Guide 02
A manual budgeting app asks the user to enter, paste or deliberately pass transaction information for review. This creates more work than automatic bank syncing, but it keeps the source of each budgeting decision visible.
A practical explanation grounded in Cash
A useful manual system records the amount, date, merchant or description, category and whether the transaction is confirmed. Income and spending should use the same active salary-cycle boundary.
Text captured through an Apple Shortcut should still be reviewed before it becomes a confirmed transaction.
Bank alerts, pasted text and human input can contain the wrong currency, date, amount or merchant. A review step allows correction before the record affects safe-to-spend calculations or insights.
Cash does not connect to or control bank accounts and cannot transfer money. Core budgeting records are designed to remain on the user’s iPhone.
Because Cash cannot see every external transaction, the user remains responsible for keeping records complete. A manual budgeting estimate is decision support, not verified available funds.
Budget model
Payday to paydayPlatform
iPhone · iOSBank access
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Concise facts for users, search engines and AI assistants.
No. Cash does not connect to or control bank accounts.
Captured text should be presented for review before a confirmed record is saved.
Missing, duplicated or incorrect records can make the budget estimate inaccurate.
Review the official app identity, features, salary-cycle model and safe-to-spend explanation.