Cently: Budget & Spending
Shan Nirmala Finance iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Cently: Budget & Spending is a free Finance app for iPhone and iPad by Shan Nirmala. Requires iOS 15.5. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 104 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v1.0.12
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About Cently: Budget & Spending
Cently turns your spending into budgets, bills and one clear daily number — privately, on your phone. No bank login, ever. WITHOUT HANDING OVER YOUR BANK LOGIN Cently never connects to your bank and never asks for banking credentials. Your bank already texts you when you spend; Cently reads those messages on your phone and turns them into entries. Set up one Shortcuts automation (iOS 17 or later — the app walks you through it, screen by screen) and it happens by itself. Prefer not to? Paste or share a message, scan a receipt, or type "lunch 12" and it's filed. ONE NUMBER THAT ANSWERS "CAN I SPEND THIS?" Safe-to-Spend takes your income, your budgets, the bills still to come and what you've already spent, and shows what's left for today. It updates the moment a spend is added, and it works offline. WHAT'S IN THE FREE APP • Capture: automatic (via Shortcuts), paste, share, receipt scan, or two-tap quick add • Budgets per category, including festival budgets for your own country • Bills and subscriptions, with what's due and when • Savings goals tracked to the date • Up to 10 accounts, cards and cash together • Last month's statement as a PDF, and CSV/Excel export • Encrypted backups you control • Light and dark themes, PIN or Face ID lock CENTLY PRO • No ads, ever • Encrypted sync across your devices — end-to-end, so our server cannot read it • Family vault: share budgets and chosen transactions with your household • Home-screen widgets • Cashflow forecast: where your balance is heading, and which days are tight • Subscription Detective: recurring charges and price rises • Unlimited receipt scans, every statement period, CSV/Excel import • Unlimited accounts, assets and net worth • Ask Cently: ask about your month in ordinary words PRIVACY, PLAINLY Your transactions, budgets, notes and photos stay on your phone. Bank message text is never stored — only the amount, merchant, date and a fingerprint to skip duplicates. Everything that could leave the phone is off until you turn it on, and the Privacy dashboard shows exactly what each one sends. Ask Cently is the one feature that is not end-to-end encrypted: your question and a few totals go to our server and on to OpenAI to write the answer, never your transactions. WORKS IN YOUR CURRENCY Any country, any currency, picked up from your region and changeable any time. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Cently Pro: $1.49/month or $9.99/year (prices vary by country and are lower in many). Both start with a 7-day free trial; cancel before it ends and you pay nothing. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in your App Store settings. Terms: https://cently.nodemint.dev/legal/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://cently.nodemint.dev/legal/privacy-policy/
What’s new
Version 1.0.12 · Updated October 21, 2026
What's New in this Version: • Expanded Bank Support: Added automated transaction capture for Seylan Bank debit notifications. • Concurrent Message Capture: Improved handling when multiple bank notifications arrive simultaneously. • Sync Reliability: Fixed an issue that could interrupt cloud sync when switching screens or navigating away. • Family Vault: Improved member profile management and shared vault responsiveness. • Performance optimizations and bug fixes for iOS 18/26+.
App privacy
The developer, Shan Nirmala, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Financial Info: Other Financial Info
- Contact Info: Email Address
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
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