Complete feature guide

Everything EnvelopeBudget can do

Plan every dollar, keep transactions accurate, understand your progress, and share the work without paying for a maze of feature tiers.

See it in action

A complete budget, not a pile of widgets

Plan income, inspect an envelope, find the exact transaction you need, and turn the results into useful reports. These are real EnvelopeBudget screens.

Give every dollar a job

Allocate new income across envelopes, reuse saved plans, and see funded, remaining, and available amounts before committing a cent.

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EnvelopeBudget Allocate Funds screen assigning a paycheck to envelopes, with goals, funded amounts, and a live to-allocate total
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Pay off debt with a living plan

The Debt Center turns your credit card and loan accounts into a snowball or avalanche plan: debt-free date, payoff order, progress, and a credit cards vs loans breakdown, all from the transactions you already track.

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EnvelopeBudget Debt Center overview showing 23 percent paid off, a January 2031 debt-free date, snowball method controls, a credit cards versus loans breakdown, and debt cards in payoff order
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See bills and paychecks before they land

Repeating transactions show on the calendar ahead of time, enter the register as pending a few days before they are due, and clear themselves when the bank import arrives.

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EnvelopeBudget transaction calendar for October showing entered and upcoming repeating transactions, with monthly totals including scheduled amounts

Share the budget, not your password

Family & Team gives everyone their own login. Choose No access, Viewer, or Editor for each person on each budget. The family owner can see every family budget; other members see only the ones you share.

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Sample Family & Team members with per-budget No access, Editor, and Viewer controls

Know what each envelope can do

Open an envelope to see its balance, recent activity, monthly spending, and savings-goal progress together.

EnvelopeBudget envelope detail panel showing a savings goal at 39 percent, a suggested monthly amount, and monthly spending

Reports that answer real questions

Review spending, budgets, categories, account accuracy, cash flow, and savings goals from one place.

EnvelopeBudget reports: spending, budget, spending by category, income versus expense, account audit, and savings goals

Search without hunting

Combine plain terms with filters for status, account, envelope, payee, date, amount, transfers, splits, and more.

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EnvelopeBudget transaction search help listing filters for status, envelope, account, payee, dates, and amounts

Envelope budgeting

Plan every dollar with flexible digital envelopes.

Guided setup

New

A three-minute walkthrough builds your first budget with your own money: add an account, pick envelopes, and give every dollar a job.

Getting-started checklist

New

Tracks your first steps automatically from your real budget, highlights what's next, and disappears when you're done.

Unlimited envelopes

Create as many spending, saving, and debt envelopes as your plan needs.

Envelope categories

Group related envelopes and reorganize them as your budget changes.

Monthly budget targets

Set a planned amount for each envelope and compare the plan with actual spending.

Fund allocation

Assign available income across envelopes from one focused allocation screen.

Reusable allocation plans

Save paycheck or income templates and fund many envelopes in one pass.

Move money between envelopes

Transfer available funds without creating fake income or expenses.

Savings goals

Set target amounts and dates, then track progress toward each goal.

Debt envelopes

Plan debt payments while keeping balances and spending visible.

Envelope notes

Keep reminders and context with the envelope they belong to.

Multiple budgets

Create separate budgets for households, projects, or different financial plans.

Accounts and transactions

Keep daily money movement accurate without turning it into a second job.

Repeating transactions

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Set up bills, paychecks, and transfers that repeat weekly, every N weeks, monthly, twice a month, or yearly, with an end date or count.

How it works

Scheduled rows that clear themselves

Each occurrence appears as a pending transaction a few days early, turns uncleared on the due date, and is taken over by the matching bank import.

Upcoming activity on the calendar

Future occurrences show on the transaction calendar before they happen, with skip, enter now, and edit from any day.

Make any transaction repeat

Open a transaction and choose Make repeating to use it as the template for a series.

Flexible account types

Track checking, savings, cash, credit cards, loans, investments, and other accounts.

Manual transaction entry

Add income and expenses quickly from web, iPhone, or Android.

Cleared and pending balances

See what has posted at the bank and what is still pending.

Split transactions

Divide one purchase among multiple envelopes, with optional notes for each split.

Linked transfers

Move money between accounts while keeping both sides connected.

Automatic transfer matching

Link imported transfer counterparts when account, date, and amount agree.

Account reconciliation

Enter your statement balance and see a live preview of your cleared balance and any difference before anything changes.

Powerful search and filters

Filter transactions by date, account, envelope, status, amount, and search terms.

Transaction inbox

Keep imported activity waiting for review before it changes the budget.

Duplicate detection

Avoid importing the same bank transaction more than once.

Payee management and rename rules

Clean up merchant names and remember how future imports should appear.

Custom register columns

Show, hide, and reorder transaction columns; preferences follow your account.

Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts

Move through transactions and review, edit, clear, archive, or take other common actions from the keyboard like a Gmail inbox.

Undo

Reverse recent transaction, envelope, allocation, split, transfer, archive, and merge actions.

Account notes, colors, and badges

Add context and make accounts easier to recognize throughout the register.

Imports and smart assistance

Bring in the data you want and keep a human review step where it matters.

SimpleFIN bank sync

Optional

Securely import activity from thousands of financial institutions.

Choose a bank-sync start date

Start a new connection without pulling in years of unwanted history.

Per-account sync results

See which connected accounts updated and where an import needs attention.

Bank sync that reconciles

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Every pull accounts for pending and uncleared transactions, shows a receipt-style breakdown, and points to the transaction that explains any gap.

OFX and QFX imports

Upload transaction files from institutions that do not support automatic sync.

YNAB migration

Import exported YNAB budget data and preserve accounts, envelopes, goals, and history.

Complete budget import and export

Move or back up account, envelope, allocation, goal, transfer, and badge data.

Review-first AI suggestions

Get category suggestions without letting automation silently change your envelopes.

Amazon order matching

Click Sync Amazon in your inbox: EnvelopeBudget Helper for Chrome matches each Amazon payment to its transaction and adds the item names, with one-click undo.

Install from the Chrome Web Store

Income and credit classification

Mark credits that should reach an envelope without inflating income reports.

Reports and planning

Understand where the money went and adjust the plan with evidence.

Spending report

Review income, spending, and transactions for any date range.

Spending by category

Compare category and envelope spending across months, including budget variance.

Budget report

Review and bulk-edit monthly envelope targets from one report.

Income versus expense

See monthly totals, net change, and the transactions behind each number.

Account audit

Check stored and calculated balances and diagnose reconciliation differences.

Savings-goal progress

See target amounts, dates, current balances, and remaining progress together.

Mobile reports dashboard

View income, expenses, net change, top categories, and date-range summaries on mobile.

Spending trends and net worth

Explore mobile trend charts, period comparisons, assets, liabilities, and net worth.

Report exports

Download supported reports as CSV, Excel, or Markdown.

Debt payoff

Turn the debts already in your budget into a living snowball or avalanche plan.

Debt Center

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Credit card, loan, and line-of-credit accounts enroll automatically with balances from your ledger; add manual debts for anything else.

See how it works

Snowball, avalanche, or custom order

Pick a method, drag debts into your own order, and see which debt to attack now and what comes next.

Payoff projection and what-ifs

Debt-free date, total interest, and a balance chart that responds as you try extra monthly or one-time payments.

Strategy comparison

Snowball, avalanche, and minimums-only side by side, with the interest each approach saves.

Extra payment from an envelope

Point the plan at a Debt Snowball envelope so the extra payment follows what you actually fund each month.

Last payment and progress on every debt

Each card shows the most recent payment, percent paid against the starting balance, and APR and payment details.

Credit cards vs loans breakdown

See how much of your debt is revolving versus installment, with per-type totals.

Debt history

Month-by-month balances, payments, and interest charges derived from your transactions.

Printable progress poster

A one-page thermometer, debt checklist, and milestone tracker for the fridge.

Debt tools for AI assistants

Read-only MCP tools expose the plan and payoff projection to a connected assistant.

Sharing and access

Share with your family or team using separate logins and per-budget Viewer or Editor access. Keep private budgets private while working together on the ones you choose.

Shared budgets, separate logins

Everyone signs in with their own account and works from the same shared accounts, envelopes, and transactions. No shared password required.

Family and team accounts

Manage household or team members and budgets in Family & Team. The family owner can see every family budget; other members see only the budgets they are granted.

See how family and team sharing works

Viewer and Editor controls

Give Viewers read-only access to a budget’s accounts, envelopes, transactions, and reports. Give Editors access to manage transactions, accounts, envelopes, and allocations.

Per-budget privacy

Choose No access, Viewer, or Editor for each member on each budget. Share household expenses without sharing every personal budget, and change access whenever responsibilities change.

Member management

Invite members, review access, and remove access when it is no longer needed.

Shared subscription access

Family & Team members are covered by the family owner’s subscription. A single-budget invitation outside the family shares that budget, not subscription coverage.

Budget ownership transfer

Move ownership of a shared budget to another member when responsibilities change.

Apple and Google sign-in

Use social sign-in on supported web and mobile flows.

Passkey sign-in on the web

Use a device passkey for fast, phishing-resistant web sign-in without entering a password.

Email and password sign-in

Use standard verified-account authentication on every supported platform.

Developer platform

Build integrations and give trusted AI agents structured access to your budget.

Comprehensive REST API

Work with budgets, accounts, envelopes, transactions, reports, imports, and other core EnvelopeBudget data from software or AI agents.

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MCP browser sign-in

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OAuth 2.1 and dynamic client registration let compatible clients connect through your browser. Select budgets, explicitly approve optional categorization permissions, and revoke connections anytime.

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Secure developer API keys

Create revocable, expiring keys for integrations. MCP keys are read-only by default, with separate opt-in categorization permissions.

Interactive OpenAPI documentation

Explore available endpoints, schemas, and request formats from live API documentation.

View interactive docs

Official remote MCP server

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Connect compatible AI assistants for budget reviews, spending and cashflow analysis, provider suggestions, and agent-native inbox categorization. OAuth browser sign-in and existing API keys are supported; access is read-only by default.

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Mobile, control, and privacy

Use the same budget on the device you have, without surrendering control of your data.

Responsive web app

Use the complete web experience from a modern desktop or mobile browser.

Native iPhone and iPad app

Download EnvelopeBudget from the App Store.

Native Android app

Download EnvelopeBudget from Google Play.

Offline mobile viewing

View cached envelopes, accounts, and recent transactions without a connection.

Offline transaction queue

Create transactions offline and sync them automatically when connectivity returns.

Light, dark, and system themes

Choose a theme or follow the device setting on web and mobile.

Currency and date preferences

Choose your country's currency from a drop-down, then fine-tune the symbol, decimals, separators, and date format per budget.

Permanent account deletion

Delete your account and personal data from web or mobile with clear confirmation.

No ads or data sales

EnvelopeBudget does not fund itself by selling personal financial data.

All features on every paid plan

Monthly, annual, and lifetime members use the same product without feature gates.

One product. No feature maze.

Every paid plan includes the complete feature set. SimpleFIN is optional and paid directly to SimpleFIN.