u/Background_Outside28

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share Lupi, an app I built to help track recurring expenses and bills.

Why I created such app: Many people forget about their subscriptions or expiring free trials and get charged. Lupi keeps all your bills, subscriptions, and trials in one clean list and sends you push notifications before you have to pay.

There are already similar apps, but I added a few features to make it better:

1. You do not need to create an account or link your bank. All data stays offline on your phone.
2. Trial Tracker - It notifies you 1, 3, or 7 days before a trial ends, with direct links to cancel in seconds
3. You can easily track annual bills (like car insurance) and irregular payments, not just monthly subscriptions
4. Many statistics like real annual and monthly costs, spending history or a pie chart with expenses categories

It's completely free to track up to 5 expenses (no ads, all features unlocked). A PRO version is available if you want to track more.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/lupi-bills-subscriptions/id6762550315

I hope this helps some of you save some money. If you have any feedback or questions, please let me know as it's my first app and I really want to make it solid

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Hi everyone :)

I lost my cat last year. He was with me for 21 years, I got him when I was 7 on child day. He had kidney problems at the end, and it was hard to look at him struggling every day. I know many of you are going through this right now, and I have so much respect for how you care for your cats.

I work as a software tester (QA), so I decided to build a mobile app to help with CKD care. I want to make the daily routine a bit easier. I already got some great feedback from people on Facebook, and I added many new things because of them.

What I have now:

• Daily logs: Weight, feeding, and energy.
• Fluids: You can track the amount and see where you gave the last injection
• Medications: I expanded this section so you can track more medications
• Litter box: You can now track if your cat is peeing and pooping normally
• Lab results: A place to keep results like Creatinine, BUN, or Phosphorus
• PDF Report: I made it much cleaner so the vet can read it quickly
• Reminders: Notifications for meds and fluids.

The app is almost ready, but I want to be sure it’s actually helpful for this community. I have a lot in the roadmap already.

I have a few questions for you:

1. What is the most important thing for you to track? What do you log most often?
2. Do you think a PDF report for your vet would be useful?
3. Would anyone like to be a beta tester and try the app before I release it?

I’m not selling anything here. I just want to build something that really helps.

Thank you for everything you share in this group, I think it helps so many people.

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Hi everyone. I am a QA tester with 7 years of experience. I just released my first app called Lupi (a subscription tracker).

We all know the new Google Play rule, you need 12 testers for 14 days. I had to find strangers on Facebook groups to help me (as I don't have so many friends with Androids). I got 18 testers. Do you know how much feedback I received? Zero 😂

But it gets worse. While my app was still in the closed beta, one of those "testers" actually copied my UI and my logo. They published a copycat app before me (on App store). I was furious. But then I realized that actually, if someone steals your design before you even launch, your UX must be really good.

I built the app with React Native and a local-first SQLite database. Of course AI helped me write the code, but I think that my QA skills pushed it to production. The app tracks your regular expenses + warns you before a free trial ends.

I learned that random testers are useless. If you want real feedback, ask other developers, or family/friends.

Let me know if you want the link to check it out. I'm ready for the roast to make it better 🔥 (real feedback needed 😅)

App stores make a lot of money when we forget to cancel a free trial. They don't want to remind you.

I got really tired of losing money on forgotten subscriptions and forgotten payments (today we have so many of them, so it's super hard to track them all). I don't know how to code from scratch, so I used AI as my "junior developer". Unfortunately, AI makes stupid mistakes, so I have to use all my 7 years of QA experience to clean up the mess and actually launch my first app 😂

It is called Lupi. It is a local-first subscription tracker. No cloud, no bank logins. Your data stays on your phone.

The best thing in the app - it notifies you whenever a trial is about to finish, or your payment is coming (whatever it is, Netflix, Gym, Insurance, etc.)

AI helped me start, but testing made it real.

I will put the links in the comments. Since I am a QA, I tried to break it many times. But I am sure you guys can break it better. Let me know what you think! I would be grateful for every comment and feedback :)

Like many here, I track my major expenses and overall savings rate closely. But recently, I realized I was suffering from "subscription creep". It wasn't just the obvious ones like Netflix or Spotify. Some of them were "hidden": health care, car GPS navigation, annual insurance, or gym memberships.

I sat down and mapped out every single one of them. What hit me wasn't the monthly cost, but the annual one. Seeing a $15/month service presented as a $180/year drag on my investments changes the perspective completely.

I used to manage this in a excel, but it didn't send me push notifications before annual renewals hit my card. Because I couldn't find a privacy-focused tool, I spent the last few months building my own local-first tracker on my phone just to get my cash flow in order and thanks to that I already resigned from car navigation that I don't use (as I have an Apple Car I can you google maps for free) and Disney+ as I realized that I don't need all of them at once.

How often do you guys do a hard audit of your recurring bills? Have you found any "vampire" subscriptions dragging down your saving reate lately?