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Know what you can spend today.

Budgie turns your budget into a daily allowance that builds up like a savings account. Spend less and it grows. Spend more and it tells you, honestly.

Everything on this page is in the free app. No ads, no bank links, no account needed.

  • iPhone and iPad
  • English and Japanese
  • Open beta on TestFlight
The idea

A budget that pays you every day.

Most budgets hand you a month and leave you guessing. Budgie breaks yours into days, so you always know where you stand.

  1. Pick a budget

    Say $1,800 a month. Budgie makes that $60 a day.

  2. It builds every day

    Each morning another $60 lands in your allowance, like a savings account that pays you.

  3. Spend from it, honestly

    Log a coffee in four seconds and watch the number move. Skip a day and it carries over. Overdo it and the balance dips the same day, instead of hiding until next month.

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Why Budgie

One number. No surprises.

See where you stand, daily

Not a chart at month end. The amount that's safe to spend, right now.

Nothing resets

Unspent money rolls into tomorrow. A quiet week earns you a big Saturday.

Catch overspending early

A big dinner shows as a dip the same day, while it's still easy to steer back.

A look inside

Four seconds to log. One glance to know.

The Manual keypad: $4.50 typed on big number keys, and a Save button.

Log it in four seconds

Type the amount, tap Save. Done.

Home: the budget balance line rising to $1,280.14, Capture, Upload and Manual buttons, and recent purchases.

Watch it build

Your balance over time, and what's available today.

Insights in dark mode: a heat map of spending by category over time, the budget balance line, and $1,280.14 available.

Spot your habits

Weeks at a glance, by day and category.

Also in the free app

The rest comes along, free.

  • Receipts read on your phone, offline
  • Rent and bills kept apart from day-to-day
  • Split bills and refunds
  • A project budget for a trip or renovation
  • History, Insights and CSV export
  • Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts
  • Any currency
  • Dark mode
Optional

Premium, for when you want more.

Nothing in the free app goes away. Premium adds four things.

Sync across devices

iPhone and iPad in step, through your own account.

AI sorts your receipts

Every line of a receipt lands in its own category.

Unlimited projects

The renovation, the trip and the client job, side by side.

PDF reports

Hand someone a clear, printable summary of any period.

A real report, from the app

  • PDF report cover: net spent $1,529.91 over the last 30 days, 54 purchases, where it went as one coloured bar, highlights, and the week-by-week strip.
  • Category map: every category as a block sized by its spending, split into its merchants.
  • Spending over time: daily spending stacked by category, and the running total.
  • Merchants: the 17 merchants ranked by spending, and how concentrated spending is.

Made by the app from its demo data, exactly as Export report makes it. 11 pages.

Monthly, yearly with a 14-day free trial, or once for life. Prices are shown in the app. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID and renew until you cancel them. See the terms of use.

Private by design

Your money is your business.

Signed out, nothing leaves your phone. No ads, no tracking, and this website has no analytics. The privacy policy says exactly what leaves your device, and when.

  • No bank links. You type the amount.
  • No ads, no tracking, in the app or here.
  • Delete everything from Settings, any time.
Coming soon to the App Store

Be first in.

Budgie is in open beta on TestFlight. Leave your name and email and we'll send you the link.

Questions? Write to support@quaal.co.