Bring the history
Statement imports carry years of rows in with their dates, amounts and currencies intact. Or start clean this month and keep the old file as the archive.
Every account, every currency, everyone in the house
A bank shows one account. It cannot see the account at the other bank, the salary that lands in another name, the investments, the flat, or the mortgage against it. Put all of it in one place and the answer is a single figure, checked against the real balances every month.
Free to start. Your ledger stays yours.
268,430
Reconciled 10 Aug. Difference 0.00.
147,073 → 268,430 · 2024–2026
What it adds up from
96,400
= USD 105,558 in base
Mortgage
(67,343)
Checked against the bank every month. 0.00, or it says so.
Thirty currencies, one figure.
Five years of the maker's own ledger behind it.
The balance sheet
Everything the household owns and everything it owes, on one page, converted into the currency you think in. It is not a number anybody typed in. It is worked out from the accounts themselves, and it has to match the bank before it counts.
What it doesOwns
Owes
Net worth268,430
Balances held in one country, a mortgage registered in another, and income that arrives in a third. Each account is kept in the currency it is actually denominated in and translated into the base currency you choose, so every total is stated on the same basis, month after month.
Four steps. Twenty minutes a month once it is running.
Matched
Income statement
Balance sheet
Net worth, 32 months
01
Forward the confirmation text the bank already sends and it is read automatically, then held for approval before anything moves. Import the statement your bank exports, or the file from your broker. Or type the amount in four seconds. Connecting a bank directly is not built yet.
02
Committed, living, chosen, one-offs. Four groups cut by how hard the money is to change, not by which shop it went to. The first weeks are worth the attention. After that there is enough history behind it that new transactions arrive already sorted, and the job is correcting the odd one.
03
Once a month, type in what each account really holds. If it agrees, everything is in. If it does not, the size of the difference tells you what to look for.
04
What came in and what went out. What the household owns and what it owes. And the net worth line, month after month.
Beyond the bank account
The flat, the car, a portfolio you rarely look at, gold sitting in a drawer. On the other side, the mortgage, the car loan, the card you are still paying down. Both belong on the same page, because owning a house you owe most of is not the same as owning it.
What you can put on the left
And on the right
For two
Most money apps are built for one person, with a second allowed to look. This one starts from the household. Every account carries its owner, a transaction belongs to a person or to the house, and who sees what is up to the owner. The figure at the bottom is the same for both.
See the Household tierOne net worth, both names.
Leaving the spreadsheet
Statement imports carry years of rows in with their dates, amounts and currencies intact. Or start clean this month and keep the old file as the archive.
Each account is named once and given its currency. That is the whole setup.
From then on there is one ledger instead of one file. It gets checked against the bank, not against memory, and nobody emails a spreadsheet to anybody.
Prefer the spreadsheet after all? It exists, and the basic one is free.See the spreadsheet →
A budget is a promise about the future. A ledger is a record of the past, and the past does not argue with you.
One current account in one currency, or accounts in three countries with a mortgage somewhere nobody lives any more. Same ledger, same balance sheet, same monthly reconcile.
No streaks, no badges, no confetti. An income statement and a balance sheet that reconciles.
Twelve months, and one of them below the line. Aug cost more than it earned, and the ledger simply says so.
Two tracks: how to keep a household ledger well, and how to get the most out of the app.
How Cifrea reads a broker statement PDF, why it records a month-end value rather than a live price, and what to do if your broker lays the page out differently.
Booking the whole payment as an expense overstates what your home costs, by a share that changes every year. Here is the split, and what else it costs.
Almost everyone computes it wrong, and two mistakes account for nearly all of it. Here is the definition that survives contact with a real ledger.
A ledger nobody checks against the bank is a story about your money, not a record of it. What reconciling is, when to do it, and what a gap means.
Pricing
Keeping one account is free for as long as you want it. Adding the rest of the household, the property, the investments and the debt is what the paid tiers are for.
One account, one person. Money in, money out.
Free
One person, nothing held back.
$59 / year
$4.92 a month, billed yearly. Or $6.99 month to month.
€59 / year
€4.92 a month, billed yearly. Or €6.99 month to month.
AED 219 / year
AED 18.25 a month, billed yearly. Or AED 25.99 month to month.
₹2,399 / year
₹200 a month, billed yearly. Or ₹299 month to month.
Everything in Plus, for up to four people.
$99 / year
$8.25 a month, billed yearly. Or $10.99 month to month.
€99 / year
€8.25 a month, billed yearly. Or €10.99 month to month.
AED 369 / year
AED 30.75 a month, billed yearly. Or AED 42.99 month to month.
₹3,999 / year
₹333 a month, billed yearly. Or ₹449 month to month.
No limit on people, paid once, and every update for as long as the app exists.
$599 once
One payment. Nothing renews.
€599 once
One payment. Nothing renews.
AED 2,199 once
One payment. Nothing renews.
₹21,999 once
One payment. Nothing renews.
Free money apps are paid for somehow, usually with the data. Here the household pays, so the household is the customer: no ads, nothing sold on, and the ledger exports whole whenever leaving looks better. How the data is handled →
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