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You don't budget. It does.

Meet Where's My Money? — it reads your M-PESA and Airtel Money messages and quietly builds your budget for you. Set it up once, then forget it exists. Nothing ever leaves your phone.

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Works offline · No bank login · No sign-up · No data leaves your phone

The Problem

Where's my money? section title Now you'll actually know.

Every budgeting app dies the week you get busy. This one doesn't ask you to show up.

"I'll track it later."

Later never comes. 40 transactions a week, zero recorded. By month-end you're scrolling MPESA SMS wondering where it went.

Budget apps want homework.

Log every coffee. Tag every fare. The moment you stop — the whole thing collapses. That's not a budget, that's a side hustle.

Your statement tells you nothing.

200 M-PESA lines, 6 paybill numbers, no idea which ones mattered. Numbers aren't a budget until they're categorised.

Useful Features

Everything you need section title to know where it all goes

Automatic. Private. Free. Built for how Kenyans actually spend.

M-PESA + Airtel, decoded

Send Money, Paybill, Till, Withdraw, Fuliza, M-Shwari, airtime — every financial SMS parsed and understood. Nothing else is touched.

Auto-categorisation

Rent, food, transport, utilities, chama, that guy you keep sending money to. Your budget sorts itself into real categories.

Envelope budgeting

YNAB-style envelopes — but they fill themselves. Give every shilling a job without typing a single number by hand.

Chama tracking

Contributions to your chama are automatically separated from personal spending. See your group commitments at a glance.

Overspend alerts

"You've used 80% of your food budget and it's the 12th." Warnings while there's still time to course-correct — not after.

100% offline

No internet? No problem. The app lives entirely on your phone. Zero data, zero drain, zero cloud dependency.

How It Works

Lazy budgeting section title in 3 steps

Set it up once. Then genuinely forget it exists.

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Budget building itself
Where's My Money in 3 steps

No account. No forms. No diary to keep.

1

Install
and grant SMS access

30 seconds
2

Walk away.
Spend normally.

Any period
3

Come back
to a finished budget

Real numbers
Privacy First

We don't read your messages. section title We only read the numbers.

There is a real difference between "SMS permission" and "reading everything you say." Here's ours.

What we do NOT do
  • We never read personal SMS — no OTPs, no chats, no MMS, no notifications from other apps.
  • We never upload, sync, or transmit your messages to any server. Yours or ours.
  • We never sell, share, or analyse your data for anyone else.
  • We never store your M-PESA PIN, bank logins, or ID number.
What actually happens
  • Only SMS from M-PESA and Airtel Money sender IDs are ever parsed.
  • Parsing runs entirely on your device — no internet connection is required for it.
  • Only the financial data is extracted: amount, date, counterparty, transaction type.
  • Uninstall the app and every record disappears with it. That's the whole story.

We built it this way because we wouldn't trust a budget app that did it any other way.

Real Users

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What You Get

Free today. section title Better tomorrow.

No paywall. No trial. No credit card. Here's what's available right now — and where we're going.

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The Core App

Everything you actually need

  • Automatic SMS parsing (M-PESA & Airtel Money)
  • Auto-categorised budget
  • Envelope budgeting
  • Spending insights & monthly summary
  • Chama contributions tracked separately
  • 100% offline — no internet required
  • Zero data ever leaves your device
Download — It's Free
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Coming Later

Optional add-ons, never required

  • Shared budgets with family
  • Bill reminders & recurring payments
  • Debt payoff planner (Fuliza, M-Shwari, loans)
  • Advanced reports & export
  • Multi-device sync (opt-in)

The Core App stays free — today and after these launch. You'll never lose what you already have.

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The Promise

Rules we're holding ourselves to

  • No ads. Ever.
  • No selling your data. Ever.
  • No forced sign-up. Ever.
  • No reading anything but financial SMS.
  • The free tier stays free. Forever.
  • If we can't do something well, we won't do it.
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FAQ

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The honest answers — especially about your messages.

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No. We only look at messages from M-PESA and Airtel Money sender IDs. Personal chats, OTPs, delivery notifications, bank alerts — none of it is even read. The app filters by sender before parsing anything, so nothing else is ever processed.

No. Everything is processed and stored on your phone. There is no server, no cloud copy, no backup. If you uninstall the app, every record goes with it. We cannot see your data because we never receive it.

There's no catch. We're keeping the core app free on purpose — it's the fastest way to get Kenyans to actually know where their money goes. Later, we'll add optional paid extras (shared budgets, advanced reports, sync), and revenue from those funds development. The core app you install today stays free.

Cash is optional to log. M-PESA and Airtel Money transactions are automatic. For cash, you can add a quick manual entry in the app if you want — but nothing forces you to. Most people find the SMS data alone gives them a very clear picture.

No. Parsing is batched and runs in the background very efficiently — it's a text-matching job, not a heavy one. The app works completely offline, so it doesn't use any data unless you choose to use an online feature later.

Loan disbursements (Fuliza, M-Shwari, Tala, etc.) are treated as money in, and repayments as debt spending — separate from your normal budget so they don't skew your categories. Over time, the app shows you what your borrowing is really costing you.

Android first — because that's where SMS-based transactions live in Kenya. iOS restricts SMS access heavily, so if we bring it there it'll look different. We'll announce it when (and if) it's ready, rather than promising it and shipping late.

The budget that builds itself while you live your life.

Install it once. Forget it. Come back to a budget that actually reflects your life.

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