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LifeRoster is a personal life-management application that keeps the everyday records of a household — spending, bills, vehicles, electricity meters, family health records, documents, notes, and money lent, borrowed or split — in one private, offline-first workspace.

Frequently asked questions

Product

What is LifeRoster?

LifeRoster is a personal life-management application that keeps the everyday records of a household — spending, bills, vehicles, electricity meters, family health records, documents, notes, and money lent, borrowed or split — in one private, offline-first workspace. It runs on web, Android and iOS, works fully offline, and keeps your devices in step through a private, encrypted backup when a connection is available.

Who is LifeRoster for?

LifeRoster is for individuals and households who keep track of the practical details of daily life — spending, recurring bills, vehicle upkeep, utility meters, family health records, documents, and money lent, borrowed or split. It is built for people currently managing all of that across a notes app, a spreadsheet and a paper notebook.

What can I manage with LifeRoster?

LifeRoster covers Expenses, Bills, Vehicle, Electricity, Health Journal, Documents, Notes, Ledger & Split, Reports, Assistant and Reminders. Each area keeps its records the way that kind of information actually works, so a blood pressure reading, a fuel fill-up and a ledger entry are each handled properly rather than ending up as lines of text in a notes app.

Does LifeRoster work offline?

Yes, completely. Your device holds the real copy of your records, not a temporary one — every module works with no connection at all. The cloud is a backup and a way to use a second device, never a requirement. Even the assistant understands most requests on the device before it considers the network.

What platforms is LifeRoster available on?

LifeRoster runs on web, Android and iOS. It is the full product on every one of them, not a cut-down companion — and at desk width the layout adapts to a sidebar and centred dialogs rather than simply stretching the phone screen.

What languages does LifeRoster support?

LifeRoster ships in 23 languages, with translations included in the app so they work offline too, and full right-to-left support for Urdu, Arabic and Persian. Your language preference follows you across devices, and changing it never changes your records — only what they are labelled.

What are LifeRoster's limitations?

LifeRoster does not connect to banks, utility providers or health services — every record is one you enter. It cannot yet read the text on scanned documents, so their contents are not searchable. Scanning needs your phone's own scanner, so it is an Android and iOS feature rather than a browser one. And the assistant understands the most common entries offline, but not yet every module. These limits are stated plainly, because a product is easier to trust when its edges are described honestly.

Modules

What modules does LifeRoster include?

LifeRoster includes 11 areas: Expenses, Bills, Vehicle, Electricity, Health Journal, Documents, Notes, Ledger & Split, Reports, Assistant and Reminders. Every one has its own dedicated page describing what it does, how a typical workflow runs, and how its data is handled.

Can LifeRoster read the text on my documents?

Not yet. Scanning itself is fully built — automatic page-edge detection, perspective correction, enhancement and multi-page capture — so pages come out square and sharp. Reading the text off them, which would make document contents searchable and fill in numbers and expiry dates for you, is designed but not built. It is on the roadmap and is not offered as a current capability.

Can I attach photos and scans to my records?

Yes — to every record in every module, through one shared capture flow. Each create and edit form offers the same three sources: scan a document, take a photo, or choose from your library. Scanning detects the page edges, corrects the perspective and cleans the result, and captures at a higher resolution than an ordinary photo so fine print stays readable. Anything you attach can be cropped, rotated, enhanced, highlighted, replaced or deleted afterwards. An ordinary record holds up to five pictures and a document holds up to 30 pages.

Does LifeRoster show me trends across modules?

Yes. Reports is a built module with three separate reports: spending (where the money went), commitments (what is already locked in) and usage (electricity units and distance driven). Each buckets by calendar month over one, three, six or twelve months, and each exports as a PDF. They are kept separate on purpose — an unpaid bill is a commitment rather than a cost, and adding the two together would count every bill twice.

What is the difference between the ledger, splits and groups?

They are three surfaces in one module because they hold three different records. People is a running ledger with one person — everything that has passed between you, with the balance worked out from that history. Splits is a single bill divided between several people, equally, by exact amounts or by percentage. Groups is a standing set of people whose many bills net down to one figure each, so a trip is settled with one payment per person rather than bill by bill. Your own share of any split is recorded as an ordinary expense; the rest of the bill is not, because paying for other people is lending rather than spending.

How does the Health Journal work?

The Health Journal is organized per person, so each member of a household has their own records rather than sharing one log. Each person can have blood pressure, blood sugar and weight entries, medicines with dosage and storage location, doctor visits, documents and reminders. A reports screen charts the readings, summarises what they show, and exports a PDF you can hand to a doctor.

How does expense tracking work?

You record each expense with an amount, a category, a date and an optional receipt photo. Month views, category breakdowns and totals are all derived from those rows, and every total describes the currently filtered list. Marking a recurring bill as paid writes a real expense row, so paid bills count in spending automatically. LifeRoster does not connect to your bank — every entry is one you add.

Can LifeRoster manage vehicle records?

Yes. Each vehicle carries odometer readings, fuel logs with cost and volume, maintenance records with costs, documents with expiry tracking, and renewal reminders. A per-vehicle screen charts what you have logged, and every figure on it is worked out from those entries — so the summary and the history can never disagree.

Can LifeRoster store documents?

Yes. The vault organizes documents in a folder tree, holds up to 30 pages per document, and includes a full page manager for reordering pages and moving them between documents to merge or split. Documents carry a type, number, expiry date and renewal status, so expiring papers surface before they lapse, and any document can be exported as a PDF.

How does the assistant work?

You type or say an entry in your own words. The most common ones — blood pressure readings, meter readings, ledger entries and expenses — are understood on your device with no connection at all. If it is unsure which person or which meter you meant, it asks with a tap rather than guessing. It never saves anything by itself: it fills in the module's normal form and hands it to you to check.

Privacy & data

Is my data encrypted?

Yes. Your records are encrypted on your device, and encrypted again on the way to your backup and your other devices. On Android and iOS there is no unprotected fallback — if that protection cannot be established, the app stops rather than storing your health and financial records in a readable form.

How does LifeRoster handle privacy?

Your records are private to your account and visible to no other, and that separation is enforced by the service rather than left to the app. Nothing is sold, used for advertising, or shared with third parties, and sharing anything with another person is always a deliberate act on your part. LifeRoster also avoids absolute security slogans — it tells you what it protects and how you stay in control, rather than promising perfection.

Does the assistant send my records anywhere?

Your records are read on your device. Most requests are understood there too, with nothing leaving at all. If a request cannot be worked out on the device, that request is handled through a secure service which confirms it is you — but your records are not handed over to it. Voice dictation is transcribed on your device, so audio never leaves it, and the transcript waits in the box for you to check rather than sending itself.

Technology

How does syncing across devices work?

Changes you make are kept on your device and sent on when a connection is available, so nothing is lost if you are offline when you make them. Anything that has not gone through yet is shown to you with a retry rather than disappearing quietly, and a deletion made on one device can be recovered from another. You can see when you last synced, and sync on demand, from Settings.

How is LifeRoster built?

As one product for web, Android and iOS, designed offline-first: your device holds your records and everything works without a connection. Figures like balances, totals and usage are worked out from the entries behind them rather than stored separately, so a summary can never disagree with its own history. Performance is measured on modest hardware and treated as a requirement rather than a finishing touch.

See LifeRoster in action.

Open the app and start with whatever part of your life is least organized right now. It works offline from the first tap.