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📱 Now available on Web, iPhone, iPad, and Android

★ What You Get

Everything the binder did. Nothing it couldn’t.

Every feature, clearly labeled. Two honest plans — Lite and Pro — so you always know exactly what you’re getting.

Features tagged PRO are part of the Pro plan ($8.95/mo). Everything else is included in Lite ($3.95/mo). See the full side-by-side on the Pricing page.

★ Brand New · Live Bank Sync ★

🏦 Connect Your Bank — Your Transactions Import Themselves

No more downloading CSV files every week. Securely connect your bank or credit card once, and new transactions flow straight into your register — already matched to the right account, with smart duplicate protection so nothing gets logged twice, even against transactions you already imported by hand.

You choose the sync window — a single month, year-to-date, or a custom date range — and preview exactly what’s about to come in before you confirm anything. We never see or store your bank password: the connection is a secure, read-only, revocable link you can turn off anytime. Prefer to keep entering things by hand? CSV import still works exactly like it always has, on any account. Lite includes 1 account total (manual or synced); Pro includes up to 6. Live sync is included free with your plan — powered by Plaid, our secure connection partner.

✓ One-tap secure connect ✓ Pick your own sync date range ✓ Smart duplicate protection ✓ Read-only & revocable, anytime

★ Brand New · Nobody Else Does This ★

🧾 Track Sales Tax on Every Purchase — and File Schedule A With Confidence

Live in Washington, Texas, Florida, Nevada, Tennessee, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Alaska? You have no state income tax to deduct — but the IRS lets you deduct the sales tax you actually paid. Most people give up and take the IRS “standard table” estimate. We built a tool that quietly logs the real sales tax on every purchase, month after month, and hands you a print-ready summary at tax time.

Opt in with one tap — pick your state from the preset chips or type any rate. Live in Oregon, Delaware, Montana, or New Hampshire (no sales tax states)? Leave the feature off — it stays completely out of your way. Live in a state with income tax? You’ll want to compare which deduction saves you more; our summary makes that a five-minute decision instead of a shoebox nightmare. Included on both Lite and Pro — no upgrade needed.

✓ One-tap opt-in with 8 state presets ✓ Bulk back-fill on existing rows ✓ Monthly & vendor rollups ✓ Print-ready Schedule A worksheet
★ New for Launch

More Things That Make This Feel Different

Built specifically for people leaving Quicken, YNAB, or a hand-built spreadsheet — these are the everyday wins that show up the first week.

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Live Bank Sync NEW

Securely connect your bank once and new transactions import themselves — no more weekly CSV downloads. Pick your own sync date range, preview before you confirm, and smart duplicate protection means nothing ever gets logged twice. Read-only, revocable anytime. Lite includes 1 account total, Pro up to 6 — included free, powered by Plaid.

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Sales Tax Center NEW

One-tap opt-in with 8 state presets (WA · TX · FL · NV · TN · SD · WY · AK). A dedicated Sales Tax dashboard sums every dollar of sales tax you paid this year. Monthly totals, vendor rollups, and a print-ready Schedule A worksheet — feed IRS Schedule A without a shoebox of receipts. Includes a bulk back-fill tool for existing CSV history.

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Vendor Manager NEW

One tidy screen listing every vendor in your ledger. Rename “SQ *STARBUCKS #4482” to just “Starbucks” and every expense updates in a single tap. Merge duplicates. Delete typos. Auto-create Vendor Rules so future imports stay clean.

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Category Report by Account NEW

Pick any category (or ten), pick any accounts, pick any date range — get a clean, printable breakdown of exactly how much hit each bucket. Perfect for “how much did we really spend on groceries this year?” questions.

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AI Receipt Scanner PRO

Snap a photo of any receipt. The vendor, date, amount, and category fill themselves in — no typing. Every scan is saved to your private gallery for warranty and tax-time documentation.

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Recurring Transactions

Rent, Spotify, the gym, that streaming service you forgot about — set them up once. They appear every month automatically. Edit anytime; the change rolls forward, never backward.

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Bulk Reserve Sweep

Got paid? Split that deposit across every reserve at once — taxes, Christmas, vacation, insurance. Watch the source balance update live. One tap to undo the whole thing.

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Smart CSV Import

Importing the wrong CSV into the wrong account is a nightmare to undo. Our import scans the file before you confirm and warns you if the transactions look like they belong to a different account.

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Account Quick-Switch

Multiple accounts? Jump between them with a tap from the dashboard. Each one keeps its own categories, expenses, and reserves — but you stay in your flow.

PRO

Ready to Go Beyond the Monthly Budget?

Lite handles day-to-day budgeting beautifully. Pro adds the long-range tools for debt, net worth, and the years ahead.

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Debt Payoff Planner

List every debt, pick snowball or avalanche, and see your exact debt-free date — plus how much interest you save by paying it down faster.

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Net Worth Tracking

Every account, investment, and liability combined into one number, tracked over time — plus projections for how long your savings will last.

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The Long View

One long-range plan tying your whole financial picture together — income, debt, savings, and goals, years into the future.

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Cashflow Forecast

A day-by-day projection of your checking balance, so you can see a shortfall coming weeks before it happens — not after.

The System That’s Always Worked

The bones of the original Guidebook — translated to your phone, your way.

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Monthly planning

A fresh budget every month. Roll the previous month forward, copy a template, or start clean — your call.

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Unlimited categories

Groceries, fuel, dog food, giving — organize exactly how you actually spend, not how an app thinks you should.

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Reserves & envelopes

Money set aside for taxes, insurance, Christmas, vacation — treated like real money, not just a label. Watch them grow with each contribution.

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Multi-account ledger

Checking, savings, credit cards, cash — Lite includes 1 account total, Pro includes up to 6 (manual or live-synced, your choice).

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CSV bank import

Export from your bank, drag the CSV in, categorize with one click. Free, forever — no live connection required.

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Automatic Bank Sync — Optional

Connect your bank once and let it bring in your transactions automatically — pick your own sync date range, review before confirming. Included free with your plan, powered by our secure sync partner, Plaid. Prefer CSV import instead? It’s always free, too.

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Monthly dashboard & reports

A color-coded monthly dashboard and printable summaries — plain English, not accountant-speak. (Multi-year cash flow forecasting is part of Pro.)

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Print Center

Tax season, an attorney, a financial advisor — print or email any month, any year, with two taps. Your records on your terms.

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Built-in manual

Every screen has a help button. The whole user manual is one tap away — no Googling, no support tickets to learn the basics.

Trust, Built In

However you use it, your data and your privacy are always yours.

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Your bank login, never ours

CSV import or optional automatic bank sync — either way, we never see or store your bank password. Sync uses a secure, read-only, revocable connection, not a login, and you can disconnect anytime.

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Daily auto-backups

Your data is backed up daily and kept for 30 days. Export the whole thing as JSON anytime. Walk away whenever you want with everything.

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One person, one subscription

Each subscription covers one person — your account, your privacy. Family members who want their own finances need their own login. We don’t share or aggregate.

See it in action.

A quick walkthrough of every screen, before you decide.

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