CASE STUDY

Clicket

A budgeting app for the people Simple left behind: a balance that already knows about your bills, expenses that fund themselves and savings goals, on top of whichever bank you moved to.

ROLE
Our own product: design, architecture and build
STATUS
Retired, with a working demo
STACK
Flutter · Node.js · MySQL · Plaid
Three screens of the Clicket app: expenses with their balances and due dates, the accounts overview with checking's safe balance, and savings goals with their progress.

The problem

When Simple closed in 2021, its customers were moved to another bank and lost the tools they'd built their budgets around: a balance that already subtracted upcoming bills, envelopes that filled a little every payday and goals that grew on their own.

Their money moved fine. Their habits didn't. They were used to a bank that planned the next few weeks for them, and the bank they landed at only showed them the past.

One number, three ideas

Everything in Clicket feeds the safe balance: what's in checking, minus what's already spoken for.

Safe balance

Checking, less every bill's set-aside. The number you can actually spend, updated as transactions arrive.

Expenses that fund themselves

Each bill gets an envelope. Every payday, Clicket tops each one up with an even share of what it still needs before it's due, and matches the bill's transaction to it when it posts.

Goals

Deposits into savings are split across your goals by how much each needs per month, so every goal moves forward without a manual transfer.

What Clicket does

  • Bank sync through Plaid
  • Safe balance
  • Self-funding expenses
  • Carryover and over/under tracking
  • Savings goals
  • Spending breakdown by category
  • Transaction calendar
  • Shared budgets for partners
  • iOS, Android and the web

Try it

The demo runs the original app against seven months of simulated finances for a fictional user. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

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