Why Expense Trail exists
Independent, privacy-first manual money tracking without ads or bank scraping.
We built Expense Trail for people who want software from humans—not another engagement dashboard that sells your attention or transaction patterns.
Problem we saw
Finance apps often demand bank credentials, show ads, or nudge financial products. Household money is sensitive—you should choose what syncs, who sees what, and whether the cloud can read your ledger.
What we deliberately do not do
- Bank linking or scraping — you log what matters; we do not pull statements.
- Ads or selling spending data for advertising.
- Receipt OCR unless we ship it—attachments are photos/PDFs you store.
- Tax or investment advice — we help you record and export, not file returns.
What we do
Manual quick-add, wallets, categories, budgets, goals, splits, household sharing, encrypted export, optional E2EE sync, LAN sync, widgets, and geofence reminders—on iOS, Android, and web.
Read more on expensetrail.app/about and Security.
Privacy tiers explained
Guest (local), standard sync, and optional E2EE—pick your tradeoff.
Expense Trail FAQ
Answers to every common question — free vs paid, ads, accounts, bank linking, income tracking, budgets, wallets, tags, reports, goals, splits, household, E2EE, LAN sync, backups, widgets, geofence, and more.