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Budget in Any Currency, See Totals in Yours

Log prices in local currencies as you book. Trip Budget converts everything to your home currency in real time so your total is always accurate.

Currency selector showing multiple currencies

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The multi-country budget problem

A two-week trip through Southeast Asia might have hotel prices in Thai Baht, train tickets in Malaysian Ringgit, and a flight booked in US Dollars. Converting everything to one currency at the end of each planning session is tedious, and one stale exchange rate can throw your total off by hundreds of dollars.

Trip Budget solves this by letting you store prices in whatever currency they were quoted in, then converting everything to your chosen display currency on the fly.

Every line item keeps its own currency

When you add a lodging cost, a meal, a train ticket, or an activity, you choose the currency right alongside the amount. That pairing is stored permanently, so the raw data always reflects the actual price you booked and not a converted approximation.

Live exchange rates, no API key needed

Rates are pulled from a free, open CDN the moment you switch your display currency. The conversion happens on your device and updates all budget cards instantly. Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Total all refresh at once with no page reload required.

Switch display currency any time

Tap the currency selector in the budget header to switch between any ISO 4217 currency. Your stored prices are never overwritten, only the display layer changes, so switching back always shows the exact figure you originally entered.

A practical example

Say you're planning a trip from New York to Tokyo and then Bali. Log your flights in USD, Tokyo hotels in JPY, and Bali villas in IDR. Set your display currency to USD and Trip Budget fetches today's rates and shows you one accurate dollar total across all three currencies, updated every time you open the app.

Budget in Any Currency, See Totals in Yours