The Categories screen
Categories are the vocabulary of your budget. This screen is where you edit the dictionary.
You start with a sensible set. Make it yours. A budget in your own words is a budget you'll keep.
Adding a category
Top bar: pick an icon, type a name, choose a group, press Add. The icon button opens the picker — search "coffee" or "gym" or "dog" and click. No hunting for emoji to copy-paste.
The icon picker
Click any category's icon — or the icon button next to the new-category field — and the picker opens. Three tabs, one search box, four thousand icons and change:
- Native — your device's own emoji. The hand-picked budgeting set sits on top in familiar shelves (Money, Home, Food…), with the full library below.
- OpenMoji — about 2,500 open-source icons in a hand-drawn line style.
- Fluent — about 1,600 Microsoft icons, soft and rounded.
Search works by name or by keyword: "ev", "pizza", "charging". Long lists cap at 360 results; keep typing to narrow.
Pick one and it shows everywhere the category appears: budget rows, reports, dropdowns, modals. And every icon serves from our own site — no CDN calls, no tracking pixels riding along. Your dog icon is nobody's business.
Two footnotes:
- The Emoji card on the Account screen can hide a set's tab for the whole household. Icons already chosen keep showing — the toggle shapes the picker, never the data.
- In plain-text spots, like the category dropdown on a transaction, an OpenMoji or Fluent icon shows as its closest native emoji. Expected, not a bug.
Editing
Everything on a row is editable in place:
- Icon — click it, pick a new one.
- Name — click, type, Enter. History follows the category; renaming is free.
- Group dropdown — move a category to another group.
- Archive — retires a category you no longer budget. Its history stays in your reports; it just stops appearing in the grid. Archived categories live at the bottom, one click from Restore.
Archive is almost always the right call. Nothing is deleted; nothing is lost.
Groups
Groups are shelves — they organize, they don't hold money.
- Rename a group by clicking its name.
- + Group at the bottom adds a shelf.
- Delete removes an empty one. If the group still has active categories, the app asks you to move or archive them first — deleting a shelf never throws away what's on it.
A note on size
Fewer categories beat more. If you can't decide which of two categories a purchase belongs to, they're one category. Start broad. Split only when a number keeps surprising you and you need to see inside it.