# BudgetBot — AI receipts & savings goals

> AI receipts & savings goals (iPhone/iPad app by Tomas Seosamh O Dalaigh.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/budgetbot/id6777135425 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tomas Seosamh O Dalaigh](https://appshunter.io/developer/1880104307)
- Category: Finance, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-12
- Data updated: 2026-08-15
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/budgetbot/id6777135425/reviews.md

## What is BudgetBot?

BudgetBot is a personal budgeting app for iPhone built around real life — real receipts, real brands, and a budget that knows what you actually bought.

What it does:

• Receipt capture — point the camera at a receipt and the AI pulls out merchant, amount, date and line items. PDFs, the share sheet and the photo library all work.

• Real brand logos — every subscription and merchant row shows the brand's real icon, not a generic glyph. Over 100 brands across streaming, telecom, grocery, fast food, retail, transport and more.

• Savings goals with finish-line rewards — set a goal (Japan trip, house deposit, wedding fund) and lock in your celebration up front. Champagne, dinner, flowers, spa day, weekend away — your call.

• Daily Roast — a daily one-card review of your spending and saving that doesn't pull punches. Sometimes praise, mostly side-eye.

• Hindsight ratings — score past purchases 1–5 in a swipe game so analytics surface what was actually worth it.

• Hall of Shame — your worst purchases, ranked and tagged. With apology emoji.

• Smart insights — needs vs wants, subscription pile-up alerts, monthly spend vs budget, counterfactual "what could've been" comparisons.

Privacy:
• No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. No ads.
• Your data lives on your device and, if you turn iCloud sync on, in your own iCloud. We run no servers.
• AI features use your own Anthropic API key — we never see your data.
• Sign in with Apple is the primary auth.

BudgetBot isn't your bank. It's a tool for what you actually buy, why you bought it, and whether you'd do it again.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.2 — 2026-06-26

What's new in 1.2.2:
• Add an expense by voice or text — no receipt needed. The AI pulls out the merchant, items, amount, date and how you paid.
• Voice-to-text for quick entry, with an offline retry if the connection drops.
• Needs vs wants is clearer: spend that can't be classified is now shown, with a one-tap fix.
• More accurate receipt dates and per-item categories.
• All your API keys are managed in one place.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-06-24

New: Quick add. No receipt? Type or say it — “Haircut €30”, “2 coffees €13” — and BudgetBot adds it. Multiple items split into individual, editable lines.

New: Dictation your way. On-device by default (free, private, offline). Settings → Dictation lets you switch to OpenAI Whisper or Google Gemini with your own key, pick a language, and more.

Better: the “ready to review” banner on Capture now opens the reviewer directly — no detour through Notifications.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-06-22

New: Itemise a charge. No receipt? Open any expense and tap Itemise — describe what you bought ("two lighters") and the AI breaks the total into line items, or add them by hand. Everything's editable before you save, and anything left over becomes a tidy "Unaccounted" line. You can also swipe a charge in Activity to itemise it.

### 1.0 — 2026-06-12

No release notes.

## More apps by Tomas Seosamh O Dalaigh

- [GigBook](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gigbook/id6759671358)

All apps by Tomas Seosamh O Dalaigh: https://appshunter.io/developer/1880104307

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