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You paid 61 times last month. Kharcha remembers every one.

Kharcha reads the payment alerts your bank already sends you.

1,860 early users rate Kharcha 4.7 out of 5

38 banksand 6 UPI apps, parsed
4 secto enter a cash payment
0 KBof your messages leave the phone
Plans from ₹0

Free forever on one bank account.

No password, everWe never ask for a net-banking login
Reads on the deviceParsing happens offline, on your phone
Leaves when you doCSV and PDF export on Plus

Why it slips

UPI made spending invisible. Nothing made it visible again.

We watched 40 people try to reconstruct one month of spending.

01

Every tracker wants your bank login

Most people close it, rightly.

02

UPI tells you who, never what

61 payments look like 61 strangers.

03

Cash falls out of every app

No SMS, no entry.

Kharcha reads the alerts you already receive.

What it does

Six things it does that a bank app will not

It reads the alerts, not your bank

One permission, parsed locally.

Name a merchant once

Applied backwards and forwards.

Cash in four seconds

A number pad and a category.

A budget that warns you on the 19th

Before you cross it, not after.

Split without a group chat

A running balance per person.

Everything stays on the phone

Backup is opt-in and encrypted.

The app, in detail

Three screens. That is the whole app.

A ring, a list, and a row you can correct in one tap.

The month ringSpent, budgeted, and what the run rate says you will finish on.

Nine categoriesRename them, merge them, or set a cap on any one of them.

One row, correctedRename the handle once and every payment to it, past and future, follows.

The ring is the monthSpent, budgeted and days left.
Categories, not accountsNine to start with.
Every row is editableOne tap each.
Search that works offlineEvery payment to a handle.

App spec

Getting started

Eleven minutes on a Sunday, then it runs by itself

No import, no CSV, no CA.

In early access

What an invite gets you that the store build will not

Honestly compared

Kharcha against the spreadsheet you abandoned

What matters
Kharcha
A monthly spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is better at one thing.

1,400bank SMS formats parsed

Who is building it

Two people in Indiranagar and 1,400 SMS formats

Meghna and Arjun had the same abandoned spreadsheet.

The hard part was never the app.

  • No outside money
  • A public changelog
  • Bank formats fixed in nine days
  • Your data has never left a Kharcha phone
Meghna RaoCo-founder — Kharcha

Cohorts 1 and 2

1,860 people have run it for a full billing cycle

4.7average of 1,860 ratings
71%still opening it in week twelve
9 daysmedian fix for a bank format

Cohort 3

2,000 invites. Then the founding price is gone.

Invites go out in the order requests arrive.

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Founding price ends 5 October.

Cohort 3, in numbers

Only 313 of 2,000 invites are still open — invites claimed so far.

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No bank credentialsWe never ask for a password or an OTP.
Export on day oneYour data leaves as CSV whenever you want.
Delete means deleteOne tap wipes the database and any backup.
Cancel in the appNo retention call, no email to reply to.

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