# Back to Black: Pay Planner — Plan your next pay & savings

> Plan your next pay & savings (iPhone/iPad app by YASIN A HASAN.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/back-to-black-pay-planner/id6766064899 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [YASIN A HASAN](https://appshunter.io/developer/1869439509)
- Category: Finance, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-08
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Back to Black?

Plan your next pay before it lands. Bills, plans and debts sorted by payday, with money you have, not money you borrow. Not a loan. A plan.

Back to Black is a pay planner for people paid weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Tell it your pay and what's coming up. It works out what to put aside from each pay, and when each plan will be ready.

PLAN YOUR NEXT PAY
• Set your pay: how much lands, and when
• See what goes to bills, plans, saving and debt, and what's yours to spend until next payday
• Your bills, from rent to rego, worked out per pay for you

CHECK IN ON PAYDAY
• Your payday check-in lists what to move
• Move each amount in your own banking app, then tick it off
• A short pay? Choose what waits until next pay. That's allowed

CHRISTMAS, HOLIDAYS AND BIG COSTS
• Make a plan for Christmas, a trip home, car rego, school costs or a birthday
• Give it a total and a date. Back to Black works out each pay, and has it ready about a week early
• Gold means ready. Red only ever means money on credit

GET BACK TO BLACK, THEN STAY THERE
• Paying off a card or a loan? Choose an amount each pay and see the date it's paid off
• Saving goals, a little each pay, for a rainy day fund or anything else
• Savings calculator: "$900 by Christmas?" See what it takes each pay, then save it as a plan

PLAN IT TOGETHER
• Share a plan with your partner, your family or the group going on the trip
• Everyone sees the costs and who's covering what

ANY BANK, NOTHING TO LOG
• Works with any bank. You never link it, and we never ask for your banking login
• Nothing to log: no receipts, no categories, no bank sync to break
• Lock it with a PIN or Face ID
• On your phone, or on the web at app.backtoblack.app

FREE TO PLAN YOUR NEXT PAY
Everything you need to plan your next pay is free. One day we'll offer paid extras, such as sharing plans with family. The essentials will stay free.

Built by someone who's had more than 250 paydays in a row, and watched most of them come and go.

One pay at a time. Did you plan your next pay?

Back to Black shows the numbers; you decide. It isn't financial advice.
Privacy: https://backtoblack.app/privacy · Terms: https://backtoblack.app/terms

## Is Back to Black safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Back to Black.

## Is Back to Black legit?

Back to Black: Pay Planner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Back to Black is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.0.1 — 2026-10-29

• Share the love: send Back to Black to family and friends from Settings
• A plan's costs can be part of its total, or on top of it
• Leave a shared plan you no longer need
• Copes better with a patchy connection, and catches up when you're back
• Faster, smoother, and clearer words throughout

### 3.0 — 2026-10-23

Back to Black 3.0: a simpler way to plan each pay.

• Payday check-in: tick off what you've set aside, then see what's yours to spend
• Plans for Christmas, holidays and big bills, with an amount for each pay
• Short pay? Choose what waits until next pay
• New tabs: Expenses, Saving and debt, and a Calculator
• A fresh new look

Receipt scanning, trip mode and lists are gone, to keep things simple.

### 2 — 2026-10-18

Back to Black 2.0 is here, rebuilt from the ground up:
• Fresh new look
• Plans show what is ready and what to put aside each payday
• Payday check-in
• Trip mode and a wrap-up when you get home
• Pay-off plans for credit cards
• Snap receipts and bank screenshots
• Share plans and lists

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-03

Improved functionality
Smoother interface

### 1.0.2 — 2026-06-09

Improved functionality 
Option to track cash vs credit spending

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