Dollar Vitals

Get a pulse on your money.

Your complete financial checkup. Private by design. Skip the spreadsheets and monthly subscriptions. Bring your income, spending, assets, and debts together in one place to see the full health of your finances, all saved on your own computer, or in a cloud folder you already use. No bank logins · No subscription · No financial data on our servers

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In private beta · Mac with Apple silicon · Windows planned

Dollar Vitals · Sample household
The Dollar Vitals dashboard: net worth, take-home pay, spending and left-over cards above a money-flow diagram and spending breakdown, on sample data

Sound familiar?

The bills get paid. The big picture needs a checkup.

Where is all my money going?

See every dollar coming in and going out, plus your net worth, in one place.

What can I do to keep better track of my finances?

Simply create budgets and add your bank or credit card transactions.

I don’t want to share my bank logins with a third party. How do I secure my data?

The app never asks for a bank login or an account number. Add an optional passphrase and your file is fully encrypted.

See inside

Your whole financial life. One complete checkup.

Real screens from the app, running a sample household’s checkup. Pick a page.

Dollar Vitals · Sample household
Insights Manage
1DashboardSample household
The Dashboard: net worth, take-home pay, spending and left-over cards above a money-flow diagram, spending breakdown, a monthly left-over trend and accounts

Your month at a glance: net worth, income, spending and where the money went.

2Net WorthSample household
The Net Worth page: what you own, what you owe, the math between them, and the trend over time

Everything you own minus everything you owe, tracked over time, so you can see whether you’re getting ahead.

3AnalyzeSample household
The Analyze page: spending trends stacked by category, with per-category averages and direction

Where the money went, by category and by month, so you can spot a leak before it becomes a habit.

4ForecastSample household
The Forecast page: projected balance day by day, with a what-if sandbox

The next 30, 60 or 90 days, with paychecks on your pay schedule and bills on their due dates, so you see a low balance coming.

5TaxesSample household
The Taxes page: filing details, estimated federal, state and total tax, bracket fill and where gross income goes

An illustrative federal estimate from what you entered, plus your state’s where the app can make one, so April is not a surprise.

6AI AdvisorSample household
The AI Advisor page with an example conversation built from the household's summary, and the transparency panel below

Optional, shown with an example conversation. Ask questions about a summary you can read first; the advisor never sees merchant names or your transaction list.

7IncomeSample household
The Income page: household gross, deductions and take-home above per-person income sources

Every paycheck and side income on its own schedule, with take-home worked out per person, so the forecast knows what lands and when.

8TransactionsSample household
The Transactions page: cash accounts and credit cards above a sortable, filterable ledger

Each imported row, checked by you before it is saved, so the ledger only holds what you approved.

9Recurring BillsSample household
The Recurring Bills page: monthly and annual totals, and the recurring charges the app found in the transactions

Bills are spotted in your ledger and never added without your approval. The totals show what they cost each month and each year.

10BudgetSample household
The Budget page: plan versus spending, goal set-asides, and per-category targets

Plan versus spending, with goal set-asides and a target for each category, so you know mid-month whether the plan is holding.

11Debts & LoansSample household
The Debts & Loans page: payoff progress, totals, and the avalanche-versus-minimums chart

What the avalanche or snowball method saves in interest and months, against paying only the minimums.

12AssetsSample household
The Assets page: totals, equity per asset, and each asset with its linked loan and cost basis

Property, vehicles and valuables, with their loans and how much of each you actually own.

13InvestmentsSample household
The Investments page: portfolio value, contributions so far, tax-free share and monthly contributions above a growth projection and retirement readiness

Accounts and holdings, a growth projection and retirement readiness, with contribution limits tracked per person. Live prices are optional, using your own key.

14GoalsSample household
The Goals page: saved versus target overall, and each goal with its monthly pace

Saved versus target, and the monthly pace that gets each goal there on time.

15Receipts & RecordsSample household
The Receipts & Records page: record totals, the documents folder, and the records list

The documents worth keeping, filed as plain files in a folder you own.

16SettingsSample household
The Settings page: security, AI advisor controls, the counting rules, and data and backup

Backups, passphrase, the AI advisor’s controls, the counting rules and the built-in manual. Keep a backup somewhere else, and a lost laptop costs you a restore, not your history.

Each screen shows the top of its page; most hold more below.

How it works

Your first checkup in three steps.

  1. Download and look around. Sample household data is built in to explore, and your 7-day free trial starts when you begin adding your own data. No card needed.
  2. Bring in your numbers. Import a transaction file from your bank or credit card website. You confirm it looks right before it is saved.
  3. Check your vitals. See where you stand and what needs attention. Update as needed.

What leaves your computer

Your financial data never touches our servers.

Your checkup runs on your computer, start to finish. Nothing about your finances is sent to us.

The specifics, and what the app can send

Your records are one file on your computer. Without a passphrase, the file isn’t encrypted and is guarded only by your computer’s login. Add a passphrase and it’s fully encrypted.

The app sends something only if you choose:

  • Activating a purchased license: its number and a one-way code for your computer, once.
  • The AI advisor (optional): a summary of your numbers, which you can read first, sent with your own key to the AI provider you pick (Anthropic, OpenAI or Google).
  • Live stock prices (optional): your ticker symbols, sent with your own key to the price service.

No tracking, no analytics, no ads. More in our Privacy Policy.

No company server holds your records, so there’s no database of your finances to breach.

One file, in a folder you choose. Back it up, move it or delete it.

No bank login, so your bank password stays with your bank.

No link to break, no middleman with your credentials.

The app never asks for account numbers, card numbers, Social Security numbers or full birthdays.

An optional passphrase locks the file, so any copy saved after you set one stays unreadable if it goes missing.

Who’s behind it

Made by someone who wanted a better way to manage personal finances securely.

Dollar Vitals was created by Garrett Helgesen, who kept his finances in spreadsheets until he built the checkup he wanted instead. Human-designed, built with the support of AI tools, and tested by more than 4,800 automated checks.

Dollar Vitals LLC is a Pennsylvania company. Have a question before launch? Email us at info@dollarvitals.com.

FAQ

Questions people ask before their first checkup.

Which Macs does it run on?
It runs on a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and is built for US households: US dollars, federal taxes with a state estimate for the states it covers, and US retirement accounts. We’ll publish the minimum macOS version at launch. There is currently no phone app. A Windows version is planned, with no date yet.
How do I get my bank’s file?
Sign in to your bank’s website as usual, open an account’s activity and look for Download or Export. Choose CSV, OFX, QFX or QIF, save the file and import it into Dollar Vitals. Repeat for each account. PDF statements won’t import.
Does anything leave my computer?
Your records stay in the folder you chose; if that folder is in iCloud Drive or Dropbox, that service syncs it. Beyond that, nothing leaves unless you choose it: a purchased license’s one-time activation, the optional AI advisor, and optional live prices. Hover or tap the ? in the privacy section above to see what each sends.
What if I lose my computer?
You restore from a copy you kept somewhere else, such as an external drive or a cloud folder you already use. The app keeps seven daily backups on its own, but they sit beside your records, so they guard against a bad edit, not a lost computer. We hold no copy, so keep one elsewhere. Copies saved after you set a passphrase can’t be opened without it or your recovery key.
When can I buy it?
Sales open soon: a free trial first, then one payment, not a subscription. Sales tax is added at checkout where it applies. We sell only to buyers in the United States, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Join the list below and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Is there a phone app?
Not today. Dollar Vitals is a desktop app, and your records are one file on your computer, so there is no account to sync a phone to. Every page is built for a full-size screen, where a checkup belongs.

Your first checkup is coming. Be the first to know.

Leave your email and we’ll send one note when it launches. No newsletter, never sold. To come off the list, email info@dollarvitals.com any time. Privacy Policy