Kesse — Support

Start with a savings goal, or use the separate spending ledger to review your own completed periods. No account or bank login is required.

Set up a savings goal

1. Open Goals and create a goal.
2. Enter its name, currency, target amount and target date, then what you have already saved.
3. Add your monthly income and expenses. Review the available monthly amount, the amount needed and any capacity gap.
4. Save the plan. Use Adjust plan when your budget or target date changes.

For example, a target of USD 6,000, starting savings of USD 1,800, monthly income of USD 3,000 and expenses of USD 2,300 gives USD 700 of monthly capacity. The target date you choose determines the monthly amount needed. Completion dates are conditional on the entries and budget, without investment returns or price changes.

Record, skip or correct a contribution

On a dated step, choose Saved and enter the amount actually saved. Partial and extra contributions count at their real amounts. Choose Not saved if you did not contribute for that step.

Use Edit saved amount to correct a recorded contribution, or Undo to return a step to pending. Show all steps expands the list. The chart displays recorded savings separately from the projected path. A step becoming overdue does not count it as saved.

Goal amounts are separate from your spending ledger. Recording a contribution does not transfer money or add a spending transaction.

Set up the spending ledger

1. Open Spending and choose the ledger currency. Once selected, it stays fixed; changing your device region does not convert the records.
2. Add entries for a finished month or week. Use one total for the period, or amounts in categories that do not overlap.
3. Review the period and explicitly confirm that it is complete. Choose the total or the category entries that should be included.
4. Repeat for other finished periods. Four eligible, confirmed periods enable the summary; at least four in each group are needed for comparison.

Changing an entry removes that period's confirmation. Review and confirm it again. Merely entering a number does not make it part of the analysis. Raw entries excluded from analysis remain stored.

Choose months or weeks in Settings. Records of the other period length remain stored and are not mixed into the selected analysis.

Read the spending summary

The typical amount is the observed median. The spread is the median absolute deviation scaled by 1.4826. It describes your included totals; it is not a confidence interval, forecast or guaranteed range. More entries can increase or decrease it. A zero spread does not prove that every period had the same total.

The summary also shows the lowest and highest included totals and the number of periods. Four is the app's minimum for displaying the summary, not a guarantee that the sample represents your usual spending.

Read the comparison

The comparison uses two adjacent, equally sized groups of 4–16 eligible periods, taking the latest records and showing the date ranges. Earlier eligible records still contribute to the full-history summary. It uses an exact, two-sided rank-sum test that accounts for ties, with a threshold of p ≤ 0.05, and checks that the median difference agrees with the direction.

The method assumes independent, comparable periods. It does not correct for seasonality or repeated comparisons. A result is evidence in these records, not proof of a cause or a prediction. A percentage is shown only with a directional result and a usable earlier median; it describes that observed median difference. Whether two descriptive bands overlap is not the decision rule.

Explore an optional balance

Enter an amount on hand in Settings to see constant-spending scenarios based on the observed typical amount and spread. The displayed durations are not forecasts or guaranteed limits. Leaving the balance empty does not treat it as zero.

Apple Watch

The Watch companion displays the spending summary sent by its paired iPhone through WatchConnectivity. Open Kesse on both devices to let them activate and exchange the latest summary. The Watch does not enter spending or calculate a separate ledger, and it does not receive your goal plan or individual period entries.

If the summary looks old, check that the devices are paired and connected, then reopen both apps. A previous summary can remain visible until a newer one arrives.

Data and privacy

Kesse does not connect to banks, import bank transactions or offer CSV import/export. It has no developer server or cloud sync between separate phones and tablets. Your own device backup settings may retain copies of local data. See Privacy for storage, deletion and Watch details.

Contact

Questions or a problem with the app: hello@norea.studio.

You can also report a problem through GitHub Issues. Issues are public: do not include financial records, personal details or unredacted screenshots.