Free · Google Sheets

A free spending log for Google Sheets.

A row for each thing you buy or get paid, Tobsy’s categories to pick from, and a tab that adds up each month, with a chart. It is a plain Google Sheet: make a copy, and it is yours.

Make a copy of the sheet Look at it first

Making a copy puts it in your own Google Drive. You need a Google account and nothing else: no email, no sign-up with us.

What is in it

Five tabs, in this order.

Read meWhat the sheet is, how to use it, and what comes across when you bring it into Tobsy later.

SpendingA row for each entry: the date, the amount, a category, Where (the shop or the employer), a note, and who. The type follows the category, and Refund is there for money back on something you bought.

CategoriesTobsy’s starting categories in three blocks (spending in its groups, income, and transfers), each with room to add your own, and an intention each month for any spending category.

MonthsSpending, income and what you kept for twelve months, with a chart; this month so far, with your top five categories; and how each spending category with an intention is doing.

PeopleYou and Partner, to rename, for the Who column.

How it stays yours

It is a plain Google Sheet in your own Drive. Nothing of ours runs in it: no script, no add-on, no connection back to Tobsy. Your copy belongs to you, and we cannot see it.

The only moving parts are ordinary formulas. The Months tab adds things up, and hidden columns on the Spending tab repeat each row in the shape Tobsy reads, so the sheet is ready to import when you want it to be.

No email, no account, no trial. If you stop using it, it is still a sheet with your entries in it.

When you want more

Tobsy (tobsy.app) is an app for the same habit. You fill it in by hand, and your entries stay in a Google Sheet in your own Drive. It shows where the money goes, how each category moves over the months, and the months ahead.

It brings this sheet across in one go. On the Spending tab (the download takes the tab you are on), choose File → Download → Comma-separated values (.csv). Then in Tobsy, open Settings → Import and choose the file.

Importing again later leaves out the rows already brought across, so you can keep using this sheet and bring new rows over when you like. A row whose date or amount you change after importing comes across as a new row.

Tobsy is free for thirty days, then one payment. There is no subscription.

What comes across into Tobsy, and what stays here

Categories match by name. Tobsy’s starting categories come across as typed, and a category you added arrives as one named group, placed with a single tap.
The import goes most smoothly when the names here match the ones in your Tobsy. You see every row before anything is saved.
The names in Where come across, and Tobsy learns which category each one goes with.
A Refund comes across as a refund against its category.
People come across by name: “You” is the person importing, a name that matches someone in your Tobsy is that person, and any other name is kept in the row’s note.
Groups and intentions stay here. Tobsy has its own, which you set in the app.

See how setting Tobsy up works, or look around the demo: the real app with fourteen months of sample entries.