About

What is this Website?

ByteSized Budget is a personal project started by the ByteSized Crew founder, Donovan Frazier, as a solution to wanting a budgeting app that is web based and private. It is as simple as typing the total of a receipt and selecting a category. The website will keep a running tally of how much was spent or earned under a category. From there, various statistics about your spending habits are presented to you.

How Private is ByteSized Budget?

The goal for ByteSized Budget is that all user data is saved to the user's own device. When you type in the total from a receipt and save it, it adds the total to a running tally for the category you selected and just the value of that category is saved to your browser. The goal in designing this functionality is that your device does not need to send information back to the web server. This means no annoying login, no password to remember, and your information always stays in your control.

For technical users, the website takes advantage of the localStorage API. The state of the application is saved on the device and loaded back when the page loads. For less technical users, this means that only this website can open your data and can not be shared between other services unlike cookies.

When you import or export your data to a file, you have full control of the file picker for selecting where to save a file and where to select a file. The website can not open the file outside of the browser without your action.

Both of these technologies allow you to access your information without a strong internet connection. You simply need to load the home page. However, if you use your browser's setting to install the website as an app, you can access the website entirely offline with all of your data. Goodbye bad connection problems or an app losing functionality when you are out and about.

How Long Can I Continue to Use ByteSized Budget?

You can use the website as long as the website is installed as an app on your device or as long as the website is online. The method of creating the website pushes the data management onto your device which keeps the server as light as possible.

The website is a project of the creator Donovan Frazier of ByteSized Crew and is entirely funded by its users. This means that no investors have oversight over when or where features are added or how long the server can run.

To best ensure the website is online for years to come, please consider supporting ByteSized Crew by purchasing a premium key for the website.

How is Payment Information Handled?

The payment form is the only portion of the website where personal information from the user is submitted to the website. For this, the vendor Stripe was selected to handle the processing of payment information on behalf of ByteSized Budget. All privacy policies and terms for Stripe apply. For ByteSized Budget, the customer information is not retained by the our server.