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Option to use Budget Flow as an expense-only tracker

Some of us only want to track what we spend, not what we earn. Right now that is not really possible: if you never enter income, the account balance drifts permanently negative, which pollutes the Overview, the net worth chart and the balance widgets. The current workaround is to enter income anyway with the Evaluated flag turned off, but that means maintaining data I never wanted to track in the first place. I am not asking to restructure the app into separate income and expense sections (that has been requested and rejected before). A single setting per budget book would be enough, for example an “Expense-only mode”, which would hide the income transaction type in the entry form, hide balance-based widgets and the net worth chart from the Overview, and keep budgets and expense statistics working exactly as they do today. No change to the data model would be needed - income would simply stop being surfaced. Budgets already work independently of account balances, so most of the app is unaffected.

crasti 3 minutes ago

Daily insight: the feature that I’m missing

I’d like to suggest a feature that would greatly improve budget management: an optional Daily Insight/Pace indicator within budgets. How it works: Since each budget has a fixed amount and target date, the app can calculate the daily safe-to-spend limit to keep users on track until the end of the period. A $1,000 budget for 10 days starts with a daily safe spend of $100/day. If I spend $100 on Day 1, the indicator remains $100 for the remaining 9 days. If I spend $250 on Day 2, it dynamically recalculates to $81.25/day ($650 remaining ÷ 8 days). Why this helps: While the current total remaining balance is helpful, it’s hard to gauge early in the cycle (e.g., on Day 3 of 30) whether my current spending pace is sustainable. A daily target makes this immediately clear. Widget integration: It would also be great to have a home screen widget displaying this daily limit for a selected budget, or to update the existing Budget widget by adding this metric.

Kiryl Vasilyeu 4 days ago