NeoBudget has always been a great value with a low price tag. It’s just gotten a bit sweeter with a completely free plan that does not expire. Previously if you wanted to try out NeoBudget, the only option was the 7-day free trial. Now you can play with NeoBudget as long as you like on the free plan.

There are some limitations to the free version. It is limited to 1 account and 10 envelopes, but this is great for students or anyone with a relatively simple budget. The standard plan enhances this with reporting and unlimited accounts and envelopes.

Head on over to the Plans & Pricing page to sign up!

New Website Design

Another recent change you may notice is that the main website has been refreshed. One of my passions is website design. I love tweaking the layout and optimizing the usability of a website to make it nicer and easier to use. This change is more than just making it look nicer. Hopefully it more accurately presents NeoBudget to new visitors and lets them see the benefits more clearly.

The changes are subtle, but important. The rest of the site has been refreshed as well with similar tweaks and usability enhancements.

Today I pushed out the May release of NeoBudget. This time I focused my efforts on redoing the History and Balance pages. You’ll notice many changes, and hopefully they’ll be much more usable and easier to use.

History page

In general the History page is much more compact. This has made room for 25 transactions per page instead of 10. It also makes it easier to scan over your transactions and see what’s there. Also, a new paging system lets you load pages inline instead of needing to reload the page. This makes it a lot faster.

More compact, a new pager, and a new search box

The extra details are still there, they are just hidden at first. If you want to see the splits for a transaction, or the date it was entered, or any other details about it, click on the description and the details will slide out.

Details slide out from the description

To make more room, the Export link has been moved to the bottom of the page since it will be used less frequently.

Export button moved to the bottom

Balance page

The balance page has also gotten a face lift. Much of the text has been removed, and icons are used to make it more clear what should happen on this page. It is now very clear which values you need to enter and what they do. The formula used to balance your budget is also explicitly displayed (current bank balance + selected transactions – previous bank balance = 0.00).

Compact and concise balance page