# Budi, for Everyday Needs — Settle In, Feel at Home

> Settle In, Feel at Home (iPhone/iPad app by BitesBuddy.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/budi-for-everyday-needs/id6762501773 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BitesBuddy](https://appshunter.io/developer/1785828472)
- Category: Lifestyle, Social Networking
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.5 · 160 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Persian, Somali, Turkish, Urdu
- Released: 2026-09-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Budi, for Everyday Needs?

Budi is your trusted companion for settling into a new country. Whether you're a refugee, immigrant, or newcomer, Budi connects you with everything you need to build your new life with confidence.

SETTLEMENT GUIDANCE
Get step-by-step guidance on housing, healthcare, education, employment, and legal services. Our curated local guides help you navigate the systems in your new city so you never feel lost.

DISCOVERY HUB
Explore your neighbourhood with local guides, find halal restaurants, community centres, places of worship, and essential services nearby. Discover events, workshops, and programs designed for newcomers.

COMMUNITY
Join a vibrant community of newcomers and locals. Share experiences, ask questions, post tips, and support each other. Create and join groups based on your interests, language, or background.

MARKETPLACE
Buy, sell, and trade goods and services within your community. Find affordable furniture, clothing, and essentials from people who understand your needs.

CHAT & CALLS
Stay connected with free messaging, voice calls, and video calls. Communicate in your language with built-in translation support. Create group conversations to stay in touch with family and friends.

CULTURAL TOOLS
Feel at home with Islamic cultural tools including accurate prayer times, Hijri calendar, Ramadan mode with fasting schedules, and a Qibla compass — all integrated seamlessly into the app.

KEY FEATURES
• Fully available in 8 languages: English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Dari, Pashto, Urdu and Somali
• Works offline — access essential information even without internet
• Privacy-first design — your messages are encrypted in transit
• Accessible for all literacy levels with voice navigation and visual guides
• Free to use with no hidden fees

## Is Budi, for Everyday Needs safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Budi, for Everyday Needs.

## Is Budi, for Everyday Needs legit?

Budi, for Everyday Needs has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Budi, for Everyday Needs is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.42 — 2026-10-17

The face step told you to turn the wrong way. Turning as the arrow asked moved you further from what the screen wanted, so the capture never completed. It now asks for the direction you actually have to turn.

And when the face steps finished, the review screen was shown an old copy of what we had received, so your photographs looked missing and the session could not be sent. It now reads what is really there.

When the camera could not read your document, the button that lets you take the photograph yourself sent whatever was in front of it. The review then came back refused, as though something were wrong with you rather than with the picture.

It now tells you what it can see wrong - the light, the focus, how close the card is - and asks before sending. Trying again is the answer it offers first.

### 1.0.39 — 2026-10-12

Your shop's money can go to your own account. Connect your own Stripe account and card payments settle there, not to Budi. Setting it up is now four numbered steps with the Stripe page behind each one, instead of two boxes asking for keys you had to go and find.

Find your shop. Settings lists your shop, its products and the orders you owe, and your shop appears beside your plan under Subscriptions.

Account and Settings are six clear categories instead of dozens of rows, so what you came for is one tap away.

Your shop's dashboard opens instead of showing "something went wrong", and shops whose prices carry decimals load and check out correctly.

Saved delivery addresses are reachable at last, so checkout stops asking every time.

Privacy choices now take effect. The app's usage reporting was failing silently, so what you chose in Privacy Settings had nothing to act on.

### 1.0.37 — 2026-10-08

Browse without an account. The app used to open on a sign-in screen; it now opens on the Marketplace, so you can look at listings, products, shops and reviews before deciding whether to register.

Paying works, start to finish.

Apple Pay is now offered wherever you pay — in a marketplace checkout, in a shop checkout, and when you save a card. Choose it, authorise with Face ID, and the order is confirmed.

Checkout was rebuilt around what each shop actually accepts. You will now see that shop's real options — card, cash on delivery, cash on pickup, Budi Wallet — instead of a fixed list that some shops could not honour. Cash on delivery appears on orders being delivered and cash on pickup on orders you are collecting, so you are never offered something nobody can take.

Buying the same thing twice works. Ordering an item you had ordered before used to return the earlier order instead of placing a new one.

Your address fills itself in. Your name and phone come from your profile, your saved addresses are offered, and typing a street suggests real addresses nearby — picking one fills in the city, province and postal code.

Your receipt arrives by email with a PDF attached. If you are paying cash on delivery, you get an invoice when you order rather than a surprise at the door — it says plainly that nothing has been charged yet.

One order history. Purchases from shops and from the marketplace now appear in the same list, newest first, instead of being split across two screens.

Orders and baskets are always current. They were being read from a cache for up to fifteen minutes, so a new order could be missing from your list until you signed out and back in.

Smaller things: the order number on an order is the one you can quote to a shop; item quantities show their number; and tapping "Added to cart" takes you to your cart.

### 1.0.30 — 2026-09-29

No release notes.

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