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
Your money keeps disappearing. Chortkeh shows you where.
Snap a receipt, say “lunch with Maya, 18.50,” or type “cab home 23.40.” Chortkeh fills in the rest and keeps a running total, so you know what’s left before you spend it.
Free to use. The AI features are in Pro, at $7 a month.
Where it goes
Nobody hands you this receipt
- Coffee on the way in.
- A delivery fee, because it was raining and getting late.
- The free trial you meant to cancel.
- Cabs, every time the bus ran late.
- None of it felt like much. By the 30th it came to $455.
- Chortkeh keeps that tally as you go, so you see it on the 3rd, while most of the month is still ahead of you.
The small stuffNovember
Coffee to go ×18$86.40
Delivery fees ×7$48.93
Streaming trial$15.99
Cabs ×4$93.60
Lunch out ×6$111.00
Snacks ×12$38.40
In-app purchases$24.97
Parking ×3$36.00
Total$86.40$135.33$151.32$244.92$355.92$394.32$419.29$455.29
Adding an expense
Add it while you’re still at the counter
Snap the receipt
Hold the camera over it. Each line comes back with its price and a category, even on a long grocery receipt. Emailed receipts work 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.
Type “coffee 3.80” and that’s it. Chortkeh works out the rest and flags 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 number.
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 receipt in euros stays in euros. 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 did I spend on coffee this month?” gets you the number, with a chart when one helps. Ask it to fix something and it shows you the change before making it.
It reads your expenses
Answers come from what you’ve logged, down to each item on a receipt.
Changes wait for your OK
Answers can be wrong, so every edit shows up as a card first. 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. That matching 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 every total is in your own currency, at the rate from 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 its days.
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 you add on the subway sync when you’re back online.
Statements from your bank Pro
Bank statements are messy. Upload yours as a PDF or a spreadsheet anyway: expenses you already have are matched, so nothing counts twice.
Receipts by email Pro
Forward a digital receipt to your private Chortkeh address and it’s 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 expenses 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.
And then
Put your feet up
With the month written down and your limits set, there’s nothing left to carry around in your head. Have the coffee. Your home screen says how many are left.
Pricing
Adding expenses yourself is free. The AI is $7 a month.
There’s no cap on how many expenses you add yourself.
Free
$0 forever
- Expenses you add yourself, 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 in your own words
- Categories filled in for you
Prices are in US dollars, and the App Store and Google Play charge the equivalent in your currency. Receipts and the assistant share one AI credit that refills every month.
The name
Chortkeh is Persian for abacus
چرتکه
Shopkeepers in Iran added up sales on an abacus for generations. They moved the wooden beads faster than most people could write the numbers down. The app icon is one, too.
Questions
Is Chortkeh free?
Yes, for everything you add yourself, with no cap. Pro costs $7 a month or $70 a year and adds the AI features: reading receipts and bank statements, expenses from a sentence or your voice, the assistant, limits in your own words, and categories filled in for you.
Does it connect to my bank?
No. Chortkeh never asks for a bank login. To get your bank’s numbers in, import a statement file (that part is Pro).
What languages is the app in?
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.