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Categories

Categories are the app's main instrument: both the buttons you record with and the axis every report is cut along.

Order

Tiles can be dragged: press one for half a second and move it. Keep the ones you use daily first — it saves seconds on every entry.

A monthly limit

A category can carry a monthly limit. The app shows what is left of it and warns when a category is on course to blow through before the month ends.

Colour and icon

Twelve colours and a large set of icons. Colour is not decoration: on the charts, colour is how you recognise your own categories.

Subcategories

A category can have a parent. Fuel and Repairs inside Car are counted both separately and together — a report on the parent includes its children.

A default account

A category can be tied to an account: groceries always leave the card, say. Then the account is already right when you record.

Old categories

A category you have stopped using is better archived than deleted: deleting takes its transaction history with it. An archived category disappears from the home screen while past months stay intact.

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