This guide covers version 1.1, available on the App Store.
Set up your first weekly budget
The setup asks three short questions, then lets you review your budget.
- Choose Set up my budget.
- Choose your Country and currency.
- Enter your normal Weekly amount. Use Help me work it out if you are unsure.
- Choose Next.
- Choose the day that starts your budget week.
- Choose Next.
- Enter how much is actually left for the rest of this week.
- Choose Next.
- Review the amounts and your choice to Roll over leftover money.
- Choose Start my budget.
Leave out rent or bills paid separately. The balance is based on what you enter, rather than a checked bank balance.
Check this week
Open This Week to see the amount left, your allowance, money carried in, extra money and total spending. If you spend more than the available budget, the app states how far you are over budget.
Add an expense
- Choose Add expense.
- Enter a short name, such as Coffee or Laundry.
- Enter the cost in the currency named on the form.
- Leave Date & time as Now, or open it to choose a different time.
- Choose Save expense.
The updated weekly balance appears when the expense has saved.
Add money you receive
Choose Add money for a refund or extra money. Choose the type of money, then enter its label, amount and received date. Choose Save money. Extra income and refunds add to the week received. Recording Regular allowance received confirms an allowance already included in the budget; it does not add it twice.
Correct or remove an entry
Choose an entry from Recent transactions. Change its name, amount, date or time, then save it. To remove it, choose Delete and read the confirmation first.
If you change an older week, the app tells you how the current balance will change before it saves the correction.
Look back or plan ahead
- Choose Past weeks to review earlier balances and entries.
- Choose Next week to review the estimate for the next allowance period. Use Coming up for costs you have not paid yet.
Plan a cost before you pay it
- Open Coming up from this week.
- Choose Add planned cost.
- Enter the cost name, amount and due date.
- Choose a one-off cost, or a weekly or monthly repeat.
- Choose Save.
This sets money aside without recording it as spent. When you pay, open the cost and choose Mark as spent. Check the actual amount and date before confirming.
Catch up on missed entries
- Open Plan & check from this week.
- Choose Catch up.
- Choose Add entry.
- Enter the details of a purchase or money received.
- Choose Add to drafts.
- Add any other missing entries in the same way.
- Choose Review.
- Check any Possible duplicate. Choose Keep both only when both entries really happened.
- Choose Save all.
Compare with your banking app yourself. Uni Weekly Budget Tracker does not connect to your bank or import transactions.
Build a weekly routine
Open Plan & check, then Weekly check-in, to review a completed week. Catch up on missing entries before choosing Finish check-in. The first check-in is available after your first week ends. In Settings, an optional Weekly reminder can prompt you to return; you can turn it off whenever you wish.
Record money set aside
Open Plan & check, then Savings goal. Choose Create a goal and enter its name and target. Use Add to goal to record money you set aside, or Return to this week to bring it back into your budget. These actions record your choice; they do not transfer money between bank accounts.
Work out a weekly guide for the term
Open Settings, then choose Make this money last until. Enter your funds, dates and costs paid outside the weekly budget, then choose Calculate. Review the guide before choosing Use this weekly amount, or save it for reference. Nothing changes your weekly amount until you choose to apply it.
Change next week’s allowance
- Open Settings.
- Change the weekly amount or the rollover choice.
- Choose Save.
The app states when the change will begin. It does not rewrite earlier weeks.
Add the Weekly budget widget
- Touch and hold an empty area of the Home Screen.
- Choose the option to add a widget.
- Find Weekly budget.
- Choose the small or medium size and add it to the Home Screen.
The widget uses the latest saved budget information. If it says it needs an update, open the app so it can try again.
Create or restore a backup
Open Settings and choose Create backup. Save the file somewhere you trust because it contains your spending information and has no extra password protection.
To restore, choose Restore backup and select the file. Read the preview before choosing Replace. Your current budget is left unchanged if the file cannot be restored.
If something will not save
Keep the form open and use Retry. Your draft stays on screen after a saving problem. Do not remove the app while trying to recover information that has not been backed up.
Contact support if you still cannot continue.
Return to Uni Weekly Budget Tracker.
Last updated: 11 October 2026