ChalkPay for Teachers
Paycheck, Budget, & Classroom
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now built for the screen you're on: real iPad layouts with a sidebar and side-by-side views, plus a cleaner look everywhere.
ChalkPay is a free app built specifically for teachers and educators. It brings your paycheck, budget, classroom supplies, leave tracking, and career planning into one place — so you always know where you stand financially.
PAYCHECK VERIFICATION
Enter your salary, step, lane, and supplements. ChalkPay computes what your paycheck should be. On payday, log what you actually received. The app compares every line item and flags discrepancies — a missing coaching stipend, a wrong deduction, an unexpected change. Over time, it detects patterns: "Your coaching supplement has been short 3 of the last 5 pay periods."
You shouldn't lose money because you didn't check.
BUDGET
See what's left after the bills. Enter your recurring obligations and ChalkPay shows your monthly surplus, where your money goes, and how your spending maps to the 50/30/20 rule. Set a summer fund goal to cover the months without a paycheck.
CLASSROOM SUPPLY LISTS
Create supply lists and share them with parents via a link. Parents can view the list and claim items they'll bring — no sign-up or app download required. Track what's been claimed, what's arrived, and what you still need. When you buy something out of pocket, log it as an expense in one tap.
Track your out-of-pocket classroom spending against the $250 federal educator expense deduction so you know exactly where you stand at tax time.
LEAVE TRACKING
Log sick, personal, and vacation days. Set your annual allocation per type and see your remaining balance at a glance. ChalkPay tracks usage by month across the school year so you can spot patterns in how you use your time.
CAREER PLANNING
See your salary trajectory over the next 5, 10, or 20 years based on your expected step increases. Thinking about going back to school? The lane-change calculator shows you the lifetime earnings difference, the payback period, and the ROI of that degree — so you can make the decision with real numbers, not guesswork.
BUILT FOR TEACHERS
ChalkPay understands how teacher pay works: step-and-lane salary schedules, supplement stipends, 10-month vs 12-month pay distribution, FRS retirement contributions, and the classroom expenses you cover out of your own pocket. It's not a generic finance app with a teacher skin — it's built from the ground up for how educators actually get paid.
SET UP IN MINUTES
A quick setup wizard walks you through your position, salary, supplements, and deductions. At the end, you see your first expected paycheck. If the number looks wrong, you already know something needs investigating.
FREE. NO ADS. NO TRICKS.
ChalkPay is completely free with no ads, no premium tier, and no data selling. It's made by the team behind PensionForge, the FRS retirement planning tool.
ChalkPay 1.1 is a top-to-bottom design refresh — the same numbers, with a lot more room to see them.
BUILT FOR IPAD
On a landscape iPad, the bottom tabs step aside for a sidebar and a proper toolbar, so getting around stops costing you screen. Where there's width to spare, the picture now sits beside the thing it pictures:
• Paycheck — the year chart and your check log get the full column
• Budget — the spending donut sits next to the categories it breaks down
• Leave — a wider year calendar, with upcoming days off paired against recent ones
• Career — your projection chart runs alongside the step table it's drawn from
• Classroom — open a supply list and read it beside the rest of your lists; the expense chart sits with the ledger
• Settings — sections down the left, the one you're editing on the right
CLEANER ON IPHONE
Buttons, fields, cards, and tabs are rebuilt on one shared set of parts, so a control looks and behaves the same wherever you meet it. The tab strip runs edge to edge and gets out of your way as you scroll, the pay-period stepper keeps its arrows anchored so the tap target doesn't slide out from under your thumb, and the page you're on is always named at the top.
EASIER TO GET AROUND
Tabs are now properly wired to the panels they open, so VoiceOver can move from a tab straight into its content. Tabs answer arrow keys if you're on a hardware keyboard, and every tap target is sized for a real thumb.
Nothing about your data changed — your pay, budget, leave, career, and classroom numbers are exactly where you left them.
Teaching's hard enough. The rest shouldn't be.
The developer, PensionForge 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
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Financial Info
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- PensionForge LLC
- Size
- 10.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 PensionForge LLC
