Questions and answers
Rureza is a mobile app that lets the people in one household record what comes in and what goes out, and see the totals in one place. This page answers the questions we receive most often, in the order people usually ask them: first what the app does, then how to set it up, then money and privacy.
If you cannot find your question here, write to us at the contact page. We usually reply within 1 hour during opening hours.
It records money in and money out for a household. You enter a wage, a bill, a shop receipt or a transfer, assign it to a category, and the app adds it to the running totals for the month.
From those entries it shows how much is left to spend, which categories are growing, and how this month compares with the previous one. It does not move money, connect to a lender or give financial advice. It is a record-keeping tool.
Most households finish the basic setup in about 15 minutes. The steps are always the same: create the household, add each person, list your regular income, then list fixed outgoings such as rent, energy, council tax and phone contracts.
You do not need to enter past years. Starting from the current month is enough, and you can add older entries later if you want a longer history.
The app is built for current iPhone and Android handsets. Each person in the household installs it on their own phone and signs in to the shared household. Tablets work too, but the layout is designed for a phone held in one hand.
If an older phone cannot install the latest version, tell us the model and system version through the contact page and we will check whether an earlier release is available.
No. Rureza works on entries you type in or import yourself. Many people prefer this because it forces a short moment of attention on each purchase, and because no bank login ever sits inside a third-party app.
If you want to save typing, you can import a statement file that you download from your own bank, then check the lines before they are saved. Nothing is imported without your confirmation.
One person creates the household and sends an invitation to the others. Everyone who accepts sees the same categories and totals, and every entry shows who added it and when.
This avoids the common situation where one adult keeps a spreadsheet and the other has no idea what has been spent. Entries appear on all phones as soon as they are saved and a connection is available.
Yes. Each person can keep a personal ledger alongside the shared one. Entries in the personal ledger are visible only to that person, and only a single combined figure can optionally be shown to the household.
Gifts, hobbies and pocket money are the usual reasons people use this. The household owner cannot open another member's personal ledger.
A parent can add a young person as a limited member. A limited member can log their own spending and see their own allowance, but cannot view household income, savings or the full list of bills.
Many parents use this as a simple way to show a teenager where an allowance goes. The parent decides what the young person can see and can remove access at any time.
The app compares new entries against recent ones. If the amount, date and category match closely, it asks whether the second entry is a duplicate before saving.
You can still keep both if they are genuinely separate, for example two identical coffees on the same morning. Deleting a duplicate afterwards updates the totals immediately.
Yes. The app starts with a basic set: housing, utilities, groceries, transport, childcare, health, leisure and savings. You can rename any of them, hide the ones you do not need, and add your own.
Changing a category name applies to old entries as well, so your history stays consistent. If you merge two categories, the entries from both are combined under the one you keep.
You mark an entry as repeating and choose how often: weekly, every four weeks, monthly or yearly. The app then adds it on the due date without you typing it again.
If the real amount differs, for example an energy bill that changes each month, you edit that single occurrence and the repeating pattern stays as it was. Irregular wages from shift work can be entered one at a time instead.
There are three main views. The monthly summary lists income, spending and what remains. The category view shows where the money went, with the largest categories at the top. The trend view compares up to twelve months side by side.
You can also set a monthly limit for any category and the app will mark it when you pass 80% and again when you pass 100%. These are reminders only; nothing is blocked.
You can add, edit and view entries offline. The app stores them on the phone and sends them to the household once a connection returns. This is useful in a shop with poor signal or when travelling.
Sharing between members needs a connection, so another person will only see your new entries after your phone has synced.
Only the members you invite can see your household entries. We do not sell data and we do not show advertising inside the app. How information is stored and used is set out in the privacy policy.
You can export all of your entries as a spreadsheet file at any time, and you can delete the household and its data from the settings screen. If you want help with either, contact us and we will walk you through it.
Prices are listed in pounds sterling on the services page, set out as a plain list so you can see exactly what each option includes before you commit. Nothing is charged until you confirm a plan.
If you are unsure which option suits your household, ask us first. We would rather you pick the smaller plan and upgrade later than pay for features you will not use.
Tell us how your household handles money today and what you would like the app to help with. We will reply with a direct answer, not a sales script.
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