Budget Pro

The planning-first budgeting App for real financial control!

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Welcome to Budget Pro!

Budget Pro is a planning-first budgeting app built for people who want control before they spend — not reports after.

Created by the team behind Costs to Expect, Budget Pro helps you forecast future balances, plan recurring costs and build long-term financial clarity. It’s everything in our free Budget app, plus advanced planning tools designed for serious financial control.

This isn’t expense tracking. It’s proactive budgeting.

Start your 30-day free trial and take control of what your money is going to do next.

Plan beyond simple monthly budgets.
Create complex frequencies, exclusions and custom schedules that reflect how money actually moves — monthly, four weekly or irregular or seasonal.
Model how money moves — not just what was spent.
Track income, expenses, transfers and savings so your projections reflect your full financial picture.
Look beyond a single month.
View multiple months at once and understand how today’s decisions affect your future balance.
Run multiple budgets with different scenarios.
Create up to three budgets — ideal for personal, family or “what-if” planning.
Know how much to save — and when you’ll get there.
Set savings targets and see how they impact your future cash flow.
Update multiple items in seconds.
Make broad changes quickly when your plan shifts — because real life does.
Customise your budgeting workspace.
Adjust how your budget looks and works so planning stays clear and focused.
Transparent roadmap. Continuous development.
Budget Pro evolves with user feedback — and the roadmap is public.
Budget overview screen shot

Budgeting

Let's get you started

Before you get started with Budget Pro, let's look at what budgeting is, why you might choose to start a budget and how to actually get your Budget going.

What is Budgeting?

Budgeting is simply the process of balancing your income and outcome and thus creating a plan for how you'll spend your money. It's that simple.

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Reasons to start Budgeting

Getting started with a budget and tracking your finances might seem onerous and time-consuming but there are many reasons why you might find starting a budget useful.

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How to start Budgeting

Budgeting is a bit like exercising. It can be difficult to motivate yourself to start but once you take the plunge, it doesn’t take long to reap the benefits.

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Budgeting Basics

Everything you need to know about budgeting

Think budgeting is difficult and complicated? Want to know how to explain budgeting to kids? Here’s everything you need to know…

Budgeting Myths and Misconceptions

There are many misconceptions around what budgeting is and what it involves. Many people view budgeting as negative and restrictive, hence never giving it a fair shot. Here our team bust some of the myths which surround budgeting and hope to allow you to see the process in a whole new light!

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Good Money Habits

There are loads of good money habits which you should adopt to help ensure that your money is safe and that you have a healthy bank balance. Here we look at some good money habits that can help set you up for a financially secure future.

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Budgeting for Kids

Budgeting is a skill that is best learned as early as possible so that children learn good money habits. Teaching your kids how to budget is one of the best things you can do to set them up for a financially secure future. Whatever age your kids are, there’s loads of things you can do now to start teaching them the importance of budgeting and why they should budget.

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Pricing

How much is Budget Pro?

Pricing

You can purchase a Budget Pro Lifetime Licence fee for just £29.99. This is a one-off fee as we believe monthly subscriptions complicate budgeting!

What's included

When you purchase your Lifetime Licence fee, you’ll get just that! It includes access to all of our fantastic budgeting features, as well as all our future updates to the App!

So just to be clear: there’s no recurring payments with Budget Pro. One lifetime purchase, with full access to the App. It’s as simple as that!

Budget vs Budget Pro

Compare versions

How do the different versions of Budget compare? Check the tables below to see which version might be right for you. An asterisk indicates the feature is coming along with which update it is due to be included in.

Budget Pro

£29.99 / lifetime

Budget Pro (Premium Planning Tools).

Advanced forecasting, projections and long-term financial control — with ongoing updates and support.

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Version limits
Feature Included
Number of Budgets 3
Projection accounts per Budget Unlimited
Budget items per Budget Unlimited
Sharing
Feature Included
Share Budget Yes *Update2
Sharing limit Unlimited *Update2
Features
Feature Included
Open Source No
Transaction types Income, Expense, Savings & Transfers
Fixed Budget item amounts e.g. £50.00 per month
Range Based Budget item amounts e.g. £35.00-45.00 per month *Update 2
Budget item increases e.g. 5% increase every 12 months *Update 1
Savings tools Savings calculator & savings growth *Update 1
Disable Budget items Yes
Copy a Budget Yes
Copy Budget items Yes
Ad-Hoc Budget Item Adjustments Yes
Supported Ad-Hoc Adjustments Amount, others planned *Update 2
Currencies Supported GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, NZD, INR & AUD
Budget Item Frequencies Four-weekly, Annually, Monthly & One-Off, others planned *Update 1
Budget Item Exclusions As per Budget plus weekends, holidays and more *Update 1
Search Budget Items Powerful search
Batch actions Yes
Import from Budget Yes - Automatic
Viewing features
Feature Included
Set Timezone Yes
Set Date Format Yes
Number of visible months on Budget 3, 6 & quarterly
Customise expense bars Yes

Budget

Free

Budget (Free & Open Source)

Planning-first budgeting. Free, open and powered by the Costs to Expect API.

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Version limits
Feature Included
Number of Budgets 1
Projection accounts per Budget 3
Budget items per Budget 100
Sharing
Feature Included
Share Budget No
Sharing limit N/A
Features
Feature Included
Open Source Yes - MIT License
Transaction types Income, Expense & Savings
Fixed Budget item amounts e.g. £50.00 per month
Range Based Budget item amounts No
Budget item increases No
Savings tools No
Disable Budget items Yes
Copy a Budget No
Copy Budget items No
Ad-Hoc Budget Item Adjustments Yes
Supported Ad-Hoc Adjustments Amount
Currencies Supported GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, NZD, INR & AUD
Budget Item Frequencies Annually, Monthly & One-Off
Budget Item Exclusions Months for monthly frequencies
Search Budget Items Simple search - Client side
Batch Actions No
Import from Budget N/A
Viewing features
Feature Included
Set Timezone No
Set Date Format No
Number of visible months on Budget 3
Customise expense bars No