Ahead.money
Tax-aware money forecasting for Australians · Get the app →

See your money
ahead of time.

Ahead answers one question: can you afford what's coming? It forecasts your real income, bills and estimated tax on the accounts you already have. No new bank, no rerouting your pay.

Read-only bank access via Australia's Consumer Data Right (CDR), powered by Fiskil.

Forecast · 3 mo history + 8 mo ahead

Today

$18,400

8 months ahead

$22.3k

Net change

$3,910

$24.3k$21.3k$18.3k$15.3kFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanToday$22.3k

Ask a what-if

Illustrative. Real forecasts use your verified bank account history.

A look inside

Designed to be lived in.

This is the actual app. It's dark by default, and every number in it is your own.

Ahead app: Forecast screen
Forecast
Ahead app: Ask what-if screen
Ask what-if
Ahead app: Scenarios screen
Scenarios
Ahead app: Cash on hand screen
Cash on hand

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The problem

Every other money app looks backwards.

They sort what you've already spent and tell you if you went over. That's fine as far as it goes. But it won't tell you whether you can afford what's coming, or whether enough is set aside for the next BAS. Ahead looks forward. You ask a question and see the answer worked through on your own numbers.

What happens to my mortgage if rates rise 1%?

Turn on the rate scenario and Ahead shows which months get tight, and by how much, using your actual repayments.

Am I putting enough aside for tax?

Ahead shows your estimated sole-trader tax position as you earn, how your set-aside is tracking, and a weekly figure that would close the gap. All estimates, from your own data.

If my partner goes part-time, when does it bite?

Lower their income and Ahead works out how long your money lasts, and when it starts to pinch.

Spare cash into the offset, or the deposit?

Ahead runs both with your numbers, side by side, so you can see each path before you choose.

Could we afford a second kid in 18 months?

Add daycare and a year on a lower income, and see how it plays out before you commit.

What's actually safe to spend this week?

Every time you open the app, the first thing you see is the verdict: whether you can afford what's coming, and your cash on hand against the warning line you set.

What Ahead is

What you actually get.

Ask it
in plain English.

Type a what-if like “what if rates rise 1%?” or “can we afford a baby in 18 months?” and watch the forecast redraw with the change in place. Flip scenarios on and off as often as you like.

Your real
bank data.

You connect once, read-only. Fiskil, an ACCC-accredited CDR principal, collects your bank data under Australia's CDR and shares it with us as its CDR Representative. We can't touch your money, and your data stays in Australia.

Australian.
Tax-aware.

Built for how money works here: your mortgage and offset, your HECS, your BAS and PAYG dates on the forecast, with the tax you'd want set aside shown as an estimate you can adjust.

The forecast

A live picture
of where you're going.

Ahead watches your real income, bills and spending, then projects them forward. Every detected bill and pay day lands on the day it's due, so you can see where your balance sits day by day, up to a year out.

  • Recurring detection. Salary, rent, mortgage, streaming. Automatically recognised and forecast, on their real cadence.
  • Tax on the timeline. BAS and PAYG land on their due dates, or accrue steadily if you prefer. Estimates you can adjust, never a surprise dip.
  • Ask a what-if. Type a change in plain English, or flip a scenario toggle, and the forecast redraws on the spot.
  • Your warning line. Set your own cash warning line and see when the forecast dips towards it, weeks before it happens.
  • A streak worth keeping. Every week you stay above your line adds to your safe-weeks streak, with one forgiven week when life happens. A weekly wrap sums up what changed.

Projected · 90 days

↑ 6.3%

$21,660

Bills next 30d

$3,840

11 recurring · 2 detected this month

Spare cash, weekly

$420

After bills · before discretionary

Tax set-aside · est. $9,400

BAS due 28 Oct
$6,000 put aside estimate · +$85 a week closes the gap

Scenario stack

Holiday in Japan, March

−$4,200 across 3 weeks

Switch jobs, +$1,200/mo

Starts month 3

Another kid, +$1,400/mo

Daycare and the rest

Save $500/mo more

From next payday

Sell old car, +$14,000 once

Apr 2026

12-month outcome

$26,840

↑ $2,860 vs baseline

Scenario modelling

Layer the life moves
you're thinking about.

A new job, a baby, a car, a rate rise, a long holiday. Turn on any of them, in any combination, and Ahead redoes the whole forecast so you can see what changes, and when.

  • One-off events. Big trip, tax refund, car sale, surgery, wedding
  • Recurring changes. Income, rent, subscriptions, mortgage rate
  • Instant toggles. Flip a scenario on or off and the forecast redraws straight away
  • Against your baseline. Every combination shows the change against your current path

How it works

Identify. Project. Layer scenarios.

The whole product, in three steps.

01

Identify

Connect your accounts and Ahead works out your real income and expenses on its own, across every bank you use.

02

Project

Ahead rolls your income, bills and estimated tax forward, up to twelve months, so you can see your balance day by day.

03

Layer scenarios

Add what-ifs on top, like a new car, another kid, a pay rise or a holiday, and the forecast updates as you go.

Where Ahead fits

Not another budgeting app.

Capability Tracker apps Ahead
Sorts spending, essential vs non-essential
Projects forward 12 months ·
What-if questions in plain English ·
Estimated tax position and set-aside tracking ·
BAS and PAYG dates on the forecast ·
Works with Australian bank data (CDR) some
Net position incl. offset and estimated tax partial

Security & trust

Consent-first. Read-only.
Built for trust.

Ahead never sees your bank password. Your bank data is shared, read-only, through Australia's Consumer Data Right (CDR), and collected on our behalf by Fiskil, an accredited CDR principal.

CDR access

Ahead is a CDR Representative of Fiskil, an ACCC-accredited CDR principal. Fiskil collects and discloses your bank data under Australia's CDR, regulated by the ACCC.

Read-only access

Ahead can see your transactions and balances. It cannot move money, change settings, or sign you up to anything.

Hosted in Australia

Your data is stored in Sydney and never leaves the country. Encrypted in transit and at rest.

Revoke anytime

Disconnect a bank in one tap. Your data is purged on request. Your account, your call.

Architecture is designed for multi-region expansion (UK, EU, US, Canada) and multi-language support.

Pricing

From $16.58 a month.
Cancel in two taps.

One plan. $199 a year, which works out to $16.58 a month, or $25 month to month. No trial and no lock-in. We only make money if you keep paying, and you'll only keep paying if it's worth it.

What you can count on

  • Your bank data is shared read-only under Australia's Consumer Data Right (CDR).
  • Ahead is a CDR Representative of Fiskil, an ACCC-accredited CDR principal.
  • Hosted in Australia (Sydney). Your data never leaves the country.
  • We can't touch your money.
  • Revoke your consent in two taps. Cancel your subscription in two taps.
  • No ads. No data sold to anyone.

Stop guessing.

Start planning. Built around your real bank accounts, in plain Australian English.