BudgetCrew is a budget and expense tracker for families, on Android. You keep separate spaces for home, work, travel or anything else, and each space has its own categories, currency, budgets and history.
There is no account and no cloud server. Your budget is stored on your phone. It goes only to the phones you pair with and to the backup files you choose to save. Paired phones sync directly with each other over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi when they are near each other.
What it does
Spaces for every part of life
Keep Home, Work, Travel and more apart. Each space has its own categories, currency, monthly budget and history.
Phone-to-phone family sync
Pair a family member's phone once by checking that both phones show the same code, then choose which spaces to share. Changes are merged directly between the phones, and each entry shows who added it.
Expenses, income and transfers
Add income and expenses in seconds with a note, tags and a date. Split one receipt across several categories, and move money between spaces without it counting as spending.
Recurring payments and category budgets
Set payments to repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly and they are added for you, including any you missed. Give each category a monthly budget and get an alert as you approach it and when you pass it.
Goals, debts and settling up
Track savings goals and money you owe or are owed. With a paired family member, Settle up shows who owes whom.
Charts and monthly review
See spending by category, income against expenses and a trend over recent months. The monthly review finds any transaction by note or amount.
Receipts, reports and backups
Scan a receipt to fill in the amount, date and store, with the text read on your phone. Export reports as PDF, CSV or Excel, import a bank's CSV file, and save encrypted backups you can restore on a new phone.
App lock and private widget
Lock the app with a PIN and optional fingerprint. While the lock is on, the home screen widget shows no amounts.
Where your data lives
Your transactions, budgets, goals, debts, receipts and settings are stored in the app's private storage on your phone. BudgetCrew has no account and no server that holds your financial data. Your budget leaves the phone only in three ways: to a family phone you paired with, directly over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi; in a backup or export file that you create and save or share yourself; or in Android's own phone-to-phone transfer when you set up a new phone. Your PIN is stored only as a hash, and fingerprint unlock is handled by Android. The app also uses the internet for Google services, such as automatic crash reports through Firebase Crashlytics. Those never include your budget, your transactions or your receipts. Android's automatic cloud backup is turned off for the app.
Questions
How do I share one budget with my family? Do I need an account or a server?
No account and no server. Open Sync on both phones, tap Start Sync on each, check that both show the same code, then choose which spaces to share. After that the phones sync directly with each other over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Sync uses Google Play services, so the phones need those.
What if my family members are not near each other?
Sync only happens when the paired phones are near each other with the app open. Nothing goes through the internet or a cloud. Until then, each phone keeps its own copy and works normally. The next time both are nearby, the changes are merged. If both phones edited the same entry, the newer edit wins.
Which currencies does BudgetCrew support?
Each space has one currency, chosen from a list of widely used currencies, and a family can keep spaces in different currencies. Moving money between spaces in different currencies asks you to type the exchange rate, which is saved on your phone for next time. BudgetCrew does not look up live rates.
Can I set up my own categories and recurring expenses?
Yes. Every new space starts with common categories, such as groceries, rent and transport, and you can add your own with a name and an icon. A recurring payment repeats daily, weekly, monthly or yearly with an optional end date, and entries missed while the phone was off are added for you.
How do I back up my budget or move it to a new phone?
In Backup and Restore, save an encrypted backup with a passphrase you choose, to any folder or app you pick, or set automatic encrypted backups to a folder. On the new phone, import the file and enter the passphrase. A forgotten passphrase cannot be recovered. Pairing is not in the backup, so pair your family phones again.
What happens to my data if I uninstall BudgetCrew?
Your budget and receipt photos on that phone are deleted. Android's cloud backup is off for the app, so there is no copy in the cloud to restore from. Backups and exports you saved stay where you saved them. Spaces you shared stay on your family's phones. Make a backup first if you want to keep your data.
Does BudgetCrew connect to my bank?
No. It never logs in to a bank or reads your accounts. You add transactions yourself, or export a CSV file from your bank's website or app and import it into BudgetCrew, where you choose which column is the date, amount and description.
Does BudgetCrew work on tablets?
Yes. Phones use portrait. Tablets and open foldables can rotate, and the screens keep a readable width on large displays. Sync works on a tablet the same way as on a phone.
Requirements
- Android 8.0 or later
- Phones and tablets
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