Stop guessing. Budget Shield shows you ONE number: how much you can spend right now without bouncing a bill before your next paycheck - and now it warns you days before a bill would bounce. Connect your accounts in 30 seconds. Done.
WHY BUDGET SHIELD IS DIFFERENT
- Bill Bounce Guard: projects your balance ahead and warns you days BEFORE a payment would bounce. It watches every recurring bill, flags one that looks unpaid instead of letting it slip by silently, and asks you to confirm when it can't tell - silence never counts as paid. Warnings start as a notification and escalate to a text if unresolved - on from the start for verified numbers, off anytime in Settings.
- Safe to Spend: a single, honest answer to "can I spend this today?" - calculated from your real balance, real bills, and real paycheck timing.
- Budget Coach: when categories go over, the app tells you exactly how many dollars per day to cut to recover by month-end.
- Rescue Plan: if you're projected to go red, see the specific subscriptions you could cut (and what staying on each one will cost you).
- Cash Flow Forecast: see when bills hit, when income lands, and where your runway runs out.
- Personal & Business: tag accounts and bills to either side and see each cash flow on its own - business money stays out of your personal numbers.
- Connect your accounts securely in seconds. Bank-grade security.
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Anyone living paycheck to paycheck who is tired of overdraft fees
- People on a real budget who want it enforced honestly, not punitively
- Anyone who has tried Mint, YNAB, Copilot, or PocketGuard and wants one number that just tells the truth
WHAT IT DOESN'T DO
- It doesn't shame you for what you've spent
- It doesn't pretend you have money you don't
- It doesn't sell your data - your bank info is end-to-end encrypted
PRICING
Free 7-day trial. Then a monthly or yearly subscription. Cancel anytime in Settings.
Privacy Policy: https://www.healthyoneapp.com/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.healthyoneapp.com/terms
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- One story per screen. The bill warning at the top of Projected Cash Flow now uses the same numbers as the timeline below it, so it can no longer say a bill will not clear while the forecast says you are on track.
- Fresh balances. Coming back to the app after a while now re-pulls your bank balances, so the forecast never starts from last night's number. The Cash Flow card shows when the bank last reported.
Version 1.3.8
The developer, Hardaway Labs LLC, 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 Linked to You
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Financial Info
Contact Info
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Usage Data
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Information
Seller
Hardaway Labs LLC
Size
31.8 MB
Category
Finance
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.