Mindful Shopping, Guilt-Free Living
Guilt Gauge is a free, privacy-focused web tool designed to help you overcome shopping guilt and buyer's remorse by promoting mindful spending habits. It transforms vague feelings of regret into actionable insights through personalized tracking and pattern analysis.
Target users include impulse buyers and anyone experiencing emotional regret after purchases. The platform emphasizes emotional tracking to foster a healthier relationship with shopping—without ads, premium features, or data selling. Everything processes locally on your device.
Generates a customized score for each purchase based on factors like emotional state, spending amount, and context.
Log details of buys (item, cost, mood before/after) to build a comprehensive history of your spending patterns.
Receive tailored recommendations for specific scenarios like holiday gifting, tech gadgets, or fashion shopping.
Access blog content on shopping psychology and challenges for overcoming shopping addiction.
Visualize how regret evolves over time and identify emotional triggers in your spending habits.
No account creation required. All data stays on your device—never sent to servers.
No mobile app needed — Guilt Gauge is fully web-accessible and works on any device with a modern browser.
Traditional budgeting apps focus on the numbers, but Guilt Gauge addresses the emotional side of spending. By quantifying post-purchase guilt, it helps you:
Drawing on shopping psychology research, Guilt Gauge turns abstract feelings into concrete data, empowering you to make better choices without judgment or pressure.