Daily Total
Know what you spent today.
Snap a receipt, done. Daily Total reads it, files it, and updates one honest number. Works in any currency, anywhere.
Snap · read · filed · done
Do you know what you spent yesterday?
Most of us don't — not to the dollar, not even close. Not because we're careless, but because tracking it is work. Open the app, type the amount, pick a category, repeat forty times a week.
So we stop after a week, and the vague feeling comes back.
Daily Total is built on one bet: the problem isn't features. It's effort.
The receipt is the data entry.
Point your camera at any receipt — thermal, crumpled, in Thai — and Daily Total reads the total, the merchant and the date, then files it under the right category. You just check it looks right.
Paid cash for a taxi or street food? Add it by hand in two taps. That's the fallback, not the default.
Merchant, total, date and category — read on your iPhone. Tap any line to correct it.
One number today. The whole picture by month.
Today's total sits at the top of the screen, always. Zoom out and you get the month by category — food, transport, shopping, health, entertainment, accommodation — without setting up a budget first.
Not a budgeting system. A daily pulse.
Stop scrolling. Just ask.
Type a question the way you'd ask a friend, and get a number back in seconds. Runs on your iPhone — your questions and your spending never leave the device.
Pay in baht. Think in dollars.
Every expense is recorded in the currency you actually paid, and your totals show in the currency you think in — using the rate from that day, so history stays honest when rates move.
Three weeks in Japan and Thailand? Living in Chiang Mai on a USD salary? “How much has this trip cost?” is one question away — and there's no bank to link, so it works in every country from day one.
No bank link. No account. Nothing to set up.
Most spending apps start by asking for your bank login. Daily Total doesn't need it — which is exactly why it works with cash, with PromptPay, with the card you forgot to add, and in countries where bank sync doesn't exist.
No bank linking
Cash, cards, wallets — it all counts, because you're not limited to what a bank feed can see.
Reads receipts on-device
Receipt reading and search run on your iPhone. No photos uploaded, no AI subscription passed on to you.
No account to create
Your Apple ID is your identity. Open the app and start — no email, no password, no onboarding marathon.
Synced with iCloud
Your data lives on your devices and in your iCloud — encrypted, backed up, and never on our servers.
It's deliberately small.
Daily Total does one thing: tells you what you spent, with as little effort as possible. If you're after these things, you'll be happier elsewhere — and that's fine.
- Envelope budgets, goals and forecasting
- Auto-importing every transaction from your bank
- Bookkeeping, invoices or tax categories
I'm building Daily Total from Bangkok, where most of my days are paid for in cash and PromptPay and my brain still thinks in Australian dollars. Every tracker I tried either wanted my bank login, couldn't read a Thai receipt, or needed more effort than it gave back. So I made the one I wanted: snap, done, one honest number.
The beta is small on purpose. If you join, I'll read your replies personally.
When does the beta start?
Soon. Invites go out through TestFlight in signup order, in small waves so feedback stays manageable. You'll get an email when it's your turn — nothing before that.
Is it iPhone only?
Yes, for now. Receipt reading and search run on-device using Apple's on-device intelligence, which is what keeps it private and fast. Android isn't planned for launch.
What does it cost?
Free while it's in beta. Pricing is being decided with beta testers, and people on this list will get the best deal we ever offer. It will be far cheaper than the bank-sync apps, because there's no server bill to pass on.
How accurate is the receipt reading?
Good on clean receipts, very good on most thermal ones, and it always shows you what it read so you can fix a line in a tap. Part of what the beta is for is testing it on the messy real-world receipts — faded, crumpled, mixed-language — and making it better.
Where does my data live?
On your iPhone and in your own iCloud. No account with us, no server of ours holding your spending, no photos uploaded for processing.
Find out what you spent today.
Join the iPhone beta. Free, invites in signup order.