Changelog
A record of intentional improvements.
This update was about giving you more control over how the app looks, what it shows, and how you use it. A Settings page, themes, notes on budget items, and CSV export were the headline additions, alongside a lot of quiet consistency work across the whole app.
Behind the scenes
A recurring pattern this stretch was finding things that didn’t quite match and bringing them in line. Forms that looked different from each other. Dropdowns rendering with default browser styling. Modals holding onto stale data. None of it is dramatic, but fixing it made the app feel more like one thing.
Money Owed to Me also found its right home. It had been sitting in Future Accounts, which never made sense. It’s not a savings goal — it’s the mirror image of debt. Moving it to the Debt page cleaned up the architecture without needing to build anything new.
The Settings page is just getting started. Themes, a scroll preference, CSV export. There’s more to add over time, but having the foundation in place means future options have somewhere to live.
This update added Debt as a real budget group, introduced color-coded Tags for organizing what you track, and rebuilt Future Accounts from the ground up. For the first time, all the moving parts of the app are talking to each other.
Behind the scenes
Debt had been easy to put off because it required real decisions. Once I committed to treating it as its own group with its own section on the budget page, the rest followed naturally.
The hardest part was getting the Net calculation right. Contributions to savings reduce your net. Withdrawals show up as income. That logic sounds simple until you walk through a real scenario, and walking through those edge cases before they became bugs was worth the time.
Future Accounts also got a full rebuild. Getting it right meant making sure Debt, Trips, and Future Accounts all follow the same pattern: create once on their own page, reflect automatically on the budget page. That consistency is what made the app start to feel like a system.
This update brought more flexibility to how you manage what you track. Categories got a cleaner structure, Trips became a real feature, and the calendar started showing the full picture of your money month.
Behind the scenes
Real life doesn’t follow a clean monthly budget. Bills get skipped. Travel spending doesn’t fit neatly into a category. Income shows up on a different day than expected. This update was about making the app handle all of that honestly.
Skip ended up being the trickiest piece to get right. The first version would have skipped every occurrence of a weekly bill for the whole month, which isn’t how anyone actually lives. Keeping it on the calendar and scoped to one date at a time made it feel correct.
Trips went from a vague idea to a full feature with its own page, transaction linking, and a clean list and detail view. It’s the first time WellSpnt has had something that lives completely outside the monthly budget.
This update focused on shaping how WellSpnt is explained and experienced outside the app. A simple marketing site took form, designed to reflect the same calm, clarity, and intention as the product itself.
Behind the scenes
As the app became more defined, it became clear that the website needed to do more than list features. It needed to explain why WellSpnt exists and who it’s for.
This work focused on tone, pacing, and reassurance — making sure the site felt calm, honest, and aligned with the idea of awareness over pressure. Copy was refined, layouts were simplified, and the experience was shaped to feel more like a journal than a sales page.
This update laid the groundwork for future writing, updates, and launch communication.
This update introduced a calendar view, making it easier to see how money moves across days and weeks. Spending stopped feeling like isolated numbers and started to feel connected to real life.
Behind the scenes
Before this update, money lived mostly in lists and totals. Adding a calendar made it possible to see when things happen, not just how much.
Seeing spending laid out over time helped reveal patterns that were easy to miss before — busy weeks, quiet stretches, and moments where habits repeat. This wasn’t about adding complexity, but about giving context.
Time is a big part of how we experience money, and this update helped bring the two closer together.
This update marked a shift in how WellSpnt looks and feels. The interface moved toward a calmer, more intentional visual language designed to make money feel less overwhelming and more approachable.
Behind the scenes
At this stage, the app worked — but it didn’t feel right yet. I explored new visual references and realized the design needed to feel softer, slower, and easier to sit with.
This redesign wasn’t about making things flashy. It was about creating space, reducing visual noise, and letting the numbers breathe so they’re easier to understand at a glance.
This shift set the tone for everything that followed.
This update focused on making savings feel clear instead of confusing. WellSpnt now separates money saved this month from your total savings over time, so you always know what’s new and what’s already been set aside.
Behind the scenes
Savings used to blur together in a way that didn’t feel intuitive. This update clarified two different ideas: money you’re intentionally setting aside right now, and money you’ve already saved over time.
Once that distinction was clear, the rest of the app started to make more sense. This change was less about adding features and more about aligning the app with how people naturally think about future money.
This was the first real stretch of building WellSpnt. The focus was on getting the core of the app to exist in a way that felt usable, not perfect.
Behind the scenes
I built the basic structure for entering and grouping money, and shaped an early interface that could handle everyday tracking. It doesn’t replace spreadsheets yet, but this was the moment the app started to feel real.
