Planners and checklists

Maybe you've bought the guides. Maybe you've read the books. Now here's the part nobody tells you about moving to Spain: you also need somewhere to actually put all the numbers, dates, and decisions rattling around your head before they fall out.

These 25 tools are that somewhere. No app to download, no account to create, no inbox to hand over — just open one in your browser, fill it in, and download your own private copy whenever you want a backup. Everything you type stays on your device. We never see it, store it, or sell it to anyone — we're not even sure how we'd do that if we wanted to.

One honest note before you dive in: these are planning tools, not professional advice. Where numbers are involved — tax, costs, insurance — treat them as a sensible starting point for a conversation with your gestor, not a replacement for one.

One practical thing before you download. these are built for desktop and laptop browsers. Mobile browsers — Safari on iPhone especially — don't reliably save the files these tools generate. Open on a computer and everything (tabs, saving, downloading) works exactly as it should.

Every NIE, appointment, and emergency number you own, in one place — not eleven different notes apps.

Enter your move date, get a stage-by-stage countdown so nothing's left to the last week.

Answer five questions, see only the tax deadlines that actually apply to you.

The whole extranjería process, broken into stages you can actually follow.

Every document the DGT will ask for, plus a log so you never repeat a visit.

A budget built for IBI and comunidad fees, not generic "rent and groceries."

Compare every viewing side by side, before they all blur into one kitchen.

Budget, contractors, permits, and payments — so nothing gets paid twice.

See what your life actually costs in Spain vs. back home, by region.

The real cost of buying — ITP, notary, registro — not just the sticker price.

Your medications and medical history, in the Spanish your pharmacist actually needs.

Score Sanitas, Adeslas, and Asisa against what actually matters to you.

A quiet monthly check on how settling in is really going.

Your real confidence level, from "lost in a bakery" to fluent.

The words your textbook skipped: empadronamiento, gestoría, mercadillo.

Capture today's awkward conversation before it becomes tomorrow's forgotten lesson.

Your town's best bar, market, and mechanic — built by you, for visiting family.

National holidays plus your own local fiestas, so the shutters never surprise you again.

A proper CRM for the village you're building from scratch.

Five areas, one honest snapshot of how settling in is actually going.

Self-employment registration, step by step, minus the existential dread.

The day rate that actually covers your quota, plus an invoice tracker.

Applications, Spanish CV checklist, and interview prep — without forty open tabs.

50 experiences, 17 regions, one map that fills in as you go.

Every stop, sight, and fuel cost — sorted before you leave the driveway.