The calendar is the home screen
Not one report among many. The month view is the whole identity of the app, so what you see on opening it is the shape of your spending — not a dashboard asking what you would like to look at.
A month you can read at a glance
Most money apps open on a chart. Bacon opens on the month you are living in, with what you actually spent written on the days you spent it.
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Every day carries what it cost
Income, expenses, and what is left sit across the top of the period — and the bills you have scheduled appear on the grid before the money moves.
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Where it actually went
Spending by category and by tag for the period you are reading, with your targets drawn in — so a month that ran over says so, instead of hiding inside a total.
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A real Mac app, not a phone in a box
The month beside the day's transactions, in a window built for a desktop — reading the same ledger, through your own iCloud.
Built for a habit, not a second job
You do not need to give every dollar a job. You need to know what your dollars are doing.
Five seconds, then put it away
Tap the amount, pick a category, done. Recording the purchase is the moment you notice it, so the loop that matters is the one built to be fast.
One category, any number of tags
A restaurant bill on a trip stays Dining and still answers "what did the whole trip cost?". The category survives; the context is added beside it.
Budgets only where they help
Set a target on groceries, dining, or a trip and skip the rest. Unspent money can roll into the next period, and an expensive month is information, not a scolding.
Bills drawn before they land
Schedule the salary, the rent, the subscription. Bacon puts them on the calendar and into the period totals ahead of time, and you confirm or skip each one when it arrives.
Accounts that add up
Chequing, savings, cash, credit cards, each with its own running balance. There is no limit on how many, free or paid.
Search across everything
Merchant history
Record with Shortcuts
CSV export
Backup & restore
Weekly, biweekly, or monthly periods
Light and dark
Bacon never connects to your bank
That is a permanent decision, not a missing feature. Recording a purchase is the moment awareness happens, so Bacon asks you to type it — and in exchange it never needs your bank credentials, an aggregation service, or a copy of your statements.
There is no Bacon account, no analytics, and no ads. There is no Bacon server either: your ledger lives on your devices and syncs through your own private iCloud, where only devices signed into your Apple Account can read it. That includes us — there is no copy for us to look at.
One price, once
Recording your money is free, always. Planning ahead and looking further back are Bacon Pro — a single purchase, on every one of your devices.
Free
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Everything the daily habit needs.
- Unlimited accounts and transactions
- Categories, tags, merchants, and search
- iCloud sync across your devices
- Shortcuts, CSV export, backup and restore
- 2 budgets and 3 recurring schedules
- Insights for the last 3 months
Bacon Pro
US$14.99
Paid once. Not a subscription.
- Unlimited budgets
- Unlimited recurring transactions
- Tag budgets, for trips and projects
- Insights history all the way back
- iPhone, iPad, and Mac on one purchase