01 · SPEND
Spend
this week, on whatever
Pokémon cards, pizza, the dumb app skin. Spend is the freedom jar — and the one that runs out fastest.
Money habits
made fun
The kids allowance tracker that helps parents set budgets, manage allowances, and teach kids about money — together. Free to start.
Budgette parent dashboard showing two kids (Elroy and Judy) with their Give, Save, and Spend buckets
The jar method, digitized
The approach every parenting book talks about — minus the crumpled dollar bills on the kitchen counter.
Three jars: one to spend on what you want this week, one to save for what you'll want later, one to give to something you care about. The same simple system parents in Ron Lieber's The Opposite of Spoiled and Dave Ramsey's Smart Money Smart Kids already use — now without the spilled change.
INSPIRED BY
The Opposite of Spoiled
Ron Lieber
AND
Smart Money Smart Kids
Dave Ramsey & Rachel Cruze
No bank account
Budgette never touches a real dollar. It tracks; you transact.
No debit card
Allowance lives on screen — and at the corner store, in cash.
Private by default
Free keeps data on your phone. Pro syncs encrypted.
Built for families
Ages 4–13, up to 6 kids, up to 3 adults — one shared truth.
01 · The method
A proven money habit. Built to fit your family.
Every dollar your kid earns goes into a bucket the moment they earn it. You pick the buckets, the splits, and the schedule — Budgette runs the rest.
02 · SAVE
Save
for the thing they actually want
Set a goal, watch the bar fill up. Saving teaches patience the way nothing else does — including saying no.
03 · GIVE
Give
a few dollars at a time
The smallest pile, on purpose. Kids decide once a month where their give jar goes — animal shelter, a cousin's lemonade stand, the library.
A typical setup
$5 a week, three buckets, every Friday.
FRI · 9:00 AM · WEEKLY
Make it four buckets, 70 / 20 / 10, monthly, paused for summer — your call.
02 · What you get
Small, deliberate tools for the big job of teaching money.
Not a bank, not a card, not another dashboard you'll forget about. Just the six things a family actually needs to make the jar method work.
01 · Allowance
Runs on its own. On your family's schedule.
Set an amount, a cadence, and a split. Budgette drops it into each kid's buckets on schedule — no Sunday-night scramble, no forgotten weeks, no "Dad, you owe me three weeks."
Judy's allowance
$5.00/week
NEXT IN 5D
● Spend● Save● Give
02 · Goals
Something to save for.
Purchase goals and give goals — set a target, auto-deposit weekly, watch it fill.
Switch 2
$217 / $449
Soup Kitchen
$32 / $40
03 · Activity
Every dollar, logged.
One feed across the whole family.
Pokémon cards -$5.99
Allowance +$5.00
04 · Kid Mode
A view they get.
Each kid gets their own screen — just their jars, no edit buttons.
$112.61
Judy's Spend jar
05 · Family
Up to 3 adults, 6 kids, one plan.
Same numbers on every device, no spreadsheet.
GJE+
06 · Safe by design
No bank. No card. No risk.
Tracking only — we never touch real money. Your data stays on your phone, optionally synced across the family. Cancel anytime. Export anytime. Forget us anytime.
- ✓Local-first storage
- ✓Your data, never sold
- ✓No card, no bank
- ✓No ads, no tracking
03 · How it works
A week with Budgette, from the inside.
What this actually looks like for a real family. Three days, three moments, two minutes of your week.
Budgette Manage Allowance screen — setting Judy's $5 weekly allowance with a 60% Spend / 35% Save / 5% Give split
1
MONDAY
one tap, then forget about it
Set the week.
Open Budgette on Sunday night, set $5/week for Judy, $3 for Elroy. Tap a split — Budgette suggests 60/35/5, adjust as you like — and that's it. Budgette handles every payday from here.
Budgette parent home screen — Friday morning showing Elroy and Judy with balances just topped up from the midnight allowance drop
2
FRIDAY
at midnight, on the dot
Allowance lands.
At 12:00 AM on the day you picked, allowance posts to every kid's buckets — the split is done before they wake up. Judy checks her Spend jar over cereal. Elroy asks if he can buy a Lego set yet (no, but in 6 weeks).
Budgette Activity feed — the week of transactions across the family with each row labelled by kid and budget bucket
3
SUNDAY
over breakfast, in a glance
See the week.
You scan the activity feed: $5.99 on Pokémon, $3.20 on slime, the rest still in Save. You and your kid have a 90-second money conversation. Then back to pancakes.
Spotlight · Goals
Give a kid something to save for.
A jar is abstract. A goal isn't. Name the thing, set a target, and let a few dollars land on it every week. It's where "save your money" stops being a lecture and becomes a number going up.
Purchase goals
the Switch, the Lego set, the concert ticket
Donation goals
the animal shelter, a fundraiser, a cause
Target dates
Weekly auto-deposit
Pick buckets to fund
04 · Budgette Pro
Free is for you. Budgette Pro is for the whole family.
Budgette Pro is what happens when the other adults and the kids get their own way in — for less than three dollars a month on the yearly plan.
01 · Kid Mode
Their device, their own view.
Sign your child in on their own device and Budgette opens in Kid Mode — just their budgets, their goals, their balance. No family totals, no settings, nothing they can break.
- Their budgets only — no family numbers
- They create goals and fund them themselves
- Deposits and withdrawals stay with you
02 · Up to 3 adults
Invite the other grown-ups.
A co-parent, a grandparent, a sitter — up to three adults on one family, each with their own login and their own phone.
G George Owner
J Jane Parent
Invite someone
03 · Goals
Unlimited goals, kid-run.
Free gives each kid one purchase goal and one give goal, parent-managed. Budgette Pro lifts the cap — and lets kids create their own goals and move money in and out of them.
Switch 2 48%
Soup Kitchen 80%
Lego Millennium Falcon 22%
04 · Sync
Off the phone, into the cloud.
On Free, your data lives on one device and stays there. Pro moves it to encrypted cloud storage — so every phone and iPad on the plan updates together, in seconds.
iPhone
iPad
Child's iPhone
05 · Custom budgets
As many budgets as you need.
Three is just where most families start. Add a Grow budget for investing, a Gifts budget for birthday presents, a Collect budget for cards and Lego — as many as you like. Name them, color them, and they split like any other.
Spend 50%
Save 30%
Give 10%
Grow NEW 10%
Add another budget
Side by side.
Free
$0/mo
Budgette Pro
$4.99/mo or $34.99/yr
Devices
Free
Budgette Pro
Adults on the plan
Free
Budgette Pro
Kid Mode
Free
Budgette Pro
Goals per child
Free
1 + 1 purchase + give
Budgette Pro
∞
Who creates goals
Free
Parent
Budgette Pro
ParentChild
Moving money in & out of goals
Free
Parent
Budgette Pro
ParentChild
Budget deposits & withdrawals
Free
Parent
Budgette Pro
Parent
Budgets per child
Free
Budgette Pro
Avatars & profiles
Free
Budgette Pro
Data
Free
On one phone
Budgette Pro
Synced, encrypted
05 · Pricing
Start free. Grow into it.
Free is your scratchpad. Budgette Pro is how the whole family uses it — co-parents, kid mode, sync across devices.
Free
$0 forever
Everything you need to get started with allowance management on a single device.
- Allowance management
- Give, Save & Spend buckets
- Activity feed
- One purchase + one give goal per child
- Up to 6 children
- Local data on one device
Most Popular
Budgette Pro
$4.99 /month
$34.99 /year
That's just $2.92/month
The full family experience. Sync, share, and teach together across every device.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited purchase & give goals
- Custom budget categories
- Sync across all devices
- Up to 3 adults on the plan
- Child mode on kids' devices
- Custom avatars and profiles
No credit card to start. Cancel anytime.
06 · Support
Need a hand? We're here.
The fastest way to reach us is right inside the app — but email works too.
In the app
Open Settings → Support → Send feedback. Your message comes straight to us — no email account or setup required.
By email
Prefer email? Write to [email protected] and we'll usually reply within one business day.
Looking for a quick answer? Check the frequently asked questions below.
07 · FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Everything parents ask before getting started.
Is real money involved?
No. Budgette is a tracking and teaching tool — it does not connect to bank accounts, hold real funds, or process payments of any kind. You record allowances and transactions manually, and your kids see their balances update in the app. Think of it as a digital version of the classic cash-in-jars system.
What ages is Budgette designed for?
Budgette works well for families with children roughly ages 4 to 13. Younger kids benefit from the simple, visual budget buckets, while older kids can take more ownership of their spending and saving. The child-friendly view adapts so each child sees only what's relevant to them.
Is my family's data safe?
Yes. On the Free plan, all data stays on your device — nothing leaves your phone. On Pro, data syncs securely to our servers so your family can share across devices. We never sell or share your personal information. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Do my kids need their own account?
Children don't create their own accounts. A parent sets up the family and adds each child's profile. On Pro, a parent can log into a child's device and put it into child mode — a simplified view that only shows that child's balances. The parent always stays in control.
How much allowance should I give my child?
There's no single right answer — it depends on your child's age, your family budget, and what you'd like them to learn. A common starting point is $0.50 to $1.00 per year of age per week (e.g., $5–$10/week for a 10-year-old). The important thing is consistency: a regular, predictable amount teaches budgeting better than occasional lump sums.
Can both parents manage the family?
On the Free plan, data lives on one device, so one parent manages everything. With Pro, up to 3 adults total can share a family (another parent, grandparent, sitter — whoever helps) with full access to manage allowances, budgets, and transactions from their own device.
What happens if I cancel Budgette Pro?
You keep all your data. Your account reverts to the Free plan at the end of your billing period. Syncing stops, but everything stays on the device used by the account owner. You can re-subscribe anytime to turn sync back on.
Is Budgette available on Android?
Not yet — Budgette is launching first on iOS (iPhone and iPad). An Android version is on our roadmap and coming soon. Stay tuned!
Start your family's money journey
Give your kids the tools to learn the value of a dollar. Free to start — Budgette Pro from $4.99/month.