₹18,000 arrives on the 1st. By the 22nd there's ₹3,200 left and you can't say where the rest went. Spenrol is a free Android budget app for salaried people in India who pay for nearly everything by UPI.
Safe to spend today
₹853/day
₹16,209 left · 19 days to go
You're a few years into working. Rent, food delivery, the phone EMI, petrol and Amazon all go through UPI, and every month somewhere between ₹6,000 and ₹10,000 is hard to account for.
It usually isn't one big purchase. It's dozens of small ones, each paid in two taps, none of which felt like a decision at the time. Spenrol asks you to make that decision when you log the spend: was it required, optional or impulsive?
It's a budget first. You split your salary into categories at the start of the month, every payment comes off one of them, and the home screen tells you what's safe to spend today.
Day 1: salary day
Put rent, the EMI and subscriptions in first, then share out the rest across food, transport, shopping and savings until there’s ₹0 left to assign. That’s your real spending money for the month, which is less than the bank balance says.
Around day 12
Open the app and look at the spending mix. If food delivery is at ₹2,800 after 12 days and most of it is tagged impulsive, you know what to cut for the rest of the month.
Day 22 onwards
If money is tight, check which categories went over and how your Smart Spending Score moved, then set next month’s budget with that in mind.
Set it up before your next payday
Free on Android. No SMS access, no card required.
Tag every spend required, optional or impulsive. One tap, and Spenrol never picks for you.
A 0–100 score for the month based on your tags and whether you stayed within budget.
Food, transport, shopping, bills: see what’s spent and what’s left in each, with a daily safe-to-spend number.
Your transactions are stored against your account on Spenrol's servers. They're never sold or shared.
Paid on GPay, PhonePe or Paytm? Share the payment screenshot to Spenrol and it fills in the amount and merchant.
Turn on Split when you pay for the group, and only your share counts against your budget.
Something else? Write to [email protected]
Yes. No ads and no paid tier.
No. You log each spend yourself, either by sharing the payment screenshot or typing it in. There's no bank link and no SMS access. Spenrol is an Android app; there's no iPhone or web version yet.
If the spreadsheet works, keep it. The difference is that Spenrol fills in the amount and merchant from a screenshot, keeps a daily safe-to-spend number for you, and has you tag each spend required, optional or impulsive, so you can see how much of the month was impulse without building the formulas yourself.
It's the hard part of any manual tracker. Sharing a screenshot takes about ten seconds, and Spenrol sends a nudge if you haven't logged anything for a few days. Try it for one week. By then you'll know whether the habit is sticking.
“Being able to classify expenses as Required, Optional, or Impulsive makes it easier for me to understand my spending habits. It also makes me think twice before spending on something impulsively.”
Free on Android, no SMS access, no bank login. Set up your budget in a few minutes.
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