Privacy

Private by design, not by promise.

No Tobsy server stores your entries, your figures or anything about your money. One small Tobsy server holds only your email, paired with your trial or purchase key: that is how a trial can end and a purchase stays yours.

No bank connections

Tobsy does not ask for a bank login and does not sync an account.

Your data is a Google Sheet you own

Every entry lives in a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive.

No Tobsy server stores your money data

Your entries go only to your own Google account.

Screenshots are read on your device

The image is not sent anywhere.

No telemetry, no tracking, no account

The app carries no analytics and no ad pixels.

How that works

Private categories are a curtain, not a vault. A category you mark private shows its rows as dots until a PIN is entered.

Exchange rates come from inside your sheet. Foreign spending is converted with a Google Finance formula, so even that does not go through us.

Who holds what

In your own Google account. Nowhere else.

Tobsy has no database.

Your Google SheetEvery figure you enter.

Your phone or laptopThe address of your sheet and a spare copy of your key.

Google's permissionOne: to work in the spreadsheet Tobsy is attached to. Not your Drive, not your email, not your contacts.

This websiteA count of visits, with no cookie and no address kept.

Our small key serverThe email you started with, a random trial number, a scrambled fingerprint of your copy, whether you've paid. Not a figure, not a shop name, not a category. It exists so a trial can end and a purchase can be told from a trial, which is how Tobsy is sold.

If we disappearYour sheet stays yours and readable; we would publish what the app needs so copies keep working.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Does private mean offline?

No. Your entries live in a Google Sheet in your own Google account, so they reach it over the internet. An entry made without a connection waits in the queue, and a small cache on your device lets screens open quickly.

Is my data encrypted?

Your entries are stored by Google, in a Google Sheet in your own Drive; no Tobsy server stores them, so there is no copy of ours to protect. Tobsy asks Google for one permission: to work in that one spreadsheet. On your phone or laptop the rows are not encrypted, and a private category is a curtain, not a vault.

Thirty days free

Try it, or look around first.

The demo is the real app with fourteen months of sample entries. The trial is every screen, for thirty days, with your own.

Try it free for 30 days Look around the demo

About ten minutes to set up, once, on a computer. You’ll need a Google account. A$59 after the trial, if you want to keep it.