Most budgeting apps are a spreadsheet with a friendlier font. You set one up on a
good day, miss a week, and come back to a screen that has been keeping score. So
you stop opening it. Being asked to catch up was the problem.
Duck Budget is a room instead.
Open it and everything is already there: what you have left this month, what you
have spent, what you have set aside, and a duck in an armchair who mentions the
one thing that needs you today. Nothing to read. Nothing to add up.
The room answers to your money. The jar on the shelf fills as you save. The
stack of loan papers thins as you pay them down. The window follows the time of
day, and the lamp is yours to switch on. You notice where you stand the way you
notice a plant has grown — without being told, and without being graded.
WHAT IT DOES
• Calendar — bills, paydays and savings days in one list, so the thing you would
have forgotten is written down before it arrives
• Savings — set money aside toward something and watch the jar fill. It is a
reservation, not a transfer: the money stays where it is, it just stops
counting as spendable
• Wallet — every place your money lives, from an account to the cash in a
drawer, and one number for what is safe to spend
• Loans — what you owe, with balances that go down when you pay, and no interest
maths pretending to know your rate
• Expenses and income — log either in one tap from anywhere in the app
• This month — where the money went, largest first, with one plain sentence
about it
• A morning note at 6am on days something is due — one for the whole morning,
never one per bill
• Your room as a wallpaper, exported without a single number on it
• 30 currencies, chosen once
WHAT IT REFUSES TO DO
• No streaks. Nothing to break, so nothing to walk away from
• No red numbers, no badges, no counter of what you have not done
• No charts, and it never holds last month up next to this one. That is a
scoreboard, and a scoreboard is why the last app got deleted
• No daily savings target. "Put aside $14.20 a day" is wrong within a week and
guilt-inducing for all of it
• No nagging. One quiet morning note, and otherwise silence
• It never asks you to catch up
BUILT TO COME BACK TO
The app assumes you will forget it for a while, because that is what happens.
Nothing decays, nothing expires, nothing greets you with a list of what you
missed. Come back after three weeks and it is the same room, waiting. Add one
expense or none. Both are fine.
It is honest about its limits, too. The total it shows is what you logged, and
it says so rather than implying you caught every coffee. A number you can trust
the shape of beats one pretending to be complete.
YOUR MONEY STAYS YOURS
No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your records live on your phone, and you can
export or erase all of them from the menu at any moment.
Duck Budget does not connect to your bank, so it never asks for a password,
never holds a login, and never shows you a transaction you have to go and verify
somewhere else. You tell it what happened. It remembers.
DUCK BUDGET PRO
Everything above is free and stays free. Recording your money is the part that
has to be easy, so it is never the part behind a price.
Pro opens the two screens that look back over what you have kept:
• Activity — everything you have logged, in one list you can filter
• This month — the ordered breakdown, and the sentence that goes with it
Available monthly, yearly, or once for life. The yearly plan comes with a 7-day
free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. A subscription
renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before
the period ends, and your account is charged within 24 hours of that. Manage
subscriptions and turn off auto-renew in your Apple ID settings. Any unused
portion of a free trial is forfeited on purchase.
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