tracked.
Expense Tracker That Finds You Something Cheaper
logged a random amazon order into my own expense tracker as a test. the app immediately came back with a cheaper version of the same thing from somewhere else. did not ask it to do that. felt a little attacked honestly
that's basically the whole pitch for tracked. it's not really an expense tracker, that's just the entry point. you log something, two taps, and instead of just filing it away in a spreadsheet-shaped graveyard, it goes to work checking if you got got. subscription renewing soon? it tells you before it charges and hands you a cheaper or better alternative instead of just the bad news. bought something off amazon? it checks if the same thing, or something close enough, is cheaper somewhere else. watching a product's price? it pings you when it drops
the alternatives it suggests come partly from a small directory other builders have put their own apps into, so if you've built something that's a genuinely cheaper or better option in some category, that's free to submit and it only gets shown to people who already got flagged as overpaying in that exact category
built solo, still early, still figuring out where this is actually useful versus where it's just noise. mostly want the "ok but why would I use this instead of just doing X" pushback, that's the comment I actually read twice
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tracked-expense-tracker/id6786285306
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honestly? no idea yet, nowhere near enough users to say anything real about it. my working theory is nobody switches off inertia alone, if the savings aren't obviously worth the hassle of cancel + resubscribe to something new, people just eat the overpay and feel mildly bad about it (unbiased, deeply scientific sample size of one: me). guessing it only works when the swap is dumb-easy or the gap is embarrassingly large. will actually know once there's enough people using it to watch what they do instead of guessing what they'd do