Arcata
Philip Corlatan Finance iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Arcata is a free Finance app for iPhone and iPad by Philip Corlatan. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 19, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 7 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.8.0
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About Arcata
Arcata is your household's finance book: rent, salary, subscriptions and insurance book themselves, spontaneous expenses are logged in two taps, everything is categorised, and the whole book is shareable with a partner or family over iCloud. No account, no server but your own iCloud — your numbers stay your numbers. Overview • Remaining: what's actually left at month's end, as one number • Income and expenses, split into regular and spontaneous • Spending trend over recent months as a chart • Expenses by category as a pie chart, including regular costs still due • Browse between months, including forward into a forecast Bookings • Log an expense or income in seconds • Quick-capture: hold and drag right on the existing "+" button • Automatic categorisation from the title, learns from your corrections • Filter by month, category or free text — reset with one tap • Outstanding recurring bookings show up ahead of time in the list • Deleting an auto-generated recurring booking asks for confirmation first Recurring Costs & Income • Set up rent, salary, subscriptions and insurance once, then it runs itself • Monthly or yearly, with a start date and an optional end date • Spread out uneven expenses like groceries or gas evenly across the month, instead of all at once on one fixed day • Pause instead of delete when something changes • Export and import as a file, e.g. when switching devices Budgets • Set a monthly limit per category • See the fill level at a glance, warned before a limit is exceeded Savings Tips (Optional) • On request: AI-powered, personalized savings tips based on your spending, with an estimated monthly saving • Choose between OpenAI or right on your device (Apple Intelligence) • Off by default — only visible once you pick a provider in Settings Households, Sharing & Sync • Keep several households side by side and switch with a single tap • Share via iCloud with a partner or family, synced in real time • Available on all your Apple devices No ads, no analytics, no third-party trackers. Savings tips are entirely optional — with no provider chosen, nothing runs through an AI service.
What’s new
Version 1.8.0 · Updated October 19, 2026
New • Sort bookings by amount: in the filter's "Sort order", "By amount" lists the biggest bookings of the selected month first, with the date underneath. Planned bookings are included. Improved • The spending trend is now its own strip above the month pages and swipes with the page — from year to year in the year view. • In the trend, each block of six months has round, labelled scale lines. • In the year view, a tap on a bar shows that month's amount.
App privacy
The developer, Philip Corlatan, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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