A system beats a budget
A budget is a promise about the future. A ledger is a record of the past, and the past does not argue with you.
Household finance, properly kept
An income statement, a balance sheet and a net worth line for a household, across countries and currencies. Built on five years of running a real ledger, and published as an app, a set of spreadsheets, and everything we learned along the way.
Free to start. Your ledger stays yours.
651,735
Reconciled 31 Jul. Difference 0.00.
96,400
= AED 386,240 in base
Mortgage
(248,610)
The balance sheet
Everything you own and everything you owe, on one page, converted into the currency you think in. Not a number you typed. A number that falls out of the arithmetic once the accounts reconcile.
What it doesNet worth · AED
651,735
This month +3,700
Accounts in one country, a mortgage in another, and a salary that arrives in something else again. One base currency, one balance sheet, and a figure that means the same thing every month.
Four habits. Twenty minutes a month once it is running.
Matched
Net worth
651,735
This month +3,700
01
Income, expenses, and the transfers between your own accounts that most people never track. Type them, or import a statement and let the rules sort it.
02
Committed, living, chosen, one-offs. Eight buckets cut by how hard the money is to change, not by which shop it went to.
03
Type in what the account really holds. The gap is the size of what is missing, and it tells you what to look for.
04
An income statement, a balance sheet and a net worth line. Calculated, reconciled, and true rather than approximately true.
Reconciliation
Type in what the account really holds. If the figures differ, the size of the difference is the clue: a round number is usually a transfer you recorded as spending, a small one is a single missing row.
Matched
A budget is a promise about the future. A ledger is a record of the past, and the past does not argue with you.
Several currencies, accounts in more than one country, a mortgage somewhere you no longer live.
No streaks, no badges, no confetti. An income statement and a balance sheet that reconciles.
Two tracks: how to keep a household ledger well, and how to get the most out of the app.
If you hold money in more than one currency, your net worth moves every day for reasons that have nothing to do with you. Here is how to separate what you did from what the exchange rate did, and why that one split makes the number usable.
Most people set up a finance app in the wrong order, end up with a screen full of numbers that do not reconcile, and quietly stop. Here is the sequence that works, and why each step has to come before the next.
Most category lists are built to describe the past. A useful one is built to answer a question you will actually ask. Seven rules from five years of keeping a household ledger.
Pricing
The ledger itself is free and stays free. Everything a household with more than one currency needs sits in one subscription, priced for the region you live in.
One person, one currency. Enough to run a household properly.
Free
Two people, several currencies, property and a mortgage.
AED 199 / year
AED 16.58 a month, billed yearly. Or AED 24.99 month to month.
€49 / year
€4.08 a month, billed yearly. Or €5.99 month to month.
$49 / year
$4.08 a month, billed yearly. Or $5.99 month to month.
₹1,999 / year
₹167 a month, billed yearly. Or ₹249 month to month.
The same thing, paid once. For people who would rather not rent software.
AED 549 once
Pays for itself in about three years.
€139 once
Pays for itself in about three years.
$139 once
Pays for itself in about three years.
₹4,999 once
Pays for itself in about three years.
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