Step 1 of 10 Income
Let's build your weekly budget.
A Weekly budget works differently than the monthly budgets you've probably tried before. Instead of splitting your money into a dozen categories, it adds up everything you're committed to — rent, bills, debt payments, subscriptions, savings — and subtracts that from what you bring in. What's left becomes one number: your Safe-to-Spend for the week. Spend under it and you're on track. No categories to balance, no spreadsheet to update — just a single number, refreshed every week.
Income
Add your income sources. Pick one below, or add your own.
Income total: $0.00 / week
Now it's time to enter your recurring expenses.
What's a recurring expense?
A recurring expense is any bill that lands on a set schedule for roughly the same amount — rent, insurance, a loan payment, a subscription — whether or not you spend a dollar anywhere else that week.
Weekly subtracts these from your income before it ever calculates what's safe to spend, so getting them down here is what makes your weekly number trustworthy. We'll go category by category, starting with housing.
Housing
Add any recurring housing costs. Pick one below, or add your own.
Housing total: $0.00 / week
Bills & Utilities
Add your recurring bills and utilities. Pick one below, or add your own.
Bills & utilities total: $0.00 / week
Transportation
Add your recurring transportation costs. Pick one below, or add your own.
Transportation total: $0.00 / week
Loan Payments
Add your recurring loan payments. Pick one below, or add your own.
Loan payments total: $0.00 / week
Subscriptions
Add your recurring subscriptions. Pick one below, or add your own.
Subscriptions total: $0.00 / week
Health & Beauty & Fitness
Add your recurring health, beauty, and fitness costs. Pick one below, or add your own.
Health & beauty & fitness total: $0.00 / week
Education
Add your recurring education costs. Pick one below, or add your own.
Education total: $0.00 / week
Kids
Add your recurring kid-related costs. Pick one below, or add your own.
Kids total: $0.00 / week
Donations
Add your recurring giving. Pick one below, or add your own.
Donations total: $0.00 / week
You found your number
This is your Safe-to-Spend — what's left every week once your recurring bills are covered, to spend on the things you need day-to-day like groceries and gas.
What's next
- Download Weekly. Setting it up takes a couple of minutes, and you have already done the thinking.
- Put your budget in. The categories and intervals are the same ones you just filled out. In the US and Canada you can connect your bank as well, so your spending lands on its own.
- Spend against your number. Check it before you buy. That is the whole habit, one week at a time.