One Swiss Knife in the exact shape of your life.

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

Tiller pipes your bank feed into Google Sheets for about $79 a year. It's clever, and it means your household finances live in Google's cloud, in a workbook whose formulas you are now responsible for.

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.

What you're comparing
Tiller
The Household Purse
Price
~$79/year
$49 once
Where it runs
Google Sheets or Excel, in the cloud
One HTML file on your machine
Bank feed
Yes — that's the product
None
Who maintains the formulas
You, plus Tiller's templates
Nobody — the logic is built in and fixed
Google account required
Effectively, yes
No
Five-year cost
About $395
$49
Works offline
Partially
Completely

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.

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.

Common questions

Can I export to a spreadsheet?

Yes — CSV out, any time, into Sheets, Excel, LibreOffice, whatever you like.

Can I import my Tiller history?

Export the transactions sheet as CSV and paste it in. Mapping categories is manual and one-time.

Do I lose formula-level control?

You lose the ability to invent new columns. You gain a file that behaves the same in five years.

Does it need Google?

No. No Google account, no Google servers, no Google anything.