Spenrol

Budget, log, review: three steps

Spenrol is a zero-based budget app for UPI India, available now on Android. Here's what it does today, and what's still being built.

Get it on Google Play
  1. 1Set your budgetSplit your budget across categories before the month starts.
  2. 2Capture in secondsShare a screenshot, type it in, or review bank alerts. Then tag it.
  3. 3See the patternLeft for today, pace, category totals and your score.

1

Set your budget

Enter your monthly take-home, then split it across the categories you actually spend on: food, transport, shopping, whatever applies. You don’t have to split all of it. What’s left sits in a Not allocated category that Spenrol manages for you, and you can log spending to it or carve a new category out of it later.

In the app

  1. 1Enter your monthly take-home.
  2. 2Add the categories you spend on and give each a limit.
  3. 3Leave the rest in Not allocated, or keep assigning.

Monthly budget · October 2026

₹20,000
  • Bills₹5,000
  • Groceries₹5,000
  • Food₹4,000
  • Shopping₹2,000
  • Transport₹2,000
  • Not allocated₹2,000
Leftover goes to Not allocated₹2,000

2

Capture in seconds

Paid on GPay, PhonePe, or Paytm? Share the payment screenshot into Spenrol and it fills in the amount, merchant, date and category, picked from where you filed that merchant before. You check them and tag the spend Required, Optional or Impulsive. Prefer typing it in? That works too. If you turn on bank SMS tracking, payments found in bank alerts wait as cards to review at the end of the day. Nothing counts as spending until you add it.

In the app

  1. 1Take a screenshot of the payment confirmation.
  2. 2Share it to Spenrol, or pick it from your gallery inside the app.
  3. 3Check the filled-in details, tag the intent, save.
  4. 4Optional: review bank alerts. Swipe right for Required, left for Impulsive, up for Optional, down to archive.

Text recognition runs on your phone. The screenshot isn’t uploaded.

Google Pay · payment successful

Paid to Zomato

₹420

9 Oct 2026, 8:24 pm

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Food · auto-filled, review before saving

₹420
RequiredOptionalImpulsive

3

See the pattern

A daily “left for today” number and a pace chart tell you whether you are ahead or behind. If you turn on spend nudges, opening Swiggy, Amazon or Uber shows what is left in that budget and how often you have paid the app this month. Category breakdowns show where the money actually goes, a recurring payments screen lists bills before they fall due, and the spending score on the Insights tab tracks whether it is getting better.

In the app

  1. 1Check Left for today on Home before you pay.
  2. 2Open a category to see where it went.
  3. 3Add your bills and subscriptions to get reminders.
  4. 4Watch your score on the Insights tab.

Left for today

₹822/day

₹13,980 left · 17 days to go

Spending score

72/100

5 of 7 spends intentional this week

Groceries

₹2,100 of ₹5,000

On track

What works today, and what's coming

Live on Android now

  • Required, Optional and Impulsive tags on every spend, always your pick
  • Spend nudges when you open apps like Swiggy, Amazon or Uber (Android, optional)
  • Screenshot import for Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm and super.money, or type it in
  • Optional bank SMS tracking, reviewed one card at a time: swipe to add, skip or archive
  • Category suggestions based on where you filed a merchant before
  • Monthly budget with a Not allocated bucket for what’s left, and reset or carry-forward at month end
  • Recurring payments tracker with reminders before bills are due
  • Left for today, worked out from what’s left and days to go
  • Spending score from 0 to 100
  • Split a bill so only your share counts
Coming · pending UPI licence

A check before you pay

Once Spenrol is licensed as a UPI app, the check moves to the moment you pay. If a payment would push a category past its budget, you'll see that before you confirm it.

This needs a UPI licence from NPCI, which we're working toward. Every budget, category and spend you log now carries over when it goes live.

Your questions, answered

Something else? Write to [email protected]

Does Spenrol block payments before they happen yet?

Not yet. The pre-payment check needs a UPI licence from NPCI, which we're working toward. Until then, Spenrol logs and categorises spending after you pay, and everything you track now carries over when the check arrives.

Do you need SMS or bank access?

Bank access, never: Spenrol doesn't ask for bank credentials or your UPI PIN. SMS access is optional and off by default. Without it, you share a payment screenshot or type the expense in. If you turn it on, Spenrol reads bank alerts on your phone and holds each one for you to review.

Is the app available now?

Yes, on Google Play, free with no ads. We're building the iPhone version next. Join the waitlist and we'll email you once, when it's ready.

downloads
350+
expenses logged
3,500+
of spending tracked
₹26L+
“Being able to classify expenses as Required, Optional, or Impulsive makes it easier for me to understand my spending habits. It also makes me think twice before spending on something impulsively.”
Swaraj · By email

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