Your go-to tool for mastering your money, building credit, and owning your financial future.
Budget-U is an app designed to help and educate college students on their finances. It’s not just about tracking and spending, it’s about understanding how money works. Like learning how building credit works and why it matters to have a good credit score
Our mission is simple: make financial literacy fun, approachable, and accessible to every student.
Here’s a look at some key screens in U-Budget to give you a feel for how it looks.
Visualize your expenses and get insights on where your money is going with clean, easy-to-read graphs.
Learn how to safely build credit while in college and understand how credit cards really work.
Set savings goals, track your progress, and break down your budget into manageable steps to stay motivated.
Emilio is graduating in 2026 with a B.S. in Digital Media Innovation from Texas State University.
U-Budget is his capstone project, created for his Digital Media Innovation course to help students learn about personal finance. U-Budget is not on the App Store or Google Play—it was developed for educational purposes.