Survive the Month

Make food moneylast until payday.

Plan what to cook. Know what it costs. Make your budget survive the month.

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Download the APK Try the numbers first →

No store account needed. Open the file, allow “install unknown apps”, done — there is a short version of that below.

The Home Today screen: remaining food budget of 3,180 pesos, a survival bar for day 18 of 30, and today's three meals with a cost on each

Real screens from Survive the Month.

01 — Try the idea

Your budget becomes a meal plan.

Change the three numbers. The plan underneath re-costs itself — this is the same arithmetic the app runs when you finish onboarding.

6000 pesos / month
4 to feed

Feeding 4 for a month ₱200 a day

An example, using the app's own dishes and palengke staples. Your household and your market would give different numbers.

Your first day National Capital Region prices
₱200

That is what all three meals have to fit inside.

Priced at Quezon City Public Market

Real dishes from the app's recipe set. Illustrative example, not your plan.
02 — Who it’s for

Different squeeze,
same payday.

The arithmetic is identical every time. What changes is the number going in, and that is the whole difference between a good week and a bad one.

Minimum-wage earner, whole family

The paycheck runs out on the 20th

Everyone at the table, one salary, and a food budget already set by what’s left after the bills. The last week is the problem, not the first.

What it does Splits the month into a daily allowance and holds the plan to it, so the 20th is a thinner week instead of a crisis. Every dish shows its cost, so a “cheaper” swap is a real number you can see.

Living alone, one income

Cooking for one is the hard part

A recipe written for four means either waste or four nights of the same adobo. Market quantities are the thing that breaks when there is only one mouth.

What it does Plans single-serving quantities, so the shopping list matches what one person actually eats. The pantry remembers what’s already there, which is most of what’s in a solo kitchen.

The budget just shrank

Prices went up, or the work did

Rent went up, or an hours cut, or a price rise at the market. The plan you liked last month is now quietly too expensive to keep.

What it does Re-costs the plan against the new number and swaps the expensive dishes for cheaper ones, showing what each swap saves. The old plan isn’t thrown away — it’s adjusted.

Six or seven at the table

One pot, no leftovers

Big household, small kitchen. Cooking for six is a different problem from cooking for two — the batch either runs out by Wednesday or sits in the fridge until it’s a problem.

What it does Plans around batch cooking — a four-serving adobo is four chances to be eaten on four different days, so the week costs less and repeats less.
03 — Where the numbers come from

Prices aren't theoretical.

Meals are costed against real prices from regional Filipino markets — the ones your province actually pays. Coverage is still growing, and where a dish is thinly covered the app says so instead of inventing a number.

Sinangag, fried egg & crispy · breakfast ₱38 per serving
Ginisang munggo with dahon · lunch ₱52 per serving
Adobong sitaw with giling · dinner ₱64 per serving
Pancit bihon · dinner ₱58 per serving
Tortang talong · lunch ₱45 per serving

Figures shown are from a seeded household. Your market, your prices — the app reads the region you pick.

04 — How it works

Three steps, then it's just dinner.

01

Tell us your budget

Household size, what you can spend this month, your region, and what is already in the kitchen.

02

Get your week

Seven days of ulam, each meal priced, all of it inside your daily cap.

03

Cook, log, survive

Tick meals off as you cook, log gastos as you spend, and get a heads-up before the 15th.

Hindi kailangan maging perfect.Kailangan lang umabot hanggang payday.
Why it exists

Most households here cook month to month, not week to week. The app isn't trying to make you eat better or spend less — it's trying to make the number you already have stretch to the next payday, and to be honest with you when it can't.

05 — Where it is

Early access, honestly labelled.

Early access Latest build v0.3.0
Android APK Installable now. Signed release build, Android 7.0 and up. Available
iOS In progress. The same planner, on iPhone. In progress
Play & App Store Store listings come after the signing work is done properly. Coming
Price coverage Still thin. The app labels it per dish rather than guessing. Improving
Download the APK How to install →
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Ready to make it to payday?

Start with your monthly food budget.

Get the app Download Android APK · 23.5 MB
Installing on Android
  1. Download the APKTap the button above. The file is about 23.5 MB.
  2. Allow your browser to install itAndroid will ask. Turn on “install unknown apps” for the browser you used, then go back.
  3. Open the file and installTap the downloaded APK, confirm, and the app appears with the rice bowl.

Android 7.0 and up, arm64 phones — that is almost every handset made since about 2017. An older or 32-bit phone? Use the armeabi-v7a build instead. Your first account is free and takes a minute.