Your spending logs itself: bank texts and notifications become clean transactions, and a statement fills in your history on day one. No bank login.
The Smart Budget does the work for you. Set it up once and your spending logs itself — captured, cleaned up, categorized, and checked for anything odd. You open the app to review, not to type. Private, built on Apple Intelligence — and free to start.
Smart Budget reads the merchant, amount, currency, and date — on your iPhone or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute — cleans up the messy bank text, picks the right category, and quietly flags anything unusual. No bank login. No third party, ever. Prefer to add one by hand? Log it in seconds, snap a receipt, or say it out loud.
Your data stays yours. No accounts to create. No bank-linking required. No data sold or shared. iCloud sync is optional and runs through your own Apple ID — your transactions never reach us.
— FREE FOREVER —
• Hands-off capture — set it up in seconds and your bank texts and notifications log themselves
• Import a bank statement — PDF or CSV, read by Apple Intelligence (iOS 27)
• Automatic cleanup + categorization — messy bank merchant strings become clean, sorted entries
• Anomaly detection — the Notable card flags spending that doesn't match your patterns
• Add transactions by hand too — type in seconds, dictate, or snap a receipt
• Unlimited logging, budgets, goals, and incomes
• Dashboard with "available this month" hero
• "Tell it once, learn forever" merchant aliases — name a merchant once, it's applied forever
• Reports: Spending by category, Income vs spending, All transactions, Anomalies & alerts
• Lock Screen + Home Screen widgets
• Spotlight search for any transaction
• Siri Shortcuts for quick logging
• Multi-currency with automatic FX conversion
• Full VoiceOver, WCAG AA contrast
— SMART BUDGET PRO —
The intelligence layer, optional, shareable with your family:
• Full history — every month, not just the last 15 days
• Smart Insights — LLM-narrated story cards on the Insights tab: looking-ahead pace forecasts, goal coaching, category-mix shift detection, recurring-charge audit, what-if scenarios, savings opportunities, period summaries
• All Reports — Top merchants, Largest transactions, Recurring charges, Merchant frequency, Budget history, Goal progress, Savings, By account, Year in review, plus per-member household reports
Pro pricing:
• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $24.99 (3 months free vs paying monthly)
• Lifetime: $49.99 (one-time payment, never expires)
— SMART BUDGET HOUSEHOLD —
Everything in Pro, for your whole household on one shared ledger:
• Household Sharing — invite a partner; share budgets, goals, and reports through a private CloudKit Share you control
• Members don't pay — the owner's plan covers everyone in the household
Household pricing:
• Monthly: $4.99
• Yearly: $49.99 (2 months free vs paying monthly)
• Lifetime: $99.99 (one-time payment, never expires)
Bought Pro before version 2.0? Household sharing stays included in your plan.
All Pro and Household plans support Apple Family Sharing — one purchase covers up to six family members at no extra cost. Cancel a subscription anytime in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.
— PRIVACY —
The Smart Budget runs on Apple Intelligence — on your iPhone or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, Apple's own hardened servers. Nothing is stored, and no third party is ever involved. No accounts to sign up for. Anonymous app analytics help us improve — never your transactions, amounts or merchants — and you can turn them off in Settings → Privacy. Read the full privacy policy at zaatarlabs.com/privacy-policy.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
I tried lots of these but this one does everything on its own and I now know where my money goes and I can control better my expenses and save money every month
Developer Response
Glad Smart Budget clicked for you! Knowing exactly where your money goes is half the battle. We built the automatic tracking specifically so it stays out of your way and just works. Really happy to hear it's helping you save every month.
• Reports in 3D. Every report is new: income against spending, savings, cash flow and every category, in glass you can turn. Tap any month to see the transactions behind it, and Compare puts last year beside it.
• Each report's period and household member are in one Filter menu, and ⓘ explains what the numbers mean.
• The Quick View cards on the Reports tab now open their report.
Version 2.1
The developer, Omar Al Homaidi, 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
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
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Usage Data
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Information
Seller
Omar Al Homaidi
Size
17.1 MB
Category
Finance
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.