Jotter: Bill & Expense Tracker
Budget Planner & Savings Goal
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Free to download, free to keep using. Jotter Pro adds eleven insights, budgets and savings goals, with a 7-day trial. No ads and no bank logins, ever.
Jotter is a small, quiet expense book for people who want to know exactly where their money went, and who would rather type it in themselves.
Free to download. No ads, no bank logins, and your spending never leaves your phone.
WHY TYPE IT IN YOURSELF
Most money apps connect to your bank and do the work for you. The trouble is that you stop noticing. Jotter takes the opposite line. You log each spend by hand, it takes about ten seconds, and it makes you actually look at the number.
Noticing is most of the trick.
FREE, FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE
• Unlimited expenses, no cap and no nagging
• Built-in categories with icons
• Recurring bills and subscriptions that log themselves
• The spending calendar, with daily and monthly totals
• CSV and PDF export, any time, so your data is never stuck
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• Works fully offline, on a plane or underground
• Multiple currencies for travelling
• Private sync through your own iCloud
JOTTER PRO
Pro turns the log into something that tells you things. Start with a free trial and see all of it before you decide.
• Eleven spending insights: needs versus wants, category breakdown, forecast, biggest day, weekend versus weekday, time of day, small purchases, top expenses and more
• Budgets you can set and edit
• Savings goals with progress you can see
• Streaks and milestones
• Your own categories, in your own colours
• Saved motivations for why you are doing this
Pro is a subscription, and you can cancel any time in your Apple account settings. Everything you have already logged stays yours either way.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No bank connections. No Open Banking. No account to create. Your spending never touches a server we run, because there isn't one. It lives on your iPhone and syncs through your personal iCloud, and that is the whole architecture.
Two things do leave the phone and neither is your money: a subscription check with the App Store, and an anonymous crash report if Jotter ever stops working. The usage analytics that used to be in the app were removed in this update.
Built by one person on the Gold Coast. I read and answer every email.
alex@appnerd.com.au
Jotter Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or annually with a 7-day free trial. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple account settings.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://theappnerd.github.io/privacy.github.io/
Ratings & Reviews
Recurring bills were being logged twice on the day you set them up. That's fixed. If you added one before this update, you may still have a single duplicate from that day to delete.
Jotter also remembers now. The add screen opens on the category and need/want you used last, and once you've logged a name a couple of times it fills the category in for you. Your recent entries now sit on the Home screen too, so one tap logs the same thing again today.
Also in this update:
• Undo a deleted expense
• Edit a recurring bill instead of deleting it and starting again
• Widgets work again on iOS 18 through 25
• Your week now starts on the same day your calendar does, instead of always Monday
• Every currency is supported now, not just nine, and yen and won no longer show cents
• 25 pieces of text that were still in English are now translated
• Renaming a category updates your past expenses too
• iCloud sync between your devices is fixed
• If you updated from an older version and your expenses seemed to disappear, this update can open that data again
• If your data ever fails to open, you get a clear explanation and a copy of the file rather than an empty screen
The daily quote and affirmations have been retired, so Home is just your money now. We've also removed analytics completely: nothing about your spending leaves your phone.
The developer, Alexander Thompson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Alexander Thompson
- Size
- 46.9 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly Pro $2.99
- Annual Pro Subscription $12.99
- Copyright
- © 2022 Alexander Thompson

