Mia Budget Buddy
Your friendly personal budget buddy.
Mia Budget Buddy is a personal-finance Android app that helps you run a household budget without making you feel bad about it. Mia herself is a calm on-screen assistant — friendly voice, short sentences, never preachy.
What it does
- Budgets — flexible category-based budgeting that gracefully handles irregular income.
- Debt payoff — track every debt, see snowball vs. avalanche scenarios, watch the runway shrink.
- Savings goals — sinking funds, vacation goals, emergency fund milestones.
- Receipt capture — point your camera at a receipt, the app auto-shutters, detects edges, OCRs the totals, and files it.
- Shopping lists & recipes — connected to the budget so a $48 grocery trip lands cleanly in the right category.
- Plaid bank linking (optional) — import transactions from your bank account. You stay in control: the App never sees your banking credentials; Plaid handles the bank login directly.
- Mia, the in-app assistant — voice prompts via ElevenLabs (or system TTS), gentle mood states, no shame.
Privacy is the default, not the upsell
- Local-first. Budgets, debts, goals, lists, recipes, and receipts live on your device by default.
- No advertising. No third-party analytics SDKs.
- Optional Community. A friendly feed for milestone-sharing — off by default, with explicit money-shaming bans in the guidelines.
- One-tap account deletion in Settings → Account, mirrored by a public deletion URL.
- Open about what we share — see the Privacy Policy for the full list of every third-party service and exactly what data goes to each one.
Designed for tired adults
- Big-button rich-data rows with consistent gestures: single tap to edit, long-press for the action bar, no surprise swipes.
- A warm sage palette that doesn’t strain your eyes.
- Strict “Select All on Focus” on every text field so editing a category name takes one tap, not three.
- Comma-formatted amounts. CurrencyTransformation on every monetary input. Sentence case for Mia’s voice prompts; title case for data labels.
Status
Mia is currently paused for tester feedback while Jolene and Kimberly use the app in real households. Active issues are tracked internally; no public release date yet.
Built by
Sierra Digital Forge LLC. See the legal documents for what the app does and doesn’t do with your data, and the security policies under which it’s developed.
Legal & privacy
The legal pages below describe what Mia Budget Buddy does and doesn't do with your data. They are the public, hosted versions linked from the Play Store listing and from inside the app.