Most budgeting apps assume you're budgeting alone
My wife and I kept hitting the same wall. Our money was shared, but the tools weren't. Budgeting apps were built around one person's account, one person's habits and one person's device. Bill-splitting apps settled up after the fact — fine for a holiday, useless for a household. Spreadsheets synced in theory, but only one of us ever updated it, and the other found out how the month had gone once it was already over.
Aliana starts from the opposite assumption. One budget, live on both your phones. When she logs a shop, it's on my phone before she's left the car park — same categories, same targets, same running total. Neither of us has to ask the other where we're at, because we're both already looking at it.
There's no bank connection, and that's deliberate. You log what you spend, when you spend it — four seconds that keep you both paying attention while the month is still running, instead of explaining it to each other once it's over.
— David, Aliana's Developer
