I spent years trying to make categories work

Groceries. Entertainment. Transport. Eating out. Clothes.

I tried organising them different ways, convinced I just hadn’t found the right approach.

But something always felt off.

Took me a long time to untangle what was actually going on.

I was treating two completely different things the same way.

Bills and subscriptions: you decide once, then they run automatically.

Food, shopping, plans: you decide many times, every day.

Traditional budgets put them both in monthly boxes.

But everyday spending doesn’t work like that. It’s irregular. You can’t plan it a month ahead. Some days nothing, other days everything at once.

Fixed costs are boundaries you set once.

Everyday spending needs daily pacing, not monthly limits.

That’s the gap Lång is built for – guiding the everyday part as it actually happens.

In the App Store since a few weeks.