Where Does Lunch Money Store Budgets and Data?
Lunch Money keeps budgets in your account cloud with CSV export and an API, while devices hold session plus cache.
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Lunch Money is a web-first budget with phone companions. Transactions, categories, and recurring items live in your Lunch Money account. Apps cache recent activity for offline entry. Imports run server side.
Same email means same budget. Exact cache folders shift with releases, so check App info for the installed package label before digging. For moves, sign in and let sync finish. Developers get a real API, which beats screen scraping for custom reports.
Where Lunch Money stores this, by platform
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/[lunchmoney-package]/files
Budgets follow your Lunch Money login across web and mobile. The phone holds working copies plus cache. Export CSVs from the web app for archives.
On My iPhone/Lunch Money
Same account sync model as Android. Categories and recurring items restore on login. Reinstalls never touch the cloud ledger.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Lunch Money to a new device?
Sign in on the new device and budgets download from your account. Bank links refresh server side. Confirm categories before wiping the old device. API tokens need recreating only when you use third party tools.
How do I export Lunch Money transactions?
Open the web app transactions page and export to CSV for archiving. The developer API pulls the same data programmatically. Device caches hold no master ledger, so exports are snapshots for spreadsheets.
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