01 · 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.
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 the Ramsey Smart Money Kids curriculum already use — now without the spilled change.
AS SEEN IN
"The single best money-skills method for raising kids."
Ron Lieber · The New York Times
TAUGHT IN
"Give, save, spend — the three jars every family should have."
Dave Ramsey · Smart Money Smart Kids
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. Premium syncs encrypted.
Built for families
Ages 5–14, 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 · 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.
A typical setup
The Walters: $10 a week, three buckets, every Friday.
FRI · 9:00 AM · WEEKLY
Make it four buckets, 70 / 20 / 10, monthly, paused for summer — your call. The default is the one Ron Lieber recommends; the rest is up to you.
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 five 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
$10.00/week
NEXT IN 5D
● Spend● Save● Give
02 · Activity
Every dollar, logged.
One feed across the whole family.
Pokémon cards -$5.99
Allowance +$10.00
03 · Kid Mode
A view they get.
Each kid signs in to their own screen — three jars, no edit buttons.
$112.61
Judy's Spend jar
04 · Family
Up to 3 adults, 6 kids, one plan.
Same numbers on every device, no spreadsheet.
GJE+
05 · 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 $10 weekly allowance with a 50% Spend / 40% Save / 10% Give split
1
MONDAY
one tap, then forget about it
Set the week.
Open Budgette on Sunday night, set $10/week for Judy, $5 for Elroy. Tap a split — Budgette suggests 50/40/10, 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.
04 · Pricing
Start free. Grow into it.
Free is your scratchpad. Premium 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
- Custom budget categories
- Activity feed
- Up to 6 children
- Local data on one device
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Premium
$1.99 /month
$19.99 /year
That's just $1.67/month
The full family experience. Sync, share, and teach together across every device.
- Everything in Free
- 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.
05 · 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 Premium, 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 Premium, 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 Premium, 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 Premium?
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 — premium from $1.99/month.