Voice entry

The microphone button on the home screen records an expense from speech. Say the amount and the category: "two hundred pesos groceries", "fifteen hundred fuel".

What it understands

• Amounts, as digits or words.
• A category name, or something close to it — the app remembers your wording and recognises it immediately next time.
• A currency: say "a hundred dollars" and the money leaves your dollar account rather than the main one.

Language

Recognition works in one language at a time — browsers cannot detect the language on the fly. The dictation language is chosen in the recording sheet and remembered. If you spoke another language and it did not understand, it offers to try again in that one.

If it does not work

• Allow microphone access in the browser; without it the button does nothing.
• Voice entry does not exist in every browser. Chrome on Android is the most reliable.
• If it did not catch the amount it says so plainly rather than guessing.

Privacy

The recognition is done by the browser. The app stores only the parsed result — the amount, the category, and your wording if you agreed to remember it. No audio is sent anywhere or kept.

What actually leaves for the recognition

Worth knowing before the first tap, and the app asks about it separately, once.

Speech is recognised by the browser, not by us. The recording goes to its maker's servers — Google, in Chrome — and is turned into text there. We neither receive nor store any audio. The app records the parsed result: the amount, the category and, if you agreed to keep it, your own phrasing.

If that is not acceptable, voice does not have to be switched on — everything else works without it.

Currency, said out loud

Say "a hundred dollars" and the expense leaves the dollar account rather than the main one. If there is no account in that currency, the app says so plainly and asks you to pick one: the amount is recorded in that account's currency rather than quietly converted.

A case of its own is a word that names several currencies at once. "Peso" is Argentine, Mexican, Chilean; the app does not guess, it asks which account.

If the category was not recognised

It says so directly: did not catch the category, pick it once. You pick, and from then on the app remembers your exact phrasing. A week later "petrol" lands in Transport without asking.

The amount is never guessed. If it was not heard clearly the app says so and offers to repeat, rather than recording something at random.

What the app stores and what it does not, and how manual tracking differs from a bank connection — in is it safe to track your money in an app.