u/Flat_Historian2720

Every app I download lately wants me to wait 3 seconds for a cloud sync just to log a $4 coffee, or it bombards me with paywalls for basic features.

I'm a solo dev, and I finally got fed up and started building my own app just for my personal use. My main rules:

1. Offline-first. It saves instantly on the device and syncs in the background. No spinning loading wheels.
2. No more "Are you sure?" popups. I replaced them with a slide-up "Undo" toast. If you delete an entry, you just hit undo, but otherwise, you aren't slowed down.
3. Fast categorization. Testing out AI auto-categorization so I don't have to scroll through 50 options to pick "Groceries."

It's not public yet, I'm still working on it, but it's crazy to me that the big apps haven't figured out that people just want speed and less friction.

Anyway, just needed to vent about the state of finance apps lol.