Built by a doctor, for clinicians

Money sense for irregular pay.

A private budgeting tool that actually understands locum life โ€” handles overnight shifts, standard and enhanced rates, the wait between a shift and the money landing. Plan around the pay you'll really get, not a guess.

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Why it's different

Generic budget apps don't speak locum.

Your income arrives in lumps, on the NHS payroll calendar, at rates that change based on the time of day. This is built around exactly that.

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Knows NHS pay timing

Work a shift before the cut-off and it's paid this cycle; after, and it rolls to the next. The app tracks which money is still owed and when it'll actually arrive.

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Standard & enhanced rates

Set your core and premium rates once. Log a shift's hours and it works out the gross, the likely take-home, and what you're owed.

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Forecast, not guesswork

A rolling cashflow forecast that blends real payslips, logged shifts, and your fixed bills โ€” so you can see months ahead, even through a salaried-to-locum switch.

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Sinking funds & goals

Set money aside for the car, insurance, a holiday โ€” and link savings goals to real accounts so progress tracks itself.

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Smart statement import

Paste or upload a bank statement and it sorts transactions, remembers your regular shops, and quietly sets aside transfers and round-ups.

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Break-even at a glance

See how many shifts a month you need to cover the bills โ€” and to hit your savings target โ€” in standard or enhanced rate.

Private by design

Your money data never leaves your device.

There's no account to create and no server to upload to. Everything stays in your browser's local storage โ€” only you can see it.

What that means in practice

Honest about how the data works.

Local storage is private and free, but it comes with real limitations worth knowing before you rely on it.

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One browser, one device

Your data lives in the browser you opened the app in โ€” Chrome on your laptop is separate from Safari on your phone. Opening the app in a different browser or on a different device starts fresh, with no data.

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Back up manually

There's no automatic sync. To move your data to another device, or just to keep a safe copy, go to Settings โ†’ Data & backup โ†’ Download backup. This saves a small JSON file to your downloads. Do it regularly โ€” treat it like saving a document.

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Restoring on a new device

Open the app on the new device, go to Settings โ†’ Data & backup โ†’ Restore from backup, and upload your saved file. Everything comes back exactly as you left it โ€” transactions, shifts, categories, all of it.

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Clearing your browser wipes the data

If you clear your browser's site data or cookies, the app data goes with it. The backup file is your safety net. If you're the kind of person who regularly clears browsing data, download a backup first.

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The upside of all this

Nobody else can access your financial data โ€” not us, not advertisers, not a server breach. Your bank transactions and pay details stay entirely on the device you chose. That's the trade-off, and we think it's the right one for sensitive data.

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Export any time

You can export your data as a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV) at any time from Settings. Your data is always yours to take away, in a format you can open anywhere.

Free, always

La vida locum costs nothing to use.

It's built in spare time, by a clinician, for other clinicians. There's no subscription, no ads, no data sold. If it's helped you make sense of irregular pay or stress less about money, a coffee is a kind way to say so.

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No pressure at all โ€” the app is yours either way.
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Would you actually use this?

It's free and ready to try now โ€” if it'd be useful to you, or there's something missing for how you get paid, I'd genuinely like to hear it.

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Or just open the tracker and have a play โ€” no sign-up.