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
  • Your first internal loan — the thing no other app does, free to try properly
  • Offline, installable, three themes — and unlimited stashes
  • Export and restore your whole account — the way out is never behind a paywall
  • The Invest screen — the real rate, the projection and the number you'd need, all on your own figures
15boxes
3incomes
debts
90days 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.

  • Several loans at once, plus money owed to people you live with
  • 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 90 days, kept intact the whole time you're free
  • No caps on boxes, incomes, events or the people you tag spending to

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, several promises at once, 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 your 15 free box slots 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.