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AI travel budgeting with BudgetBro

Connect BudgetBro to Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible AI assistants to analyse your trips, budgets and expenses using your real BudgetBro data.

Ask questions about any trip, check whether you're on track against your budget, calculate your remaining daily allowance, and log expenses by natural language across 160+ currencies.

What is BudgetBro?

BudgetBro is a travel budgeting app built for people who travel for days, weeks or months at a time.

It lets travellers create trip budgets, track expenses in 160+ currencies, monitor spending against their budget, and use AI to understand their spending.

BudgetBro works offline and is available on iOS, Android and the web.

What can BudgetBro do through MCP?

Talk to your assistant the way you would talk to a travel companion. Here are the things it can help you with.

Check a trip budget

Get a live status on any trip and see exactly how your spending compares to your budget.

  • How is my Thailand trip tracking against budget?
  • Am I over or under budget so far?
  • List my current trips.

Calculate your daily allowance

Find out how much you can spend per day for the rest of your trip based on what's left.

  • How much can I spend per day for the rest of my trip?
  • How many days of budget do I have left?
  • What's my daily budget in Thai baht?

Analyse your spending

Ask questions about categories, countries, or timeframes and get answers from your real data.

  • How much have I spent on food in Vietnam?
  • What are my biggest spending categories this trip?
  • Which country did I spend the most in?

Compare your spending

Spot trends and changes in your daily pace so you know if you're drifting over budget.

  • Am I spending more per day than I was last week?
  • How does this trip compare to my last one?
  • What's changed in my spending this week?

Forecast your trip

Project your spending forward to see whether you'll stay within your trip budget.

  • If I continue spending at this rate, will I exceed my budget?
  • How long will my budget last at my current pace?
  • What daily rate do I need to stay on budget?

Log expenses by chat

Skip the form. Say what you spent and it records it, converting the currency automatically.

  • Log 85,000 VND for lunch in Vietnam.
  • Add a 12 pound taxi to my expenses.
  • I spent 200 baht on accommodation today.

Review your trips

Pull up a summary of any trip, past or active, with totals, daily averages, and days remaining.

  • List my trips.
  • Give me a summary of my Vietnam trip.
  • What was my average daily spend in Cambodia?

How to connect

Already have BudgetBro? Connect it to your AI assistant below.

Don't have a BudgetBro account yet? Learn about BudgetBro →

1

Get your connection token

Sign in to BudgetBro Web, open Settings, and under Connect to AI create a connection. Copy the token it gives you.

2

Add to your AI assistant

In Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible assistant, add a new server with this config and paste your token in place of <your connection token>:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "budgetbro": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "budgetbro-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "BBRO_CONNECTION_TOKEN": "<your connection token>"
      }
    }
  }
}
3

Start asking

Open a new chat and try List my trips or How is my trip tracking against budget? to confirm it works.

Your privacy and safety

  • Read on request only. Your assistant reads your data only when you ask a question that needs it. Nothing is synced or copied.
  • You approve sensitive actions. Logging an expense is confirmed with you first.
  • Your details stay private. Treat your connection token like a password, and you can revoke it anytime.
  • You are always in control. Disconnect at any time by removing the connector or revoking it in BudgetBro Web.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be technical to use this?

Connecting it takes a few steps the first time. After that, using it is as easy as sending a message.

Can it spend my money or move funds?

No. It cannot access your bank or move money. It can read your BudgetBro data and log expenses you describe.

Will it change my data without asking?

No. It only records or changes something when you tell it to, and it confirms first for anything that cannot be easily undone.

What if it gets a number wrong?

Everything it reports comes from your BudgetBro data. You can open the app to check, and ask the assistant to show its working.