Colors and status

Reference

Every color and mark in Balanced, and what it tells you.

Balanced uses a few colors consistently: red for overspent or below zero, orange for a warning, green for money that’s there. Here are all of them, screen by screen.

Household

Budget

Ready to assign120.001

Accounts

🏦 Checking1,157.20
1,200.00

💳 Credit Card−130.002

🛒 Groceries90.00

📱 Phone−5.003

Transactions

●Supermarket−42.804

Salary2,500.00

Checking → Savings500.00

↻ Rent−850.005

1. Ready to assign with an orange icon: money without a category. When you’ve assigned too much, it reads Overassigned, with a red icon and a red amount.
2. A balance in red is below zero. For a credit card or loan, that’s normal: it’s what you owe.
3. Expense accounts show what’s still available in green, orange, red or gray.
4. A dot in front of the note: not cleared yet. It’s blue, or green in dark mode.
5. A dimmed row is dated in the future. ↻ means it repeats.

Transaction lists

Mark	Meaning
Red amount	Expense
Green amount	Income
Uncolored amount	Transfer
●before the note	Not cleared yet
↻	Repeating transaction
Dimmed row	Dated in the future
Small gray number	Account balance after this transaction
Colored labels	The accounts, in their own colors

How Balanced tells expenses, income and transfers apart: Transaction types.

Journal overview

Mark	Meaning
Ready to assign, orange icon	Money you can still assign
Overassigned, red icon	You’ve assigned more than you have
Red balance	Below zero
Second, smaller balance	The cleared balance
Number next to Uncleared	Uncleared transactions up to today

Expense accounts in the Accounts section show what’s available in a category, after planned spending:

Color	Meaning
Green	Money available
Orange	Planned spending is more than what’s left
Red	Overspent
Gray	Nothing left over

A ring shows a category with an Emoji. It’s drawn in the account’s color, or red when the category is overspent. The amount under it is red when the category is overspent, orange when planned spending is more than what’s left, and otherwise in the normal text color.

Budget editor

At the top, a colored dot marks each number: green for Available, gray for Spent and yellow for Planned spending. At the bottom, To assign shows what’s left, or Overassigned in red.

Each category and liability has an amount tag in the same four colors as above, and a bar:

Bar	Meaning
Gray	Spent
Yellow	Planned
Green	Still available
Red	Overspent

An overspent category also gets a red Overspent label. The rules behind the colors: Planned spending and Budget formulas.