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[GH-ISSUE #5938] [Feature] Allow creating Schedules on mobile #79979
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Originally created by @rtbick on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/5938
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I would love to work on it if I knew how to develop mobile UI.
Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
In Actual, it is recommended that future transactions should be created as Schedules. Adding a transaction dated in the future is often undesirable because it is then included in calculating the account balance.
The mobile UI does not allow users to create Schedules. The current alternative on mobile is to add a transaction dated in the future, then go back and fix it on a PC later. This additional workflow overhead negates the value provided by the mobile UI.
Reducing user friction around managing transactions is important in a budgeting app, because it increases the likelihood the user will keep up with their budget. Therefore, it's important that key features such as schedules should be available on mobile devices.
Adding the entire Schedules page to the mobile UI is outside the scope of this feature request. I'm only requesting the ability to create schedules, so that future-dated transactions can be added correctly via mobile.
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
The Schedule creation could be integrated with the Add Transaction screen:
Alternatively, a separate "Create schedule" button could be added to the mobile toolbar instead of integrating it with "+ Transaction". This would directly show the Create Schedule menus instead of using a toggle. However, I feel that it is more intuitive to create a Schedule via the Transactions workflow, since a schedule is essentially an automated transaction.
Some Schedule options could be omitted to keep the mobile UI streamlined. The most important options are "Repeats" and its submenu options. Other features, such as the table listing matching transactions, could be limited to PC only.
Teaching and learning
There currently doesn't appear to be any documentation dedicated to the mobile UI in general. The mobile Schedules UI should be intuitive and supported by the current Schedules documentation.
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025):
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@youngcw commented on GitHub (Apr 9, 2026):
This was added a few months ago.