Privacy
A full money manager in 14MB. The budgeting apps are 150.
Copilot is 287MB. EveryDollar is 168. Thrive runs a household’s whole money picture in 14 — with zero third-party code. What an app’s download size quietly tells you about what else is in there.
August 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Privacy
Your budgeting app gets paid when you borrow.
Intuit paid $7.1 billion for a loan-referral business, then moved Mint’s users into it. What free budgeting actually costs — and the alternatives worth moving to.
August 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Privacy
ChatGPT wants your bank account. I built a company because of this.
In May, OpenAI wired ChatGPT to 12,000 banks through Plaid. It never sees your password and it cannot move your money — and neither of those was the thing anyone was worried about.
August 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
Thrive vs YNAB: what actually differs
YNAB taught a lot of us to budget. Here’s what changes if you’d rather not link your bank — and why the budget itself is free.
August 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Why we built this
I got tired of being the product
Your transaction history is the most revealing document you own — and most budgeting apps hand it to a company you never chose. Why I built one that never sees it.
July 31, 2026 · 4 min read
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