Everyday access
Money records stay available on the device, with optional cloud backup after sign-in.
2026Personal finance app, home-screen widgets, and marketing website
Cires: Budget & Money Manager
A personal money manager that helps people record daily activity, understand the month, and plan what comes next.
Core Infinite / ProjectMobile + UI/UX
A private money app that helps people record spending, plan budgets, and understand where their money goes.
What we made, why it mattered, and how it came together.
Cires began with a simple problem: a balance shows what is left, but not how the month took shape.
People can record income, spending, transfers, bills, and savings in one place. Cires then connects those entries to accounts, budgets, goals, and reports, making it easier to see patterns and decide what to do next.
The product works across iOS and Android, keeps its core records on the device, and offers optional cloud backup. It also includes multiple currencies, home-screen widgets, reports, reminders, personal themes, and a website built around the story of a month in review.
Regional support
Cires supports major languages, right-to-left layouts, and local date, number, and currency formats.
Flexible appearance
Light, dark, AMOLED, font, icon, and color choices let people shape the app without changing how it works.
Home-screen widgets
Balance, budget, bill, goal, and quick-action widgets keep useful information close by.
Keep detailed money tracking simple enough for daily use
A useful money manager must keep financial records accurate. Transfers should not look like spending, exchange rates must keep their original context, fees need to remain separate, and older reports should not change when today's rates change.
Daily use still needs to feel quick. Adding a coffee, approving a bill, checking a budget, or moving money between currencies should not feel like bookkeeping.
Cires also needed to work well without a required account, support different regions, and offer broad visual choice without making the interface inconsistent.
What we had to balance
Accurate records versus fast entry
On-device records versus optional sign-in and backup
Many features versus clear navigation
Personal choice versus consistent controls
Regional formats versus dependable records
Helpful motivation versus pressure or guilt
Quick widgets versus reliable startup behavior
Our approach
Record. Understand. Plan.
The experience follows a simple rhythm. Record what happened, connect those entries into a pattern, then use that pattern to make the next plan.
Transactions form the record. Accounts, budgets, goals, and reports explain it. Limits, reminders, recurring approvals, and goal contributions turn that understanding into action.
The brand follows the same idea. Coffee, transport, groceries, salary, transfers, and savings are shown as ordinary parts of a month, never as reasons for judgment.
- Make daily entry quick
- Keep financial meaning consistent everywhere
- Help people understand patterns without telling them what to do
- Keep the core app usable without sign-in
- Support languages and regional formats from the start
- Keep useful information close through widgets, reminders, reports, and backup
- Use motion only when it makes change easier to understand
- Encourage progress without guilt
Everyday trackers
People who want a dependable record of income and spending, quick entry, recurring-bill reminders, and a clear monthly review.
Multi-account planners
People managing several accounts, cards, wallets, budgets, goals, or currencies who need every transfer and fee to stay clear.
People who prefer local records
People who want biometric access, local backup, exports, and the choice to use cloud backup after sign-in.
The experience, step by step.
Set up a personal space
Choose a profile, currency, language, regional format, appearance, and biometric lock before adding records.
Record daily activity
Add income and expenses with an account, category, date, note, and optional receipt. Search, filters, editing, and bulk actions keep the history manageable.
Move money accurately
Transfers keep source and destination amounts, currencies, rates, and fees separate. The transferred amount is not counted as spending, while a fee is.
Review the month
Balances, cash flow, category breakdowns, net worth, transaction history, and saved exchange rates show what changed and where money went.
Plan what comes next
Budgets, alerts, goals, deadlines, contributions, and recurring approvals turn a monthly review into clear next steps.
Build a steady habit
Check-ins, reminders, streaks, and achievements recognize regular attention without treating money management as a competition.
Stay informed outside the app
Widgets show balances, budgets, bills, goals, and quick actions. Reports and backups help people review and preserve their records.
How the different parts work together.
Each feature supports the wider experience instead of standing on its own.
Transactions and accounts
One shared record supports balances, history, search, reports, budgets, goals, reminders, and widgets.
- Income, expenses, and transfers
- Accounts, cards, wallets, and payment methods
- Categories, subcategories, notes, and receipts
- Search, filters, selection, and bulk actions
- Separate records for each profile
Budgets, goals, and recurring payments
Planning tools share the same transaction history while keeping each purpose clear.
- Weekly, monthly, category, and account budgets
- Budget thresholds and alerts
- Savings goals, deadlines, and contribution history
- Recurring items checked when the app opens or resumes
- Approval before a recurring item changes the record
Multiple currencies
Currency is stored with each relevant record instead of being treated as a temporary display setting.
- Saved daily exchange rates
- Historical rates kept for older reports
- Provider, market, and effective rates shown separately
- Transfer fees recorded as expenses
- Clear fallback when a live rate is unavailable
Reports and habits
Cires turns daily records into clear summaries, downloadable reports, and gentle reminders to stay engaged.
- Cash flow, balances, net worth, categories, and budgets
- CSV, PDF, and spreadsheet exports
- Daily check-ins and streaks
- Achievements for consistency, budgets, transactions, and goals
- Consistent language across reminders and progress messages
Appearance and regional settings
People can personalize the app while shared layouts and controls keep it familiar.
- Light, dark, AMOLED, and color themes
- Selectable fonts and icon styles
- Layouts that adapt to different devices
- Multiple languages, including Arabic and Urdu
- Categories stay stable when the language changes
Access and backup
Profiles, backup, sign-in, subscriptions, and widgets help people return to the right information.
- Local records for everyday use
- Biometric access and refreshed data after a profile change
- Local backup and optional cloud backup
- Subscription access checked after sign-in
- Widget actions that return to the correct part of the app
Key decisions
What we chose and why.
Local first, with optional backup
DecisionKeep core records on the device and make sign-in and cloud backup optional.
ReasonThe app stays quick and useful offline while signed-in users can keep an extra backup.
Transfers are movement, not spending
DecisionStore transferred amounts, currencies, rates, and fees as separate parts of one transfer.
ReasonCounting the transferred amount as an expense would distort budgets and reports. Only the fee should count as spending.
Language does not change the record
DecisionKeep category identities stable and translate only the labels people see.
ReasonChanging language should update the interface without breaking filters, reports, or older transactions.
Tell the story of a month
DecisionBuild the website around everyday moments and their patterns instead of opening with a long feature list.
ReasonCires is most useful when it helps someone understand what their small daily choices became.
How the details support the experience.
Product structure
One record, several ways to understand it
The interface moves from quick entry to detailed history, monthly review, and future planning without placing everything on one screen.
- Quick entry for common income and expenses
- Extra detail only when rates, fees, notes, or receipts need it
- Accounts and history keep the original context
- Budgets, goals, and reports use the same underlying records
- Reports provide a slower, more focused review
Interface
Personal choice with familiar controls
Themes, fonts, icons, and shapes can change, while hierarchy, spacing, states, and interaction patterns remain consistent.
- Clear cards and grouped sheets
- Compact pills for filters and status
- Consistent buttons and quick actions
- Spacing that adapts to device edges and gestures
- Shared navigation and control patterns
Progress
Recognition without judgment
Achievements reward habits such as recording, reviewing, contributing, and staying within a plan. They do not treat wealth as success.
- Achievements for consistency, transactions, budgets, and goals
- Warm, tactile badge artwork
- Recognition for first steps and long-term habits
- Messages focused on progress and next actions
- Streaks used as encouragement, not punishment
Website
The month in reverse
The website begins with ordinary moments behind a financial statement, then introduces the product as the tool that connects them.
- Aubergine, black cherry, patina, champagne, and porcelain colors
- Newsreader headlines with Manrope and DM Mono support text
- Responsive video and still-image alternatives
- Product captures use clear sample data
- A closing invitation to start the next month with more awareness
How the product works behind the scenes.
App foundation
One app, separate profile records
Cires uses Flutter across iOS and Android. Each profile keeps its own financial records, while the app handles rates, reports, backup, reminders, subscriptions, and widgets in the background.
- A clear startup order
- Separate records for each profile
- Profile changes refresh related information
- The same money rules used throughout the app
- Settings kept separate from financial records
Reliability
Load the right information before showing it
Before opening the home screen, Cires loads the active profile, recurring items, subscription access, reminders, and any pending widget action.
- Recurring items checked when the app is reopened
- Subscription access refreshed when online
- Widget actions remembered while the app starts
- Links open after the main screen is ready
- The active profile restored after a restart
Sign-in and backup
Online features stay optional
Sign-in adds cloud backup and subscription features. Local money records still work without it.
- Email and provider sign-in
- Cloud backup after sign-in
- Backups connected to the active account
- Subscriptions kept up to date
- Local records available offline
Home-screen widgets
Widgets act as useful shortcuts
Widgets show timely information and can open the correct part of Cires, even when the app is starting from a closed state.
- Balance, quick action, budget, bill, and goal widgets
- Each action is handled once
- Actions still work when the app was closed
- Widget information follows the active profile
- Each action opens the right screen
The details that keep the experience dependable.
Accurate records
Keep the same meaning everywhere
A transaction should be understood the same way in the ledger, budget, report, widget, backup, and restored data.
- Transfer amounts are not counted as spending
- Fees remain separate from transferred value
- Older reports keep their original exchange rates
- Backups include transfer, appearance, and rate details
- Changing profiles refreshes related records
Profiles and backup
Keep each person's records separate
Each profile keeps its own local records. Signed-in backups stay connected to that account.
- Separate local records for every profile
- Account-linked cloud backups
- Subscription access follows the signed-in account
- Biometric lock and local backup controls
- Profile changes refresh related balances and history
Inclusive use
Respect language, direction, motion, and device needs
The app and website adapt to regional formats, right-to-left languages, reduced motion, keyboard use, screen size, and data-saving preferences.
- Support for several languages, including Arabic and Urdu
- Right-to-left layouts where needed
- Reduced motion based on device preferences
- Visible focus and clear labels on the website
- Still images when video should not play
Everyday care
Remember the details people rely on
Cires keeps the active profile, recurring items, subscription access, widget actions, and backups aligned as people move through the app.
- Profile changes update balances and history
- Recurring items checked when the app reopens
- Widget actions return to the right screen
- Backup and restore keep transfer and rate details
- Subscription access updates after sign-in
How the identity looks, sounds, and moves.
Brand principle
Make money visible without making the person feel judged.
Cires treats a month as a series of ordinary moments. A coffee, fare, grocery run, salary, transfer, or saving contribution may feel small on its own. Seen together, those moments reveal a pattern and help the user choose what to do next.
Brand artwork
The primary mark is a round, warm tan leather pocket with visible stitching. Keep its circular shape, material detail, color, and spacing. Use the Cires name beside it when the context is unfamiliar. Do not replace it with the older violet identity, turn it into a generic coin, add text inside it, or redraw it with a letter.
Aubergine
#120A10Main website background and quiet negative space
Black Cherry
#4A172BBrand depth and supporting website sections
Patina
#1D5B56A restrained accent for reflective and analytical moments
Champagne
#BFA36BFine rules, focus, and small highlights
Porcelain
#F2EDE5Website text and light sections
Ink
#17100FText on warm light backgrounds
Cires Orange
#F38C3EMain product action and light-theme accent
Dark Ember
#F28B4BMain action color in the dark theme
Dark Ground
#12100EDefault dark background
Dark Card
#1B1713Cards and grouped content in dark mode
Warm Light
#FBF5EFDefault light background
Warm Ink
#2B1C13Main text on warm light backgrounds
Newsreader
Website headlines and reflective questions
The month is over. What did it become?
Manrope
Website navigation, body text, and actions
Rewind the moments. See the pattern. Change what comes next.
DM Mono
Chapter labels, dates, indices, and small notes
CHAPTER 02 / THE PATTERN
Roboto
Default app typeface, with other selectable options
Track. Understand. Plan. Grow.
Voice
- Reflective before instructional
- Calm, concise, and specific
- Never judgmental about spending or financial position
- Focused on patterns and next steps
- Encouraging without pressure
- Clear about local and optional online features
- Precise about rates, fees, reports, backup, and subscriptions
- Helpful without telling people what decision to make
Imagery
- Show ordinary money moments before charts
- Use quiet, observational framing
- Keep color muted, warm, and slightly high contrast
- Pair everyday moments with real product screens and sample data
- Leave generous dark space around product and editorial type
- Use separate desktop and mobile crops where needed
- Remove personal details, card information, private screens, and unrelated marks
- Use real Cires screens and carefully selected footage
Applications
- Use Aubergine, Porcelain, Newsreader, and DM Mono for website chapters
- Use Cires Orange and warm backgrounds inside the app
- Keep product screenshots in their real theme
- Pair the leather mark with the Cires name in unfamiliar settings
- Explain features through the record, pattern, plan sequence
- Use achievement art to support habit stories, not as decoration
- Label sample financial data clearly
- Keep help, settings, and account controls easy to find
Avoid
- The old violet palette or generic neon finance styling
- Shame, fear, wealth signaling, or blame
- Guaranteed savings, returns, or get-rich language
- Cloud diagrams or device jargon in customer-facing copy
- Generic shield and padlock imagery
- Long feature lists that overwhelm the story
- Busy screen collages that hide the product hierarchy
- Screenshots containing personal or account information
- Motion that blocks content or ignores accessibility settings
- Decorative charts that do not explain anything
Motion
Motion should feel like remembering, not advertising. Use measured reveals and gentle transitions, then settle into a clear final state. People who prefer reduced motion or use data-saving settings should receive the same story through immediate content and still images.
A closer look at the work.
Screens and design details from the project, with a short note about each view.
The overview brings balances, cash flow, recent activity, and the next useful action into one calm view.
Accounts show where money is held, while transactions keep the detail needed by budgets, reports, and insights.
Light and dark home views show balance trends, income, spending, budget alerts, and daily progress.
A clearer way to understand a month
Cires connects daily entries with accounts, budgets, goals, recurring payments, rates, reports, habits, widgets, profiles, backups, and personal settings.
The app and website share one idea: individual moments become useful when people can see the pattern behind them.
Together, the app and website turn money tracking from a list of entries into a steady habit of paying attention.
What we delivered
- Available on iOS and Android
- Multiple languages, themes, fonts, and icon styles
- Balance, budget, bill, goal, and quick-action widgets
- Local profile records with optional cloud backup
- Transfers that keep rates, fees, and moved amounts separate
- Reports and exports for deeper monthly review
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