Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Justin, and I built Budgie because I was tired of budgeting apps that treat your financial data like their personal goldmine. As someone who spends their days thinking about cybersecurity and quantum computing, I kept asking: why do I need to link my bank account to track my spending? Why should my financial habits be sold to advertisers? So I built the budgeting app I actually wanted to use: ✅ No bank linking required - you control every data point ✅ No data selling, ever ✅ AI insights are opt-in only ✅ Beautiful visualizations without the creepy tracking The irony? Building a "dumb" app (that doesn't harvest data) required way more engineering than building a "smart" one that spies on you. I'd love your thoughts on: What privacy features matter most to you in finance apps? Have you ever felt uncomfortable with how budgeting apps handle your data? What would make you trust a new financial tool? Thanks for checking out Budgie! Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the privacy choices, or why a quantum computing nerd ended up building budgeting software 😄

Budgie

Take Control of Your Finances Privately*

Take Control of Your Finances Privately*