Press kit · updated 25 August 2026

Budget Fury press kit

Budget Fury is a goal-based budgeting app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that reserves money for your goals first, then shows what is genuinely free to spend today — without ever asking for a bank login.

Contact: Didier Lobeau — contact@budgetfury.com

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Fact sheet

App
Budget Fury: Money Planner
What it is
A goal-based budgeting app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that reserves money for your savings goals first, then shows what is genuinely left to spend today — with no bank connection.
Price
Free to download. Premium is $2.99 per month or $29.99 once (Lifetime), with a free trial. An optional $8.99 tip is available for people who want to support development.
Platforms
iPhone and iPad running iOS/iPadOS 18.1 or later; Mac with Apple silicon. 37.3 MB.
Release date
First released 4 December 2024. Current version 2026.9, released 24 August 2026.
Developer
Didier Lobeau, solo developer, based in France.
App Store
apps.apple.com/us/app/budget-fury-money-planner/id6738302161
Website
www.budgetfury.com
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
Privacy
Apple's privacy label reads Data Not Collected. No bank connection. iCloud sync is opt-in and end-to-end encrypted by Apple.

About Budget Fury

Budget Fury is a goal-based budgeting app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Instead of sorting spending into categories after the fact, it starts from what you are saving for — a trip, a debt, an emergency fund — reserves that money at the top of the month, and shows what is left to spend today. It is built for people who want a plan rather than a feed of transactions, and it never asks for a bank login: you import a CSV export or record expenses by hand, and the data stays on the device. Free to download, with a $2.99 monthly or $29.99 lifetime Premium tier.

Most budgeting apps are rear-view mirrors. They connect to your bank, sort what has already happened into categories, and hand you a monthly post-mortem. That tells you where the money went. It does not tell you whether dinner out tonight pushes the holiday you are saving for back by a month — which is the question people actually have when they open a budgeting app.

Budget Fury turns the order around. Goals are funded first, at the top of the month, the way the envelope method and the Japanese kakeibo tradition have always done it on paper. Fixed costs come out next. What survives is one honest number: the amount that is free to spend today without breaking a promise you already made to yourself. The app is deliberately opinionated about that number — it is on the first screen, it updates as you record expenses, and a rolling 12-month forecast shows what today's choices do to next spring.

Three things make it unusual in its category. The AI assistant runs on Apple Intelligence, on the device, so you can ask plain questions about your spending without any financial data leaving the phone. Bank CSV import builds a first budget automatically from your own spending history, which removes the evening of data entry that kills most budgeting attempts in week one. And there is no bank aggregation at all — no Plaid, no credentials, no account to create — which is why Apple's privacy label for the app reads Data Not Collected. In a category whose business model is usually built on aggregating financial data, that is a deliberate choice, not an oversight.

Key features

  • Goal-based budgeting reserves money for each savings goal before the month starts, so saving is a line in the plan rather than whatever survives to payday.
  • Bank CSV import reads an export from your bank and builds the first budget automatically, so setup takes minutes instead of an evening of data entry.
  • An on-device AI assistant, built on Apple Intelligence, answers plain questions about your spending without sending financial data off the phone.
  • Expense envelopes and a built-in 50/30/20 view keep fixed costs, everyday spending and savings visibly separate all month.
  • A rolling 12-month forecast shows how this month's choices change what is affordable next spring.
  • Multi-currency tracking handles income and expenses in more than one currency, and iCloud sync keeps iPhone, iPad and Mac in step.

Screenshots

Eight raw PNGs, 1045 × 2138, no device frames, captions or watermarks — ready to drop into an article. Click any image for the full-resolution file.

  • The Budget tab: income, fixed expenses, expense envelopes and goal savings for August, with a budget allocation donut.

    The monthly plan — income, fixed costs, envelopes and goal savings, allocated before the month starts.

  • Spending so far this month plotted against the projected line, with remaining budget below.

    Spending so far against the plan, with the projection line and what is left.

  • Savings goals with progress bars: summer vacation finished, credit card debt, a birthday and furniture debt with months remaining.

    Savings goals with progress and months remaining — the part of the budget that gets funded first.

  • Expense envelopes for groceries, eating out, entertainment and clothing, each showing spent against limit.

    Expense envelopes: a spending cap per category, with what is left in each.

  • Recurring fixed expenses listed by date — rent, insurance, streaming and utilities — split into paid and pending.

    Recurring fixed expenses, split between what has already left the account and what is still pending.

  • The AI assistant sheet: ask anything about your budget, with a prompt field at the bottom.

    The AI assistant — questions about your own budget, answered on the device.

  • A calendar month view with per-day spending totals and the selected day's transactions listed below.

    The calendar view: what each day cost, one day at a time.

  • Category management, with each income and expense category tagged as a need or a want.

    Categories, each tagged Need or Want — the basis for the 50/30/20 view.

App icon

The Budget Fury app icon: a pig in a karate outfit punching through a debt tag.

Everything in one file

The zip holds all eight raw screenshots, the icon in three sizes, the nine App Store marketing frames at 1290 × 2796 for anyone who wants the store artwork, and the fact sheet as plain text.

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About the developer

Didier Lobeau is a solo iOS developer based in France. In 2015 he funded an eleven-month trip around the world out of a tracked budget — the experience that convinced him a budget does not restrict your life so much as pay for it. He has been building Budget Fury since 2024 and uses it every day.

Contact

Didier Lobeau — contact@budgetfury.com

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