July field notes10 / 31
Safe to spend today
$84.20
On pace$312 under
Spent $1,428Plan $5,200
Personal financewithout the finance-bro energy
Your budget,
back on its perch.
A gentle daily spending companion that turns your own Google Sheet into a clear, useful dashboard. No new financial account. No mystery database. No subscription.
Free to use · Your sheet stays yours · Works on phone and desktop
No. 01 — The calm month
01 Your Google Sheet is the source of truth.
02 See your pace, not a wall of guilt.
03 Add a purchase in a few seconds.
A / THE IDEA
Most budget apps want to become your bank. Budgie would rather be a good window into a sheet you control.
Connect an existing spreadsheet, map the columns you already use, and choose whether Budgie may write back or stay completely read-only.
Bring a sheet
Pick an existing Google Sheet or let Budgie make a clean one for you. Your familiar rows remain the foundation.
Map it once
Tell Budgie which columns mean date, amount, note, and category. A live preview makes the connection obvious.
Watch your pace
See today’s safe spend, your month-end forecast, and the small correction that gets you back on track.
B / DAILY USE
A budget that speaks
in today-sized numbers.
$84.20
Know what today can hold.
Budgie blends your recent pace with the month so one strange day doesn’t boss the whole forecast around.
Corner market$26.41Groceries · today
Log it while it’s fresh.
Add a clean transaction or paste messy notes and review the result before anything reaches your sheet.
Read-onlyTwo-way
You decide what Budgie may touch.
Use the app as a viewer, or turn on two-way sync for adding, editing, and deleting sheet rows.
C / PRIVACY
Your money story
is not our product.
Budgie uses Google’s sign-in and Sheets APIs to work with the spreadsheet you choose. It does not ask for bank credentials, sell your transaction history, or move your budget into a shared Budgie database.
- ✓ You explicitly choose the sheet
- ✓ Read-only mode never writes to it
- ✓ Disconnect whenever you like
A calmer daily ritualtakes about two minutes