Beacon Budget: Money Manager0.19.1 - App Store

Take control of your money with Beacon Budget (formerly DAS Budget), the simple, stress-free way to budget, track spending, and stay on top of your finances. Built for people who want clarity and control without the complexity of spreadsheets or overwhelming finance apps.

With Beacon Budget, you can:

. Create budgets in seconds - Set spending limits that match your lifestyle.
. Track expenses effortlessly - Sync directly with your accounts.
. Stay on track with reminders - Never forget bills or overspend again.
. See where your money goes - Clear insights show your spending patterns.
. Safe and private - Your data is secure and never sold.

Perfect for students, professionals, and families who want financial peace of mind.

Whether you are saving for a goal, paying off debt, or just want to feel in control of your cash flow, Beacon Budget makes money management simple, clear, and motivating.

Download now and let Beacon guide you to financial clarity.

Version History What's new
• Card payments show as a transfer. A payment on your credit card account now reads as a transfer to your card, not spending.
• See when a card payment is waiting. When Beacon is holding a card payment until the withdrawal shows up in the account you paid from, the transaction now says so and shows when your card bucket will come down. If you pay your card from an account Beacon can't see, tap Release now to end the wait and move the payment from your card bucket back to Free to Spend.

Improvements
• Free to Spend stays steady when you pay your card. When your card reports a payment before the withdrawal shows up in your checking account, Beacon now waits for the withdrawal, up to three days, before taking the payment out of your card's payoff bucket. Free to Spend no longer jumps by the payment amount in between.

Bug fixes
• Refunds, rewards and statement credits on a credit card show Spending From.

Questions? support@beaconbudget.com v0.19.1+277 Sep 29 What's new
• Invite friends and earn $10. Share your invite link from the side panel or your profile, and your friend gets $10 off their first year when they start an annual plan. You earn $10 once they have been paying for 75 days.
• Cash out your rewards. When you have rewards available, you can send them to your bank account. Stripe handles the setup, so Beacon never sees your bank details.

Improvements
• Recurring suggestions. Home and the onboarding expenses step now show at most 5 suggestions and leave out sinking funds with no clear schedule. The full list is still there.

Bug fixes
• Buckets and paychecks created from suggestions now show the day they are actually due instead of a day early, and fund the same amount per paycheck as ones you build yourself. Existing buckets and schedules are left alone.

Questions? support@beaconbudget.com v0.19.0+275 Sep 24 New
• Bucket search. Search buckets when choosing where a transaction spends from.

Improved
• Account deletion. A clearer warning when deleting an account. v0.18.0+272 Sep 15 What's new

Export your transactions
Settings > Data > Export transactions lets you pull your history out as CSV or JSON. Pick a date range, or use a quick selection like Last 90 days or All time, and the file arrives through the share sheet on mobile or as a download on web. CSV opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets. Split transactions export one row per split, so the amounts still add up to what left your account.

Improvements
• Settings on web: now in the left menu instead of only inside My Profile.

Bug fixes
• Budget suggestions: they no longer include accounts you have removed. Suggestions already built from a removed account are being retired.

Questions? support@beaconbudget.com v0.17.0+268 Sep 2 Bug fixes
• Refunds: a refund now returns exactly what the original purchase took from a bucket, rather than the full amount when the purchase only drew part of it.
• Setup checklist: it no longer shows a finish line to people who set up their budget long before the card existed, and it stays quiet when you create a second budget.

Questions? support@beaconbudget.com v0.16.2+267 Aug 27 What's new

Let's get set up
Stopped partway through setup? Home now shows a card listing what is still open, from connecting an account to assigning your first transaction.

How we got this
Every suggestion can now show its work. Open the panel on a Budget Checkup card, or tap a card in the Recurring carousel on Home, and you get the actual transactions behind the number.

Improvements
• Bucket suggestions: fewer junk ones, better category budgets.

Bug fixes
• Exclude from Insights: the switch saves and reads correctly in both directions.

Questions? support@beaconbudget.com v0.16.1+266 Aug 26 Beacon Budget release notes - 0.16.0

New Home Screen
Beacon now opens to a dashboard with Free-to-Spend, Recent Activity, Upcoming Expenses, and monthly spending. It works offline, and you can tap straight into a transaction or into Insights. Upcoming Expenses shows as a list or a carousel, covering the rest of the month, the next 30 days, or the following month.

Beacon Can Now Help Build Your Budget
A new analysis engine reads your settled transaction history to identify income, recurring bills, and spending patterns, from weekly through annual schedules. It shows up in three places.

Budget Checkup, if you're already set up. From the Buckets tab or Home, Beacon re-analyzes your recent spending and shows where your budget has drifted, like "You're trending $340/mo vs $250 budgeted", plus recurring expenses you don't have a bucket for. Every suggestion shows the amount it would change to, and nothing changes until you tap Apply.

Budget setup, if you're brand new. After connecting your first bank, Beacon walks you through building your budget. It shows the income it found, lets you add anything it missed, then shows the recurring bills it identified so you can add them with a tap.

Recurring card on Home, which surfaces recurring expenses you haven't budgeted for and what they actually cost you. Add one and Beacon creates the bucket with the amount and funding schedule.

Getting Around
Insights is now on the bottom navigation. The Profile tab has been replaced with a side panel holding everything that used to live there, reachable from detail screens too. You can also create a budget from the budget switcher, and long-press the profile icon to switch budgets.

Improved
• Saving a bucket returns you to where you came from, with the confirmation there.

Fixed
• Transactions funded from an archived bucket now show that bucket's name instead of Free-to-Spend.
• The Spending From picker no longer double-counts bucket moves.

Questions? support@beaconbudget.com v0.16.0+265 Aug 18 This release brings home-screen widgets, a faster way to find your bank, plus a round of reliability fixes for Free-to-Spend, Activity, and reports.

What's new
• Home-screen widgets: See your Free-to-Spend right from your home screen, without opening the app.
• New plans and upgrade flow: Choose between Essentials and Premium tiers in a redesigned upgrade flow.

Improvements
• Bank picker: Search for your bank by name, so you can find and connect accounts faster.
• More reliable syncing: We rebuilt how transactions sync from your bank. Pending charges now settle into their posted versions more cleanly, and transactions that drop off your bank are cleared out correctly.

Bug fixes
• Free-to-Spend: No longer reverts to an old value after you edit buckets, update a widget, or switch budgets.
• Reports: "Last month," "last quarter," and "last year" ranges now include the full final day, and the income chart respects the filters you've set.
• Buckets: Bucket group reordering now saves, and deleted groups no longer linger.
• Notifications: Taps once again open the right screen when app lock is on.
• Rules: Creating a rule no longer over-matches by splitting the merchant name into stray keywords.
• Categories: Manually set transaction categories now stay put across bank syncs. v0.15.2+260 Jul 30 • Fixed a sync issue where a pending transaction could stick around after it posted, showing up as a duplicate. Those pending transactions now clear automatically v0.14.7+245 Jun 18 Summary: Makes sure newly-synced transactions show up automatically when you open the app.

Bug fixes
• Cold start: newly-synced transactions appear automatically when you open the app, no need to pull-to-refresh first v0.14.6+244 Jun 16 Summary: Fixes the Transaction page stuck screen when pulling to refresh

Improvements
• Activity tab: no longer stalls if user pulls to refresh v0.14.5+243 Jun 10 Summary: Fixes the Transaction page stuck screen and speeds up cold start for users with Face ID, or PIN.

Improvements
• Activity tab: no longer stalls on the Transaction page at app launch
• Cold start: Face ID and PIN users open the app noticeably faster

Bug fixes
• Sign in: when Face ID is cancelled or unavailable, the app falls through to the PIN entry (if enabled) v0.14.4+242 Jun 9 • Fixes for users only able to load transactions for one login session v0.14.3+241 Jun 7 • Fixes for users seeing the Activity tab stuck on "Fetching transactions" or a database error
• Fixes a Sign in with Apple loop on the register screen v0.14.2+240 Jun 6 Beacon Budget release notes - 0.14.1

Summary: Resolved transaction scrolling bug and other minor improvements

What's new
• Transactions scroll: transactions list no longer jumps back to the top after transaction edits or when you switch tabs

Improvements
• Add account: checks your plan's account limit before opening the bank picker, so you know if you need an upgrade or to archive an existing connection

Bug fixes
• Spending From picker: an empty bucket list now shows the create-a-bucket prompt instead of "Unable to fetch buckets"
• Login: the "Resend" button no longer wraps to a second line
• Login and Registration Page: small UI fixes v0.14.1+239 Jun 1 Beacon Budget is here!

This release includes our rebrand from DAS Budget to Beacon Budget, along with a new contribution type and performance and onboarding improvements.

What’s New
• Faster home screen loading with improved background syncing
• Guided onboarding flow for new users
• New Fixed Contributions option for expenses and goals — evenly split bucket targets across funding periods

Improvements & Fixes
• Improved MX OAuth account connection reliability
• Better insufficient funds validation during bucket allocations
• Forced refreshes now recover cleanly from errors
• Pending transactions now clean up more reliably
• Fixed funding estimates for interval-based recurring buckets (e.g. every 4 weeks) v0.14.0+235 May 20 • Improved Insights accuracy and filtering
• Fixed chart updates when editing transactions
• Added grouped bucket filters to Insights
• Improved transaction renaming experience
• New in-app feedback section for easier suggestions and reporting v0.13.1+226 Apr 7 • Insights (New!) - New reporting tools to help visualize your spending
• Faster transaction and report loading
• Make edits even when offline — changes sync automatically when you reconnect
• Split transactions now show "Split" instead of "Free-to-Spend" on transaction page
• Fixed split transaction bug that over-allocated bucket activity 0.12.1+225 Mar 31 • One-Time (“Once”) Buckets: You can now create a bucket that runs just once — perfect for savings goals, large purchases, or non-recurring expenses. v0.12.1+218 Mar 4 • Customizable recurrence options for buckets and funding schedules
• Funding Schedules now include an Amount field to support upcoming forecasting enhancements
• Fixed filter resetting when editing transactions
• Faster transaction processing
• Improved bucket calculation accuracy
• Enhanced initial transaction naming for cleaner transaction records
• Fixed manual funding issue on a funding schedule's execution date iOS App Version v0.12.0+217 Feb 25 • Fixed an issue that affected sign-in for some new users.
• General stability improvements. v0.11.2+212 Jan 13 • Manage Rules (NEW!) — Automatically rename and recategorize past and future transactions.
• Split Transactions (NEW!) — Split finalized transactions across multiple categories and buckets.
• Better Bucket Layout — Better bucket layout across device sizes.
• Notifications & Analytics Controls — Manage notifications and optionally disable anonymous usage insights that help improve onboarding, account setup, and promotions.
• Performance Improvements — Various stability and performance fixes. v0.11.1+205 Jan 7 • Maintenance updates to give you a better DAS Budget experience
• Bug fix for Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Code v0.10.1+188 10/02/2025 • New: Users can now permanently rename a transaction
• New: Users can now partially spend a transaction from the bucket even if the full amount isn't in it
• Bug fix: Updating the current amount for a bucket will trigger a refresh of the Bucket Activity section
• Bug fix: Loading more bucket activity will allow you to keep loading your history
• New: View previously deleted Buckets, Transactions, and Funding Schedules in the Archives on the My Profile screen v0.9.4+178 02/13/2024 • View previously deleted Buckets, Transactions, and Funding Schedules in the Archives on the My Profile screen
• Adding new accounts to an existing Plaid connection has gotten easier. Head over to your connection screen and tap "reselect."
• Users can purchase refreshes again
• Funding Schedule screens now show the next execution date. This should allow executions way into the future to be less confusing
• Users can quickly refresh a connection view on the Accounts page v0.9.3+175 01/08/2024