Accessibility at Budgetine

Last updated: September 20, 2026

Budgetine is a budgeting app, which means the whole point of it is reading numbers and acting on them. If you cannot read the numbers, the app has failed at the only thing it exists to do. So accessibility here is not a finishing touch bolted on at the end. It is checked automatically on every build, using Apple's own accessibility audit, across every screen in the app.

This page says plainly what works, what does not, and what we are still checking. If something here turns out to be wrong, we would rather hear it from you than leave it standing.

What Budgetine supports

VoiceOver

Every control in the app announces what it is. Amounts are read as money rather than as a run of digits, so a balance is spoken the way a person would say it out loud. Automated tests walk the app on every build and fail it if a control anywhere has gone silent, including inside sheets and menus, which is where this kind of thing usually hides.

Larger Text

Budgetine follows the text size you set on your iPhone, all the way through the accessibility sizes. At the largest settings, screens restack themselves rather than shrinking or clipping the words: rows become columns, side by side figures move underneath each other. Money is never scaled down to make it fit, because a budget you have to squint at is not readable.

Dark Interface

There is a full dark appearance, not a dimmed version of the light one. It follows your system setting by default, and you can pin the app to light or dark independently in Settings if you prefer the app to differ from the rest of your phone.

Differentiate Without Color Alone

Budget status never depends on colour by itself. Overspent, underfunded and funded categories carry their own shapes and progress indicators alongside the colour, so the information survives if red and green are not distinguishable to you.

Budgetine honours the iPhone's own Differentiate Without Color setting, and it also has its own switch in Settings under Appearance. That second switch exists so you can turn this on for Budgetine alone without changing how every other app on your phone behaves.

Sufficient Contrast

Text and icon colours are set above the usual minimum contrast ratio rather than exactly at it, so they still hold up on a dim screen or in sunlight. The app also responds to Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency: translucent backgrounds become solid, and separators get stronger.

Reduced Motion

Turn on Reduce Motion and Budgetine stops animating. Transitions become instant, pressed buttons stop springing, symbols stop pulsing, and the celebration effects are replaced with plain changes of state. Nothing is hidden by this, and no feature becomes unreachable.

What Budgetine does not support

Captions and Audio Descriptions

Budgetine has no video or audio content, so there is nothing to caption or describe. These are listed as unsupported because they do not apply, not because something is missing.

Voice Control

We are still verifying this one and have deliberately not claimed it yet. The app labels every control, which is most of what Voice Control needs, and we have added an automated check that every control which shows a caption can also be reached by speaking that caption. Until it has been used by voice on a real device from start to finish, we would rather say nothing than claim it. This page will be updated when that is done.

Privacy and accessibility together

Using an accessibility feature tells us nothing about you. Budgetine keeps your financial data on your device, and none of the settings described on this page are reported to us or to anyone else. You can read the whole story on the privacy page.

Tell us what is broken

If something on this page does not match what you experience, that is a bug and we want it. Email [email protected] and say which iPhone you use and which accessibility settings you have on. You will get a reply from the person who writes the app.