How to Use This App
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Set Up Your Recurring Income
Go to Recurring Income and add your paycheck. Pick your frequency — weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly. If you're paid bi-weekly, select what day of the week you get paid and pick your most recent payday from the dropdown. The app will tell you exactly which months you'll get a 3rd paycheck in the next 12 months — plan for those!
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Add Your Fixed Monthly Bills
Go to Recurring Expenses and add anything you pay every month at the same amount — rent, phone, car payment, insurance, subscriptions. Assign each one to a bucket: Needs (essentials), Savings, or Fun. You only set these up once — they carry over and calculate automatically every month. That's the key difference: a recurring bill is entered once and repeats; a one-off cost that changes month to month (a grocery run, a doctor visit) goes under Add or Log One-Off Transactions instead.
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Use the Monthly Checklist
The Monthly Checklist is your reminder so nothing slips through the cracks. Items marked ↻ are fixed bills — check them once and they stay checked permanently. Items without ↻ (electric, water, groceries, dining out) reset each month because the amount changes. Click any item to jump straight to the right form — it pre-fills the name and bucket for you, so just type the amount and hit Add.
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Watch Your 50 / 30 / 20 Breakdown
Every expense you enter gets assigned to a bucket — Needs (50%), Savings (30%), or Fun (20%). The breakdown shows your target dollar amount for each and how much you've spent. The progress bar fills as you go. If it turns red, you've gone over — the app shows exactly how much so you know where to cut back.
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Log One-Off Transactions
Use Add or Log One-Off Transactions for anything that isn't on a fixed schedule — a medical bill, a grocery run, a night out, a bonus. You can enter $0 for any item just to mark it as acknowledged. If you pay rent on a second home or have any other fixed expense that repeats, add it in Recurring Expenses — that's exactly what that section is for. The category dropdown starts pre-filled with common options — just start typing and select one.
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Track Your Loans
Add any loan in the Loan Tracker — car loan, student loan, mortgage, anything. Enter the balance, interest rate, term in months, and optionally your actual minimum payment. The app shows your monthly minimum payment, total interest you'll pay over the life of the loan, how many payments are left, and a bar showing how much of your money goes to interest vs. principal. Hit "+ Add minimum payment to Recurring Expenses" to automatically add it to your monthly bills.
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Track Your Credit Cards
Add your credit cards in the Credit Cards section. Enter the balance, APR, and the minimum payment from your statement. The app calculates exactly how long it'll take to pay off making only minimum payments, and how much interest you'll hand over. If your minimum doesn't even cover the monthly interest, it'll warn you that the debt will grow forever. Hit "+ Add minimum payment to Recurring Expenses" to track it in your monthly budget.
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Navigate Between Months
Use the ← → arrows at the top to move between months. Each month's transactions are saved separately. Your recurring income, recurring expenses, loans, and credit cards carry over automatically — you only need to log variable spending each month.
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✝ Giving
The Giving card shows a recommended 10% of your income — updated automatically as your income changes. Use the Monthly Checklist to log your Tithe, Church Offering, and Charity under the Giving section. You can enter $0 just to acknowledge an item if the amount varies or you've already given through other means.
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Set Savings Goals
Use Savings Goals to plan for anything you're working toward — a vacation, an emergency fund, a down payment, a new car. Enter the goal name, the target amount, how much you're already sitting on, and how much you can put away each month. The app calculates exactly when you'll hit the goal and shows a progress bar. Hit "+ Add monthly contribution to Recurring Expenses" to automatically track it in your budget.
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❤️ Heart Check — see what has your heart
On the Heart Check tab, upload a credit-card statement to see where your money actually went. Download your statement, drop it into ChatGPT with the prompt the page gives you ("turn this into a CSV with Date, Item, Category, Amount"), then upload that CSV. It ranks your spending biggest-first and gently points it back to God — and it never changes your budget numbers (so it won't double-count money you've already entered).
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Reset All Data
The Reset All button in the top right clears every entry, loan, recurring item, and checklist — useful if you want to hand the app to a friend or family member to set up their own budget from scratch. You'll be asked to confirm before anything is deleted.
💡 Your data never leaves your computer. Everything is saved locally in your browser — no account, no cloud, no subscription required. Just download the file, open it, and start budgeting.
🚀 Quick Links
Income
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Expenses
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Leftover
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50 / 30 / 20 Breakdown
📈 Your Progress
✂️ Budget Trim Advisor
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Monthly Checklist
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= Carries over every month — fixed amount that never changes (rent, phone, subscriptions, etc.). Check it once and it stays checked.
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Click on any item to edit it — Opens the form with the amount and category already filled in. Just type the amount and click Add.
💎 Net Worth
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Add everything you own — savings, 401k, house, cars, crypto, investments. Your debts (loans & credit cards) and the money you've already saved toward your goals are pulled in automatically. Every dollar you have is accounted for here — including what you've already saved for your goals. Net worth = what you own minus what you owe.
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Where is your heart?
Upload a statement on the Heart Check tab to see what your money reveals.
👫 Who's this budget for?
💡 Recurring vs. one-off — what's the difference?
Recurring = the same paycheck or bill every month — salary, rent, phone, insurance. Set it up once and it auto-fills every month going forward, so you never re-enter it.
One-off = something that changes or only happens once — a grocery run, a medical bill, a bonus. Log it under Add or Log One-Off Transactions for the month it happened.
One-off = something that changes or only happens once — a grocery run, a medical bill, a bonus. Log it under Add or Log One-Off Transactions for the month it happened.
Recurring Income
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Bi-weekly = every 2 weeks (not twice per week)
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We need to know your pay cycle so we can tell you which months you'll get 3 paychecks instead of 2.
Recurring Expenses
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Add or Log One-Off Transactions
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🏷️ Your categories — type a new one in the Category box above, or add it here so it's always in the dropdown.
📋 Your One-Off Transactions
The one-time entries you add above. These do count toward your budget (unlike the Heart Check statement upload, which is just for reflection).
Giving
Recommended 10% of your income
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🔮 What-If Calculator
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🔭 Big Life Changes
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🛡️ Sinking Funds
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💡 Ever get blindsided by a big expense? Car registration, Christmas gifts, annual insurance, new tires — they're not surprises if you plan for them. Set aside a little each month so the money is already waiting when the bill shows up.
Savings Goals
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Loan Tracker
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How often you pay
Car & mortgage loans auto-fill the matching checklist item — so a payment never gets counted twice.
Credit Cards
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Debt-Free Plan
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❤️ Heart Check
"Your bank statement will preach to your heart more than any preacher will."
— Pastor Dean
See what really has your heart. Upload your credit-card statement and we'll show you where your money actually went — then point it back to God. This never changes your budget numbers.
Turn your statement into a file (about 2 minutes):
1️⃣ On your computer, go to your credit-card account and download your statement (usually under "Statements" — the PDF is fine).
2️⃣ Open ChatGPT, upload that statement, and paste this:
"Please turn this statement into a CSV file with only these columns: Date, Item, Category, and Amount."
3️⃣ Download the CSV it gives you, then upload it right here 👇
Got more than one card? Upload them all — we'll combine them and skip duplicates. · No ChatGPT? Use a template →
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