# Haven: Calm Money Goals — Savings goals, zero guilt

> Savings goals, zero guilt (iPhone/iPad app by Mary-Ellen Sea'a Bonser.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/haven-calm-money-goals/id6791307603 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mary-Ellen Sea'a Bonser](https://appshunter.io/developer/6788174748)
- Category: Finance, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 37 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-27
- Data updated: 2026-09-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/haven-calm-money-goals/id6791307603/reviews.md

## What is Haven?

Haven is a personal finance companion built around one idea: you shouldn't need courage to open a money app.

Most budgeting apps track numbers and hand out guilt. Haven does neither. It helps you set savings and payoff goals that fit your actual life, shows your progress in plain, kind language, and never once uses shame, red alerts, or judgmental copy. Overspending is information, not failure.

A PLAN THAT STARTS WITH YOU
Haven begins with a two-minute conversation, not a bank login. Tell it your best hopes for your money, what weighs on you, and how hands-on you want it to be. It shapes everything around your answers — your first goal, the pace, even the voice it speaks in.

GOALS, YOUR WAY
• Save toward something real — a trip, a home, a safety buffer — with your target, your date, your pace
• Pay down debt with visible milestones, choosing snowball or avalanche (your call, not ours)
• Ease the pace or speed it up anytime. No penalties, no guilt, ever
• A small welcome head start on your first goal, because goals that begin with progress get finished

A VOICE YOU CHOOSE
Pick how Haven talks to you — gentle and quiet, warm and encouraging, or clear and direct — and change it whenever you like. Every word in the app follows.

BUILT-IN COMPASSION
Going through a hard stretch? The Compassion Pause mutes every check-in for a week, a month, or until you're ready — while your goals keep quietly running. Consistency is celebrated; missing a day never resets anything.

OUR PROMISES
• Your financial data is never sold or shared. Ever.
• No sales calls, no upsell pressure, no surprise charges.
• Your data stays on your device in this version — nothing leaves your phone.
• Delete everything with one tap.

Haven v1 is a calm, self-contained goal companion: your goals, transactions and notes are entered and stored on your device. Automatic bank syncing is coming in a future update — built with the same care.

A safe place for your money to grow. Welcome to your Haven.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://jeremylawrance01-web.github.io/haven-site/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Haven Plus (Annual) | $39.99 | per year |
| Haven Plus (Monthly) | $4.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-31

This paycheck. Put in what you take home and everything the pay period has to cover. Haven adds it up and suggests an amount you could set aside. Your numbers, your call.

This week, in plain terms now reads straight off that plan, so your weekly expenses and your weekly summary always agree.

Your savings day. Pick the day and time each week you would like a gentle nudge to move money into your savings account.

Adding to a goal now lets you choose your own amount instead of a fixed one.

Plus a tidier read across the whole app, and a fix for reminders that were not firing.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-24

Haven now shows you around. A short tour of the four tabs, a plain explanation of how Haven works, and a gentle first-steps list — so the app makes sense from your very first minute. Already know your way around? Nothing changes unless you want the tour, which now lives in Care.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-24

Haven 1.3 makes your data safer and your start faster.

- Back up and restore: export everything with one tap, and bring it back anytime. Your data stays yours - on your device and in your own backup.
- New "Don't trust us. Check us." screen: verify our privacy promise yourself with Airplane Mode and Apple's App Privacy Report.
- Gentle reminders (optional): a soft payday nudge and a Sunday Money Date invitation. Off by default, never a guilt trip.
- Faster start: one tap to your first goal.
- Your real entry history in Activity, with full history and CSV export for Plus members.
- Five goals free (up from three).
- A simpler Care tab: one check-in rhythm control, including "Paused for now" - pausing is a season, not a failure.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-07-28

Version 1.2.0 includes performance improvements, bug fixes and refinements to make Haven more reliable and easier to use.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-07-28

No release notes.

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All apps by Mary-Ellen Sea'a Bonser: https://appshunter.io/developer/6788174748

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