Log spending in seconds, without opening the app. • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen show this month's expenses and open the scanner or a new entry in one tap. While App Lock is on, they show no amounts. • Scan Receipt and New Entry controls for Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action button. • Siri and Shortcuts: say "Log an expense in Pennywick" and it's saved, or ask Pennywick to scan a receipt. Also in this update: • With Standard, tap a shop in Insights › Top merchants to see your all-time spending there, how often you go, and your average basket. • Scanned and edited entries can now be set to repeat, not only new ones. • Editing a savings contribution no longer turns it into an expense. • A clearer plan picker when you upgrade.

A crash fix for background iCloud sync. If Pennywick was syncing in the background while your iPhone was locked, it could close unexpectedly. You would rarely have seen it happen — the app was already in the background — but the sync it was partway through had to start over later, so an entry added on another device, or by someone in your household, could take longer than it should to reach you.

A fix for how shared entries are labeled, and for foreign-currency receipts in a household. In a shared household, an entry could say the wrong thing about who added it. A receipt someone else scanned could show up as "You" on your device, and "Member" was printed as if it were that person's actual name — because the label was decided by whoever created the entry, not by whoever was looking at it. This version decides it correctly: your device now works out who created each entry from your own point of view, showing a real name when one is known and "You" only for entries you actually made. Foreign-currency receipts also travel properly now. If you scanned a receipt in another currency, everyone else in the household saw only the converted total — the original price, the exchange rate, and where that rate came from never reached them. They do now, so the same receipt reads the same way on everybody's device. Two related leaks are also closed. Leaving a shared household could leave a trace of another member's name behind on an entry, which could then reappear if that entry was later shared into a different household. And restoring a backup taken inside someone else's household could bring their name onto your ledger even though you were never part of their share. Nothing you have saved is affected, and there is nothing to restore — this corrects itself the next time each device syncs.

A fix that makes household sharing actually work for the people you invite. Anyone you invited into a household ended up with an empty one. None of your entries reached their device, and anything they scanned or added failed with "Something went wrong" — while your own side kept reporting a clean, healthy sync the whole time. The invite itself was built the wrong way from the start, granting a share of nothing. This version fixes how invites are created. If you already share a household, open Settings → Household and tap Invite members once — that repairs the share for everyone already in it, with nothing else to do. Nothing anyone has entered is lost. It stayed on each person's own device the whole time; it just wasn't reaching the rest of the household.

A round of fixes for household sharing. Sharing a budget with family or roommates is more reliable in this version. When something didn't sync, the app used to stay quiet about it — now it tells you. Checking for updates is also faster: it reads only what's changed since the last check, instead of rereading everything every time. Tapping Sync now while the app was already syncing in the background could freeze it. Fixed. A recurring entry shared with your household — rent, a subscription, salary — could appear twice on other members' devices. It won't anymore. Leaving a household now works correctly whether or not you're signed into iCloud at the time. As always, sharing goes through your own iCloud account, not Pennywick's servers.

A correction to how the free transition is detected.\n\nPennywick went free on 27 August, a few days earlier than the last version expected. That version worked out who had bought the app before it went free using the later date, so some accounts that downloaded Pennywick for free were treated as earlier customers and given Standard by mistake. This version checks against the real date instead.\n\nIf you bought Pennywick at any point while it cost money, nothing changes for you: everything stays unlocked, permanently, and there is nothing to restore or tap. That is checked again on this update, and it is checked against the day the price actually changed.\n\nNothing you have saved is affected, and exporting your own data stays free.

Pennywick is now free to download. Already bought it? Thank you — everything stays unlocked, permanently. It happens by itself the first time you open this version, and there is nothing for you to restore or tap. FREE FROM NOW ON • Unlimited manual entries, the full ledger, search, filters, and tags • Budgets, savings goals, and this month's insights • 5 receipt scans a week, from the camera or a file • CSV and full backup export, Face ID lock, and iCloud sync STANDARD — ONE PURCHASE • Unlimited receipt scanning • Household sharing with family or roommates — people you invite join free • Insights across a quarter or a year • Recurring entries • Bring your own OpenAI or Gemini API key NEW — PRO, AN OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION Everything in Standard, plus cloud receipt reading: 150 receipts a month read by a cloud model, with no API key to set up. Only receipt text is sent, never the photo, and it stays off until you turn it on. Already own Standard? Pro is offered to you at a lower price. Nothing you have already saved is affected, and exporting your own data stays free — that isn't something we would ever put behind a purchase.

Light mode is here. Pennywick now follows your iPhone's appearance, or you can pin it to Light or Dark in Settings › Appearance. NEW • A full light theme — every screen, sheet, and chart, tuned for readability in daylight • Appearance setting: Light, Dark, or System, which follows your iOS light/dark schedule • Rate Pennywick from Settings whenever you feel like it IMPROVED • Importing is quicker: a receipt you share or drop into Pennywick now opens straight in the confirm sheet, with no review queue to work through first • Clearer progress while a shared PDF or image is being read, and a plain explanation when it can't be FIXED • Household sharing could fail to set up and then retry in a way that reset the shared zone. That's fixed, and iCloud problems it genuinely can't solve are now explained instead of silently retried. CHANGED Pennywick now handles one receipt at a time. Scanning several receipts in one batch, splitting a bill by line item, and slicing a photo of several receipts have been retired — the scan flow is faster and more predictable without them, and they were used far less than the time they cost to keep sharp. Nothing you've already saved is affected: every receipt, split, and household ledger stays exactly as it is, and splitting an expense across categories works just as before.

Receipt scanning is sharper than ever — clearer photos, more details pulled from your receipts, and easier ways to get spending into Pennywick. You can also share a budget with family or roommates, privately through iCloud. New • See tax, tip, how you paid, and the receipt number right on the confirm screen • Line items from your receipt, with badges so you can quickly spot anything to double-check • Import bank statements from a spreadsheet — Pennywick maps the columns, reads the dates, and skips duplicates • Open digital invoices from PDFs automatically when the file includes the receipt data — no rescanning needed • Password-protected PDFs and iPhone photos now import smoothly Household sharing • Invite family or roommates to share a budget through iCloud • Family — share your full budget, goals, and recurring bills • Roommates — share expenses only, and keep income private • No new account — just invite the people you trust Improved • Faded or sideways thermal receipts scan more reliably • Long receipts: take a few photos and Pennywick stitches them together • Share receipts into Pennywick straight from Mail, Files, and other apps