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The budgeting app you’ll still open on day 4.

It notices your 4pm coffee and nudges you while it’s still fresh.
Miss a day? Type what you remember and you’re caught up.
No bank link, no loans, no offers.

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Learns your habits. Sample: Aviary saw coffee logged around 4pm on three Tuesdays. The next Tuesday at 4:15pm it asks “Afternoon coffee?”, one tap on “Log $4” logs it, and Snacks drops to $20 left.

Sample data

You know how it goes.

Every budgeting app starts the same way. So does the ending.

  1. Day 1Fresh start

    New app. Every category filled. You log the coffee with a little thrill.

  2. Day 3Two slip past

    A cab and a lunch. You’ll add them later.

  3. Day 5Later never came

    Now there’s a backlog. Opening the app feels like homework.

  4. Day 7Gone

    Nothing’s logged. The icon just sits there, looking at you. Uninstall.

That’s not a willpower problem. Logging cost more than it gave back. So Aviary makes it cheap, three ways.

Day 4 with Aviary

It already knows your Friday cab.

Log the same thing on the same weekday, around the same time, three times in eight weeks. Aviary picks it up as a habit and nudges you 15 minutes after, details filled in. One tap and it’s logged.

  1. Fri, 11 SepCab home · $187:38pm
  2. Fri, 18 SepCab home · $187:52pm
  3. Fri, 25 SepCab home · $187:41pm
Habit learnedCab home on Fridays,
around 7:45pm
  1. Fri, 2 OctCab home?8:00pm
  2. Fri, 9 OctCab home?8:00pm
  3. Fri, 16 OctCab home?8:00pm
Three Fridays in, three nudges out. Sample data.
Fills in the usual
What it was, how much, which category and how you paid. All from your own history.
Two a day, and it backs off
Your strongest habits go first. Skip one twice and it moves an hour later. Five times and it goes quiet. Or switch them off any time.
Skips what’s done, asks when it isn’t
Already logged it today? Then there’s nothing to nudge. Nothing logged by evening? One push asks “Anything today?”
Day 5 with Aviary

Missed yesterday?
Type what you remember.

Open Ask Aviary and type “bus 3, lunch 15, Friday dinner 60”. It turns that into separate spends, picks the categories, and you check them before they land. Two missed days take about a minute.

  • Catch up in one lineType “bus 3, lunch 15”. Both logged, each in the right category.
  • The long billSnap it. Aviary reads every line and splits it if you shared.
  • On repeatRent and subscriptions log themselves. Nothing to catch up on.
  • No signalLogs wait on your phone, then sync.
  • Your browserSame budget, bigger screen.

And on a normal day, it’s one tap.

Your home screenSee what’s left at a glance. Tap + and you’re on the keypad.
The nudgeTap Log on the notification. That’s it.
The keypadAmount, a word or two, done. The category picks itself.
Can’t my bank just sync this?

Noticing is the point.

Bank sync logs everything for you. That’s the catch. Money leaves, the app files it away, and you never feel a thing.

“Coffee with Sam? Log it while it’s fresh.”

Aviary is on it
  1. Noticed it’s Friday, 4:15pm, like the last three
  2. Filled in Coffee with Sam · Eating out · $6 · Card
  3. Logged with one tap on the notification
  4. Eating out has $240 left this month

Aviary keeps the one second where you notice a spend, and takes away everything around it. That second is what makes a budget work.

Every log is a little win.

Logging is the part you do every day, so we made it the part that feels good.

See what’s left, right away.

In the app, every log lands with a check, a buzz and a chime. Then you see what’s left in that category, the slice of your money you set aside for it.

A streak worth keeping.

Expense Wrapped turns your month into a recap, longest logging streak included.

Longest logging streak: 23 days, 8 Sep to 30 Sep.Your spending personality: The Homebody.

Go on, log one.

That’s the app’s real log screen, not a recording. Say what it was, watch the category pick itself, then tap the amount and hit +.

Stuck? Start with one of these.

Sample month. Nothing you log here is saved.

Log expense
$0

It’s playing itself. Tap the phone to take over.

More in the nest.

Logging is the daily part. This is what it adds up to.

InsightsEvery month next to the last twelve, and where this one went, category by category.
Bills & subscriptionsEvery renewal with its due date and a heads-up before it charges. Rent and milk log themselves.
InvestmentsStocks, a 401(k), savings and crypto, with your net worth charted since day one.

Hi, I’m Sukrit

I’ve quit every budgeting app I ever tried, usually by week two. I built a few myself, fell back on spreadsheets, and tried bank sync. Sync didn’t change a thing. My spending got filed away and I still had no idea where my money went.

YNAB finally clicked. Giving every dollar a job made me actually notice my spending. Then its pricing humbled me.

So I built Aviary. You still log every expense yourself, because that’s the part that makes you notice. Aviary just learns when you usually spend and nudges you while it’s fresh, so logging takes one tap. It’s the app I wanted for years. I hope it clicks for you too.

Read the source
SukritBuilds Aviary
Get Aviary on Google Play
Homemade apps, spreadsheets, bank sync, YNAB, and now Aviary.

Good questions.

There’s no bank connection. You log purchases yourself, which makes spending a deliberate check-in. Habit nudges, the home-screen widget, recurring expenses, receipt scanning and typing a few spends at once keep that quick. Transactions aren’t imported from your bank.
An expense tracker tells you where your money went. Aviary helps you decide where it goes before you spend it. You give your money jobs in categories, like rent, groceries and fun, and every log shows what’s left for that job. It’s the method YNAB made popular, built for logging on your phone in one tap.
It looks at what you’ve logged. Log the same thing on the same weekday, around the same time, three times in eight weeks, and Aviary treats it as a habit. It then nudges you 15 minutes after your usual time with the details filled in. You can turn nudges off in notification settings.
Nothing breaks. Open Ask Aviary and type whatever you remember, like “bus 3, lunch 15, Friday dinner 60”. Aviary turns it into separate spends, picks the categories, and you check them before they’re logged. Two missed days take about a minute.
Every account starts with a free 30-day trial of the whole app, and you don’t need a card to start. After that it’s $4.90 a month, or less if you pay yearly. Cancel any time. There are no ads, and your data is never sold. See plans and pricing.
Not yet. Aviary is on Android and the web today, and the web app works in Safari on iPhone. Join the iPhone waitlist at the bottom of the home page and you’ll hear when it’s ready.
Yes. Android and web share your account’s budgets and transactions. Android also offers a home-screen widget and notifications. New expenses can be logged offline on mobile and sync when you reconnect; other actions need a connection.
Amounts, notes and other sensitive fields are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, and the key is kept apart from the database. The server decrypts them to run the app; this isn’t end-to-end encryption. Ask Aviary and AI briefs send relevant transaction and budget context to Google Gemini, and bill scanning sends receipt photos. There are no ads, and your data is never sold. You can export or delete your data in account settings. Read the privacy policy.
A category is a slice of your money set aside for one purpose, like rent, groceries or fun. Your bank balance mixes all of those together. Categories show what’s available for each one before you spend. Savings is a purpose too: you don’t have to spend everything you set aside.
No. It means all your money has a purpose. It’s still yours until you spend it. Check each category to see what’s left for that purpose.
A spreadsheet can do the math. The hard part is keeping it up on your phone, at the counter, every day. Aviary has the method built in, and most logs take one tap.
Yes. You only budget money you already have. When a payment lands, give it jobs: rent first, then essentials. A slow month just fills fewer categories.
You won’t get stuck. Export your data to CSV any time, even without a subscription. And the code stays open source on GitHub.
Yes. Choose your display currency during setup or change it in More. One currency applies to your whole budget; changing it doesn’t convert amounts.

Your money, noticed.

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