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This is something I kept bumping into when building my own tracker (Simple Wallet - https://simplewallet.app).

You're right that "$100 at a supermarket" is useless but I found even knowing "I spent $400 on groceries" wasn't that useful either. I kept asking myself "okay, but on what?"

So I leaned hard into making categories the starting point instead of the endpoint. Groceries breaks down into what I'm actually buying. Turns out I was spending way more on coffee than I realized.

Did you ever consider going deeper into categories, or do you find users just want the high level view? I've been torn on how much detail is actually helpful vs. overwhelming.

Very simple expense tracker. I like it.

This is the same idea I had building Simple Wallet (https://simplewallet.app). I didn’t want a budgeting app telling how and where to spend. I simply wanted an app to track and organize my money.

I’ve been thinking about how to visualize money. I don’t think pie charts are the way to go. I’m thinking something like RuleMark on SwiftUI.

Asked ChatGPT to explain like I’m 5. This is what it produced.

“ Okay! Imagine that you have a big robot in your head that knows a lot about lots of different things. Sometimes, the robot might make mistakes or say things that aren't true. The proposed method is like a way to ask the robot questions and figure out what it knows, even if it says something that isn't true. We do this by looking inside the robot's head and finding patterns that make sense, like if we ask the robot if something is true and then ask if the opposite of that thing is true, the robot should say "yes" and then "no." Using this method, we can find out what the robot knows, even if it sometimes makes mistakes.”

$9.99/month 4 years ago

Currently I’m working on a app that helps you keep track of your spending including subscriptions. I myself ran into this problem of what/where my money is going.

Keeping track of spending habits is hard to see just from looking at your bank transactions.