Enter income, bills, and savings.
Build the month from take-home income, fixed bills, savings, annual bills, and planned categories.
Private beta opening July 2026
The Daily Dollar
Know your limit. Live with intent.
A manual budgeting app built around one simple behavior shift: know what you can spend today and see how every purchase affects the month.
Manual by design
Budgeting that keeps your attention on today.
The Daily Dollar does not connect to your bank. You enter the spending that matters, round purchases up, and watch your daily limit, planned categories, savings potential, funds, and history update as you go.
How it works
Set the month. Spend with context.
Get a daily limit.
The remaining flexible money is divided by 31 and rounded down so the month has built-in buffer.
Log purchases manually.
Enter the actual amount, merchant, and category. The app rounds up and tracks spare change.
Watch your pace.
See spending pace, planned categories, daily dollar categories, savings potential, and history in one place.
Why it exists
It is not just tracking. It is feedback.
Most budgeting tools tell you what happened after the money is gone. The Daily Dollar is designed to change the moment before you spend by showing your limit, your pace, and the remaining room in your month.
You can use the classic daily dollar method, planned categories, or a hybrid of both. The point is not perfection. The point is seeing the tradeoff while there is still time to act.
Controlled beta
Request access.
The Daily Dollar is currently invite-only while the app is tested with real households. Request access and we will review it manually before creating an account.
- No bank linking in the current beta.
- Manual entry keeps the method intentional.
- Budget data is stored in Supabase and served through Cloudflare.
- Beta users should expect changes as the product improves.
Privacy, data, and beta terms
Plain-English beta notes.
What we store
The app stores the budget information you enter manually, including transactions, categories, funds, monthly history, household membership, and account email.
What we do not do right now
The beta does not connect to bank accounts, pull bank transactions, sell personal budget data, or provide personalized financial advice.
Vendor services
Supabase stores login and app data. Cloudflare hosts and serves the website and app. These vendors may process technical data needed to operate the service.
Operator access
The app operator may access stored app data for support, debugging, security, account administration, maintenance, or beta testing.
Beta disclaimer
The Daily Dollar is beta software. Bugs, sync delays, data issues, and design changes may occur. Users should keep their own backup of critical financial records.
Account deletion
Beta users can request account or data deletion. A fuller privacy policy and terms page will be reviewed before a broader public launch.