Ever wish your budgeting app could help you not just manage your money today, but see your financial future?
Well… now it can!
Lunch Money × ProjectionLab is here 🎉
We’ve teamed up to launch a free Chrome extension* that connects your Lunch Money data with ProjectionLab, a powerful long-term financial planning and simulation tool. Plus, read on to find an exclusive welcome offer for Lunch Money users new to ProjectionLab.
* Setup tip: Plugins must be enabled in your ProjectionLab Account Settings before adding the Chrome Extension (requires a paid ProjectionLab plan).
What Is ProjectionLab?
ProjectionLab is a financial planning tool that helps you model your financial future. From retirement timing and taxes to cash-flow needs and big life decisions, it lets you explore detailed “what if” scenarios based on your real numbers. With this integration, you can turn your Lunch Money budgeting into meaningful long-term projections (endless versions), without any reporting or extra work.
Shared vision
Lunch Money shares a similar origin story with ProjectionLab. We both started as independent, bootstrapped tools, built by solopreneurs who wanted a better way to manage their own finances and decided to create it themselves.
Our founder, Jen, met Kyle early in both of their respective journeys and, over time, recognized how each platform could support the other’s users. At FinCon 2025, that understanding turned into an idea: to bring their teams together to build something both communities had been asking for.
Why the crossover episode? 📺
Simply put, Lunch Money and ProjectionLab are complementary by design. Each addresses a different part of the same financial journey, and users should benefit from both.
Lunch Money focuses on real-time budgeting, helping you understand and manage where your money goes. ProjectionLab builds on that clarity by helping you plan ahead, estimate your tax liability, and explore “what if” scenarios.
We also share similar values. Both Lunch Money and ProjectionLab are focused on helping people feel more in control of their finances rather than chasing growth-at-all-costs metrics. And whether it’s new ideas or ongoing improvements, we’re both guided by community feedback. This partnership is no exception. It exists because we listened.
We’re like two sides of the same penny, filling different roles and together offering a clearer financial picture.
A launch perk just for our community 🎉
To mark the launch of our official partnership, Lunch Money users new to ProjectionLab will get $30 off an annual ProjectionLab subscription using this link.
Consider it an invitation to take the financial foundation you’ve already built in your Lunch Money budget and see what it can do next.
If you’d like to be part of the conversation, you can join us in the Lunch Money Discord and the ProjectionLab Discord. There you can share ideas, ask questions, and help shape what comes next.
Here’s to a new year, clearer finances, and exploring what’s possible. Together. 🥂
