Tobsy
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Privacy

Private by design, not by promise.

Tobsy is built so there is nothing to trust.

No bank connections, ever

Tobsy never asks for a bank login and never syncs an account.

Your data is a Google Sheet you own

Every entry lives in a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive.

There is no Tobsy server

The app runs in your browser and talks only to your own Google account.

Screenshots are read on your device

The image is never sent anywhere.

No telemetry, no tracking, no account

The site and the app carry no analytics and no ad pixels.

Everything in Privacy, as a plain list
  • No bank connections
  • A Google Sheet you own (a Google account is needed)
  • No Tobsy server, no data path to us
  • Never pooled, averaged or ranked against anyone else’s
  • Screenshots read on your device
  • No telemetry, no tracking, no account

Who holds what

In your own Google account. Nowhere else.

Tobsy has no database.

Your Google SheetEvery figure you ever enter.
Your phone or laptopThe address of your sheet and a spare copy of your key.
Google's permissionOne: to work in the spreadsheet Tobsy is attached to. Not your Drive, not your email, not your contacts.
This websiteNothing about you.
Our small key serverThe email you started with, a random trial number, a scrambled fingerprint of your copy, whether you've paid. Never a figure, never a shop name, never a category.
If we disappearEvery paid copy keeps working, for good.

How that works

A small script inside your own copy does the talking.

You copy a spreadsheet, once.

Tobsy comes as a Google Sheet with a few plain lines of code attached.

The app runs in your browser.

It's a web page you can install like an app.

Google asks you one thing.

The first time your copy runs, Google asks whether it may work in this spreadsheet.

Exchange rates come from inside your sheet.

Foreign spending is converted with a Google Finance formula, so even that never goes through us.

Private categories are a curtain, not a vault.

A category you mark private shows its rows as dots until a PIN is entered.

You can always leave.

It's a spreadsheet.

The whole of it, in plain words: the privacy policy and the terms.