Kaata
Track customer credit, offline
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Kaata is a simple digital kaata (ledger) for shopkeepers — and anyone who keeps track of money between people they trust.
Write down who owes you and what you owe, and Kaata keeps a running balance for every person. You always know where you stand, without flipping through a paper notebook.
WHY KAATA
• Works offline — your ledger lives on your phone. No internet needed to add a customer or record a payment.
• Simple and fast — add a person, record what they took or paid, and Kaata does the math.
• Friendly reminders — send a customer a gentle WhatsApp reminder of their balance in two taps.
• In your language — English and Dari.
• Free.
HOW IT WORKS
• Add the people you deal with — customers, suppliers, friends.
• Each time someone takes goods on credit or makes a payment, record it. Kaata updates the balance automatically.
• See at a glance who you need to collect from and who you owe.
• Tap to send a WhatsApp reminder with the balance — no awkward conversation needed.
YOUR DATA, ON YOUR PHONE
Your ledger is stored on your device. Sign in (optional) to back it up to the cloud and restore it on a new phone if you ever lose this one. You can delete your account and its data at any time from Settings.
Kaata is a record-keeping tool. It is not a bank, a lender, or a payment service — it doesn't move money, lend money, or charge interest. It simply helps you remember who owes what.
Made in Kabul.
more Kaata 2.3.3
- Easier backup setup and restore during onboarding.
- Larger text follows your phone settings, including notes.
- Customer counts on Home and clear dates and times on tallies.
- More stable search results and name search across Latin, Dari and Pashto scripts.
- Clearer multi-currency settlement status and preserved settled history when relinking shared tallies.
2.3.3 1 day ago
Kaata 2.3.2
- Find people on Kaata, connect with friends, and accept shared tally and Kaata invitations in the app.
- Add tally notes and export clearer PDF and CSV statements.
- Save a restorable backup to your phone and get a confirmation when it finishes.
- Customize member roles and manage shared tallies with clearer notifications and controls.
2.3.2 2 days ago
Kaata 2.3.1
- Promote your business through a simple in-app proposal form, with your own price offer and duration.
- See customer counts beside Clear all filters when viewing To collect or To pay.
- Clearer Dari wording and refinements to the filter layout.
Thank you for using Kaata.
2.3.1 6 days ago
Kaata 2.3.0
- Use multiple currencies in one kaata, with separate balances, customer currency defaults and simpler currency choices.
- Share an account using Notify, Both can write, or Require approval. Choose how the other person can participate and receive updates.
- Keep internal customer notes for your team, with author attribution and revision history.
- Set credit limits for individual currencies or combine conditions across currencies, with optional notifications for owners and admins.
- Enable app lock in Settings and unlock using Face ID, your fingerprint or your phone passcode.
- Enjoy refreshed balance cards, easier search and filters, clearer settled accounts, and improved tally editing, dates and keyboard behavior.
- Reminder links open the correct customer, and bills and exports support your multi-currency records. You can also send a balance-only message instead of a bill link.
Thank you for using Kaata.
2.3.0 30 Oct
Kaata 2.2.4
- Calculate tally amounts directly in the amount field, with percentages, memory and calculation history.
- Write multiline notes with improved spacing and a Save button that stays above the keyboard.
- Enjoy faster startup and lighter switching between To collect and To pay, with each page remembering its scroll position.
2.2.4 21 Oct
Kaata 2.2.3
- Pashto is now available alongside English and Dari, including reminders, statements and shared-account updates.
- Ninja mode is back, with clearer guidance about data stored only on your phone.
- Soft apricot and sage buttons make "I gave" and "I received" easier to tell apart.
- Improved local recovery backups, clearer wording and everyday stability.
2.2.3 20 Oct
Kaata 2.2.0 makes it easier to find customers, manage shared accounts and stay in control of your kaata.
- Search all customers together, with improved name matching, sorting and filters.
- Select multiple customers to see their combined balances and transaction counts, or remove them together.
- Organize customers into groups and set reminders for follow-ups.
- Add Admins, customize staff permissions and set customer debt and credit limits with warnings or restrictions.
- Transfer ownership through an invitation shared by email or WhatsApp, and stay on as an Editor.
- Restore shared ledgers more reliably and keep linked accounts in sync across phones.
- Recover a deleted account by signing back in within 30 days.
- Enjoy clearer onboarding, improved Dari wording and smoother sheets and selection controls.
2.2.0 17 Oct
Kaata 2.1.1 adds email sign-in alongside Google and Apple.
- Create your own Kaata account with an email address, a verification code and a password.
- Choose an optional username for sign-in, and reset a forgotten password by email.
- Google and Apple users can add an email password from Account settings.
- Password changes and resets sign out older sessions on your other devices.
- Return directly to an unfinished email code step after reopening the app.
- Clearer Dari account screens and security emails, with support for Persian digits.
Your existing kaatas and cloud backups stay available.
2.1.1 13 Oct
Kaata 2.1 makes shared accounts easier to join, review and keep tidy.
- Clear a shared account at zero: once every tally is reviewed and the balance is zero, start a fresh page for both of you. Earlier tallies stay saved in shared history.
- Join a shared account more easily: Kaata suggests the matching contact from the invitation, lists your phone book, and can switch an empty kaata to the account's currency.
- Notifications are marked read as soon as you handle them, and tallies that were already reviewed no longer send late alerts.
- Cleaner tally rows: a small colored dot shows each shared tally's status, tap a tally for who added and reviewed it, and use the compact Accept, Reject and Cancel buttons on the row. Cancelled tallies leave the list but stay in exports, with who cancelled them.
- Statement exports now include the shared record: each tally's status, author and reviewer, plus earlier shared periods.
- Deleting your account leaves the other person's shared history in place and never settles a balance.
- Onboarding fields stay visible above the keyboard, and the notification badge is centered.
Your private kaatas remain private unless you choose to share them.
2.1.0 3 Oct
Kaata 2.0 introduces shared accounts between you and another Kaata user.
- Link a contact through an invitation and keep one shared ledger.
- Accept or reject tallies from the other person. Rejected tallies stay visible but do not count toward the balance.
- Get notifications for new tallies and review decisions, with an in-app inbox and quick review actions.
- See who added each tally, with clear pending, accepted, rejected and cancelled states. Only pending tallies can be cancelled.
- Enjoy easier-to-reach tally buttons, a cleaner contact menu and improved navigation from notifications.
- Restore contacts access from the contact picker if permission was previously declined.
- Fix upload problems affecting some older or first-created kaatas when adding members, while preserving existing records.
Your private kaatas remain private unless you choose to share them.
2.0.0 26 Sept
See who wrote what, and send a statement people can actually read.
• In a shared kaata, every tally now shows who added or changed it, at a glance.
• Statements and kaata reports have been rebuilt: totals at the top, a running balance you can check line by line, and a much clearer layout.
• Save a statement straight from a person's screen instead of hunting for it.
• Your customers can now save their own ledger as a PDF from the bill link you send them.
• Transfer ownership of a kaata is available again in kaata settings.
• Fixed a crash when saving an export to the phone.
• Renaming a kaata now updates everywhere, on every phone.
1.2.0 21 Sept
- Saving works again on phones restored from a backup or moved from another phone. If Kaata could read your book but every new tally or contact failed, this update fixes it on the first tap.
- Tap any tally to see its exact date and time, and to open a long note.
- Choose your calendar: Gregorian or Solar Hijri with the Afghan month names, independent of the app language. Settings > Preferences.
- Amounts can now have decimals, like 12.50.
- Save your name from Settings with a proper Save button.
- A calmer welcome screen and a refreshed add-or-find button on the home screen.
1.1.1 15 Sept
- Contacts you add in Kaata now save properly on iPhone, under the person's name instead of a blank company card.
- Renaming someone updates their contact card too, and changing a number no longer leaves a duplicate behind.
- Open accounts now sit above settled ones on the home list, so what needs attention stays on top.
- Dari text joins correctly everywhere — dialogs, toasts, section headings and your shop name.
- A design pass across the whole app: easier taps, consistent buttons and spacing, and no more blank loading screens with no way back.
- App health is fully in Dari, and no longer shows Android-only sections on iPhone.
- Kaata asks for fewer permissions — the ones it never used are gone.
1.0.9 9 Aug
- Removed a contact by mistake? Restore them - with every entry - from your kaata's settings.
- Export now saves straight to your phone, not just to a share sheet.
- Each kaata shows its currency when you switch between kaatas, so a second book for dollars is easy to tell apart.
- Clearer choice between signing in and staying offline, and a clearer role list when you add a member.
- Better Dari wording throughout, and phone numbers are recognised more reliably however you type them.
1.0.6 7 Aug
- Instant sync: a change on one phone now reaches your other phones and members within seconds.
- Export: share a whole kaata as a PDF report or CSV spreadsheet, or a customer's full statement from their page - with settlement lines, in English or Dari.
- Settled accounts show a checkmark on the home list instead of a zero.
- Kaata owners can appoint managers and clerks.
- Contacts without entries can now be removed.
- Bug fixes and polish.
1.0.5 28 Jul
- Your settled history now shows a dated ruled-off line for each settlement - like the pages of a paper khata.
- Entries under a settled line are protected; fix an old mistake with a correcting entry instead.
- Settle up: when an account reaches zero, draw a line under it. History is kept; the next entry starts a fresh page.
- Members in a shared kaata now show their real names.
1.0.4 27 Jul
- Sign in with Google or Apple - your ledger restores on any device with the same account.
- Fixed: a kaata you just joined could disappear from your list until the next sync.
- Remove shared ledger links you have sent, right from the person's edit screen. Links now expire automatically after 30 days.
- Faster, smoother sign-in screen.
1.0.2 26 Jul
• You can now leave a shared kaata you were invited to.
• Shared kaatas no longer disappear after signing out or when the owner archives them — archived kaatas stay in your archived list and return when restored.
• Sign in with Apple or Google using the same email and you'll get the same account and kaatas on every device.
• Design fixes, including a cleaner profile button.
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1.0.1 18 Jul
Kaata 2.3.3
- Easier backup setup and restore during onboarding.
- Larger text follows your phone settings, including notes.
- Customer counts on Home and clear dates and times on tallies.
- More stable search results and name search across Latin, Dari and Pashto scripts.
- Clearer multi-currency settlement status and preserved settled history when relinking shared tallies.
more Version 2.3.3 1 day ago
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