The ledger

Keyboard-first inline editing, real search, splits, tags, and locked-once-reconciled history.

The transactions ledger is where you'll spend most of your time in Ember, and it's built like a power tool: a dense, keyboard-first register where every edit happens inline, every action is undoable, and a reconciled row is locked for good. If you've ever wished your finance app felt like a well-tuned spreadsheet instead of a stack of modal dialogs, this is that.

Editing at the speed of typing

Inline everything. Click (or keyboard into) any cell — date, payee, category, memo, amount — and edit it right there. No edit screens, no popups blocking the page.
Keyboard-first. The register has a full shortcut vocabulary, a command palette (⌘K) that jumps to any account, payee, action, or page, and pickers you can drive entirely with arrows and Enter.
Undo, not "are you sure?". Ember doesn't nag you with confirmation dialogs. It saves, shows a toast, and gives you Undo. Destructive actions that genuinely can't be undone are the only things that ask twice.
Smart pickers. The payee picker learns your habits: choosing a payee pre-fills its usual category. Transfers live in the same picker — pick one of your own accounts instead of a payee and the paired entry is created on the other side automatically.

Search that speaks your language

The ledger search understands a real query grammar, not just substring match: multiple terms combine with AND, amounts support operators and ranges (>100, 25..75), and you can scope terms by field, direction, or date range. Type, hit ArrowDown, and you're on the first result.

Splits, tags, and related transactions

Splits divide one transaction across categories, with the parts always summing to the whole — enforced, not hoped for.
Tags are freeform colored labels you define, attach to any transaction, and filter by (filters combine, so vacation + reimbursable means both).
Related transactions connect entries that belong together — a purchase and its refund, an expense and the check that repaid it — so the story stays together.

Cleared, approved, reconciled

Ember uses the classic register discipline:

Uncleared → cleared as transactions match what the bank reports.
Approved means you've looked at it — new imports queue for a quick review pass instead of silently entering your books.
Reconciled means you've balanced the account against a real statement, and every reconciled row becomes read-only. Your history can't drift after you've signed off on it.

Reconciliation is a guided flow per account: enter the statement balance, check off cleared items, and lock the period. Balance snapshots record the result so your net-worth history stands on audited ground.

Recurring transactions

Rent, salary, subscriptions — define the cadence once and Ember posts them automatically, showing upcoming instances in a Scheduled group before they land. Cadences handle real-world rules (last weekday of the month, every second Friday) rather than just "monthly."

On your phone

Ember detects phones and serves a purpose-built mobile app: net worth and accounts on the home screen, a card-swipe review queue for approving new imports, and a searchable ledger with quick-add. The desktop register is one tap away when you need it.