How to Use This Tracker
Everything you need to plan and track your travel budget
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Go to Set Up
Configure your trip dates, home currency, budget currency, and spending categories. The countdown timer updates automatically.
- Trip currency — the currency you'll spend on your trip (e.g. EUR)
- Home Currency — your home currency for bookings (e.g. CAD)
🏠 CAD→✈ EUR
📅 Jun 20 – Jul 42
Enter Your Bookings
In Set Up → Bookings, log your pre-trip fixed costs — flights, accommodation, transport, activities.
✈Flights (x4)$894
🏨Airbnb · 12 nights$1,240
3
Log Expenses On the Go
Use Log Expenses to record spending as you travel — one row per purchase. Local Amount = trip currency. Home Amount = your home currency.
Dinner at La Piazza€42.50= $68.20
4
Monitor the Dashboard
The Dashboard shows a live budget vs. actual chart, spending by category, and a day-by-day breakdown. Everything updates as you log.
❓ FAQ
How many categories?
Up to 10 — name them in Set Up → Budget.
Up to 10 — name them in Set Up → Budget.
Live currency conversion?
No — enter both amounts when logging so you control the exact rate paid.
No — enter both amounts when logging so you control the exact rate paid.
Is my data saved?
Yes — auto-saves to browser local storage. Persists between sessions.
Yes — auto-saves to browser local storage. Persists between sessions.
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Know exactly how much each trip costs
Here's an example of my 5 day trip in Samos, Greece — watch the video HERE
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RECEIPT
SAMOS, GREECE
CategoryEURCAD
Meals€198.80$319.73
Car Rental—$285.92
Flights (x4)—$283.56
Other€192.20$244.56
Souvenirs€91.90$147.64
Shopping€55.10$88.73
Snacks€54.70$87.96
Rideshare—$83.30
Drinks€16.30$26.20
Subtotal€609.00$1,567.60
TaxMore €€€
Total€609.00$1,567.60
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Trip Overview
All your trip logistics at a glance — edit anything in Set Up
Trip Set Up
Six quick steps — fill them in order, or jump straight to any one
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Where & when
Name your trip, add where you're going, and pick your dates.
Destination & dates
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Set your departure date
Your flight path
Add a home airport and destination to plot your route.
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Money
The currencies you'll use, and the cards or cash you'll pay with.
Currencies
Type a 3-letter code, or tap one below
Your bank account's currency — bookings and the trip budget use it
What you'll mostly pay in while you're away
Any others you'll spend — a stopover, a side trip
Cards & cash
How you'll pay when you log an expense · tap an icon to change it
💡 Call one of them Cash, and add any transit or prepaid card you'll load up — the Wallet page then shows what's left on each.
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Budget
How much the whole trip can cost, and how much each kind of spending gets.
Total trip budget
Everything — flights, stays and spending — in CAD
$
Categories & budgets
Name up to 10 kinds of spending, then give each a budget in the currencies you'll use. Leave a box empty for no budget.
Limits per card optionalCap how much goes on each card or on cash›
Limits per card optional
Cap how much goes on each card or on cash
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Bookings
What you've paid for ahead of time. Amounts are in your home currency (CAD).
Flights
| Date | From | To | Ref | Airline | Flight # | Departs | Arrives | Cost |
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Stays
| Check-In | Check-Out | Nights | Location | Address | Cost |
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Transport
| Date | Mode | Company | From | To | Ref | Cost |
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Activities
| Date | Activity | Location | Start | End | Ref | Cost |
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Other bookings
| Date | Item | Ref | Cost |
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Cash
Log cash you exchange or money you send abroad, before or during the trip.
Exchanges
The rate fills in for the date you pick — type over it with what you actually got
| Date | Method | From | Amount | To | Received | Rate | Fees | Notes | Done? |
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💡 Each exchange counts toward your trip cost once, when you make it. Spending that cash later just draws down your wallet on the Wallet page — it's never counted twice.
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Wishlist & to-dos
Things you want to buy, and things to sort out before you go.
Shopping wishlist
Prices in your home currency (CAD)
Total—
To-do list
Tick things off as you go
Log Expenses
One row per purchase — records automatically
New expense
Fill in what you spent — it saves straight to your log below
$
* Required
Your expenses
| # | Date | Transaction | Currency | Amt | Category | Payment | Home | Destination | Notes |
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Wallet
Cash and cards you load up front — what you put on, what you've spent, and what's left
Add money
Topped up a transit card, took out cash, or brought some along
$
Dashboard
Your trip at a glance
Budget by category
Each currency measured in its own money
Spending over time
In your home currency
Where the money went
Booked ahead and spent along the way
Biggest purchases
Your top five, by what they cost at home
By destination
Tap a place to see its categories
More detail — tap any card to open it
What's left on your cash and top-up cards. Money counts toward the trip once, when it goes in — spending it just lowers the balance.
The same spending, cut by how you paid for it, against the per-method budgets from Set Up.