Frugal

Standout Features:

• Simple and direct
• Encouraging conscious spending
• Thematic toggle

Frugal is a budget app designed by Lukas Rathmann to return to the basics without confusing extra elements that clutter most apps of this nature nowadays. Instead, Frugal is built to combine clean, modern UI with basic manual budgeting functionality.

The dashboard features a list of financial chores with a clean layout showcasing only the budget set and current spending. The design employs a simple and direct approach to budgeting with a light and dark theme that can be interchanged according to user preferences.

Addressing the pain points of similar apps, this design goes back to the basics by encouraging users to manually adjust their budget for various daily spending. Rather than checking analytics actively to understand the spending patterns, the manual approach helps users spend their money consciously.