Dudget: Budget Expense Tracker

Gian Karlo

In-app purchases

About this app

Dudget is an offline expense tracker and budget planner that shows you one number: what you can safely spend today.

No bank login. No account. No ads. Open the app, see your number, and know whether that coffee fits your budget.

WHY A MANUAL EXPENSE TRACKER

Most budgeting apps want to connect to your bank. That means handing over your bank login, waiting on a sync that breaks, and living with an app that goes blank the moment you lose signal.

Dudget works the other way round. You log expenses by hand, which takes about ten seconds, and your budget updates instantly. Because everything is stored offline on your phone, it keeps working on a plane, on the train, in a province with no data, and in the many countries where bank sync was never supported in the first place.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Set your income and your budget period.
2. Tap + to log an expense: amount, category, done.
3. Your safe-to-spend number updates instantly.

Most people are tracking expenses within 90 seconds of installing.

WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE

- Safe-to-spend number, color coded green, amber and red
- Unlimited transactions, with the category you used last suggested for you
- 12 built-in spending categories
- A spending limit you can set for each category
- Rollover budgeting per category, so unspent money carries forward
- Monthly, bi-monthly and weekly budget periods
- Choose your currency from 30+ when you set up your budget
- Biometric lock and PIN protection
- Encrypted local storage
- Full expense history with search and filters
- Works completely offline

A BUDGET PLANNER BUILT AROUND PRIVACY

Your transactions never leave your phone. Dudget stores your budget in an encrypted database on your device, so there is no cloud copy of your spending and nothing for anyone to sell.

Dudget does not:
- Connect to your bank
- Require you to create an account
- Track your location
- Show ads
- Sell your spending data

Dudget does send anonymous crash and performance diagnostics, plus purchase records for anyone who subscribes, so that bugs get fixed and receipts work. That is the full list, and it is set out in the Data safety section on this page.

BUILT FOR EVERYWHERE, NOT JUST THE US

Most expense trackers assume US dollars and a biweekly paycheck. Dudget offers 30+ currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, PHP, INR, BRL and NGN, and lets you budget on the period you are actually paid on.

If you are an OFW sending money home, someone paid in a currency the big budgeting apps do not offer, or simply someone whose bank they do not support, manual entry stops being a compromise and starts being the point.

Manila, Lagos, Sao Paulo, Berlin: the same offline spending tracker works.

WHO DUDGET IS FOR

- People who want a simple money manager, not a spreadsheet
- Anyone who tried a bank-sync budget app and quietly gave up
- Envelope-style budgeters who want category spending limits on their phone
- Students, freelancers and irregular earners tracking daily spending
- Anyone who needs an offline expense tracker that works with no internet

DUDGET PREMIUM (OPTIONAL)

- Multiple budgets, for example one for the house and one for a side hustle
- Change your budget's currency whenever you need to
- Custom budget periods
- Unlimited custom categories
- Charts and spending trends
- CSV export of your full transaction history

$2.99/month, $24.99/year, or $69.99 once. Regional pricing available.

The safe-to-spend budget tracker itself is free and stays free.

QUESTIONS

Email [e-mail]. The founder reads every message.

What’s new

Version 1.7.0

New:
- Edit / Delete your custom categories — change the name, emoji, or color any time
- Your transaction history is always preserved when a category is removed

Fixes:
- Deleting a budget from Trash now works reliably, including budgets with recurring transactions
- Improved stability when the app clears out old trashed budgets