# Budgeting: Monthly Planner — Plan Spending, Trips & Goals

> Plan Spending, Trips & Goals (iPhone/iPad app by Jin-Cong Lin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/budgeting-monthly-planner/id1503496208 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jin-Cong Lin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1447306097)
- Category: Finance, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, European Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish and 1 more
- Released: 2020-12-22
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/budgeting-monthly-planner/id1503496208/reviews.md

## What is Budgeting?

Budgeting: Monthly Planner is a project-based budget planner that helps you plan before you spend. Organize living expenses, travel, family spending, repayments, weddings, emergency funds, and other goals in separate projects.

Feature Highlights

- Create, rename, duplicate, sort, and manage budget projects.
- Start faster with ready-made templates for common life goals.
- Enter item amounts and automatically calculate totals and percentages.
- Review allocation with a pie chart (requires iOS 17 or later).
- Set a currency for each project and preview bulk conversions before applying them.
- Move budgets between devices with CSV export and safer import choices: add data, keep matching projects, or replace only matches (VIP).
- Save and reuse personal templates with My Templates (VIP).
- Optionally return to the last project when opening the project list.
- Use the app in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or Arabic.

Budget details are stored on your device using Core Data. No bank account connection is required. An internet connection is needed for App Store subscriptions and purchase restoration.

VIP Subscription

VIP provides advanced planning tools and higher limits:

- Higher project and item limits
- Pie chart analysis (requires iOS 17 or later)
- Project duplication
- My Templates
- CSV import and export

Plans: three-month, six-month, or twelve-month auto-renewable subscription.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period in App Store account settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account.

Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vip 365 days | $10.99 | per year |
| Vip 90 days | $3.49 | per 3 months |
| Vip 180 days | $7.49 | per 6 months |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.3 — 2026-08-26

Safer cross-device CSV imports now let you add data, keep matching projects, or replace only matches while preserving older recovered items.

Project rename and duplicate forms now start with the current name.

You can optionally open the project list at your last project.

Localization and first-party app recommendations have also been improved.

### 1.2.2 — 2026-07-29

New built-in budget templates for monthly living, travel, housing, vehicles, installment repayments, weddings, and emergency funds.

New My Templates: save an existing budget, then edit, duplicate, sort, and reuse it (VIP).

New per-project currency settings and bulk conversion with a preview before applying changes and safe recovery if interrupted.

Improved first-run guidance, project creation, and long-list bottom layout.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-05-26

Fix UI: Remove default spacing in the Budget page header that caused blank space below the navigation bar

### 1.1.2 — 2026-01-19

* **Bug fixes.** ([Apple Developer][1])
* **Visual charts:** Use a **pie chart** to quickly understand your budget allocation (**requires iOS 17 or later**).
* **Multiple languages:** Added support for **Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic**.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "App Review Guidelines"

### 1.0.46 — 2023-02-20

Fix bugs and project page UI

## More apps by Jin-Cong Lin

- [PayoffRoute](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/payoffroute/id6791168049)
- [Offer vs Stay: Job Decision](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/offer-vs-stay-job-decision/id6791298455)

All apps by Jin-Cong Lin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1447306097

## Related topics

[budgeting monthly](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/budgeting-monthly)

---

*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*