Release Notes
We rebuilt Budget Planner's public website. The homepage and the pages that explain the product moved to a new light-first design with a teal accent, a light/dark theme toggle that remembers your choice, and — finally — a working navigation menu on phones. The previews on the site now mirror the real in-app screens, and we did a thorough search pass so the site is easier to find, share, and cite. To be clear about scope: this release is the marketing site and SEO only. No budgeting features, money calculations, or any of your data changed, and the AI advisor shown on the site is still in development, not live yet.
A Redesigned Website
- **A fresh, light-first look.** Our public site has been rebuilt from the ground up on a new design system — cleaner typography and a calm teal accent — replacing the old dark landing page.
- **Clearer pages for what the app does.** Dedicated pages now cover the homepage, Features, How It Works, Pricing, the FAQ, and Invoicing, so it's easier to understand the product before you sign in.
- **The AI advisor page is a preview, not a launch.** There's a page describing the AI advisor we're building, but the feature is still in development and isn't live in the app yet. We'd rather show you where we're headed than pretend it's ready.
- **Your app and your data are untouched.** This is the marketing website only — nothing about your budgets, transactions, accounts, goals, or invoices changed.
Light and Dark Mode
- **Read it your way.** A theme toggle switches the site between light and dark, and it remembers your preference for next time.
- **No white flash.** Pages now load directly in your chosen theme instead of flashing light before switching to dark.
Mobile Navigation and Accessibility
- **A menu you can actually open on a phone.** Previously there was no way to reach the navigation on small screens; a new slide-in drawer means every page is now reachable on mobile.
- **Built to be readable for everyone.** Color contrast across the site was reworked to meet WCAG AA, alongside keyboard and screen-reader improvements.
Previews That Match the Real App
- **What you see is what you get.** The mock screens on the site now faithfully mirror the actual in-app dashboard, budgets, transactions, goals, CSV import, and reports — no idealized screenshots of things that don't exist.
Easier to Find and Share
- **Proper link previews.** Every public page now has its own title, description, and share image, so a link to the site unfurls with a real preview in chats and social posts.
- **Friendlier to search engines and AI assistants.** The full FAQ answers are now rendered into the page itself, and the site describes itself with standard FAQ and web-app structured data — both help search engines and AI tools understand and cite it accurately.
- **Fixed a crawler-blocking bug.** Our sitemap and robots files were redirecting search engines to the login page, so the public site couldn't be indexed properly. They now point to the real public pages.