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Expenses

Understand where your money actually goes.

Spending, recorded as it happens.

Capture an expense in seconds with a category, a date and an optional receipt photo, then browse month by month with totals that always match what you are looking at.

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The problem

Spending is easy to do and hard to see. Individual purchases feel small, statements arrive too late to change anything, and by the end of the month the total is a surprise.

The approach

LifeRoster records each expense with its amount, category, date, note and any receipts, then works the month views, category breakdowns and totals out from those same entries. There is no spreadsheet to maintain and no second number that can drift out of step.

What it does

Key capabilities

Everything listed here is built and in use in Expenses today.

  • Fast entry

    Amount, category, date and an optional note, entered from a bottom sheet or straight from the dashboard quick-add row.

  • Ready-made categories

    A starting set of categories with their own icons and colours, so your first expense can be filed correctly without any setup.

  • Receipt attachments

    Attach receipt photos to an expense through the shared image pipeline, with editing and compression handled for you.

  • Month-by-month browsing

    Move through spending a month at a time, with a dedicated category breakdown screen behind it.

  • Filter-aware totals

    Every total on screen describes the filtered list — search or filter the view and the figures follow.

  • One spending ledger

    A bill payment, a fuel fill, a car service and your share of a split all land here automatically, each tagged with where it came from, so your spending is in one place without being entered twice.

  • A monthly budget

    Set a figure for the month and the dashboard shows how much of it is gone, shifting through healthy, caution and critical as you approach it.

  • PDF export

    Export a period as a formatted PDF, choosing the date range and the categories to include.

In practice

A typical workflow

Step through it — each step shows where you are in the flow.

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Record the expense

Marking a bill as paid records it as real spending, so your totals always include it. There is no separate payments list that can drift out of step with what you actually spent.

Pictures on this record

Receipts. Scan one and it comes out square and legible rather than a crumpled photo at an angle, which matters when you go back to it months later to check a warranty or a return.

How capture and scanning work
Details

What it is like to live with

The things that decide whether a module still helps after a year of real use.

On a phone

Expenses are recorded in shops and restaurants, so entry is a sheet reachable in one tap from the dashboard. The amount field opens a numeric keypad and categories are large, colour-coded tap targets.

Your data

Your expenses stay private to your account — encrypted on your device and protected while syncing. LifeRoster does not connect to your bank and imports nothing automatically; every entry is one you added.

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Good to know

  • Search or filter the list and every total on screen describes exactly that slice.
  • Expenses is the single spending ledger: bill payments, fuel, services and split shares arrive here on their own, so nothing is counted twice and nothing is missed.
  • Scanning a receipt is one of the dashboard's quick actions, so it is a tap from opening the app.
  • Your share of a split bill is recorded as an expense — your share, not the whole bill.

Try Expenses in LifeRoster.

Open the app on web, Android or iOS. Everything works offline, and syncs when you are back online.

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