UnMoney

For the last five years, Realbyte's Money Manager has been the first app I open after I spend anything, and I've loved every bit of it. Logging a spend takes seconds, the daily ledger makes sense at a glance, and the stats tell me exactly where my money went.

Two things kept nagging me, though. The biggest was the ads: every coffee I logged started with looking past a banner. The other was that the app had stopped growing. I wanted features that would take the effort out of recording my spends, so I wasn't typing every single one in by hand, and they never came.

So I gave myself a side quest: rebuild Money Manager from scratch, keep every screen and habit I'd grown used to over five years, and leave out the ads entirely. As a web app, it would run on my phone and my laptop alike, and nothing in it would sit behind a paywall.

I started by mapping the original screen by screen from its help centre, store listings and changelogs: every view, every flow, and a feature list ranked by what mattered. That map became the checklist I built against.

A money app you can't open in a basement or on a flight isn't much use, so UnMoney never waits for the network. Every screen renders from a copy of your data in IndexedDB, and every change is applied locally first and queued.

The same reducer runs in the browser and on the server, so a queued change means the same thing in both places. The queue drains in order once you're back online, and a change the server rejects is undone and explained instead of silently dropped.

Then came the feature I'd wanted for years. My bank already emails me about every payment, so why was I typing them in again? Gmail sync reads those mails and turns them into draft entries on the right day. Tap one to check it, save it, and it's in the ledger. Nothing counts until you say so.

Moving over took minutes: export from Money Manager, share the file to UnMoney, review the dry run, done. And when a spend is shared, UnMoney hands it to UnSplit and gets the split back.