We’re obsessed with making budgeting simple, routine, and easy.

Money can be hard and scary—but everything is easier with your best friend! We are so excited to join you on your money journey, wherever you’re starting. Budgeting can help you get out of debt, crush your savings goals, and plan for the things in life that bring you joy!

We Make Easy-to-Use Budgeting Tools

Our Story

Who are we? We’re two real life best friends who met in college, lived together, traveled the world and even were bridesmaids at each other's weddings! After a decade of friendship we decided to band our passions together and launch Best Friend on a Budget.

Self-Proclaimed Budget Nerd.

Sarah, budget nerd, wife, and mom of two! When I’m not talking about personal finance you can find me playing outside with my family, with my nose stuck in a book or in the kitchen baking.

I am passionate about budgeting, goal setting, and dreaming big. I love to help people create a budget that works for them and I believe that budgeting can change your life— it did for me. I used budgeting as a broke, in debt, underemployed college grad to become debt free and travel the world. Now as a working mom, I used budgeting to keep our family finances on track and work towards our big dreams.

Budgeting is built into the fabric of our life in a way that feels easy, sustainable, and (when we break out the vino during our monthly money date)—fun!

Creative Juicer & Budgeting Convert.

I’m Ada—graphic designer, digital marketer, food system warrior, coffee addict, spouse, and mom. I’m all about creating relatable, entertaining, and utterly un-boring experiences, especially when it comes to personal finance.
Cards on the table—I’ve been budgeting my whole adult life in Excel spreadsheets, but I’d honestly thought of budgeting as a chore of the worst kind. Making the shift to writing out my budgets with pen and paper changed the game for me. Not only do I have a closer read on my money flow and a clear budget focus month-to-month, but I am now a HUGE fan of money dates.
Pour a craft beer for 2, get the snacks, play some Buena Vista Social Club, and let’s talk about money, love.

We Make Easy-To-Use Budgeting Tools

The Monthly
Budget

Create a budget to create a life you love. This is a simple, minimalistic page designed to help you take and keep control over your budget. No complicated spreadsheets, no frills or extra clutter—just one page to keep you focused, organized, and inspired by your budget goals each month.

The Monthly Expenses Tracker

Be the boss of your money. This page is designed to help you easily track and categorize your monthly expenses.
Using this page helps you track understand your monthly spending, so you can create your monthly budget with confidence.

The Expenses Analyzer

Understand your spending. We designed this page to help you get up-close and personal with your spending overall habits and needs. For this tool, you’ll be pulling your monthly, quarterly, and annual expenses, and then calculating your approximate monthly spends to help you create your budget.

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