a quiet line of budget tools, hand-built
why sundial exists.
i'm a person who got tired of complicated budget templates. the kind that ask you to sort transactions into thirty-eight categories and then ask, in the same breath, that you remember which row contains the formula and which contains the data. so i built the version i wanted to use.
sundial budget is one spreadsheet, eleven tabs, and almost no setup. you start with one number — what you'd like to spend this month — and the file fills out the rest as you log transactions. it sorts your bills by due day. it draws a donut from your top categories. it tells you, in a single number, how much of what you earned you actually kept.
the design is on purpose. one signature clay-orange against a paper-bone background. cardo for everything you read; jetbrains mono for everything that's a number. nothing blinks. nothing buzzes. nothing asks you to subscribe to it. it's a file. you save it next to your other files.
everything works in both excel and google sheets — same formulas, same look, no macros. instant download. no licence keys, no dashboards-of-dashboards, no animations of confetti when you log a coffee.
sundial is the first thing i'm making, but not the last. the plan is a small line of quiet tools — a debt planner next, a savings tracker after that — each one designed to be opened on a sunday morning, used in five minutes, and closed without guilt. if any of that sounds like the kind of thing you've been looking for, i'm glad you found it.