Small changes. Better flow.

I wanted this update to make two everyday things easier: finding an old expense and seeing where the money goes over time.

There's now a dedicated search screen. Search by notes, categories, or tags, then narrow things down by date, category, tags, or amount. You can combine filters and see the total for the results. The search bar sits at the bottom, within easy reach.

Overview now gives you a longer look at your spending, with monthly charts and trends for each category. Open Groceries to see how your spending has changed over 3, 6, or 12 months, or the current year. Tap a month in the chart to see its amount and open the expenses behind it.

The familiar monthly view is still there, with a month picker and arrows to move back and forward. I also tidied up the totals, expense cards, and filters, and made changing periods feel smoother.

What changed

• Search your expense history by notes, categories, and tags
• Combine date, category, tag, and amount filters
• See the total spent for your search results
• Follow monthly spending and category trends over different periods
• Start with your top five categories, or open the full list
• Tap chart bars to see monthly amounts and explore the expenses
• Move between months with the picker or bottom arrows
• Enjoy matching spending cards, smoother period changes, and clearer chart labels

You can now give Spenso a receipt or invoice instead of typing out the details. Scan it with your camera, pick a photo or PDF, or send it to Spenso from another app using the share menu.

Spenso reads the document and prepares expense drafts. You can check the amounts, fix anything it missed, and decide what to save. The source document stays with the saved expenses, so it's there when you need to look something up. Reading documents uses Spenso AI and needs an internet connection.

I also reworked the introduction with examples you can try, including a sample receipt and invoice. Nothing from those demos is added to your expense history.

There are a few less visible improvements too: clearer progress while a document is being read, better handling of interrupted imports, and fixes to make sharing files into Spenso more reliable.

What changed

• Scan paper receipts and invoices with the camera
• Turn photos and PDFs into expense drafts
• Send documents to Spenso from another app's share menu
• Review and edit the results before saving, with the source document attached
• Try receipt and invoice examples during setup
• Improved document processing, interrupted imports, and file sharing

Expenses can now keep the context that matters. Attach photos and PDFs while adding or editing an expense, preview them without leaving Spenso, and keep more than one attachment when a single receipt is not enough.

The rest of Spenso feels sharper too. Overview, Settings, and Full Access have been refreshed, while quick capture now gives clearer feedback and moves more smoothly from your input to an AI-assisted result. Under-the-hood improvements make expense processing and purchase access more reliable.

Full Access now includes a lifetime option alongside the existing subscriptions, so you can choose a one-time purchase if that suits you better.

This release keeps photos and PDFs with their expenses, but it does not read those attachments to fill expense details yet. AI parsing for images, receipts, and documents is the next step on the roadmap.

What changed

• Attach photos and PDFs to new or existing expenses
• Preview, manage, and remove multiple attachments in Spenso
• Move through AI-assisted expense capture with clearer, more reliable feedback
• Enjoy refreshed Overview, Settings, and Full Access screens
• Choose lifetime Full Access with a one-time purchase
• Benefit from performance improvements and bug fixes throughout the app

Spenso now feels at home in more places. Alongside English, the whole app is now available in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and Italian. Spenso follows your device language automatically, or you can choose the language you prefer in Settings.

I also fixed a collection of bugs and smoothed out a few rough edges, so recording and organizing your expenses feels more reliable in every language.

What changed

• Use Spenso in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, or Italian
• Follow your device language automatically or choose one in Settings
• Enjoy clearer, more natural wording throughout the app
• Benefit from bug fixes and reliability improvements

Spenso now works with Siri. Say “Hey Siri, record an expense in Spenso” to add one expense or several, then confirm, review, or discard the result before anything is saved.

New to Spenso? A short introduction now lets you try quick capture without saving a practice expense, then explains Siri and privacy.

What changed

• Record one or several expenses with Siri
• Confirm, review, or discard them before saving
• Learn Spenso with a guided, unsaved practice expense
• Made quick capture saving simpler and more reliable
• Improved long expense feeds so older entries keep loading and the spinner stops at the end
• Preserved tag spelling and capitalization, including names like “FNAC” and “AppleTV”
• Enjoy smoother, more polished animations throughout the app

Monthly totals are more useful when you can follow them down to the details. You can now open any category in Overview to see every expense behind that total for the selected month, with dates close at hand and editing just a tap away.

Tags also have a proper home in Settings. Each space gets its own searchable collection, where you can add, rename, and remove tags without hunting through individual expenses. If a tag is already in use, Spenso clearly explains what will be affected before deleting it.

Quick capture feels calmer, too. Spenso keeps the activity indicator in the submit button while it checks your input, and only opens the processing screen when server AI is actually needed. Locally understood expenses move straight to review.

What changed

• Open a category from Overview to explore its expenses for that month
• See the month, expense dates, and a clean list designed for quick scanning
• Add, search, rename, and delete tags from the Space section in Settings
• Keep tag collections separate and relevant to each space
• See a clear system warning before removing a tag that is already in use
• Stay on the expense screen while quick capture checks input locally
• See the expense count and total together in the draft review header

You should always know what is happening after you send an expense. Quick capture now keeps your words in view while Spenso works, then gently makes room for the result when it is ready to review.

If something gets in the way, the same sheet explains what happened and gives you a clear next step. Your original input stays close at hand, so a weak connection or an uncertain result does not mean starting over.

What changed

• Follow your input through processing and into review in one focused, adaptive sheet
• Retry a failed capture in place, or return to your original wording to make a change
• Handle merchants that fit several categories more carefully instead of forcing a shaky guess
• Find the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and EULA together under Legal in Settings
• See clearer iCloud sync activity and a little more polish on the Full Access screen

Quick capture should save time, not turn a small misunderstanding into cleanup. This update gives you a chance to check what Spenso understood, make any changes, and then save with confidence.

I also rebuilt the subscriber sign-in and account experience, so it is clearer what you have access to and where to manage it.

What changed

• Review and edit captured expenses before they are saved
• Include a date or time in everyday wording and Spenso will carry it into the draft
• Feel clearer haptic feedback as a capture moves through processing and review
• Connect subscriber access securely with Sign in with Apple
• Manage your subscription, restore purchases, log out, or delete your Spenso account from Settings
• See your iCloud sync status and benefit from steadier expense loading and deletion

AI capture should be useful without making the rest of your expense history feel locked away. This update makes the free allowance easier to understand and keeps manual logging available after it runs out.

What changed

• Free access now includes 50 AI parsing requests for the lifetime of your account
• Every expense submitted through the quick input counts as one AI request
• When the allowance runs out, the input clearly links to Full Access
• The “+” button keeps manual expense entry available
• Full Access includes unlimited AI features, subject to fair use

Quick capture is only quick when the result is right. I’ve taught Spenso more of the names people actually use for everyday places, and made the fallback behaviour less surprising when it is not quite sure.

What changed

• Added more restaurants, coffee shops, grocers, transport, and everyday merchants
• Recognized more local names, spelling variations, and non-English text
• Made uncertain category guesses predictable and easy to correct
• Tucked long tag lists behind a small “more” count so they are easier to scan
• Added tests for more of the odd category cases

I don’t want you to keep teaching Spenso the same thing. When you organize an expense, the app now remembers a little more of that choice and can reuse it when a similar purchase turns up later.

What changed

• Saved expenses now teach Spenso which tags belong with a category
• Your category choice survives when AI-assisted parsing helps with an expense
• Tidied up the built-in categories and tags
• Made editing categories and choosing tags less fiddly

If something goes wrong, you should be able to tell me what happened and get on with your day. Spenso now adds the boring technical details to your message automatically, so I have a better chance of finding the problem without asking you five follow-up questions.

What changed

• Send me a support request straight from Settings
• Spenso includes the app version, device, iOS, and subscription details for you
• If a message cannot be sent, the error now tells you something useful
• Privacy and service terms are now one tap away