Set and keep a budget

Give a category a limit for each pay cycle and Bosla warns you before you go over.

Setting a budget for eating out

A budget is a limit for one kind of spending, for each pay cycle. Start with the categories where money slips away, such as eating out or shopping.

Add a budget

  1. 1Open Plan and choose Budgets.
  2. 2Tap Add a budget.
  3. 3Pick the Category and enter the Limit each pay cycle.
  4. 4Tap Save.
Screenshot: Plan, Budgets tab
Screenshot: Plan, Budgets tab

See how a budget is doing

Tap a budget to open its guide. You will see what is Left to spend, what to keep to Per day, Days to payday and where you will land At this pace.

Under What to do now, Bosla gives plain tips from your own entries, for example moving money from a budget that is on track to finish under. Tap Move it to do that in one step.

You also see your last pay cycles against the budget, and Patterns: spending by day of the week, from the last 3 months.

Get warned in time

In the budget guide, use Warn me at to choose the levels, such as 80% and 100%. Bosla tells everyone who manages money in the household when the budget reaches them. Switch on Phone notifications to get them on your phone too.

Open budgets
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Still stuck? Write to us from Help in the app. Open Bosla · Updated 24 October 2026

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