Actual Budget
Free, and qualifiesLocal-first envelope budgeting you can self-host, with optional bank sync
Envelopes and rollover, no dashboard. 27 of 89 apps qualify.
Rollover budgeting — last month's leftover carrying into this month — is what separates a budget from a spending report, and it is the single most asked-about feature in budgeting communities. 27 of 89 apps record it. Some of these also do everything else; the ones that do not are not lesser, they are focused.
Local-first envelope budgeting you can self-host, with optional bank sync
FreeBudget is a free, simple budgeting app that tracks your spending, builds your budget, and monitors your net worth.
A shared family dashboard to track assets, liabilities, budgets and renewals across household members, with real-time bank sync.
Quicken and Simplifi import with zero-based budgeting, bank sync via three aggregators, and shared household access.
Personal accounting across spending, bills, debt, investments, net worth and credit score
Zero-based budgeting with real reconciliation, flexible planning, and bank sync.
Budget from your bank statements: upload a PDF, CSV or Excel file, and AI sorts every transaction. No bank login, any country, any currency.
Private zero-based budgeting with no bank sync — plan by paycheck, review scanned receipts, and track prices you actually pay.
A finance app paired with personalized habit training, with optional bank sync
Budgeting app for the UK, US and Canada that tracks accounts, bills and subscriptions, with credit score, net worth and crypto tracking.
A complete budgeting app with forecast, multiple budgeting styles, goals, debt payoff BNPL plans, and scenarios, with a day-by-day forecast.
Web-first budgeting with multicurrency support, bank sync or CSV import, and a developer API
Budgeting and financial planning with all accounts on one dashboard, with no ads or data sales
A finance tracker built from blocks, with linked bank accounts, AI categorization and multiple profiles
Desktop budgeting and portfolio tracking for Windows, with data stored locally
Envelope budgeting built for ADHD brains. Rules sort your transactions and paychecks fill your slices, so the budget runs without daily upkeep.
Budgeting around what is safe to spend after bills, goals and savings are set aside
AI budgeting that automates savings and debt-repayment transfers between connected banks
Budgeting, net-worth tracking and financial planning in one app, with no ads and no data sales
Automated tracking of spending, budgets, investments and net worth on web, iPhone, iPad and Mac
Budgeting, net worth and planning in one app, shared with a partner or advisor
Connects your banks, rollover budgeting, investment tracking, shared with a partner.
Budgeting for freelancers, with personal and business money and estimated taxes in one place
Intuit's free budgeting and net-worth app, closed in March 2024 and folded into Credit Karma
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