A note from Galus — why this exists
I'm a student at Columbia University. Like a lot of people, I spent years bouncing between spreadsheets, free trials, and "premium" finance apps that all wanted the same thing before showing me a single chart: my bank login.
I understand why those apps exist, and I know many people use them happily. This just isn't one of them. I wanted something quieter — a personal ledger I could actually control, where the numbers stay under my password and on my account, not funneled through a third-party aggregator I've never met.
So I built MoneyLoko for myself first. Net worth, bills, debts, budget, goals, and a simple portfolio view — all in one place, all manual, all mine. No bank linking. No ads. No upsell to a $9.99 tier. If it's useful to you too, that's a bonus.
The principles
- Your data is yours. Stored under your account, readable only by you.
- No bank linking. You enter what you want, when you want.
- No bloat. The essentials done well, not a hundred features done poorly.
- Built by a student. Not a startup chasing a valuation.
Every feature came from a real moment: missing a bill and paying a late fee, wondering which debt to attack first, wanting a portfolio view that didn't gate the chart behind a paywall, or trying to figure out how many months of runway I actually had.
If MoneyLoko saves you a late fee or a monthly subscription and you'd like to help keep it free and ad-free, you can support the project here:
Or just use it. That's honestly enough.