Daily SpendPersonal expense book
Features

Everything it does, in the order you will meet it.

No feature list padding. If something is not here, it is because the app does not do it — and there is a section at the bottom that says so plainly.


01Putting money in

Entry is the part you do three hundred times a year.

One row, four fields

Date, amount, category, how you paid, and a note if you want one. Press Enter and it files; the date stays where it was so a backlog of six receipts is six quick presses.

A keypad on the phone

Tap the plus, a full-height sheet comes up with a proper number pad, category chips and payment chips. No fiddling with a tiny field and the wrong keyboard.

Amount shorthand

Type 2.5k and it files 2,500. Type 1.2L and it files 1,20,000. Paste 12,345 from anywhere and the commas are ignored.

Indian digit grouping

1,31,000 reads as a lakh and thirty-one thousand, because that is how you read it. Switch it to western grouping in Settings if you would rather see 131,000.

02Budgets and scoring

A limit per category, and a verdict you can argue with.

Every category has its own limit

And its own colour, which follows it through every chart. A category with no limit still gets tracked — it simply never scores.

Three states, and you set the thresholds

On track, watch, over. By default that is 80% and 100% of budget, but they are two fields in Settings and you should move them until the colours mean something to you.

Pace against the calendar

Spending is not even across a month, but an even line is still the most useful comparison there is. The app tells you how far ahead or behind it you are, in rupees, today.

Projected month end

Your daily average multiplied by the days in the month. Crude on the second, sharp by the fifteenth, and it is the figure that makes people change course.

Budgets from your own history

One button reads your last six months and fills every budget with what you actually spend, rounded. Far better than a number you invented.

A flag for large one-offs

Anything over a figure you choose gets marked in the list, so a single big payment does not quietly explain a whole bad month without you noticing.

03The dashboard

Six views, each answering one question.

ViewThe question it answers
Monthly spendAm I getting worse? Bars for six, twelve or twenty-four months with your budget drawn across them. Over-budget months go red.
Day by dayWhere did this month go wrong? A cumulative line against an even pace, so you can see the week it went sideways.
Category shareWhat is actually eating the money? A ring with the eight biggest, everything smaller grouped.
How it was paidHow much of this is on a card I have not paid yet? Split by cash, UPI, cards and transfers.
Biggest this monthWhat were the ten payments that mattered? With the date, category and mode on each.
Category by monthWhich line item is drifting? A grid of every category against every month, with totals.
the dashboard
The dashboard: a twelve-month bar chart with the budget line, a cumulative pace curve, a category ring and a payment split.
04Finding things again

A ledger is only worth keeping if you can search it.

Search everything

Notes, categories, payment modes and amounts, as you type.

Filter and range

Narrow by category or payment mode, or set a From and To date to look straight across months.

Grouped by day on the phone

With a running total for each day, and Today and Yesterday named rather than dated.

05Getting it out

Five ways, none of which need our permission.

Spreadsheet

Three tabs: every expense, this month against its budgets, and a category-by-month grid.

CSV

This month or everything, for anything that eats CSV.

Picture

A PNG of the screen, for sending to somebody on a message app.

PDF

Print, or save as PDF. The edit controls are never in it.

Backup file

One JSON file holding every expense, category, budget and setting. It restores into either version.

Restore

The same screen reads a backup back in, from this app or from the other edition.

06Small things that matter

Every card opens its own setting

Hover a card and a small pencil appears. It opens the exact setting behind that card — a category row takes you to that category's budget, with the cursor already in it.

Dark by default, light for printing

One button in the header. The light theme exists mostly so a printed sheet does not drink a cartridge.

A blank is not a zero

A month with nothing in it reads as no data, not as nothing spent. The distinction matters when you look back a year later.

It remembers where you were

Theme, month, and the tab you had open. Close it and come back to the same screen.

Swipe between months

On the phone, left and right on the home and stats screens.

Sample data on demand

Six months of invented figures, one button, so you can see how it behaves before trusting it with anything real — and one button to clear it again.


07What it does not do

The list nobody else publishes.

It does not track income

Spending only. Adding income turns it into a personal accounting system, and personal accounting systems are the ones people stop opening.

It does not connect to your bank

No account aggregation, no SMS reading, no UPI hook. Everything is typed in. That is the price of having nothing of yours on anybody's server.

The free edition does not sync

Each device keeps its own book. Moving between them means writing a backup and restoring it.

The free edition takes no photographs

Receipt images need somewhere to live that is not your phone's storage. That is a cloud feature.

No multi-currency

One currency symbol, set by you. It will not convert anything.

No reminders on its own

Nothing here is awake when the page is closed. A nudge when a category is about to go over needs a server, which is the cloud version.

One more, and it is the important one. Everything you type lives in one browser on one device. Clearing your browsing data, reinstalling the browser, or losing the phone loses the lot. Write a backup regularly and keep it somewhere else.