Abroadwise

For your semester abroad

Know what you can spend today, all semester.

Abroadwise takes the money you have for a semester abroad and gives you one number: what is safe to spend today. Plan a weekend away and see what it does to the rest of your term.

Coming soon to theApp Store

For iPhone, iOS 18 or later. Free, with one optional paid extra.

The Today screen: Safe to spend today, $26.81, with $222 left this week and $218 under budget so far.

What it does

A fixed pot of money, a fixed end date, one clear number.

  • Safe to spend today

    Tell it how much you have and when the semester ends. It sets aside your regular bills, a reserve (money kept back for emergencies) and your trips, then shows what is safe to spend today and what is left this week.

  • Trips that show their cost

    Plan a weekend away, give it a budget, and see what it does to your semester before you book anything.

  • 50+ places, with real information

    Guides to 50+ places across Europe and Morocco: typical weather by month, festivals and events, public holidays, and an estimate of what a weekend there costs from your city. Estimates are labelled as estimates, with links to today's prices on Skyscanner, Omio, Hostelworld and Booking.com.

  • Any currency

    Enter an expense in the currency you paid in. It is converted to your home currency with daily reference rates (the official rate published each day, close to but not exactly what your bank charges), and both amounts are kept.

  • The semester on a calendar

    Month by month: your trips, public holidays where you are studying, the first and last day of term, and what any one day holds.

  • Your data stays on your phone

    Abroadwise works without an account, and has no ads and no tracking. Your budget and spending are stored on your iPhone, not on our servers. You can lock the app with Face ID. Read the privacy policy.

In the app

Calm, numeric, one idea per screen.

The Calendar screen for November 2026, with a weekend trip to Lisbon marked on the 20th to the 22nd.
CalendarTrips and holidays across the whole semester.
The Explore screen: a map of Italy with places marked, and a card for Florence showing about $230 a week.
ExplorePlaces on a map, each with what a week or a weekend there costs.

Screenshots are from the app running with sample data.

Who it is for

Built for two kinds of traveller.

  • Your first big trip

    Never kept a budget or booked a train in another country? You answer a few questions, and Abroadwise builds a plan you can change. After that there is one number to look at each day, and plain notes on each place: tipping, plugs, getting around, emergency numbers.

  • You have done this before

    Clear numbers and nothing in your way. See how each figure is worked out, set weekly limits by category, and export your spending as a CSV file.

Pricing

Free. One optional extra.

  • Abroadwise

    Free

    • The daily budget, trips, calendar and every place guide
    • Expenses in any currency, entered by hand
    • Weekly category limits and CSV export
    • No ads, and no account needed

  • Semester Pass

    $4.99 a semester

    • Bank sync: purchases on your US debit and credit cards show up on their own, already converted
    • Banks connect through Plaid, a company that links bank accounts to apps. Abroadwise never sees your bank login, and our server stores none of your transactions
    • One payment of $4.99 through Apple covers 180 days. It does not renew, so there is nothing to cancel

Destination figures are estimates for planning, not quotes. Check live prices and official sources before you book. See the terms of use.