The Real Price: Budget by Time
Spend less: see cost in hours
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Every price tag is written in the wrong currency. You do not pay in money. You pay in hours of your life.
Money is just hours of your life, already spent.
The Real Price converts every price tag into the thing you actually paid: your time. Enter what you earn, in your own currency, and the jacket you are holding stops being a number. It becomes a full day of work. Once you see spending that way, you cannot unsee it — and you stop needing willpower.
SEE THE REAL COST, BEFORE YOU BUY
Add any purchase and get an instant breakdown: the hours of work it costs, what it does to your savings goals, and what that same money could grow into if you invested it for 15 years instead. One screen, no spreadsheets.
THE COOL-OFF SHELF
Impulse buying is a timing problem, not a character flaw. Park anything you want on the shelf, set a cool-off window, and let your future self decide. Everything you talk yourself out of moves to your ledger with the hours it handed back.
GOALS WORTH THE HOURS
A trip. A home. A cushion for the unexpected. Create goals with your own photo, log each contribution, and watch your real saving pace project a completion date. Every purchase you weigh against a goal shows exactly how many days it pushed that goal away.
YOUR MONTHLY STORY
A report for every month you use the app: hours worked away, money kept, what you bought after cooling off, and how your saving pace moved. Rate purchases afterward to see which spending actually made you happier — and which quietly did not.
SHARE THE MOMENT
Turn a save into a share card worth posting. Clean, designed, no watermark spam.
WHY IT WORKS
Budgeting apps tell you what you spent. Categories, pie charts, guilt, repeat. This one changes the number you see at the moment of the decision — where the choice is still yours to make.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Everything you record stays on your device. No account. No sign-up. No ad networks, no data brokers, no syncing your bank. Export a full backup whenever you want and keep it in your own files.
THE REAL PRICE PRO
A one-time purchase. No subscription, ever.
• Unlimited goals
• Every month of your history
• Cool-off windows up to 30 days
• Your full contribution history
The free app is genuinely usable forever. Pro just removes the ceilings.
WHO IT IS FOR
People who earn well and still wonder where it went. Impulse spenders who have tried every budget app. Anyone saving for something specific and tired of being talked out of it by a checkout page.
Your hours are the one thing you cannot earn back. Start spending them on purpose.
Ratings & Reviews
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A few quiet fixes behind the scenes. The point hasn't changed: you don't pay in money, you pay in hours of your life.
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The developer, Rahul Bulchandani, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Rahul Bulchandani
- Size
- 77.8 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 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+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- The Real Price Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © Rahul Bulchandani, 2026