Free Feature

View Period

The view period controls how period-based screens — Home, Reports, and Transactions — group your data. It acts as a lens: Monthly, Weekly (a 7-day window), Biweekly (a 14-day window), or Semi-monthly (two periods each calendar month, split on two days you choose). Weekly and biweekly default to starting on Monday, but you can change where each one begins to match how you get paid; semi-monthly defaults to splitting on the 1st and 16th.

View period works together with your budget period: budget period determines how your spending limits are calculated, while view period controls the window of data displayed. You can change it any time.

This is especially useful if you think in weeks or pay periods rather than calendar months.

How to change your view period

1. Open Pocket Clear and go to Settings.
2. Tap View Period.
3. Choose Monthly, Weekly, Biweekly, or Semi-monthly.
4. In Weekly mode, use Week starts on to pick any weekday (for example, if your pay week starts on Wednesday). In Biweekly mode, use Biweekly starts on to pick the date your fortnight begins — the 14-day windows are counted from there.
5. If you choose Semi-monthly for either View Period or Budget Period, a Semi-monthly Days row appears in Settings. Open it to set the two days your month splits on — for example, if you're paid on the 15th and the 30th, choose those two days. The two days can never be the same, and a day past the 28th shifts to the last day of shorter months, so a day set to 30 shows as the 28th in February.
6. Home, Reports, and Transactions update immediately to the selected period.

All of these start settings are saved on your device. If you never change them, weekly and biweekly stay on their original Monday-aligned windows, and semi-monthly stays on the 1st and 16th, exactly as before.

Semi-monthly vs. biweekly

These two are easy to mix up, but they behave very differently — this is the whole reason semi-monthly exists as a separate option:

• Biweekly is a fixed 14-day cycle — 26 periods a year — and it drifts relative to a monthly pay date. Anchored to the 15th, it slips by about a day every cycle: Jul 15–28, then Jul 29–Aug 11, then Aug 12–25, and so on.
• Semi-monthly is 24 periods a year and stays put on the two days you choose. It never drifts.

If you're paid on the 15th and the 30th, biweekly will not stay aligned to those dates — choose Semi-monthly and set your two days to 15 and 30 instead.

One thing worth knowing: like the biweekly start day, your semi-monthly days are saved on your device only, not synced through your account. If you and a partner share a budget, each of you sets your own days — so the same shared budget can be measured over a different window on each phone.

Looking for a custom date range?

To view transactions across an arbitrary range of dates, use All Transactions (tap "See all" from the Home screen): as of v1.90 you can pick a quick range — Last 3 months, Last 6 months, or This year — or set a custom start and end date with the date filter. The list and totals update to cover the whole selected range.

View period vs. budget period

• View period — what you see on the Home screen. A display filter only.
• Budget period — how your budget limits and spending totals are calculated. Set in Settings.
• Changing one does not affect the other.