Set your pay cycle
Choose weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly or monthly so the plan starts where your income does.
Built for UK pay cycles
Know what's safe to spend — even when you're not paid monthly.
Poise budgets around your real pay cycle — weekly, fortnightly or four-weekly — and keeps one honest number in front of you: what's safe to spend today. No bank login. Nothing leaves your browser.
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Data stays with youBuilt by an ICAEW chartered accountant
Your pay cycle
Try the numbers for yourself
Safe to spend today
£26.43
Left this period
£740
Days to payday
28
Monthly budgets break the moment your pay isn't monthly.
Budget by the window between one payday and the next, not by a calendar that does not match your income. Poise turns every cycle into one clear daily number.
52
weekly pay packets a year
26
fortnightly pay packets
13
four-weekly — not 12
12
monthly bill cycles
How it works
A calmer way to know where you stand.
Add what has to be paid
Set aside bills, savings and essentials before the everyday spending begins.
Spend to one honest number
See a clear daily amount that adjusts to the days and money left in your cycle.
Simple pricing
Pay once. Keep it for life.
Try the core planner free, then unlock everything with one payment. No subscription, no ads, no bank login, no selling your data.
One-off payment
Poise lifetime
£12.99 once, VAT included
Everything in Poise, for as long as we run it. Nothing to renew.
- Pay-cycle planner and safe-to-spend
- Sync across your devices
- Payday reminders
- Goals, sinking funds and debt planner
- AI starter budget, backup and export
Why I built Poise
“Every budgeting app I tried wanted my bank login and still couldn't handle a four-weekly payslip. So I built the one I wanted — your pay cycle, your numbers, nothing leaving your browser.”
The founder of Poise — an ICAEW chartered accountant
From the Poise blog
Plain-English guidance for managing money around the way you are actually paid.
Budgeting · 6 min read
Paid weekly, fortnightly or four-weekly? Here's how to budget for it.
Most budgeting advice assumes you're paid monthly. This method works with your pay cycle instead of against it.
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