KaBuddy
Your personal household ledger
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
KaBuddy is a personal ledger based on the Japanese savings method kakeibo. Arise awareness of your expenses, develop a sustainable, long term approach for saving money.
KaBuddy - your personal household ledger
INTRODUCTION
KaBuddy is a personal ledger based on the Japanese savings method kakeibo. Kakeibo (Japanese: 家計簿) is a saving method developed by the Japanese journalist Motoko Hani more than 100 years ago. It simply means household ledger und basically describes a way to manage your household finances. Kakeibo aims at arising awareness of your own comsuption habits, developping a sustainable, long term approach for saving money.
The basic principle consists of getting involved with four main question:
1. How much income do I have?
2. How much do I want to save?
3. How much am I spending?
4. How can I improve?
In order to help you understand where your income is going to, it's important to log and categorize every expense immediately:
* Needs: things you really need (e.g. food, clothes, rent)
* Wants: things you want, but don't really need (e.g. takeout meals)
* Culture: things involving cultural activities (e.g. museum, books)
* Unexpected: Non-anticipated expenses (e.g. health appointment)
QUICK START
1. Enter your income for the month
2. Enter your known needs for the month
3. The difference between the two is your budget for the month
4. Based on your budget, set a savings goal for the month
5. Log everything you buy immediately under the four categories needs, culture, wants and unexpected
6 Get involved with the four basic questions of kakeibo and ask yourself what you can do better
FEATURES
- Navigate quickly to the current month
- Duplicate entries
- Create your own tags to categorize your entries the way it best fits to you. You can use different icons and colors to differentiate them. (Premium Version)
- Choose between different color schemes
- Prefer the dark mode? No problem, choose between light, dark and system mode
- JOURNAL: An overview of all your income and expenses. You can search for entries, filter (Premium Version) and group them (Premium Version) according to your needs.
- CHARTS: Clean overview charts for income and expenses letting you choose between month, year and all. You can quickly visualize where exactly your money is coming from and where it going to.
No data collected, no subscription, buy once, use forever.
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NEW in this version !
- Your data is now kept in sync with iCloud.
The developer, Pedro Eduardo Salvador, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Pedro Eduardo Salvador
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, German, Portuguese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- KaBuddy Premium $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2025 Pedro Eduardo Salvador