u/HanZolo95

Happy to finally announce the release of Bento!

A year ago I noticed none of the existing personal finance apps are leveraging AI in their apps. I also noticed that they all give you the same prescribed dashboards about where your money goes.

So I took 2025 off work to focus on building Bento full-time.

Bento is a modern take on a personal finance app. It's centered around custom dashboards and a widget system that let's you track what you care about. You can even change what graph type you display your data in. All this modularity inspired the name Bento, after bento box.

Want to know how much you spent on coffee? Create a coffee tracking widget. Want to compare your Uber vs Lyft spending? Create a merchant comparison widget. Track subscriptions, budgets, tags, everything you need to see exactly where your money goes.

Talk directly to your finances with Benii, my AI agent. He can tag and organize transactions for you, suggest budgets, and provide deep insights into your spending.

You connect all your accounts securely via Plaid. I know privacy and security is a concern for many users so it's worth mentioning that I can only read transaction data, don't receive account numbers, or even your name, and never sell data. If you delete your account, we wipe all records associated to you immediately.

I poured my heart into making a beautiful money tracking experience and would love to hear your feedback! The app has a 7 day free-trial.

More about the app: bentoapp.io
App Store link: Bento: Budget & Money Tracker

Tech Stack - Frameworks, languages, SDKs, and tools used
Xcode, SwiftUI, Swift

Development Challenge - A technical/design challenge and how you solved it

A lot of design challenges to create 25+ widgets and adapt all views for small, medium, large widget sizes. Establishing the design rules for how to graph across all these widget sizes and for any variable date range was probably the most challenging design task I've been faced with so far in my app development career.

AI Disclosure - Whether the app was self-built, AI-assisted, or AI-generated
I spent half of 2026 building myself with no agent assistance

Happy to finally announce the release of Bento!

A year ago I noticed none of the existing personal finance apps are leveraging AI in their apps. I also noticed that they all give you the same prescribed dashboards about where your money goes.

So I took 2025 off work to focus on building Bento full-time.

Bento is a modern take on a personal finance app. It's centered around custom dashboards and a widget system that let's you track what you care about. You can even change what graph type you display your data in. All this modularity inspired the name Bento, after bento box.

Want to know how much you spent on coffee? Create a coffee tracking widget. Want to compare your Uber vs Lyft spending? Create a merchant comparison widget. Track subscriptions, budgets, tags, everything you need to see exactly where your money goes.

Talk directly to your finances with Benii, my AI agent. He can tag and organize transactions for you, suggest budgets, and provide deep insights into your spending.

You connect all your accounts securely via Plaid. I know privacy and security is a concern for many users so it's worth mentioning that I can only read transaction data, don't receive account numbers, or even your name, and never sell data. If you delete your account, we wipe all records associated to you immediately.

I poured my heart into making a beautiful money tracking experience and would love to hear your feedback! The app has a 7 day free-trial.

More about the app: bentoapp.io
App Store link: Bento: Budget & Money Tracker