Tape
Say it
Hold the orb and speak like you'd tell a friend: “twelve dollars for coffee at Starbucks”. Tape reads the amount, the merchant and the category out of the sentence — filler and thinking noises included.
Say it. It's on the tape.
Say what you spent.
Tape hears the amount, the place and the category — and files it. On your iPhone. No account, no bank login, nothing leaving the device.
Download on theApp Store
Free to start. No account.
Data Not Collected
Works in airplane mode
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You said
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Hold to talk
The act
Speak. Confirm. It's on the tape.
One sentence replaces a form. You never open one.
Confirm
A pill appears the moment it's filed: Logged $12.00 · Food · Undo. One tap and the guess is gone before it touches the ledger.
It's on the tape
The row prints at the top of the tape — torn edge, tear line, tabular amount. No categories to hunt for, no form to fill.
A whole day in one breath
“Three hundred on shopping, forty on gas, lunch was thirty, and payday was a thousand.”
Tape splits one sentence into separate entries and shows you every one before a single thing is written. Splitting a sentence is a guess — and a guess never touches the ledger unconfirmed.
- Mixed categories, incomes and expenses in one breath
- Draft anything out, tap each row you want kept
- The transcript appears live while you speak
Point it at a receipt
Scan. Categorised. Reviewable.
Point the camera at a receipt — or a whole multi-page statement. Every row is read line by line and given a category, and all of it is reviewable before it lands. The image is encrypted on the device.
- Multi-page statements handled
- Nothing is uploaded — ever
Siri, with the app closed
“Hey Siri, log spending in Tape.”
Logged — without unlocking the phone. Seven shortcuts are live in Spotlight and the Shortcuts app from the moment Tape is installed. No setup.
“Tape, log it”
“Start hands-free in Tape”
“Log an expense in Tape”
“I got paid in Tape”
“How much have I spent in Tape”
“What's left of my budget in Tape”
“Scratch that in Tape”
Siri Shortcuts
Tape, log it
Start hands-free in Tape
Log an expense in Tape
I got paid in Tape
Seven shortcuts. Live from install. No setup.
Insights & budgets
Where it actually went
A category donut, spend over time, and month-to-date cashflow — for whichever window you pick. Budgets show what you set and what you've spent against it. Every total names its own window: today, this week, this month, all time.
- Envelope budgets per category — no invented daily allowances
- Budgets that never lecture you
Food $640
Transport $410
Shopping $330
Rest $462
Food$640 of $700
$60 left
Transport$410 of $400
$10 over
Built properly
For everyone who uses an iPhone
Full VoiceOver support with single-sentence labels on every composite card, Dynamic Type to the largest accessibility sizes — layouts reflow rather than truncate — Reduce Motion, and a genuine dark mode. iPhone, portrait, iOS 26+.
VoiceOver ready
Dynamic Type
Reduce Motion
Real dark mode
Works offline, always
6 categories, yours on top
Privacy
Tape doesn't have your data.
Most finance apps promise to look after your data. Tape has nowhere for it to go — the understanding happens on your iPhone's own chip.
- No account, no email, no password
- No bank connection — nothing to breach
- No analytics, no tracking, no ad identifiers
- On-device AI — on your iPhone's chip, not a cloud
- Encrypted storage and an optional Face ID lock
- One-tap CSV export — your data leaves whenever you want it to
App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected
Privacy
Data Not CollectedNo servers to reach
Face ID lockOptional
Encrypted storageOn-device only
Works in airplane modePermanently
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is this a budget tracker?
No. Tape is a private money assistant you talk to. You say what you spent; Tape files it. Budgets are there if you want them — set a monthly budget and per-category envelopes, and Tape shows what you set and what you've spent. It never invents a daily allowance you didn't choose.
Do I need to connect my bank?
No. Tape never connects to a bank — there is no login, no sync, nothing to breach. You tell Tape what you spent, in your own words.
Does it need an account?
No account, no email, no password. There is no server, so there is no "we" holding anything. The App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected.
How does it understand me?
On-device AI running on your iPhone's own chip. Tape hears the amount, the merchant and the category out of a sentence — filler words, thinking noises and mixed languages are handled. The photo of a receipt is encrypted on the device before it's read.
Does it work offline?
Yes — permanently. Tape works in airplane mode and always will. The only network calls the app makes are the App Store's own, plus one optional user-initiated voice-model download.
What if it hears something wrong?
Nothing touches the ledger unconfirmed. Every draft is shown to you before it's written, and a confirmation pill with Undo appears the moment an entry is filed. Tap any row on the tape to expand, search or edit it.
How do I get my data out?
One-tap CSV export of every transaction — nothing is uploaded anywhere, so export is just writing a file that's already on your device.
Say it. It's on the tape.
No forms. No bank logins. No data leaving your iPhone.