Keep Above
A travel budget planner, day by day
Flights, rooms, the things to sort out: in Keep Above's trip planner each one sits on the day it happens, on a single line that runs from the run-up before you leave to whatever follows you home. A trip is a budget with a start date and an end date, and what you add to it lands on its own day rather than in a list.
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Last verified 22 September 2026What the planner draws
The journey page is one line running the whole length of the trip, in date order. It starts in the run-up, with whatever you have already had to pay for or sort out; then comes every day you are away; then anything dated after you land, because a trip does not always stop when you get home.
Three kinds of thing sit on that line, and the size of the mark is what tells them apart: a place, a cost, a job. A job is something to arrange rather than pay for, and it can carry a checklist, which is where packing and papers go. A note is its own kind, with room for a paragraph rather than a line.
A place has an arriving day, and that is all it needs
You give a place the day you get there. It runs until the next place starts, so there is no leaving date to type, and dropping a stop into the middle of a trip does not mean going back to edit the one before it.
Each leg carries how you got there — flight, train, car, ferry, taxi, bus, on foot or by bike — so the line reads as a journey rather than a list of towns with gaps between them.
Where each cost comes out of
A trip has a pot of its own. A cost can come out of that, or out of another budget you already hold, and the line says which for every cost on it. That matters on a trip where the flights came out of the everyday budget months ago and the rest is still being set aside — the same idea as a sinking fund for a bill that lands later.
What a place costs is shown in the local currency as well, beside your own. It is an annotation: it sits next to the figure rather than replacing it.
Four pages, one trip
The line is the first of four views, and the other three cut it by where today sits.
The journey
The whole trip end to end, in date order, with places, costs and jobs on the days they belong to.
Before you go
What is dated between today and the day you leave, which is usually the part with deadlines on it.
While you are away
The days of the trip itself, and what is on them.
After you are back
What is dated past the return, since some of what a trip costs arrives once it is over.
Going with other people
A trip can be shared. A cost on it can be split between the people going, and each person answers their own share on their own phone rather than one person keeping the tally for everybody.
What the weather has usually done there
A place can show what the weather has usually been like in those months: an average of the years 2001 to 2020, from NASA's POWER climatology. It is a record of what happened, not a forecast, and the card it sits on says so beside the figures.
What it does not do
Entry is manual, here as everywhere else in the app. Nothing is imported, there is no bank connection, and a booking made somewhere else appears on the line once you put it there. There is no airline, hotel or booking site named anywhere in it, nothing to search and nothing to book. If what you want is a travel wallet that holds your confirmations, this is not that.
When the trip is done it can be archived, which frees up the budget slot it was using. That is also the honest limit of a manual app: what the planner shows is only ever as current as what you have entered.
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Keep Above
A trip is one kind of budget in Keep Above, sitting beside the everyday one you are paid into. Put the places, the costs and the things to sort out on the days they happen, and the trip reads as a line from the run-up to whatever follows you home. One budget is free; more budgets are included from US$6.99 a month. No bank connection.
Common questions
What is a travel budget planner?
A place to put what a trip costs before you go, rather than adding it up afterwards. In Keep Above a trip is a budget with a start date and an end date, and the flights, the rooms, the day-to-day money and the things to sort out all sit on the day they happen, on one line that runs the length of the trip.
How does it handle a trip with several places?
Each place is given the day you arrive, and it runs until the next place starts, so there is no leaving date to type and no going back to edit the place before it when you add a stop in the middle. Each leg carries how you got there, whether that is a flight, a train, a car, a ferry, a taxi, a bus, a walk or a bike.
Can a trip be shared with the people going on it?
Yes. A trip can be shared with other people, and a cost on it can be split between them. Each person answers their own share on their own phone, rather than one person keeping the tally for everybody.
Does it import my bookings or connect to a bank?
No. Entry is manual, in the trip planner as in the rest of the app. Nothing is imported, there is no bank connection, and a booking made somewhere else appears here once you enter it. The app names no airline, hotel or booking site, and there is nothing to search or book from inside it.