Spending and income
+ → Add an expense or Add an income: the amount, a category, a note (a shop, what for) and the day. A parent can also pick the account it came from and whose it is — a child's cinema ticket, for example.
On top of the month:
- Spent, Earned and what's Left;
- Budgets — how much of each is used (the bar turns red once it's spent);
- Where it went — the categories, biggest first; tap one to see only its entries;
- Six months side by side — tap a month to open it;
- Accounts with their balance.
‹ › move between months. Tap an entry to change or delete it.
Budgets, accounts and recurring entries
Parents: Accounts, categories and budgets at the bottom of Finances.
| Accounts | Cash, a card, a bank account, savings — with what was in them before Lanibo. Each shows its balance. Move between accounts moves money without counting it as spent. |
| Categories | The family starts with a set (Groceries, Home, Bills, Car…); add, rename or delete. Give an expense category a monthly budget. |
| Recurring | Rent, subscriptions, a salary — written down by themselves on their day, every week, month or year. |
| Download everything (CSV) | The whole history for a spreadsheet. |
The month starts on the 1st.
Bank statement (CSV)
Parents: + → Bank statement (CSV).
- In your bank's app or website, download the month's history as a CSV file.
- Pick it in Lanibo. The columns (date, amount, description, or separate spent/received) are recognised; tap one to change it.
- Each row gets the category its text had before ("LIDL" → Groceries); tap a row to set one — the same text in the file follows.
- Import. Rows already in Lanibo are skipped, so importing the same file twice adds nothing.
The file is read on your device; only the rows are saved. Files in Windows-1251 (common with Bulgarian banks) work too.
By themselves
- A paid 🧾 bill becomes an expense in Bills; marking it unpaid removes it.
- Fuel for a 🚗 car becomes an expense in Car.
- Pocket money stays apart — it's the children's.
Children
A child opens 💸 Finances too, and writes down only their own expenses and income — pocket money spent, a present from grandma. They see only theirs; no accounts, budgets or imports. Parents see everything; for something personal, just write "Personal".
Questions
Does Lanibo connect to my bank? No. You bring in a CSV you downloaded yourself; Lanibo never asks for card numbers or bank logins.
Can the other parent hide an expense? No — parents see everything. That's on purpose: Finances is the family's shared picture.