AutoBudget User Guide
AutoBudget turns your bank and e-wallet payment notifications into an automatic, categorized spending log — with manual add and edit for anything capture misses, fully offline. Your data never leaves your phone.
Contents
- Getting started — install, first-run consent, notification access, choosing banks
- Home — monthly snapshot, review queue, recent activity
- Activity — the activity list, filters, search, manual add, delete/hide
- Transaction detail — edit, itemization, attachments, receipt photos, location
- Review queue — notifications the app couldn't read
- Budgets — monthly limits per category
- Reports — spending by category and 6-month trend
- Security & privacy — app lock, PIN, biometric, where your data lives
- Settings — currency, exchange rates, appearance, tracked bank apps, parse rules, keywords, export/import
- Troubleshooting — common problems and fixes
- Interaction tour — short silent clips of every flow
At a glance
| I want to… | Where |
|---|---|
| See how much I spent this month | Home |
| Browse every transaction | Activity tab |
| Fix a notification the app couldn't read | Review queue (Review strip on Home) |
| Set a monthly limit per category | Budgets tab |
| See spending breakdown & trends | Reports tab |
| Change currency, banks, keywords, rules, export | Settings tab |
| Lock the app with PIN/biometric | Settings → Privacy & lock |
Privacy first: AutoBudget reads notification text only from the bank and wallet apps you explicitly enable. That text is masked, encrypted on your device, and never uploaded. See Security & privacy or the full Privacy Policy.