Privacy-Focused Money Managers
Many popular money managers ask you to connect your bank, create an account, and hand over your transaction history to the cloud. If that trade-off makes you uncomfortable, a privacy-focused, offline-first tracker is a better fit.
- No bank connection and no transaction scraping
- No account required to start tracking
- Local SQLite storage inside the app sandbox
- Optional PIN or biometric app lock
What "privacy-focused" should mean
A truly private money manager keeps your data on your device, does not require an account, and does not profile your spending. Expense Lite is built around exactly these principles.
How Expense Lite compares
Expense Lite stores everything in a local SQLite database on your device. There is no account, no bank connection, and no cloud by default. You enter transactions yourself, so nothing is scraped or uploaded without your action.