I ditched budgeting apps and just chat with an AI about my account balances once a month. Planning to build the app version of that.
I've tried every budgeting app. Even, the fancy ones with the nice charts, all of them. After some time I quit every single one for the same reason: I'm too lazy to log every transaction, it's too tedious for me and I don't actually care where every single…
I've tried every budgeting app. Even, the fancy ones with the nice charts, all of them. After some time I quit every single one for the same reason: I'm too lazy to log every transaction, it's too tedious for me and I don't actually care where every single dollar went. I only care about my net worth, like am I ahead or behind on my goals? and what should I do next. So for the past year I've done something dumb-simple instead. Once a month I open an AI chat, paste in my account balances (bank, stocks, crypto), and ask: am I on track for my goals, and what's the single best move right now? No categories, no receipts. And it's worked better than any app I've used. The problem is the chat has no memory. It forgets my goals, it can't project when I'll actually hit them, and it never keeps score on whether the move it gave me last month actually worked. Every session starts from zero. So I'm building the app version of my own workflow: Add your accounts, set a goal (house, $1M, a year of runway). You update your totals now and then, and it projects when you'll actually hit each one based on your real saving pace. Every check-in it tells you what changed, whether you're ahead or behind, and the one move that helps most. You can pull any group of accounts into a chat to strategize ("is my crypto too heavy?"). It remembers every decision and shows whether it actually grew your money. Everything stays on your phone. I already do the manual version in Claude though it's kinda disorganized, so my honest question: would you actually use a dedicated app for this? And if you'd use it, what would make it worth switching? Brutal feedback welcome.
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I’d use this if the app focused on net worth decisions instead of transaction tracking. The biggest value would be: monthly balance snapshots goal projections “what changed since last month” allocation warnings, especially if one asset like crypto gets too heavy memory of past decisions and whether they helped I wouldn’t want another budgeting app. I’d want a monthly financial check-in app that tells me if I’m on track and what one move matters most.
Definitely, I got tired of tracking transactions since it feels like homework. Net worth decisions is definitely the way to go
Thanks man!
Yup these designs are just quick mock ups of what the app idea is like but yeah I do a similar thing for my existing app
I don’t see one where you could talk to your accounts, can you link one?
Exactly. Transaction tracking turns into homework fast. A monthly check-in would feel way more useful: net worth change, biggest driver, allocation drift, and one suggested action. Would you make it more like a passive dashboard, or an active monthly summary that tells users what changed?
I would do it Im recently going through something similar where I had an entire flow for counting calories and how much calories im burning with Claude (With only the info I need, not overcomplicating it like most current apps), im halfway creating it but it already is usable and has made my own life much easier So I suggest you do it even if its only for yourself, it sounds very useful
I see many apps posted on Reddit regularly that solve exactly this or adjacent issues
Many apps in India provide an account aggregator to make that
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