About
Money is easier when you can see it.
Saving Diary keeps track of what you spend, what you are saving for, and what you owe, and then shows you the shape of it. No bank login to hand over, and no account to make before you start.
Why it exists
Most trackers ask for a lot before they do anything.
The usual trade is your bank login for a chart. You hand over the keys, wait for a connection to be approved, and get a feed of transactions that still needs sorting by hand. Somewhere in there a subscription screen arrives, before you have logged a single thing.
Saving Diary makes the smaller trade. You type in what you spent, which takes about five seconds, and a month of small entries turns into something you can read in one sitting. Without an account, everything you log stays on the phone you logged it on.
What you get back is the month in order: where it went, what you are putting aside, and who still owes who. That is the whole reason for writing it down, and it is the part a spreadsheet stops doing around week three.
How it is built
The rules it is built on.
Clear before clever.
A report you can read in ten seconds is worth more than one that needs explaining. Whatever the app puts in front of you has to make sense at a glance.
Miss a week and nothing scolds you.
No streaks to break, no red warnings, no numbers turning angry. A diary you feel bad about opening is a diary you stop opening.
What you log stays yours.
Your personal information is not for sale, and your records are never used to target advertising. We do not use them to train anything either.
Saving Diary is a personal record keeping app. What it suggests is general guidance, not personal financial advice, and it does not replace a licensed financial adviser.
What stays true
Four things that are not coming later.
A roadmap says what is next. This is the other half of it: the lines the app will not cross, whatever else gets built on top.
1
Ask for your bank login.
No bank connection and no automatic import, in this version or any later one. You log what you spend, and that is the trade the app makes.
2
Make you sign up first.
Install it and start logging. An account is what keeps two phones in step, and it stays your choice.
3
Sell what you logged.
Your records are not a product. Nobody buys them, and no advertiser gets to see them.
4
Lock up your old records.
Stop paying and nothing you logged disappears. The free limits come back and the tracker keeps working.
Who's behind it
A small studio, one careful app.
Saving Diary is made by Reksa Studio, a small team that would rather ship one careful app than ten loud ones. If something feels off, or right, write to us. We read everything.
Write to usIt is easier to try than to read about.
Know where your money goes.
Free to start, works offline, and there is nothing to sign up for.