Simple Balance Planner
Guy Montgomery Finance iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Simple Balance Planner is a free Finance app for iPhone and iPad by Guy Montgomery. Requires iOS 17.6. Updated September 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 2 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 24
- 2026 · v2.0
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About Simple Balance Planner
Simple Balance Planner answers one question: what will my account balance be next week, next month, and the month after that? It's a running checkbook register with a forward view. Enter what you know — the bills, the paychecks, the transfers — and the app carries the balance forward, day by day. You can see the dip before payday, the month rent and insurance land together, and the stretch where more money is sitting in checking than needs to be there. This is not a budget tracker or an expense categorizer. There are excellent apps for that. Simple Balance Planner does one thing: it keeps a single checking or savings account balanced over time. START WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE • Import your bank's CSV export directly — the common bank column layout is understood as-is • Set an opening balance and every balance after it is computed for you • Have the app read your history and build recurring rules automatically for anything that shows up in three or more months • Export a blank template if you'd rather start from scratch RECURRING RULES DO THE WORK • Monthly, every-N-weeks, or every-N-days rules for rent, utilities, subscriptions and salary • Future occurrences project into your balance without being entered — 30 days ahead free, a full year with a subscription • Turn on "amount varies" for bills that change every period, so the rule still matches • Adjust a single month when one payment is late or larger, or edit the rule to change every future one RECONCILE AS THINGS CLEAR • Tick a transaction to verify it as it hits your bank — a projection becomes a real, recorded entry • Verified rows fade to grey so the unverified ones stay obvious • Jump straight to the oldest unverified transaction to pick up reconciling where you left off • Drag across checkboxes to verify a run of transactions at once BUILT FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • Syncs through your own iCloud account across every device you own • Full undo and redo, including on the Mac with ⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z • Search by description, note, or any amount — including balances • Touch and hold a row (right-click on Mac) for edit, insert, verify, skip an occurrence, or edit the rule behind it • Debits in red, credits in green, at a glance YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives on your device and in your private iCloud database. There are no accounts to create, no bank logins, no servers of ours in the middle, no analytics and no ads. Nothing is ever collected. You can export your transactions to CSV at any time, and erase everything from inside the app. Simple, private, and focused on one job: knowing what your balance is going to be. —————————— Simple Balance Planner is free to use, and projects your balance 30 days ahead at no cost. A subscription extends the projection to a full year. New subscriptions start with a two-week free trial, then continue at $0.99/month or $9.99/year. Importing, recurring rules, reconciling and iCloud sync are free and stay free. The subscription is auto-renewable. The two-week free trial is charge-free; nothing is taken from your Apple Account while it runs. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, your Apple Account is then charged $0.99 (monthly) or $9.99 (yearly) and the subscription renews automatically until you turn it off. Each renewal is charged within 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://eslaforde.com/privacy/ Support: https://eslaforde.com/support/
App privacy
The developer, Guy Montgomery, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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