Share the budget with your household
One budget, everyone looking at the same numbers. Not "I'll show you mine" — the same living budget, on both phones, at once.
Shared money fails on mystery. This is the setup that removes the mystery.
Step 1 — Pick their role
Every member sees everything. Roles decide who can change things:
- editor — full budgeting: assign, move, categorize, connect banks. For the partner who's in it with you.
- viewer — sees everything, changes nothing. A 👁 View only badge shows in their header. For the partner who wants the picture without the homework — or the teenager you're teaching.
- admin — that's you, the owner. Members, invites, billing.
Not sure? Start with viewer. Promotion is a dropdown; you can change a role any time from the Account screen.
Step 2 — Get them the invite
Account screen, two ways:
- Invite by email — enter their address and a role. Nothing is emailed yet: use Copy link on the pending invite and text it to them yourself. When they sign in with that email — Google button or password, either way — they land in your budget. Type the email carefully — the match is exact.
- Invite link — generate a link, send it however you like. Whoever opens it and signs in, joins.
A pending invite can be revoked any time before it's used.
The household holds 5 logins — you plus four. Members and pending invites both hold a seat. Enough for a family, too few for a dorm. On purpose.
Step 3 — Agree on the small rules
The app handles the numbers. Two habits handle the humans:
- Moving money is allowed. Say it out loud, once. Overspent on Dining, covered from Groceries — that's the system working, not someone cheating.
- The log settles it. Every assignment, move, and rename lands in the Activity feed with a name and a time. Nobody edits it, nobody deletes it — not even the admin. "Who moved the grocery money?" stops being a fight and becomes a fact.
If someone leaves
Remove on the Account screen. A removed member keeps nothing; next sign-in they start a budget of their own. Clean exits, no residue.
That's the whole setup. Most money fights aren't about money — they're about surprise. You just removed the surprise.