RandTracker is a budget built around the South African payday. See your debit orders coming, plan every rand, pay down debt and share a budget with your household.
Screens on this page are from the real app, using a made-up demo account.
For your own money
Stop finding out at month-end. Plan from one payday to the next, and see the debit orders before they leave your account.
A clear Safe to spend figure until payday
A debt-free date you can move with extra payments
Goals, investments and stokvels in one place
For the people you share it with
Run the groceries, rent and school fees together, without opening up everything else.
A shared set of accounts and budgets
Everyone works from the same figures
Personal finances stay private to each person
Every screen, explained
Follow the same menu you’ll use in the app, then the setup that gets you started. Nothing here is a mock-up.
Everyday
The screens you open most: what is safe to spend, what went out, and what is about to.
One answer before you buy anything
Safe to spend takes your cheque and cash balances, removes the bills still due before payday and what you have planned in your budgets, and shows what is really left.
Warns you if an account could run short, and names the bill that causes it
Shows upcoming debit orders, cash flow, net worth, your debt-free date and TFSA room
Arrange the widgets to suit how you work
Dashboard
Every rand in one searchable list
Add a transaction in a few taps, or import a statement from your bank and review it before anything is saved.
Import PDF, CSV, OFX, QFX or QIF statements, with repeats skipped automatically
Split one payment across categories, and record transfers and refunds properly
Filter, save your filters, edit in bulk and undo a delete
Transactions
A budget month that starts on payday
Paid on the 25th? Your budget runs from the 25th. If that falls on a weekend or public holiday, the month starts on the working day before, when the money actually arrives.
Give every rand a job and see what is available in each category
Overspending comes out of next month, and unused money can carry over
Fill empty categories repeats last month in one click, and history shows how you did
Budgets
Debit orders, seen coming
Salary, rent, insurance and subscriptions are listed before they happen, so month-end holds fewer surprises.
Dates move around weekends and South African public holidays
Each schedule can post itself or ask you first
Find schedules spots regular payments in your history and totals your subscriptions
Schedules
Money
Everything you own and owe, and where it should go next.
Everything you own and owe
Cheque, savings, cash, credit cards, store cards, loans and investments come together into one net worth figure.
See how much of each credit limit you are using
Reconcile an account against your bank statement balance
Balances update themselves as transactions change
Accounts
A date you can aim for
Add your cards, store cards and loans, then see exactly when you would be debt-free and what it would cost in interest.
Compare the avalanche and snowball methods, or set your own order
Slide an extra monthly payment and watch the debt-free date move
Each payment is split into interest and capital
Debts
Saving for something specific
Set a target and a date for the emergency fund, December holiday or next big purchase.
Progress and amount remaining at a glance
Link a goal to the account holding the money
See how many days are left
Goals
Your TFSA limits, watched for you
Track tax-free savings, unit trusts, ETFs, shares, fixed deposits and retirement annuities next to the rest of your money.
Follows the R36,000 yearly and R500,000 lifetime TFSA limits
Record contributions, withdrawals, dividends, interest and fees
Gains and returns per holding, included in your net worth
Investments
Together
Money you share with the people you live with, or save with.
Shared money, private money
A household is a separate set of accounts and budgets for the people in it. Nothing from your personal finances is copied in.
Invite someone with a single-use code
Switch between your own books and the shared ones
Everyone in the household works from the same figures
Household
Your stokvel, on the books
Rotating, savings, grocery and burial stokvels each get a record of what you have paid in and what is due back.
Log contributions and payouts as they happen
See your next payout date and roughly how much to expect
Keep several groups side by side
Stokvels
Insights
What the last few months actually looked like.
Where the money went
See money in and out by month, your net worth over time, and a diagram that follows your income into each spending category.
A calendar view of what happened on which day
A tax-year summary running March to February
Compare this cycle with the last and with your average
Reports
The patterns behind the totals
Spending trends, category breakdowns and your savings rate for the period you choose.
See which payees you spend the most with
Check how each budget is holding up
Income broken down by source
Analytics
Set up once
Less typing from the start, and less every month after.
Set up in seven steps
The wizard walks you through your main account, other accounts, income, bills, debts and a first budget, then lets you review it all.
Your salary sets your payday
Bills and debt repayments fill in your budget for you
Stop at any point and carry on later
Setup wizard
Categorise once
Tell RandTracker what a bank description means, and it applies that to future imports.
Start from a set of South African merchant rules
It learns from the categories you correct
Run a rule across your existing transactions
Rules
Built for how money works here
Payday, not the 1st
Budget months follow your payday and shift for weekends and public holidays.
Debit orders
See each one coming, and whether the account can cover it.
Stokvels
Contributions and payouts for rotating, savings, grocery and burial groups.
TFSA limits
Yearly and lifetime allowances tracked as you contribute.
March to February
A tax-year summary that matches the South African tax year.
Local categories
Groceries, Petrol, Airtime & Data, Medical Aid, School Fees and more, ready from day one.
Your finances stay yours
No bank logins
You never give RandTracker your banking password. Transactions come from what you enter or import.
Two-factor sign-in
Protect your account with an authenticator app, with one-time recovery codes as a backup.
Access enforced by the database
Every row is tied to its owner, and the database refuses requests for anyone else’s data.
Encrypted nightly backups
Backups are encrypted before they leave the server.
Your data is yours
Export it whenever you like, or delete your account and everything in it.
What it doesn’t do
Better you know now.
It doesn’t connect to your bank automatically. You add transactions yourself or import statements.
It needs an internet connection, including when installed on your phone.
It helps you see and plan your money, but it isn’t financial advice.
Questions
Is RandTracker free?
Yes, for now. Paid plans may be added later.
Do I need to link my bank account?
No. You add transactions yourself or import a statement downloaded from your bank, in PDF, CSV, OFX, QFX or QIF format.
Can my partner and I share a budget?
Yes. Create a household and invite them with a code. It has its own accounts and budgets, and each person’s personal finances stay private.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. It runs in your phone’s browser and can be installed to your home screen like an app. It needs an internet connection.
Who can see my information?
Only you, plus the people in any household you choose to join, and only for that household’s books.
Can I take my data with me?
Yes. Settings lets you export your data, and you can permanently delete your account at any time.
Start with your next payday
The setup wizard takes you from your first account to your first budget.