Your budget stays in SQLite on this computer, under your login.
Upload a PDF. Embers reads dates and amounts here and guesses categories. You choose what is saved.
Remembered merchants for the next statement import.
After payday, nudge a slice into a goal before the rest is spent.
Optional yearly reminder to raise budget limits with prices.
Income and payments that come around again.
Download PDFs for the month on the home screen.
Tick deductible spending for the SA tax-year PDF (1 March – end February).
Download or restore your ledger, including till-slip files. Add a password to encrypt the file.
Create a personal key for Grokbot or other agents. They send it as Authorization: Bearer … and act as you.
Copy this key now — Embers will not show it again.
Share a read-only view with a partner.
Reading the PDF on this computer.
This changes today and later. Payments already recorded keep their amounts.
Enter an amount greater than zero.
Enter a target greater than zero.
Pick a category and how much less you’d spend on it each month. See where the month could end.
Move a slice of payday into a goal before the rest is spent.
Enter an amount greater than zero.
Unused budget room this month can move into a savings goal.
Enter an amount within what’s left.
Check an amount against what’s left this month — and a budget limit if you pick one.