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Lunch Money

Web-first budgeting and spending tracker with multicurrency support and a developer API.

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Research-based review, not hands-on testing. Last researched .

Overview

Lunch Money is a subscription personal finance app that imports bank transactions (or CSVs), sorts them into categories, and sets budgets per category over flexible periods. Its budgeting page says the category limits and rollover settings can be used for tracking, envelope-style or zero-based budgeting. It is mainly used in a browser, with a phone companion app for reviewing transactions and stats.

Best for: People who prefer managing budgets in a browser, want multi-currency accounts, and are comfortable paying a subscription for flexible category budgets.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Categories have their own budget periods (weekly, bi-weekly, twice a month or custom start dates), which suits irregular pay schedules.
  • Each category can have its own rollover setting, so unspent money can return to the pool or accumulate.
  • Multi-currency tracking is a listed feature, and pricing can be viewed in USD, CAD or EUR.
  • Offers a developer API and CSV import for automating or backfilling transactions.
  • Vendor states data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and that user data is not sold.
  • Pricing is a single all-features tier with a stated price-lock for current subscribers.

Cons

  • No free tier; only a 30-day trial before the $10/month or annual plan applies.
  • The iPhone app is described as a companion for existing users (stats, categorizing, reviewing), not a full replacement for the web app.
  • Mobile listing is iPhone-only on the App Store; no iPad/Mac app was listed.
  • Annual pricing is set by the user via a slider, so the true minimum was not stated on the page fetched.
  • Envelope and zero-based approaches are done by configuring categories, not a dedicated envelope-funding workflow.

Features

  • Envelope budgeting included
  • Automatic bank sync included
  • Manual transaction entry included
  • Goal tracking not confirmed not confirmed
  • Debt payoff tools not confirmed not confirmed
  • Investment tracking not confirmed not confirmed
  • Bill reminders not confirmed not confirmed
  • Reports & charts included
  • Multi-currency included
  • Shared / household budgets not confirmed not confirmed
  • Separate logins for shared budgets not confirmed not confirmed

Category budgets with rollover, custom budget periods, multi-currency, rules engine, tags, split transactions, recurring expense tracking, net worth, crypto wallet connections, developer API, Discord community

Our review

Short version

Lunch Money is a subscription personal finance app that imports bank transactions (or CSVs), sorts them into categories, and sets budgets per category over flexible periods. Its budgeting page says the category limits and rollover settings can be used for tracking, envelope-style or zero-based budgeting. It is mainly used in a browser, with a phone companion app for reviewing transactions and stats.

Quick profile, not a full review. Built on 2026-09-29 from the vendor site, store listings and public sources. No hands-on testing: I did not sign up, start a trial or connect a bank.

Cost

  • $10/month, all features included; price locked for existing subscribers
  • Annual plan with a self-chosen price; the pricing page showed $100/year (minimum not confirmed)
  • Trial: 30-day trial, no credit card required to start

What is distinct

  • Per-category rollover options
  • Custom budget periods including twice-monthly and custom start dates
  • Multi-currency accounts
  • Rules engine and developer API (lunchmoney.dev)
  • Crypto wallet and ledger connections
  • Self-selected annual price with a price-lock for existing subscribers

Not confirmed

Last release/update date; Data export options; Supported bank-sync countries and providers; Annual plan minimum price; Bill reminders and goal tracking; Shared budgets/collaborator limits; Android store rating figure not fetched directly (search snippet showed 4.8 from 79 reviews).

Notes

Pricing page lists prices in USD, CAD or EUR.

Ratings are set separately against a shared rubric.

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