I’ve been using Tiller for the past five years to track my finances. I love the service because they do the hard part (integrate with financial data platforms to import your transaction data) and provide straightforward spreadsheet templates to make managing your finances easier.

Recently, I’ve come to realize that their lack of a native mobile app keeps me more disconnected from my finances than I would like.

One of the reasons why I started learning SwiftUI last year was that: I have dozens ideas for little apps that would make my life better.

This past month, I’ve started to put what I’ve learned into practice to build my first (personal) app, Tend.

Tend is really simple: It connects to a Google Sheet, then it shows me my list of categories and does some math to show the remaining daily/weekly/monthly amounts. It also shows me a list of all my uncategorized transactions and lets me quickly categorize them.

If other people are interested, one day I plan to make it more widely available, but for now it’s been useful (and fun!) to have an app that helps me track my finances more frequently than I normally would, which has usually been only a couple times a month.