We built it for
our own kitchen table.
Sidecar started as two people trying to run a household budget without fighting the software first.
Why Sidecar exists
My wife and I tried a lot of budgeting apps. Most of them were bloated with features and functions we simply didn't need. The ones that weren't had the opposite problem — we had to bend our budget around how the app wanted to work, instead of the app fitting how we actually ran our money.
What we wanted was smaller than any of it. Somewhere to put each dollar before we spent it. A number we could both look at. The ability to log a shop from the checkout line and have it show up on the other person's phone before we got home.
That's what Sidecar is. It isn't trying to be your bank, your accountant, or your financial advisor. It keeps the arithmetic straight for two people sharing one budget, and then it gets out of the way.
Sidecar is a response to a need couples everywhere have — a simple, unbloated budget you can both keep, from your phones, in real time.
What we decided
not to build.
Small on purpose
Five tabs. Every one of them is something you'll use. We'd rather leave a feature out than make you navigate around it for the next ten years.
You type it in
Manual entry isn't a limitation we haven't got round to fixing — it's the whole point. No bank credentials, no aggregator, no third party holding your financial history.
Two people, one budget
Money in a household is a shared problem. Sidecar assumes there are two of you from the start rather than treating sharing as an upgrade.
Nothing to sell
No ads, no analytics, no trackers. We don't sell your information because we never collected anything worth selling.
Made by Regent Media Group.
Questions, bug reports, or feature requests go straight to us at sidecar@regentmediagroup.com.