Pricing

The habit is free. All of it.

Not a trial, not a teaser, not fifteen days before a card. The entire FORTN method — the payrun, the boxes, the real balances — costs nothing and is not scheduled to start costing something.

Free Everything you need
$0

No card. No trial clock. No ads. Ever.

  • The whole method — all five letters, in order, with the shares you can tune
  • The full payrun — split pay, multiple deposits, pause and resume, cover a short box
  • Real balances — every box's actual money, from a ledger, not an estimate
  • The internal loan — cover one box from another and Fortn remembers you promised to put it back. One open at a time
  • Bills that leave on their own — and a balance check-in on payday instead of logging every spend
  • Export and restore your whole account — the way out is never behind a paywall
  • Two debts tracked — what you owe and how fast it goes down, where most people start
10boxes
2incomes
2debts
30days of history
PRO Not for sale yet
SoonWe haven't set a price, because we haven't earned one yet.

PRO is depth and household — the layer you want after months of use, not on day one. When it opens, everything you already created stays yours and visible.

  • Every room — Payments, Stash, Events and Invest
  • Plan vs actual — what you budget for a box against what you really spend
  • Insights — the year in review, trends per box, debts paid off
  • History beyond 30 days, kept intact the whole time you're free
  • No caps on boxes, incomes, debts or open loans, plus labels and pots for the people you live with
  • Payday comfort — check balances between paydays, refill a payrun from the last one, log money that arrives outside your pay, and five more themes

One email when PRO opens. Nothing else.

Why free, and why now

A budgeting app that charges before it works is just a subscription.

The competition costs between US$95 and US$109 a year, and most of that price buys automatic bank feeds — the part that works least well in Australia. We're not going to charge for a promise. Fortn is free while it earns the right to be paid for, and the free tier is designed to be genuinely enough: if you never pay us, the method still works and your money is still organised.

When PRO does open, it will be for the things that only matter after months of real use — long memory, the rooms beyond the payday loop, and a household. Nothing you have already created will be taken away or hidden to sell it back to you.

Questions

About money, ours and yours.

What happens to my data if I never pay?

Nothing. Fortn does not delete or hide money you have already recorded because you're on the free tier. Caps apply to creating new advanced things, never to what already exists.

Is the free tier crippled to push me to PRO?

It's not, and that was a deliberate correction. An earlier version of the app filled 13 of the 15 free box slots of the time with starter boxes we invented, which meant your third real box hit the cap — scarcity manufactured by us. That's gone: a new account starts with five, one per letter.

How much will PRO cost?

We don't know yet, and we'd rather say that than print a number we might change. Leave your email above and you'll hear it first.

Will there be ads?

No. Fortn will never sell ads, and it will never sell or broker a financial product to you. The only money Fortn will ever make from you is a subscription you chose.

Do you sell my data?

No. There's very little to sell — Fortn has no bank connection, so it never sees a transaction feed. See the privacy page.