The story

I wanted an app that tracked expenses the moment I made them. I wanted it fast and minimal. Then I added a "recurring" section, to keep track of subscription due dates with a reminder, and stop paying other apps that do exactly this.

"Spese" was born. A PWA used for weeks, many weeks, on a Debian server in my home lab - Proxmox, for the more curious nerds - precisely to log expenses the moment they happen. The PWA had a structural limit: it depended on a home server, a virtual machine on the home network reached through a Cloudflare tunnel, which had to stay on and reachable for the app to work.

In July 2026 came the decision to rewrite it in SwiftUI, with the archive on the device and sync handled by iCloud: no more server to keep running, data that stays in the user's own private container instead of on someone else's machine.

EveryCent was born as a replacement for "Spese", with the idea of releasing it on the App Store, for free.

The first build reached TestFlight in late July, in the Family&Friends test group. From that moment the work stopped happening at a desk: every flaw found while using the app on a real iPhone became a fix, shipped in the next build.