How it works
A clear budget without handing over your bank login.
Escape The Paper turns transaction data you choose into a private, flexible budget on your Mac. There is no account to create and no automatic bank connection running in the background.
1. Bring in the transactions you choose
Export a CSV file from your bank and import it into your budget, or add transactions manually. You decide when data comes in; Escape The Paper does not ask for online-banking credentials.
2. Organise spending around real life
Create categories that match how you think about money. Add tags, review suggested matches, and teach the app when it should suggest more, suggest less, or always assign a match.
3. Set targets and see patterns
Give a category an optional weekly spending goal, or create a target for a future amount and date. Income and savings categories stay separate from spending so Home and Weekly Overview totals remain meaningful.
Understand categories, goals, and targets.
4. Keep separate budgets when you need them
Create multiple independent budget files for personal, household, flatting, hobby, or other uses. Optional business tracking can flag relevant transactions inside a budget, show a period-based profit and loss, and export the current report to CSV.
The local-first tradeoff
Your budget files stay under your control, but that also means you are responsible for backups and for importing new bank transactions. There is no developer-operated cloud account silently holding a copy.