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Meet your dashboard: what every tile tells you
A friendly tour of the BudgetPro dashboard — what each tile answers, which of your entries feed it, and one thing to try on each.
One glance, one question each
Your dashboard is a grid of tiles, and every tile exists to answer exactly one money question at a glance. Nothing on it is magic: every number is derived live from what you enter — the transactions you log, plus a few settings like your monthly income. Log a coffee and watch the tiles move.
Three things work everywhere: tap a tile to open a bigger, more detailed view; grab the handle in its corner to drag it somewhere else; and anything you add yourself can be removed again. You cannot break it.
Spending — "where did it go?"
The donut shows this month's spending split across your categories, biggest first. It is fed by one thing only: the spend transactions you log. No transactions, no donut — which is the honest version of your month.
Try this: tap the tile, then tap any category row. You jump straight to that category's transactions, so "why is Groceries so big?" is always one tap from its answer.
Safe to spend — "can I buy this?"
This is the number to check in a shop. It takes your expected monthly income (from Settings), subtracts what you've spent so far, and spreads what's left over the days remaining — a per-day allowance that updates the moment you log anything.
If it shows nothing yet, set your monthly income in Settings — that single number switches the tile on.
Recent activity — "did it land?"
Your latest entries, newest first. It's the reassurance tile: add a transaction, scan a receipt or import a CSV, and this is where you see it landed — with the income entries shown in green.
Cash flow — "am I ahead this month?"
Two views of the same truth, side by side. The bars compare money in (income you logged) against money out, with the net difference. The ring shows your savings rate — how much of your expected income is still unspent. A good rule of thumb to aim for is 20%.
Top budgets — "am I keeping my plan?"
For every category you gave a planned monthly budget in Settings, this shows actual vs plan as a progress bar — plus a pace line predicting where you'll land by month-end. Bars turn red when a category goes over. No planned budgets set? The tile stays quiet until you add one.
Subscriptions — "what's about to charge me?"
The forward-looking tile. List your recurring bills in Settings — Netflix, rent, gym, with amount, cadence and next charge date — and this tile totals their monthly cost and warns you when something is due soon or overdue.
One nuance worth knowing: this tile tracks the bills you *declared*. The "Subscriptions spend" widget below it counts what you actually *logged* in the Subscriptions category. Schedule versus reality — both useful, not the same thing.
Goals & Events — they appear when you need them
Two tiles you may not see yet, on purpose. Add a savings goal in Settings and the Goals tile appears with progress bars. Create an event (a trip, a wedding) and the Events tile shows what each occasion cost. Until then they stay out of your way.
Make it yours
- Drag any tile by its corner handle to reorder — the layout is saved automatically.
- Hover a custom widget and hit the × to remove it. Removing a widget never deletes any data.
- The "Add widget" button builds your own tiles — category watchers, trends, top merchants and more. There's a whole recipes guide for it.
Ready to try it?
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