The $29 budgeting app I ignored for 6 months actually saved my freelance sanity

I kept seeing ads for this app called Tiller that just dumps your transactions into a spreadsheet. Thought it was a gimmick, why pay for something I could do manually. But after chasing my spending for 3 months and still not knowing where my money went, I tried it. Now I see every coffee shop charge and subscription fee in real time by category. Has anyone else found a cheap tool that completely changed their money tracking?

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xenam8415d ago

Used to roll my eyes at paying for a budgeting app when a simple notebook worked fine for years. But after my freelance income started bouncing around, I finally tried something similar and realized the automation saves me hours every month. Makes a real difference when you can actually see where your money is going without digging through bank statements.

fionamurphy15d ago

Fair enough but isn't this just paying for something a spreadsheet already does for free.

smith.lee15d ago

Right, because who doesn't love spending their free time manually categorizing "COFFEE 7.50" and "TRANSFER TO SAVINGS" for hours every month? Sounds like a real time saver compared to just letting a spreadsheet do nothing unless you build it yourself. @xenam84 probably had to set up a whole system of formulas and conditional formatting to get that automation, so it's not exactly a free lunch. And most people I know who swear by spreadsheets spend more time building the perfect template than actually using it. Just feels like a product looking for a problem most people don't actually have.