About BalanceWright
BalanceWright is an independent app studio. It makes one thing: a checkbook register for iPhone and Android.
The studio is one person: BalanceWright is made and run by an independent developer based in Pakistan. That is worth saying plainly at the top, because everything further down this page — one price, one address, no queue to get through — follows from it.
This page exists because you should not have to take a stranger’s word for anything before you hand them your money and your records. It says why the app was built, the five things it will never do, how it is paid for, and who answers when you write in.
BalanceWright is an independent app. It is not affiliated with Apple, with Google, or with any other checkbook or finance app. It does not connect to your bank and it does not give financial advice.
Why this app exists
It was not built because anyone needed another money app. It was built after reading what people say about the ones they already have.
Read the recent one-star reviews of the popular checkbook apps and the same complaints repeat: an update that erased years of entries, balances that drift or duplicate, ads still showing months after someone paid to remove them, and support email that bounces.
Three of them come back again and again. Each one shaped a decision in the app before a word of this page was written.
An update erased years of entries.
So the app is not the only place your register lives, and it never has been. Your register lives on your own phone, and the app keeps rotating copies of it by itself. You can also save a copy anywhere you like and restore from it — your own folder, a file you emailed to yourself, or iCloud Drive on an iPhone. Whether a copy also leaves the phone on its own, and where it lands when it does, is not the same on an iPhone as on an Android phone — which is worth knowing before you need it. What a copy can survive, and what it cannot.
The balance stopped matching the account.
So nothing in this app moves money on its own. Pension, rent, insurance, tithe: set them down once and they appear on the day they are due, marked scheduled. They move only your projected balance until you post them. Nothing is ever posted behind your back. Why a saved balance drifts, and why this one is never saved.
Ads kept appearing after the person had paid to be rid of them.
So there was never any ad code in the build to switch off. There are no ads, before you pay or after, because there is no ad code in the app at all. One payment. No subscription, no premium tier, and free updates.
What we will not do
Five commitments. Each one describes something the app already does not do, rather than something we are promising to resist later. From a stranger, that is the only kind of promise worth anything.
No subscription. One payment. No subscription, no premium tier, and free updates.
No ads. There are no ads, before you pay or after, because there is no ad code in the app at all.
No bank login. It works with no internet connection. There is no bank login, so there is no password of yours to lose and no sync to break.
Nothing of yours is sold. Your transactions never leave your device except to a backup you choose. We never receive them.
No update that rewrites a settled statement. Tick each entry off against your paper statement and watch the difference land on $0.00. Once you lock a statement it is settled, and an app update does not rewrite it.
The app does use a few outside services, and a page like this would be worth nothing if it left them out: Sentry, PostHog and RevenueCat. The privacy page names each one and exactly what it gets.
How the app is paid for
One payment, to one shop, once. You are not asked for it on the way in. It comes later, once you have kept a register in the app with your own figures and seen whether it holds up.
$9.99
Paid once, through the shop you downloaded the app from. One payment. No subscription, no premium tier, and free updates.
If you decide not to pay: If you decide not to pay, nothing is taken away. The register stays readable, searchable, printable and backed up. You just cannot write new entries until you unlock it.
Buying the unlock is the one part of the app that needs a connection, because the payment goes to the shop you downloaded from — the App Store and Google Play — and not to us. Refunds go back the same way, through whichever of the two took your money, and the questions page has the route.
Who answers when you write in
There is one address, and the person who built the app is the person who reads it. No ticket number, no queue, no reply telling you the problem is with your phone.
You will not find a person’s name on this site. That is deliberate, and we are not going to dress it up as anything else. What you get instead is one address a person reads, a price that does not move, and a register you can carry out of the app whenever you like.
So here is what does not depend on trusting us. Any register exports to a CSV file or a printable PDF, whenever you want, and that keeps working whether or not you have paid. You can also save a copy anywhere you like and restore from it — your own folder, a file you emailed to yourself, or iCloud Drive on an iPhone. If we ever went quiet, your register would still be readable, still printable, and still yours.
A register that keeps what you write
Free to try. $9.99 once to keep writing. The app is a free download and everything works from the first day — entries, reconciling, search, recurring bills, transfers, export and backup. It asks for the one-time $9.99 after you balance your first statement, or after 100 entries, whichever comes first.