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Basal
Your Financial BMR

Do you know what
you actually cost?

Your true daily burn rate — the money your life costs, whether you swipe the card or not.

Basal app
The Concept

Find Your
True Rate.

Your body has a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) — the calories it burns at rest daily just to exist.

Basal finds your Financial BMR.

Basal is the precision metric of what your life actually costs today. Every expense. Every frequency. One honest number.

A Lens You've Never Had

Your money,
by how you live

Most finance tools show you categories. Basal shows you commitments. Use tags to search across every category at once — and see what your actual lifestyle truly costs per day.

🏃 Running
🐕 Dog Owner
💪 My Health
🏠 Living
💻 Remote Work

What does running really cost you?

Your running expenses don't live in one category. Shoes are Shopping. Race fees are Lifestyle. Supplements are Health. Tag them all and instantly see what your hobby costs you per day — across every category at once.

Tag: "running"

🏃 Your Running Life
$3.90
/day
Running ShoesShopping · Every 6 months
$1.01/day
$185 / 6mo
Running SupplementsHealth · Monthly
$0.99/day
$30/mo
Race Entry FeesLifestyle · Yearly
$0.82/day
$300/yr
Clothes & SocksShopping · Yearly
$0.41/day
$150/yr
Running GearShopping · Yearly
$0.27/day
$100/yr
Strava SubscriptionSubscriptions · Monthly
$0.39/day
$11.99/mo

Tag: "dog"

🐕 Your Dog
$11.23
/day
Dog FoodFood · Monthly
$3.29/day
$100/mo
Dog WalkerLifestyle · Monthly
$3.29/day
$100/mo
Vet VisitsHealth · Yearly
$1.64/day
$600/yr
Pet InsuranceInsurance · Monthly
$1.64/day
$50/mo
Toys, Treats & GroomingShopping · Yearly
$1.37/day
$500/yr

Tag: "health"

💪 Your Health Investment
$15.86
/day
Therapy SessionsHealth · Bi-weekly
$10.68/day
$150 bi-weekly
SupplementsHealth · Monthly
$2.63/day
$80/mo
Gym MembershipHealth · Monthly
$1.81/day
$54.99/mo
Workout ClothesShopping · Yearly
$0.55/day
$200/yr
Headspace AppSubscriptions · Yearly
$0.19/day
$70/yr

Tag: "home"

🏠 The Cost of Living There
$28.76
/day
Property TaxesHousing · Monthly
$13.15/day
$400/mo
Home InsuranceInsurance · Monthly
$4.93/day
$150/mo
Lawn & Yard CareHousing · Monthly
$3.29/day
$100/mo
Appliance Maintenance & RepairHousing · Yearly est.
$2.74/day
~$1,000/yr
Home SecurityHousing · Monthly
$2.30/day
$69.94/mo
Furniture & DecorShopping · Yearly
$2.19/day
$800/yr
HVAC Filter ReplacementsHousing · Quarterly
$0.16/day
$15 quarterly

Tag: "work"

💻 The Cost of Working From Home
$6.73
/day
Home InternetUtilities · Monthly
$2.84/day
$86.38/mo
Software SubscriptionsSubscriptions · Monthly
$1.64/day
$50/mo
Coffee & Desk SnacksFood · Weekly
$1.42/day
$10/wk
Office Equipment (amort.)Shopping · Yearly
$0.55/day
$200/yr
Phone Plan (work portion)Subscriptions · Monthly
$0.28/day
$8.50/mo

These aren't hypothetical. They're your actual tagged numbers in Basal — searchable, sortable, always live. Type any tag and your real cross-category cost appears instantly.

See It In Action

All your life's costs
in today's rate

Enter any expense at any frequency. Basal amortizes everything — rent, running shoes, toothpaste, therapy — into one honest daily number.

Daily Breakdown
Daily breakdown
Upcoming Bills
Upcoming bills

Every commitment lives next to its true daily cost. See what's hitting your account in the next 7, 14, or 30 days — nothing sneaks up on you.

Expense Detail
Expense detail
Hidden Costs
Haircuts hidden costs

You don't get a haircut every day. But you're already paying for the next one. How much am I putting into my haircut piggy bank today? $1.10. Now multiply that mindset across every recurring cost in your life.

The eureka moment isn't in any individual number. It's in the total. Most people discover their daily cost is double what they assumed — before a single discretionary dollar is spent.

Life Scenarios

Simulate your
future first

Before you sign the new lease. Before the baby. Before you quit your job. Model the exact cost change in a sandbox — your real data is never touched.

Life Scenarios menu
Scenario weekly view
Scenario changes
📍 Relocation
👶 Growing Family
🚀 New Venture
🎓 Career Change
🌴 Retirement
✏️ Custom
Reports & Insights

Your spending
anatomy

Know exactly where every dollar flows. Track lifetime totals. Project where you'll be in 10, 20, 30 years at your current rate. Measure lifestyle creep year over year.

Reports main
Reports insights
Privacy First

No Banks. No Cards.
By Design.

When an app auto-imports from your bank, you're a passenger. You never learn the roads. Manual entry is the mechanism of mindfulness — not a limitation.

🗺

The GPS Metaphor

Auto-importing makes you passive. Entering each expense — feeling its weight, its category, its daily cost — is exactly where the rewire happens.

🔐

Your Data, Your Device

Stored locally by default. Optional encrypted cloud sync. No third-party access. No advertising. No data sold. Face ID supported.

🧠

The Rewire

The benefit lives in the input process. You'll reconsider expenses you never questioned. The eureka moment is in the number you arrive at when done.

Stop guessing.
Find your baseline.

Download Basal. Your Financial BMR is waiting.