Spaces you share
A space can be for the apartment, or for a business you run with a partner. Everyone adds what they paid, and Chortkeh keeps the balance until someone settles up.
Expense tracker for iPhone and Android
Snap the receipt. Chortkeh files every line.
Without a receipt, say “lunch with Maya, 18.50” or type “taxi home 23.40”. You check what Chortkeh filled in and tap Save.
Free to use. The AI parts are in Pro, at $7 a month.
Adding an expense
Add it while you’re still at the counter
Photograph the receipt
Hold the camera over it. Each line comes back with its price and a category, long supermarket receipts included. Emailed receipts go the same way once you forward them to your Chortkeh address.
Or just say it
You tap the microphone and talk: “lunch with Maya at Nonna’s, eighteen fifty”. By the time you finish the sentence, the form is filled in.
Or type one line
Write it like a note to yourself. Anything the app isn’t sure about gets a dashed outline, so you know where to look.
Pro All three use AI and come with Pro. Filling in the form yourself is free.
Typing “coffee 3.80” is enough. Chortkeh works out the rest and marks anything it isn’t sure about.
What it reads
Every line of the receipt
Totals hide what you bought. Chortkeh keeps every item, so months later you can ask what coffee beans cost you this year and get the exact figure.
One receipt, several categories
The beans go under Coffee and the dish soap under Other, even though you paid for them together.
Tax on each line
A basket can mix tax rates. Each item keeps its own, and the totals match the paper.
The currency on the paper
A bill in lira stays in lira. Your own currency sits under it at that day’s rate.
Where you bought it
Tap the store’s name to open it in Maps.
Assistant
Ask about your money
“How much went on coffee this month?” gets you the figure, with a chart when one helps. If you want something fixed, it shows you the change before making it.
It reads your records
Answers come from your own expenses, down to single items on a receipt.
Changes wait for your OK
Answers can be wrong, so an edit arrives as a card. Nothing changes until you confirm it, and you can still undo it afterward.
It remembers what you tell it
Tell it your rent goes out on the 1st. You can see and delete everything it keeps.
It can search the web
Turn on web search to look up a product, or to find it cheaper near you.
Limits
Set a limit the way you’d say it
You type “coffee to go” and a number. Chortkeh works out which of your categories and items that means, and keeps checking as new ones turn up. Matching your words is part of Pro.
By amount or by count
$200 a month on eating out, or eight coffees.
On your home screen
A widget shows what’s left of a limit without opening the app.
Shared spaces and currencies
Everyone in the space sees the same balance
Any currency
Each expense keeps the amount printed on it, and everything you add up is in your own currency at the rate of the day you paid.
Insights
What changed this month
If your month starts on payday, every chart can start there too.
Price per unit
Chortkeh notices when the oat milk you buy costs 12% more than it did a month ago.
No-spend days
If nothing’s logged by evening, it asks whether today was a quiet one. One tap if it was.
Charts you describe Pro
Ask for “groceries by week since June” and it draws that chart from your data.
A calendar
Each day’s spending on a calendar, and a bill that covers a whole month can be spread across it.
And the small things
Recurring payments
Subscriptions and loans, with the next payment date and what’s left to pay.
Widgets
Your month on the home screen. On iPhone you can add an expense from Control Center.
Works offline
Expenses added on the subway are sent when you have signal again.
Statements from your bank Pro
Bank exports are messy. Import yours as a PDF or a spreadsheet anyway; expenses you already have are matched, so nothing counts twice.
Receipts by email Pro
An e-receipt forwarded to your private Chortkeh address is filed like a photo.
Export
Everything downloads as one CSV file, whenever you like.
Your data
Your data isn’t for sale
Chortkeh is paid for by Pro subscriptions and nothing else. There are no ads in the app.
Hosted in the EU
Your records and receipt files live on servers in the European Union.
No third-party analytics
Nothing in the app reports what you do to another company, and your data isn’t used to train AI models.
Take it with you
You can export everything, or delete your account, from inside the app.
Voice isn’t kept
When you speak an expense, the words are kept as text. The recording is never stored.
Pricing
Adding by hand is free. The AI is $7 a month.
There’s no cap on how many expenses you add by hand.
Free
$0 forever
- Expenses typed by hand, as many as you like
- Shared spaces and settling up
- Recurring payments and limits
- Charts and CSV export
Pro
$7 a month
or $70 a year
- Receipts read from a photo or a PDF
- Forwarded e-receipts and bank statements
- Expenses from a sentence or your voice
- The assistant, with charts and edits
- Limits matched to your words
- Categories filled in for you
Prices are in US dollars; the App Store and Google Play charge the equivalent in your currency.
The name
Chortkeh is Persian for abacus
چرتکه
Shopkeepers in Iran added up sales on one for generations. They moved the wooden beads faster than most people could write a sum down. The app icon is one.
Questions
Is Chortkeh free?
Yes, for everything you do by hand, with no cap. Pro costs $7 a month or $70 a year and adds the parts that use AI: reading receipts and bank statements, expenses from a sentence or your voice, the assistant, limits matched to your words and categories filled in for you.
Does it connect to my bank?
No. Chortkeh never asks for a bank login. If you want your bank’s side of things, import a statement file (that part is Pro).
Which languages does the app speak?
English, Turkish, Czech and Arabic. Receipts in other languages are read too.
What if a receipt is in another currency?
It keeps the amount as printed and shows yours under it, at that day’s rate.
Can I share it with my partner?
Yes. Create a space and send the invite link; each of you adds what you paid, and Chortkeh keeps the balance.
Where is my data kept?
On servers in the European Union. When you use an AI feature, what it needs goes to the AI provider for that one task.
What happens when Pro’s AI credit runs out?
Receipt scanning and the assistant pause until the credit refills next month. Everything else keeps working.
How do I cancel Pro?
In your phone’s subscription settings: Apple Account › Subscriptions on iPhone, or Payments & subscriptions in Google Play.
Get Chortkeh
For iPhone and iPad, and for Android phones and tablets.