Category budgets
Overall and per-category budgets with rollover, so a quiet week carries into the next. 3 budgets and 3 goals on Basic, unlimited on Pro.
Budget planner app
A budget that tells you what's safe to spend today.
Set a monthly plan once. ControlExpense subtracts the bills due before payday and the money you're saving, and gives you one honest number for today, updated every time you spend.
- Safe to spend today, on your home screen
- Category budgets with rollover
- Bills, reminders and savings goals
- Logs itself from SMS, voice or a quick note
Set up a monthly budget
Three steps, about two minutes.
Pick your monthly plan
One number for the month, or a split by category: food, transport, shopping, anything. A 50/30/20 split works too; set the categories to match.
Add bills and goals
Rent, EMIs and subscriptions are suggested from your history. Goals set money aside so it isn't counted as spendable.
Spend and glance
Each expense lowers today's number. Under budget yesterday? Today gets a little more. Over? Tomorrow gets a little less.
Safe to spend
The smaller of two allowances.
What your monthly plan allows for today, and what your balances allow after bills due before payday and money set aside for goals. ControlExpense shows the smaller one. If bills outrun your money, it says so plainly instead of showing a negative number. The Pace Rosette shows the same thing as a circle: the full ring is your month, what's spent thins to dashes, and the gold notch is today.
Bills and reminders
Recurring bills with reminders, and a subscription radar that finds AutoPay mandates and repeating debits you may have forgotten.
Payday plan
When salary lands, split it across bills, goals and spending in a few taps, and start the month knowing where it goes.
Bounce Guard (Pro)
A 30-day projection per account warns you at least 3 days before a debit would fail.
Season memory (Pro)
Learns your expensive months, like festivals, school fees or holidays, and warns you five weeks ahead.
Honest insights
Where your money went, what small payments add up to, and how your own prices changed year on year.
Questions
Budgeting, answered.
What is a "safe to spend" number?
It's how much you can spend today without breaking your monthly plan or missing a bill before payday. ControlExpense recalculates it with every expense and shows it in the app and on a home-screen widget.
Can I use the 50/30/20 rule?
Yes. Create category budgets for needs, wants and savings (or any split you like); safe to spend respects them.
Do I have to enter every expense by hand?
No. In India, ControlExpense can log expenses from your bank SMS automatically. Anywhere, you can say an expense in your language or type a short note like "coffee 4.50 card".
Does the budget planner work offline?
Yes. After you sign in once, budgets, bills, goals and safe to spend all work without internet.
How much does it cost?
5 days free, then Basic at US$1 a month or Pro at US$2 a month, in your own currency on Google Play. Compare plans.
Know today's number.
Also see the SMS expense tracker and the travel expense tracker.