The household budget app that reads your bank statement, scans your receipts, and prices your dinner.
Upload a bank statement, drop receipts as you go, plan the week's meals, and watch the grocery budget take care of itself. Built for the people who actually run a home.
Not a spreadsheet. A loop that closes itself.
Most budget apps stop at "log the spend." BudgetBuckets connects spending to meals to shopping and back — so the next grocery run is already planned by the time you walk into the store.
Upload one bank statement. Get a categorized month in two minutes.
Drop in a CSV or PDF from your bank. BudgetBuckets parses statement rows, suggests buckets with confidence scores, and shows you the preview before anything hits your budget. Duplicate uploads are blocked by file hash. The raw file is deleted after parsing — we keep only the rows you commit.
- CSV exports from U.S. banks
- PDF statements (text and scanned)
- Confidence-scored row preview
- One-click skip, edit bucket, edit amount
- Dedup against prior imports
| Date | Description | Amount | Bucket | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 02 | WEIS MARKETS #41 YORK PA | $86.21 | Groceries | 96% |
| May 03 | SHELL OIL 57214 | $48.12 | Fuel | 99% |
| May 04 | AMZN MKTP US*RT5L9 | $27.40 | Household | 71% |
| May 05 | DD/BR #344 YORK PA | $14.60 | Dining | 88% |
Know what dinner costs before you buy the ingredients.
Save a recipe, scan a card, or have BudgetBuckets find one for you. AI parses the ingredients and estimates cost per recipe and per serving so you can plan a week of meals against your grocery bucket — then turn that plan into a shopping list in one click.
- Scan a printed recipe card or screenshot
- Paste a URL, AI extracts the recipe
- Per-recipe and per-serving cost estimate
- Merge multiple recipes into one shopping list
Fewer spreadsheets, fewer notes, fewer forgotten totals.
BudgetBuckets handles expenses, income, refunds, and transfers — the full ledger your household actually uses — without the YNAB learning curve.
Receipts become budget records
Snap a photo, the AI pulls amount, date, and merchant, you confirm the bucket. Works on your phone in the checkout line.
Bank statements categorize themselves
Upload a CSV or PDF, review the preview with per-row confidence scores, commit what you want. Duplicates blocked, raw files deleted.
Recipes know what they cost
Save, scan, or search a recipe. AI estimates per-recipe and per-serving cost so you plan dinner against the grocery bucket.
Shopping lists from a week of meals
Pick recipes, BudgetBuckets merges the ingredients into one list. Check items off at the store from your phone.
Reports that match how you spent
Spending by bucket, by month, by date range. Filter to one bucket or a custom range and see the impact in seconds.
One workspace for the household
Up to 5 members. Owner, admin, or member roles. Invite by email or share a link — no extra licenses to buy.
The people who actually run the household.
The two-income couple
Shared workspace. Both partners drop receipts. One person uploads the monthly statement. Friday-night money-check stays 10 minutes.
The household manager
One person owns the money. Partner and a parent get view access to the shopping list. Nobody asks 'are we OK on groceries?' anymore.
The post-Mint refugee
You miss having categorized spending without surrendering your bank password. Upload the statement, get the categories, keep the credentials.
Where BudgetBuckets fits in your stack.
You probably have a way of tracking money already. Here's what changes when you switch.
The categorization you miss, without handing over bank credentials. You upload statements; we parse them.
Categorized history, meal planning, and shopping list in one workspace — not three apps and three subscriptions.
Envelope/bucket logic without the learning curve. Plus AI receipt and statement parsing YNAB doesn't have.
The sheet's flexibility, plus phone-friendly receipt scans and statement imports that fill rows for you.
$15.00/month. Less than two forgotten gym memberships.
One subscription covers the whole household — up to 5 members. Start with a 7-day trial, no card required. Cancel anytime from the app.
The basics before you start.
Anything else? Open a support ticket from inside the app — we answer within a business day.
Do I need a card for the trial?
No. Start the 7-day trial with an email, password, and workspace name. Cancel anytime from inside the app.
What happens after the trial?
A workspace can upgrade to the current $15.00/month plan from the billing page. One plan covers the whole household — up to 5 members.
What bank statement formats are supported?
CSV exports from U.S. banks, plus PDF statements (both text-based and scanned). BudgetBuckets parses statement rows, suggests buckets with confidence scores, flags unusual layouts for review, and lets you approve everything before anything is committed to your budget.
Is my bank data safe?
We don't connect to your bank. You upload statements yourself, we parse them, and the raw file is deleted after parsing — we keep only the categorized transactions you commit. Stripe handles billing; we never see your card.
Can I export my data?
Your data is yours. A one-click CSV export is shipping this quarter. In the meantime, support tickets get a manual export within 24 hours.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes. BudgetBuckets is mobile-first with floating quick-scan buttons for receipts and recipes — designed for the checkout line, not just the desk.
How accurate is the AI parsing?
Every bank-statement row carries a confidence score, and the weakest rows appear first in review. Receipt scans show extracted fields next to the photo before you commit. You always confirm before money hits a bucket.
Can more than one person use a workspace?
Yes. Workspace owners and admins can invite household members by email or share a link (7-day expiry). Up to 5 active members per workspace.
What if I cancel?
Your workspace stays accessible through the end of the billing period. You can export your data anytime before it lapses.
Try the loop for seven days.
No card. Cancel anytime. $15.00/month after if you keep it.