Lightning Personal Accounting
Tyrone Carson Finance iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Lightning Personal Accounting is a paid Finance app for iPhone and iPad by Tyrone Carson. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated September 26, 2026.
- Price
- 0.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 80 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 26
- 2026
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About Lightning Personal Accounting
Lightning Personal Accounting puts your complete financial picture on one screen. Track bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and subscriptions — all stored privately on your device with encryption. - Real-time Financial Pulse with color-coded health status - Automatic subscription detection and cost tracking - Weekly budget envelopes (Needs / Wants / Buffer) - AI-powered spending insights and category breakdowns - Money Flow visualization showing where every dollar goes - Scrolling news ticker with real cost-of-living facts - Plaid integration for automatic bank syncing - No monthly fees. No data harvesting. Just $2.99, once.
What’s new
Updated September 26, 2026
v3.0.0 : Venus. One Look, and Your Data Held Safe THE BIG ONE: YOUR ACCOUNTS CANNOT BE LOST This release closes four separate paths that could damage or erase the accounts you had already saved. If you ever saw "Could not open your accounts", or opened Lightning to find accounts missing, that is fixed, and your data is recoverable. - Fixed a launch race that could encrypt an empty list over your real accounts before they finished loading - A failed decrypt no longer overwrites the data it just failed to read - Setting or resetting a PIN no longer strands accounts under a key that no longer exists - Accounts now restore from your cloud copy instead of showing a dead end ONE LOOK, EVERYWHERE Lightning used to render like two different apps. Every screen and modal now draws from a single colour layer, and every surface and every piece of text has been checked for contrast. Nothing is unreadable any more. NEW - Add transactions by hand, on any account, without waiting for a sync - Import a statement into an account you already have, not just a new one - Notifications and in-app alerts now carry the logo of the account they concern - The close button on an ad now actually closes the ad - Redesigned Accounts screen on a light palette - The welcome screen renders a live computed storm - First-run setup now appears after your first sign in, where it belongs ALSO FIXED - Lightning launches correctly on the latest iOS - One sign-in session across the whole app. No more being signed out thirty minutes after launch regardless of use - Real safe areas on Today, Goals and Insights, so nothing sits under the notch or the home indicator - The Accounts screen no longer asks for notification permission, and the goal wizard no longer takes over the tab Lightning. Your finances, one glance.
App privacy
The developer, Tyrone Carson, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- Location: Precise Location
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
- Financial Info: Other Financial Info
- Contact Info: Email Address
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning Personal Accounting | – | 0.99 USD | September 26, 2026 | |
| Mintaka: Personal Finance | – | Free | Apr 21, 2026 | Compare |
| Vel: Personal Finance Tracker | – | Free | Feb 16, 2026 | Compare |
| Project Finance Institute | 4.8 / 5 (4) | Free | Sep 30, 2026 | Compare |
| Farmers State Bank of Waterloo | 4.6 / 5 (279) | Free | Jul 17, 2026 | Compare |
| MM Connect | – | Free | Sep 15, 2026 | Compare |
| Tykr: Confident Investing | 4.9 / 5 (101) | Free | Oct 7, 2026 | Compare |