Snap now, sort later
Photograph a receipt with zero other input, no amount, no category, no budget, and finish it later from the pending-receipts inbox. Built for days where there is no time to stop and log every purchase.
TabiLog
Family budgets, wherever life takes you.
Every traveller gets their own pot of money, in their own currency. Log what's spent in seconds, or photograph the receipt now and deal with it when you sit down.
In use
Why it exists
Shared expense apps solve the wrong problem
Splitwise and its cousins assume a group of adults settling up afterwards. A family trip isn't that. Each kid has spending money, some from you and some from their grandmother, and the question is never "who owes whom". It's has Aaron got anything left, and is it in yen or dollars?
What it does
Four things it's built to do well
A separate pot per person, and per giver
Each traveller gets their own card, and inside it as many budgets as they need. One child can hold a yen budget from you and an Australian dollar budget from their grandmother at the same time, because to a nine-year-old those are two different things.
- Each budget carries its own currency, 16 supported, from AUD and JPY to SGD, MYR and NZD, and its own artwork, so you recognise it before you read it.
- Balance is simply top-ups minus expenses. No reconciliation, no settling up, no one owing anyone.
- An optional monthly limit, with a progress bar and a plain-language line: A$1,788.00 of A$2,200.00 spent this month.
- Top up, log an expense, open the history or change the settings without leaving the card.
The whole trip, answered on one screen
The dashboard is scoped to the trip's dates, not just the calendar month. It answers the two questions that actually get asked out loud: who is close to running out, and where has it all gone.
- Budgets at a glance, every budget as a bar against its limit, coloured green, amber or red so the problem finds you rather than the other way round.
- Spending by category, broken out per currency, so nothing depends on an exchange rate that moved since you paid.
- A trip date range across the top, and a "show total budget" toggle for when you want the number rather than the detail.
- Add Expense and Snap Receipt stay pinned to the bottom of every screen, so logging something is never more than one tap away.
A shopping list that turns into expenses
The things you still need to buy live in the same app as the money you have left, which is the only place they were ever useful. Add an item with an estimate, tick it off when you've bought it, and turn it into a real transaction with one button.
- Each item can carry a note, an estimated cost, a person and a budget, all optional, because most of the time you just want to write down "pocket wifi".
- Log as expense converts a ticked item straight into a transaction against the budget you chose.
- Notes are for the thing you'll otherwise forget: return at the airport counter before the flight home.
Every transaction, and what it did to the budget
Open any budget's history and you get the spending trend against the limit, then the full ledger underneath: date, type, category, description and amount, all editable.
- Spending per month plotted against the budget limit, so an overspend shows up as a shape rather than a number you have to interpret.
- Every row is editable and deletable, with any attached receipt photo viewable full size.
- Export the lot to PDF, Excel or CSV, for one person or for everyone.
Also in there
The details that make it liveable
Private households
Each family or friend group logs into its own household. Data is fully isolated, so you can share the app with people you'd never share a budget with.
Light and dark
Toggled in settings and remembered per household, because a lot of this gets logged in a dark hotel room with someone asleep next to you.
Hardened where it counts
Rate-limited sign-in, security headers, HTTPS enforced, and new households only by an invite code you control. No open sign-ups.
One receipt, several budgets
The souvenir shop hands you one total covering three children. Enter it once, split it evenly or by custom amounts, and each budget gets its own linked transaction that balances back to the total.
A way to tell us it's wrong
A feedback button in the header sends a bug report or suggestion straight to the studio. Nobody else in your household can read what you sent.
A look around
The app, screen by screen
Select any screen to see it larger.
Screenshots from the Android build, with sample data. The backdrop changes with the household's chosen theme.
Questions
The things people ask
Does it show ads?
The Android build does: banner ads served by Google AdMob, which is what pays for the app being free. Nothing you enter is shared with the ad network: your budgets, transactions and receipts never leave your household. The web version has no ads at all. The privacy page sets out exactly what AdMob collects.
Is this an expense-splitting app?
No. There's no "who owes whom" and no settling up. TabiLog tracks pots of money that belong to individual people. The split feature divides one receipt across several of those pots at the moment you pay. It doesn't create a debt between anyone.
Can it handle more than one currency at once?
Yes, and it doesn't try to be clever about it. Each wallet has one currency and stays in it. Totals and charts are shown per currency rather than converted to a single one, so you never see a number that depends on an exchange rate that moved.
Who can see my household's data?
Only people who log into that household. Households are fully isolated from one another, so another family using the same deployment cannot see, reach or affect your data.
Feedback you send through the app is the one exception, and it goes only to the studio: nobody in your household can read it, including you.
Can I get my data out?
Always. CSV, Excel and PDF, for one person or everyone, at any time. There's also a self-service account deletion under settings that permanently wipes the household and everything in it.
Is there a public sign-up?
No. Creating a household requires an invite code, which keeps the deployment to people who were actually invited. This site is here to explain what the app is, not to sign anyone up.
Does it work without a signal?
The Android build stores its data on the device, which is the configuration built for travel. The point at which you most need it is usually the point at which you have least reception.
The other two
TabiLog handles the money. TabiPlanner keeps the whole trip on one screen and is on Google Play now. TabiPace, which works out whether a day is survivable for everyone in the group, is still to come.