A Tiller alternative that isn't a spreadsheet you have to maintain.

Tiller users are spreadsheet people: they want the numbers visible and the logic legible. So do we. The difference is where the sheet lives and who keeps it working when a column shifts.

The Tiller price above comes from our Subscription Price Index, read at source and checked on 3 August 2026.

What Tiller gets right

Transparency. Every number is in a cell you can inspect and change, no black box. We share that value; the Purse shows its arithmetic on the face of the page rather than hiding it behind a chart.

The rent went up on 1 August 2026

Tiller moved its annual price up, announced in June and effective this month. Five years of it now runs to about $495. This is not an accusation: costs rise and a business has to meet them. It is only worth noticing that the number attached to a subscription is a number somebody else adjusts, and the number attached to a bought file is not.

Where we differ

A spreadsheet is infinitely flexible, which is another way of saying it is infinitely breakable. Tiller's templates are good, but a household budget maintained as a live workbook has a way of accumulating orphan columns and one wrong SUM range. A purpose-built file can't drift that way.

If you love the sheet

Then honestly, stay. Tiller plus a sheet you understand is a fine system, and better than most SaaS. Come to us when you're tired of being the one who keeps it working.

The refund

Thirty days, one e-mail, money back.