BURNBUDGET
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You have burned out before.
This time you will see it coming.

BurnBudget turns your sleep, your work and your recovery into one number you spend. Then it tells you what tomorrow holds, before you say yes to anything.

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TRY THE DIAL FIRST ↓
THEN $79.99 A YEAR
CANCEL IN TWO TAPS
NO ANDROID
NOT A WELLNESS APP
DAILY CAPACITY
SETTLES 23:00
REMAINING
96
/ 100 UNITS
OPENING
96
BURN RATE
4.2/H
TOMORROW
68
SCROLL · WATCH THE DAY SPEND ITSELF
02 · TRY IT BEFORE YOU PAY

Spend a day. See how fast it goes.

This is the real dial with real numbers. You open at 72, a decent night, nothing heroic. Log a few things you actually did yesterday and watch how fast a normal Tuesday empties it.

DAILY CAPACITY
IN CREDIT
REMAINING
72
/ 100 UNITS
You have 72 units left today. Spend them on the thing you would regret not shipping.
SPEND
Deep work
90 MINUTES · SHIP SOMETHING
−22
Investor call
45 MINUTES · HIGH STAKES
−18
Inbox sweep
30 MINUTES · ADMIN
−6
EARN BACK
Walk, no phone
25 MINUTES · RECOVERY
+9
Nap protocol
20 MINUTES · RECOVERY
+12
Eight taps and you are in debt. That is a Tuesday. The app does this with your real day, and tells you the night before.
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03 · THE OVERDRAFT NOBODY WATCHES

You would never run your bank account this way.

You know your MRR to the dollar and your runway to the week. Your energy produces all of it and has no balance, no statement, and no overdraft alert. So you spend it blind, borrow against tomorrow, and call the bill "a rough patch".

No balance
You start every day with a different amount and no idea what it is. So the same calendar feels trivial on Tuesday and impossible on Thursday, and you blame yourself instead of the arithmetic.
No price tag
A 45-minute investor call and a 45-minute inbox sweep cost wildly different amounts. Your calendar prices them identically. That is why full days end with nothing shipped.
No witness
Solo means nobody notices the third bad week. There is no manager, no co-founder, no standup. The first signal is usually something breaking that mattered.
04 · HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. About ninety seconds a day.

01
Get your opening balance
A short baseline at setup, then sleep and resting heart rate refine it each morning if you connect Health. You wake up to a number instead of a mood.
02
Price the day, then pay for it
Log a task and it costs units. Log recovery and it returns them. The dial moves while you watch, which is the entire point. You feel the trade before you make it.
03
Settle at 23:00
The books close and tomorrow gets a forecast. End above zero and it carries. End below and you open tomorrow in debt, stated plainly, with no lecture attached.
05 · THE FORECAST

Tomorrow holds 68. The day you are about to agree to costs 84.

Every other screen in this app describes what already happened. This one describes what has not. Sleep, yesterday's spend and the recovery you logged give tomorrow a number before the day starts.

Whatever you decide gets written down. By the third month you know exactly what your overrides cost you, in units, in your own ledger.

THURSDAY · BEFORE YOU ANSWER
The work lands in your inbox. You are about to say yes.
THURSDAY HOLDS
68
THIS COSTS
84
YOU WOULD BE OVER BY
16
TAKE IT ANYWAY
MOVE IT TO MONDAY
06 · THE TROUGH

When you go quiet, the app keeps working.

Burnout is not a bad day. It is a stretch where you stop doing everything, logging included. Every tracker you have tried went blind right there and waited for you to come back. This one treats the silence as the reading.

CAPACITY · LAST 30 DAYS
6 DOWN DAYS
DAY 1NOTHING LOGGEDDAY 30ZERO
SILENCE IS AN ENTRY
A day with nothing logged writes itself in as a down day and the balance keeps falling. A frozen gauge lies about what a dead week costs you.
RESERVE MODE
After two down days the home screen strips back to one question and two buttons. Still down, or coming back. The work of using this falls as your capacity falls.
NO BACKFILL, EVER
You will never be asked to reconstruct a bad week. One tap covers the whole stretch when you come back. Homework at the bottom of a trough is how apps get deleted.
DAY THREE, SOMEONE KNOWS
Health keeps sending sleep whether you open the app or not, so the forecast never goes fully blind, and your stakes partner hears on the third quiet day.
07 · THE SCREEN YOU COME BACK TO
READING · 30 AUGUST
You were down 6 days. Your last two troughs opened the same way. Five nights under six hours, then three days in capacity debt, then the drop. This one followed the pattern to the day.
Not a guilt screen. A reading, from your own numbers. Your watch cannot write this and neither can your memory, which is why the fourth one always arrives feeling like the first.
08 · THE PART NO OTHER APP DOES

Every other app tells you. BurnBudget tells someone else.

You have ignored a notification before. You have never ignored a friend who knows. Name one person as your stakes partner. They get exactly one message, on two triggers only: two days running in capacity debt, or three days of silence.

WHAT DANA RECEIVES, VERBATIM
“BurnBudget: Aug 22. Your founder has gone quiet for three days. No action needed. You are the person who knows.”
THEY SEE
That you are in debt or gone quiet, and the date. Nothing more.
THEY NEVER SEE
Your number, your tasks, your calendar, your sleep, your rating.
01
You pick them. You can un-pick them.
Off by default. One contact, changed or removed whenever you want, no explanation required.
02
Two days of debt, or three of silence.
A hard day is a hard day, so the message fires on a pattern, never on one bad afternoon. Silence counts, because that is what a real trough looks like from the outside.
03
They are told, not deputised.
No dashboard, no nagging tools, no score to police. The message says "no action needed" and means it.
09 · WHAT CHANGES

Week 1 and week 8. Same person, same workload.

Nothing about the job got easier. What changed is that the spending became visible, so the borrowing stopped being accidental. Two things move first, and they move in this order.

WEEK 1
CLOSED IN DEBT
REMAINING
−14
OPENING BALANCE
72
DAYS IN DEBT
5 / 7
WEEK 8
CLOSED IN CREDIT
REMAINING
58
OPENING BALANCE
96
DAYS IN DEBT
0 / 7
MOVES FIRST · OPENING BALANCE
Once you can see what a short night costs you the next day, you stop treating sleep as the flexible item. You start the day with more, before you have done anything.
MOVES SECOND · DEBT DAYS
Debt goes from your normal operating mode to the exception, because you can see the overdraft coming an hour before you reach it and can still choose differently.
HONEST NOTE · This is an illustration of the shape the change takes, not a forecast of your results. Your ledger depends on your business, your health and your choices. BurnBudget measures it, it does not manage it for you, and nobody promises you a number.
10 · THE APP ITSELF

Four screens. No dashboard sprawl.

HOME
DEBT
RECOVER
RECAP
BURNBUDGET
NOMINAL
REMAINING
41
Ship pricing copy
−22
Walk, no phone
+9
Investor call
−18
The dial
One number, the burn rate, and what the day is projected to close at. Nothing else competes with it.
Every number is a real reading, never a decorative chart.
Crimson appears in exactly one situation: you are in debt.
No badges, no streak fire, no mascot telling you to breathe.
11 · YOUR DATA

The least data that makes the dial honest.

HEALTH · READ ONLY
Sleep and resting heart rate, to set your opening balance. Optional. Nothing is written back.
ON YOUR PHONE
Your ledger lives on the device. No ad networks, no data brokers, nothing sold.
ONE CONTACT, ONE FACT
The stakes partner learns that you are in debt or quiet, and the date. Never a number, never a task.
EXPORT OR DELETE
Take the whole ledger with you, or delete the account and its history, from Settings.
12 · PRICING

One price, three lengths. No free plan to get lost in.

Start with 14 days, everything switched on. Around day 10 the first pattern shows up. On day 14 the forecast stops labelling itself a guess.

Quarterly
$29.99
$0.33 / day
One quarter. Long enough for two recaps you can act on, and one full trough if it comes.
Annual
RECOMMENDED
$79.99
$0.22 / day
The forecast calibrated to you instead of an average, and a ledger long enough to hold more than one episode.
Annual + Pair
$119.98
$0.16 / day each
Two people, one year. For a co-founder, a partner, or the friend who noticed last time.
THE LINE THAT DECIDES IT
Two of you, for a year, costs the same as one of you paying quarterly. $119.98 against $119.96. Two cents apart.
WHAT ENDS ON DAY 15
The forecast reverts to a population average, the weekly recap stops and your partner stands down. Logging and your ledger stay. Nothing is deleted.
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BILLED THROUGH THE APP STORE · CANCEL IN TWO TAPS · NO CHARGE BEFORE DAY 15 · YOUR LEDGER STAYS YOURS EITHER WAY
13 · WHY THIS EXISTS
I built this for one person: me. I had spreadsheets for every number in my business except the one doing the work.
I could tell you my runway to the week and my churn to the decimal. I could not tell you why some Thursdays I shipped and some Thursdays I stared at the screen for six hours and called it work. So I started pricing my days like a budget, and the pattern showed up almost immediately. Not a mystery. Arithmetic I had never written down.
The stakes partner came later, and it came from being honest about myself: I will ignore my own data forever, but I will not ignore a friend who knows. That is the whole product. It is not therapy, it is not a wellness routine, and it will not fix your business. It is a gauge, and gauges only help people who are willing to look at them.
My own first 90 days are published in full, including the fortnight the line went flat. If the number does not hold up in my ledger, it has no business being in yours.
READ THE 90 DAYS →
FOUNDER, BURNBUDGET · SOLO, LIKE YOU
14 · STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Before you start the trial.

What if I stop logging?
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Then you are in a trough, and the app already knows. Sleep keeps arriving from Health. Your days record as down days. On the third quiet day your stakes partner hears from us. When you open the app again, one tap covers the whole stretch and you get a reading instead of a blank calendar.
Is this a wellness app?
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No. There is no meditation, no mood journal, no streak confetti, and no advice about your feelings. It is an instrument. It reports a number and holds you to it. If you want encouragement, this is the wrong app.
Does it actually work?
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It works the way a bank statement works, by making an invisible balance visible and expensive to ignore. What you do with that information is yours. We will not promise you a result, because your ledger depends entirely on you.
Why is there no free plan?
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Because a month of free tracking with no commitment is how people end up with three weeks of data and no habit. You get 14 days with everything switched on. If you do not subscribe, logging and your ledger stay and the forecast drops back to a population average.
Do I need a wearable?
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No. If you wear one, sleep and resting heart rate arrive on their own. If you do not, sleep is one tap in the morning and the forecast marks itself lower confidence for the first two weeks.
Can I use it without the stakes partner?
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Yes. It is off until you turn it on and name a person, you see the exact wording before you save an address, and you can remove them at any time. Most people run a few weeks alone first, which is the honest order to do it in.
What does it do with Health data?
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Sleep and resting heart rate are read to set your opening balance. Read only, on device, entirely optional. Nothing is sold and nothing is shared with your stakes partner.
Is there an Android or web version?
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No. iPhone only, and no roadmap promise here. One person builds this, and doing one platform properly beats doing three badly.
Is it a medical device?
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No. BurnBudget makes no medical or clinical claim, does not diagnose or treat anything, and is not a substitute for professional care. If you are unwell, talk to a doctor, not a dial.

The next one is already forming.
You have two weeks to look at it.

Fourteen days, everything switched on. About ninety seconds a day, and the first forecast arrives tomorrow morning.

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BURNBUDGET
BurnBudget is a measurement tool, not a medical device. It makes no clinical claim, does not diagnose or treat any condition, and is not a substitute for professional care.
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