Moving from Lunch Money to Rocket Money
Assembled from both records. Nothing here is an opinion — it is the difference between two rows, written out.
Your data — read this first
Whether Lunch Money can export your transactions is unrecorded. Rocket Money records history import as No: your history does not move, and you start from whatever your banks return on connection.
- Transactions
- No
- Balance history
- ?
- Budgets
- Rebuilt by hand
- Rules
- Rebuilt by hand
- Attachments
- ?
Transactions, balance history and attachments are Rocket Money’s own import attributes. Budgets and rules never transfer between two apps in this index.
What you gain
- Free tier No → Yes
- Credit scores No → Yes
What you lose
- Manual accounts Yes → No
- History import Yes → No
What is unchanged
- Account aggregation, Rules engine, Split transactions, Custom categories, Budgeting, Recurring transactions, Net worth, Investment tracking, Reports, Trends, Partner or household
49 attributes are Unknown on one side and left out. Gains and losses are a diff of the two records.
How to do it
- Export from Lunch Money first
Take the transaction export while your subscription is live. The record is unknown on export, so check before you cancel.
- Connect accounts inside the trial
Find out which of your banks fail before you are billed. Rocket Money reaches banks through Plaid.
- Rebuild budgets and rules
No app in this index imports another’s budgets or rules. Budgets are quick; rules are worth rebuilding as transactions arrive rather than all at once.