I stopped trusting
budgeting apps,
so I built one I'd
actually use.

Free tier tracks spending and budgets. No bank-linking, ever. If you want the full financial picture — a real balance sheet, not just a spending log — that's the paid part, and I'll say so plainly instead of burying it in fine print.

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No asterisks

Here's exactly what you get for $0.

Most budgeting sites bury this in a pricing table designed to make the free tier look worse than it is. I'd rather just tell you upfront.

Free, forever
  • Expense logging
  • Monthly budgets by category
  • Savings goals with milestones
  • Light & Dark themes
  • 100 MB document storage
  • Ad-supported
Premium, from $6.49/mo
  • Real balance sheet — assets, liabilities, income, expenses
  • Auto-categorization ("is this an asset or an expense?")
  • Weekly review & spending summaries
  • PDF/CSV export
  • All 10 themes, ad-free
  • Multi-device sync
  • 2 GB document storage

What it actually looks like

Two screens, not a slideshow.

Free tier

The dashboard you actually open

Budget status, a savings goal with real milestones, category breakdown — the moment you open the app, not three taps deep. This entire screen is free.

ZephyrLifeOS budget and savings card showing total budget, spent, remaining, category breakdown, and a savings goal for a Japan trip at 20% complete
Premium

The balance sheet — this is the paid part

Assets, liabilities, income, and expenses as four separate totals, with a "not sure? suggest" button that explains why something's a liability instead of an expense. Genuinely the feature I built this whole app around, and it's not free — $6.49/month on Gold, or included with Platinum.

ZephyrLifeOS balance sheet marked Premium, showing four columns for assets at S$15,500, liabilities at S$1,700, income at S$4,500, and expenses at S$1,850

Pricing

Three tiers, one of them free.

Gold and Platinum each include a 7-day free trial — one trial per account, on whichever plan you start it with.

Free
$0

Ad-supported, no card needed

  • Expense logging & budgets
  • Savings goals
  • 100 MB document storage
  • Light & Dark themes
Start free
Platinum
$77.88/yr

$6.49/mo equivalent · 7-day free trial

  • Everything in Gold
  • Early access to new features
  • Best value, billed once a year
Start free trial

Questions

Before you ask

What's free, and what costs money?

Free, indefinitely, no card and no countdown: expense logging, monthly budgets, savings goals, 100 MB of document storage, ad-supported. Premium, from $6.49/month: the Weekly Review, multi-device sync, the real balance sheet, exports, and 2 GB of storage. That's the whole line.

Do I need to link my bank account?

No. Everything's manual entry. Slower to set up than a bank-synced app, but nothing about your accounts ever leaves your control.

How is this different from YNAB, Mint, or Monarch?

None of them lead with a real balance sheet — they stop at "here's what you spent." Premium here also costs less: $6.49/month versus YNAB's $14.99.

Can I export my data?

Yes — PDF and CSV export are available for your expenses and balance sheet on Premium, so your numbers are never locked inside the app.

Does it sync across my phone and computer?

Multi-device sync is a Premium feature — log an expense on your phone and it's there when you open the app on your laptop. The free tier works great on a single device.

Is my financial data sold to anyone?

No. See the Privacy Policy for the specifics.

Free tier's free. Go see it.

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