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Everything Stead does

The whole thing.

A complete budget tracker — spending, budgets, goals, accounts, and the gentle gamification that makes it stick. Every claim here maps to something the app actually does, including the parts that don’t flatter us.

01 · Quick Save

Saving that finally feels like winning.

Skip a splurge, log the win, watch the streak grow. It's the part most people don't expect to like.

Quick Save tracks your saving habit — your own running streak. Link a partner and your quick saves join your shared scoreboard; unlike transactions and goals, they can’t be marked private.

The weekly Quick Save scoreboard: Alex leads Sam ten dollars to five, both on saving streaks
This week’s friendly rivalry

02 · Goals

Name it, and see it get closer.

A home deposit, a trip, a rainy-day buffer. Set the target, chip away, and watch the gap close.

Lite shows how you’re pacing on each goal. The date you’ll get there is part of Stead Plus, when it launches.

A goal card in the Stead app: Japan, next autumn — $1,900 saved of a $6,000 target, 32% there

03 · Budgets

A plan that flexes to real life.

Set a monthly budget by category. Stead keeps you in the loop with a nudge, never a red-number telling-off.

The budget's 'Where the money goes' breakdown: groceries, transport, dining out, utilities and entertainment, each with a spent-of-budget bar and a calm under- or near-budget chip
A month’s plan, category by category

04 · Insights

See where your money's headed, not just where it went.

Clear, calm analytics that show your patterns and what they mean for where you're going.

The app's category chart: this month's spending across groceries, utilities, dining out, transport and entertainment
Month-end projections: groceries on pace for about $342 of a $520 budget, with money left over
Where it went — and where it’s heading

05 · Settle up

Share costs without the awkward maths.

Who paid what, who owes whom — settled clean. Works with a partner or a housemate.

Shared costs

Sam paid groceries$86
You paid petrol$52
Settle $17 and you’re square($86 − $52) ÷ 2
Settle up — no awkward maths

06 · Accounts & net worth

The full picture, in one calm place.

Add your savings, offset, investment and property accounts to see your balances and net worth at a glance.

Accounts start private — a partner sees an account only if you choose to share it. That sharing is a simple on/off per account, not a fine-grained selector.

Accounts

Everyday$2,140
Savings$12,300
Offset$48,900
Net worth$63,340
Net worth — the full picture, one calm place

07 · Seasons, streaks & badges

Gamified, gently.

Monthly seasons, streaks, and a set of calm, earned badges turn the daily habit into something you look forward to — with no shame when you miss a day.

Streak ×12July seasonSaver · Level 3

Miss a day and nothing shames you — pick it up tomorrow.

Seasons, streaks and badges — calm, earned

Better with someone

Even better as a team.

Everything here works beautifully on your own. Add a partner and you’re building towards the same future together.

See Stead for couples →

Stead Plus

More of the future, when you want it.

Stead is free to use, properly. Plus adds a longer look ahead — the date you’ll reach each goal, every month you’ve ever logged, every past Wrap — and a character that looks like you. One price covers up to two people.

See pricing →
Bec, a fictional Stead character: a woman in her thirties with a long ginger plait and freckles, in navy scrubs, with her blue staffy, a surfboard and a coffee cup floating beside her

Day one

Bec again, at the top tier: a crown of golden rays above her, a gilded surfboard and coffee cup floating beside her, her scrubs trimmed in gold, and her staffy beside a pile of gold coins and treasure

Top tier

Made from the details you choose

Straight about it

What Stead doesn't do.

  • No bank feeds. You add what matters yourself — manual entry, by design. Nothing’s quietly profiling your spending.
  • No billing, for now. Stead is free while we’re in early access — there are no plans, no card fields and no trial clock in the app today.

How your data is protected — and where it lives — is written out in full on the security page.

Read the security page →
Entries 01–07Settled
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