One budget for the whole family.
You both see the same budget.
When you put ₹4,000 in Groceries, your partner sees the same change on their phone. It is not a copy that has to catch up. It is one budget, open on two phones.
Every account, transaction, loan and goal belongs to the household, not to the person who entered it. There is nothing to sync, and no arguing about whose numbers are right.
Adding expenses and managing people are separate permissions.
In many apps, one setting controls both. To let your partner budget, you have to make them an admin. In Ahead, these are separate.
- 🔑 Owner
- Can do everything: invite people, change roles, rename the household, pay for the subscription and delete the household. Every household has at least one owner.
- 🤝 Partner
- Budgets just like the owner: assigns money, adds and edits transactions, records loans, checks accounts against the bank and sets targets. Cannot manage people or billing. This is the role most families want.
- 👀 Viewer
- Can see everything and change nothing. Good for a parent who wants to see how things are going, or for an accountant at the end of the year.
- Diya MehraOwner
Everything, including billing and closing the household.
- Nikhil MehraPartner
Adds and edits anything. Cannot handle billing, invite or delete.
- Lakshmi MehraViewer
Diya’s mother. Can see and download everything, and change nothing.
To change someone’s role, choose it from the list on their row. If you remove someone, you can invite them back later.
- Checked on our server
- A viewer cannot change anything, even using a feature we add later. Our server checks every change, so the rule does not depend on hiding buttons on the screen.
- No buttons that do not work
- A viewer sees “View only” next to the household’s name, and no buttons they are not allowed to use.
Invitations are kept safe.
You invite people by email. They do not need an Ahead account first. The link lets them choose a name and a password and join your household straight away, instead of signing up and landing in an empty budget of their own.
Anyone with that link could see your whole budget, so it works only for the email address it was sent to. A forwarded email lets nobody in. The link works once and expires after 14 days. We do not store the link itself, only a code made from it that cannot be turned back into the link.
One household per person, for now.
If you already belong to a household, you cannot accept an invitation to another one. We will not quietly move you out of the first. A personal budget and a family budget would be two budgets, and today you can have only one.
Invitation
Join the Mehra household
Diya Mehra has invited you into the Mehra household as a partner. Pick a name and a password and you are in — no separate sign-up.
What you are joining
One shared set of books. You will see every account, transaction and loan in the Mehra household — and they will see yours. Budgets and enters transactions, exactly as you do.
A loan can be shared without sharing the budget.
Your brother Rahul has his own budget and does not need to join yours. If he uses Ahead too, the ₹50,000 you lent him can show in both budgets. When he records a repayment, it counts only after you agree, and neither of you can change the other’s figures.
Nothing else is shared: not your other loans, not your budget. Sharing is off until you turn it on for one loan. Either of you can stop sharing, and nothing already recorded is lost.
Invite your family on day one. It costs nothing extra.
Up to four people share one price, so there is no reason to wait.
- No card
- Nothing starts charging when the trial ends.
- Nothing to connect
- No bank login, and nothing reads your SMS.
- Download any time
- All your data as spreadsheet files, paid or not.