Personal finance, for people who forget

Know where
it went.

Most people do not lose track of money because they overspend. They lose track because nobody writes it down. Deben writes it down.

Start free → See how it works

No card. Export everything in one click, in plain JSON.

The Deben summary screen showing balances and recent activity

How it works

It records the payment before you remember it happened.

Your bank already texts you every time money moves. Forward those messages and Deben reads them, matches the account, and files the transaction — with no AI at all for formats it already knows.

Reads your bank messages

Known formats are matched by pattern, instantly and offline. Nothing is sent anywhere to read a message it already understands.

Checks itself against the bank

When a message quotes your balance, Deben compares it with its own and records the difference — so spending it never saw still shows up.

Asks when it is unsure

Anything it cannot read with confidence waits in a review queue instead of guessing at your money.

Insights

Numbers that mean something.

A figure on its own tells you nothing. Every total here carries what it was last month, where it went, and which shops took it — so you can see a habit rather than a balance.

The Deben insights dashboard with cashflow, categories and merchants

For irregular income

No assumption of a salary on the 25th.

Most budgeting apps treat a month with no income as a mistake. If you freelance, it is just a quiet month. Deben is built for that.

MedianA typical month, not an average one bent by a single large invoice.
CountedMonths with nothing coming in are reported honestly, not smoothed away.
RunwayWhat you hold, divided by a typical month. The number that answers “am I alright”.

“Money spent without any record.”

The problem Deben was built to solve — and the reason it starts by writing things down.

Built properly

The arithmetic is exact.

Whole piastres, never decimals

Every amount is a whole number of the smallest unit, so nothing rounds and nothing drifts.

Balances cannot disagree

No balance is stored. Each one is added up from its transactions, so it can never wander away from them.

Arabic and English

Right to left throughout, Arabic-Indic numerals, and Egyptian pounds as the first currency rather than an afterthought.

Your data is yours

Export the lot as plain JSON whenever you like. No lock-in, and no subscription to get it back.

Works offline

Install it to the home screen. It keeps working without a signal and tells you how old the figures are.

Only you can read it

Every row is fenced to your account at the database itself, not merely hidden by the app.

Start writing it down.

Free, in the browser, on your phone. It takes about a minute to add your first account.

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