A phone budget, and envelopes that fund themselves
- Your budget, on your phone
- Venmo requests and charges, marked in the ledger
- Search for one condition or another
- Fund an envelope from the account its money arrives in
Release notes
What changed in Ember, the personal finance ledger, week by week. Each week is summarized here and links to its full notes.
Beta
Ember is in private beta. These notes record what changed each week while it is built and tested. Join the waitlist for an invite.
Budget periods you set, a recycle bin, and imports you can take back
- Budget on a period other than the calendar month
- Click Available to see how it adds up
- A recycle bin, and a way back for stranded bank records
- Undo an import, and put a single line back
Bank sign-in, real statement periods, and agent drill-down
- Link banks that make you sign in on their own site
- Reconcile against the statement your bank actually printed
- Ask a connected agent for the transactions behind a total
Download your data, tax-lot picking, and imports that stop duplicating
- Download your data as spreadsheets you can open
- Choose which tax lots a sale comes from
A tag manager, reconciling against the statement, and a faster ledger
- A place to manage your tags
- Reconcile a month against the statement it came from
- The ledger keeps up on a large account
- Matching a duplicate keeps the row you curated
- The same keys work from every cell in the ledger
Session-long undo, a sharper search box, and a read-only AI connection
- Undo and redo that last the whole session
- Connect an AI assistant to your finances
- Search that understands the ledger
- Suggestions for duplicate payees and recurring payments
- Copy any table straight into a spreadsheet
- The keyboard reaches the whole ledger
A public front page, help docs, and cleaner payee names
- A front page, and help pages you can read without an account
- Payees that read like names, not statement text
Multi-column sorting, tablet-friendly controls, and more on mobile
- Sort by one column, then another
- Ember on a tablet, sized for fingers
- Split rules and Venmo charges on your phone
Pending charges, a tighter ledger, and full keyboard reach
- Pending charges show up before they post
- A ledger that runs edge to edge
- Investment rows say what you can change
- Sort, select, and approve without the mouse
- Related transactions show you the whole group
- Import an Ally export, take a selection out as CSV
A clearer ledger, filterable net worth, and wider keyboard access
- A ledger you can read at a glance
- More of the app answers to the keyboard
- The investment row editor says what it wants
- Transfers between your own accounts stop doubling up
- Net worth, narrowed to what you're asking about
- One page for your actions