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Personal Budget & Spending Tracker dashboard preview

Personal Budget & Spending Tracker

A budget that tracks itself — log expenses, watch the dashboard update.

A complete five-sheet budgeting system. Log expenses on the Transactions sheet and your Budget breakdown and visual Dashboard update instantly — pie chart of where your money goes, budget-vs-actual bars, savings rate, and progress bars for every category. No formulas to touch.

What's included

  • Live dashboard with spending pie + budget-vs-actual charts
  • 400-row transaction log with category drop-downs
  • Automatic progress bars and overspend alerts
  • Savings-rate and 'left to spend' tracking
  • Works in Excel, Google Sheets & Apple Numbers

Every sheet, explained

Dashboard
Income, spent, left-to-spend & savings-rate KPIs, plus a spending pie chart and budget-vs-actual bar chart.
Budget vs Actual
Every category with budgeted, actual, remaining and % used — with automatic data bars and red overspend alerts.
Transactions
A 400-row expense log with category drop-downs that powers everything else.
Setup
Your income and category budgets in one place.
Welcome
A quick-start guide so you're running in two minutes.
New to this? Read the free guide: How to Use Excel for Budgeting →