Comfortable
$96left of $150
Plenty of room. Dot stays quiet and out of your way.
Daily budget tracker for iPhone
One number.
One number.
That's it.
Log what you spend, as you spend it. Dot shows you one number for today — and nothing else. Set a daily target and it counts down instead.
The only feature
It warns you in colour, before you'd notice in numbers.
Green while you're fine. Warm as you close in. Deeper still once you're past it. You can read your day from across the room.
Getting close
$22left of $150
The circle warms as you near the target — no alert, no buzz, no badge.
Over
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Past the target. Tomorrow starts fresh — Dot doesn't carry a grudge.
How it works
Three actions. Then you're done for the day.
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1
Log what you spend
An amount, a category if you want one, a note if it matters. Presets cover most of it in two taps.
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2
Watch one number
Today's total, front and centre. Turn on a daily target and it shows what's left instead — that part is optional.
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3
Close the day
Hold to close. The day lands in your Lookback calendar and tomorrow starts back at zero.
By design
What Dot deliberately doesn't do.
Most budget apps fail because they ask too much on day one. These are omissions, not a roadmap.
Connect to your bank
No credentials, no read access, no third-party aggregator holding your statements.
Demand a budget
The daily target is off until you switch it on. Dot tracks what you spend either way, so day one asks nothing of you.
Draw charts
A pie chart of last month can't help you at the till. One number can.
Keep a streak
No badges, no guilt mechanics. There's one notification — an evening nudge to close the day — and it stays off until you ask for it.
Need an account
No email, no password, no sync server. Your data stays on the phone.
Sell a subscription
Nothing is locked. There is no upgrade screen, because there is no upgrade.
The small print
Built quietly, and carefully.
On-device only
Everything lives in local storage. Nothing leaves the phone, so there's nothing to breach.
Two taps to log
Pick a category, pick a preset amount — $5, $12, $25, $50 — and you're done. The keypad is there for everything else.
Tabular numerals
Figures line up, so the number doesn't jitter as it changes. A small thing you'd miss.
Dark mode
A warm dark, not a cold one. Same palette, inverted — legible at 1am without the glare.
Look back
A month calendar with total spent, average per day, and days closed. That's the entire history feature.
The day, itemised
Tap any day in Lookback for what it was made of — every expense, its category and amount, and the count.
Price
$0
Free forever. Genuinely.
No trial, no tier, no ads, and no data to sell — Dot never receives any. It's a small app that does one thing, and it's finished.
Download on iPhoneRequires iOS 16 or later
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