04 — Why own it

Rent a view.Or own themodel.

Subscription apps are excellent at categorising the past. This is a forward-modelling tool you keep, inspect and bend to your own life.

Side by side

The broken promise
of finance apps.

Nothing here is a knock on YNAB, Copilot or Monarch as trackers. It is a statement about what a subscription tracker structurally cannot do.

Subscription SaaS apps
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Expensive recurring fees$95–$120 a year, forever, just to view your own numbers — and the history leaves with the subscription.
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Fragile bank connectionsAggregator links drop and re-authenticate badly, breaking your categories on a regular cycle.
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Data privacy exposureYour full transaction history, balances and liabilities held on third-party servers under a policy that can change.
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Black-box mathsRigid formulas you cannot inspect — no custom life scenario, no mortgage lump sum, no offshore account.
The FutureProof System
Pay once, own foreverA single purchase with no subscription, no hidden fees, and a lifetime personal-use licence including updates.
Private and offline-readyNo account logins, no cloud scraping, no aggregator. The file and your data sit on your own device.
Infinite customisationTotal formula transparency. Adapt categories, tax rates, currencies and scenarios to your exact circumstances.
Multi-decade forward engineBridges monthly zero-based budgeting and a thirty-year retirement compounding model in one coherent file.
Five-year cost · SaaS$600At $120/yr, and still renting
Five-year cost · this$49.99One payment, everything included
Bank credentials shared0There is nothing to connect
Formulas you can read100%No macros, no VBA, no lock-in
Jurisdictions

Built for
global citizens
& investors.

A universal engine that adapts across currencies and jurisdictions. Pick a preset and the retirement account labels, statutory unlock age and regional defaults reconfigure themselves.

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United States401K · ROTH IRA · USD
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United KingdomISA · SIPP · GBP
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AustraliaSUPERANNUATION · OFFSET · AUD
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CanadaRRSP · TFSA · CAD
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EuropePENSION · EUR
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Global / multi-currencyANY SYMBOL · FX DRIFT
Supported symbols

$   £   €   A$   C$   ₹   CHF   ¥

The base currency symbol you set on sheet 01 propagates to every metric card, chart axis and KPI in the workbook.

Household modes
Dual-income couplePartner 1 + Partner 2, named
Single earnerIndividual profile
Statutory unlock ageUser-defined per jurisdiction
Target retirement ageUser-defined

Stop renting a view
of your own money.