter two on this site.
›Why did Money Dashboard shut down if it had hundreds of thousands of users?
Because users were not the problem, revenue was. Money Dashboard was free, and in its own words it made money by providing insight and market research services to other companies, having fully anonymised the banking data first. Its own site was still inviting people to join 600,000 or more users in late 2022. ClearScore took control in early 2022, with Companies House recording the incoming ClearScore directors in February of that year, launched a business-to-business open banking unit built on the technology, and then closed the consumer apps in October 2023, saying it could not find a sustainable business model for them. It is a useful warning about free money apps: if you are not paying for it, the product can be withdrawn the moment the other revenue line stops working.
›Does CrestCast connect to my bank the way Money Dashboard did?
No. You enter what you want CrestCast to know, or import a CSV. Nothing is read from your accounts automatically. For people who were uneasy about handing an app access to every transaction, that is the whole appeal; for people who loved the automation, it is a genuine drawback.
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This is not advice
This comparison is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Money Dashboard or ClearScore. Details about Money Dashboard are drawn from its own closure notice and blog, preserved in web archive captures because the live site now redirects, from its Crowdcube campaign data, from Companies House, and from the current state of its website, all checked on 14/08/2026. Other apps named here are mentioned as genuine alternatives and are not affiliated with CrestCast. Nothing here is financial advice.
A money app you pay for, so it is still here next year.
CrestCast forecasts your household's cashflow, profit and loss and net worth, shows when your debts clear, and never connects to your bank.
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