DollarBuddy

DollarBuddy is a travel finance app for people who want to know where their money actually went on a trip, without rebuilding it from receipts and bank statements after they get home. Most expense apps assume you are sitting at a desk in one country using one currency. Travel does not work that way. You pay for a taxi in yen, split dinner four ways in euros, book a hostel in dollars, and end the week with no idea whether you are on budget. DollarBuddy is built for that mess specifically. What it does Multi-currency expense tracking. Log a spend in whatever currency you paid in and DollarBuddy keeps the original amount alongside the converted value using live rates. Nothing gets silently rounded into your home currency, so the numbers still make sense when you look back at them months later. Three ways to log an expense. Type it, say it out loud, or photograph the receipt. Receipt scanning pulls the merchant, amount, date, and category on its own. The voice option exists because nobody wants to fill out a form while standing on a street corner with bags in both hands. AI assistant in chat. Ask it what you have spent on food this week, tell it to set a budget for the rest of the trip, log an expense by describing it, or let it warn you when a category is running hot. It works like messaging someone who has your trip ledger in front of them. Budgets by category. Set limits for food, transport, accommodation, activities, and anything else you want to watch. Progress shows against each one as you spend, and alerts come before you blow through a category rather than after. Group splitting. Add the people you are travelling with, mark who paid for what, and DollarBuddy works out who owes whom. Splits handle multiple currencies, so the friend who covered the rental car in one country and the friend who covered the apartment in another still settle up correctly at the end. Trip history and analytics. Every trip stays saved with its full breakdown. Useful for the next time you go somewhere similar and want a real number instead of a guess. Community feed. Travellers share finished trips with photos and the actual spending behind them. If you are trying to work out what a week in Lisbon or Bangkok genuinely costs, this is closer to the truth than a blog post written for ad revenue. Who it is for Backpackers and long-haul travellers tracking a fixed budget across several countries. Groups splitting costs on a shared holiday. Digital nomads who move often enough that currency conversion is a permanent background problem. Anyone who has come home from a trip, looked at their statement, and had no idea how the number got that high. Why we built it We travelled with a notes app, a currency converter, a splitting app, and a spreadsheet, and none of them talked to each other. The splitting app did not know the budget. The budget did not know the exchange rate on the day. The spreadsheet was updated once, on day two, and never again. DollarBuddy folds all of it into one place and makes logging fast enough that people actually keep doing it past the first week of a trip. Pricing Free covers unlimited trip tracking, unlimited manual expense logging, budgets, and group splitting, plus 5 AI messages a day and 5 receipt scans a month. Buddy Pro is $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year and removes the caps on AI messages and receipt scanning. The free tier is a working product, not a trial. If you log manually and split with friends, you may never need to pay. Platforms iOS and Android. Free to download on both. Built by Inicrea Technologies. We are a small team and we read every piece of feedback that comes in, so if something about the app annoys you, tell us and there is a decent chance it changes. Website: https://dollarbuddy.io