Work offline

Budget Bandit on mobile is offline-first. Your budget lives on the device, so the app stays fully usable on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere the signal drops. Edits you make offline save locally and sync the moment you’re back online.

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What works offline

Effectively everything you do day to day:

• Open the Budget, Transactions, Accounts, and Reports tabs.
• Add and edit transactions with quick-add.
• Assign money and move it between categories.
• Check balances and what’s safe to pay on your cards.

Because the data is already on your phone, these screens load and respond without waiting on the network.

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The offline banner

When the app loses its connection, a thin banner appears at the top:

Offline — changes save on this device and sync when you reconnect

It’s a reassurance, not a warning. Keep working; nothing is lost. The banner clears on its own once you’re back online.

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Syncing when you reconnect

When the connection returns, the app uploads the changes you made offline and pulls down anything that changed elsewhere — including edits made on the web or by someone you share with. You don’t trigger this; it happens automatically.

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Things that need a connection

A few actions reach a server by nature and won’t complete offline — for example, linking a bank and pulling fresh bank transactions. Queue your manual edits offline; run bank-linked actions once you’re back online.

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If a change doesn’t appear on another device

• Confirm both devices are online and show Connected.
• Give sync a moment to finish after reconnecting.
• Still missing? See Fix sync problems.

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