Uchikake vs Pouch

One budget shared by couples and families. Save an entry with just an amount, let recurring bills fill in from monthly templates, and log expenses through your AI assistant. Uchikake turns a familiar household budget spreadsheet into a simple app. Duplicate a month, carry over recurring expenses, and close the month when you're done. The workflow stays familiar, while recording an expense takes only a few seconds. WHY IT STICKS • Save with just an amount. Categories, memos, and dates are all optional • Open the app and start recording right away • Add entries for past or future dates The biggest reason budgets are abandoned is that entering them is a chore. Uchikake has no required fields, so you can keep going. ONE BUDGET FOR EVERYONE • Invite family members with a QR code or a link • Everyone records entries in the same budget • Emoji icons show who added each entry Use it with a partner, family, or housemates. See what has already been paid without sending another message. RECURRING EXPENSES, READY TO GO Add rent, insurance, subscriptions, savings, and other recurring expenses to a monthly template. They are added together when you start a new month. SEE WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES Tap a category to see its entries. Search by amount or memo, and review monthly and yearly trends. CLOSE EACH MONTH Mark a month as closed when you're done. Closed months are clearly marked, but editing and reopening are still possible if you need to fix something later. LOG ENTRIES WITH AI Issue an API token for your group. Ask your AI assistant to add today's lunch, and it can write the entry directly to your budget. The in-app API documentation explains how to get started. FREE FEATURES Recording, group sharing, category summaries, templates, closing months, and API integration are all free. The Analytics tab also includes yearly balances and monthly charts for free. UCHIKAKE PREMIUM • Detailed analytics: category totals, monthly category trends, year-over-year comparisons, and yearly trends • Unlimited categories, accounts, income sources, and monthly template items (the free plan allows 20 categories, 5 accounts, 5 income sources, and 10 template items) • Remove ads Premium is ¥200/month or ¥1,500/year in the Japan storefront. Try it free for 7 days. The plan is shared by the group, so one purchase covers everyone using the same budget. - - - - - - - - - - ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS • Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase • Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the current period ends • Renewal is charged within 24 hours before the current period ends • You can turn off auto-renewal at any time in your App Store account settings • Any unused free-trial period is forfeited when you purchase a subscription Terms of Use: https://uchikake.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://uchikake.web.app/privacy.html

Pouch is envelope budgeting the way cash used to work — minus the cash. On payday, you stuff your envelopes: groceries, rent, fun money. Spend from an envelope and watch it drain. When it's empty, it's empty — that's the whole system, and it works. ONE NUMBER THAT MATTERS Safe to Spend sits at the top of your shelf: what's actually left until your next paycheck, after bills. No charts to decode. STUFFING DAY The payday ritual. Your paycheck lands, your plan is ready, and stuffing your envelopes takes fifteen satisfying seconds. LOG A PURCHASE IN THREE TAPS Open, type, tap the envelope. Done. Even faster from the widget. SINKING FUNDS Save a little every paycheck toward the big stuff — holidays, tyres, Christmas. Pouch tells you if you're on track, honestly. BILLS THAT HANDLE THEMSELVES A month-at-a-glance calendar, reminders, optional auto-deduct, and one-tap mark-paid with undo. BUDGET TOGETHER One joint pouch you both stuff, on two phones. Your own budget stays yours — the joint pouch is the only thing you share. Your partner joins free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No bank logins. No analytics. Your budget lives on your iPhone and, with Premium sync, in your own private iCloud. We run no servers and could not see your numbers if we wanted to. FREE, FAIRLY The free tier is genuinely usable: 6 envelopes, a sinking fund, a widget, 12 months of history — forever. Pouch Premium adds unlimited envelopes and funds, iCloud sync, the joint pouch, bigger widgets and your whole history, for about the price of one coffee a year. Lifetime available. Budget like cash. Keep the phone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/