Trip mode

Know you're over while you can still do something about it.

A holiday is the hardest thing this app does. Several currencies, a dozen small payments a day, one person fronting the hotel, and no signal when it matters — so trip mode is not a separate product, it is the ledger doing the parts of that which are genuinely hard.

Planned against actual for the Lisbon trip: €1,161.95 spent four days in against €2,000 planned, the daily rate, where it is on track to land, and each category against its plan.

Plan against actual · Pro

Day four is when the number can still change

Link a trip you planned in Yanvara and Antemate compares the budget against what you are really spending — category by category, day by day, with a burn rate and a projected total for the whole trip. Knowing on day four that you are 40% over is the only point at which the number can change anything. Knowing on the flight home is a receipt.

A budget you type in works too; the trip link just fills it in. How the two apps fit together.

The Lisbon group in euros: what you are owed in a header in the group's own colour, then every expense in September with the faces of who shared it and what you lent or borrowed on each.

Free, for everyone in the group

One person fronts it, everyone sees it

The hotel goes on one card, dinner splits six ways, and the taxi was paid half in cash. Several payers on one expense, six ways to split it, and a simplified set of payments at the end that clears the whole tangle in as few transfers as possible.

Days are counted where you are: an expense is bucketed to a trip day in the destination's timezone, not your phone's and not the server's. A dinner in Tokyo at 9pm belongs to that Tuesday, and it should not slide into Monday because the account was made in Melbourne.

A Kyoto izakaya menu translated into English, with the original Japanese under each dish to point at, the price as printed, and dietary marks read from the menu.

Menu and receipt · Pro

Read the menu, photograph the bill

Point the camera at a menu in a language you don't read and get it back in yours, with the original kept full-size to point at. Photograph the bill afterwards and it comes back as a split, line by line, for you to check. Both are part of Pro.

The rate from the day, not from today

Every expense keeps the exchange rate it happened at. Three weeks of receipts in four currencies still add up to one number that does not move afterwards, and nobody has to argue about which day's rate to settle on.

It works in the air, and in the tunnel

Add an expense with no signal at all — the ledger is built around that rather than having it bolted on. It syncs when you land, in the order things happened, and nothing is lost or counted twice.

Square up at the end, not on the way

At the end you get the shortest set of payments that clears everyone, and you make them in whatever app you already use. Antemate never moves the money.

Worth knowing before the trip

Plan against actual needs a plan. That means a trip linked from Yanvara, or a budget you type in yourself. Without either, Antemate still shows you what you have spent — which is most of the value, and free.
Nobody else has to buy anything. Trip mode is one person's subscription. The other five keep the same ledger, the same balances and the same history they always had.
It never moves the money. At the end you get the shortest set of payments that squares everyone up, and you make them in whatever app you already use.

Coming to iOS and Android

Take it on the next trip.

Free for everyone in the group. Plan against actual, the receipt scanner and the menu translator are Pro — one person's subscription, nobody else's.