Free financial coaching tools

The tools a Buzz money coach uses, free to use on your own: your money type, the Financial Freedom Score, the bank-connected Healthcheck and six calculators. Everything except the Healthcheck runs in your browser. A budgeting coach can take you through the results.

Money type and Financial Freedom Score

What's your money type?

Twenty statements and four types: Avoider, Chaser, Scorekeeper and Guard. Your result shows the beliefs behind your money decisions, what each is good for and what it costs you.

About 2 minutes · 20 statements

Financial Freedom Score

Twenty-two questions across eight areas of your money, scored out of 100, with the area to work on first.

About 7 minutes · 22 questions
If you do both, the Freedom Score reads your money type from your device and shows the two results together. Neither result is sent to us.

Bank-connected check

Financial Healthcheck

This one connects your bank read-only and sorts the last few months of spending automatically.

About 10 minutes to connect · free

Calculators

Survival budget calculator

Budgeting · Your minimum monthly costs, the headroom left over, and how many months your cash would cover.

Emergency fund calculator

Saving · Where you sit in the three-to-six-month range, what you hold now, and the monthly amount that closes the gap.

Debt payoff: snowball vs avalanche

Debt · What the snowball and avalanche methods each cost, in pounds and in years.

True cost of buying a home

Property · Stamp duty from the current bands, the Land Registry fee, searches, survey and first-year costs.

Check your tax code

Tax · What the letters and numbers on your payslip mean, and whether yours looks wrong.

Should you overpay your student loan?

Debt · Whether overpaying your student loan reduces what you repay.

Your data and our role

Your data

Every tool here runs entirely in your browser. Your answers, your figures and your results are never transmitted — the only thing we ever receive is an email address, and only if you type one in.

Coaching, not advice

None of these recommend a product, a provider or a debt solution. Where a decision needs regulated advice we say so, and can introduce you to Equity & General — optional, no obligation.

If money is a worry now

If money is a worry right now, MoneyHelper, StepChange and National Debtline are free, independent and better placed than we are. Go to them first.

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