Using Hearth
Budgeting with your partner
Invite your partner, share one budget, and use Hearth to make money talks easier instead of tense.
In short: invite your partner from Settings and you share one budget, everything visible to both of you. Avatars show who logged what. Context, not scorekeeping.
One budget, two people, same picture. Most money friction between couples isn't overspending. It's not having the same information at the same time.
Inviting your partner
- Open Settings
- Tap the partner row and generate an invite link
- Share it however you like: text, email, anything
Your partner taps the link, signs up or logs in, and lands straight in your shared budget. No re-entering envelopes, no starting over.
What you share
Everything: every envelope, transaction, and payee. There's no separate personal view.
Each transaction shows a small avatar of who logged it. It answers "wait, what was this one" without asking out loud. Context, not a surveillance log.
Making it work as a couple
- Whoever pays, logs. Nobody types in the other person's purchases secondhand.
- Five-minute weekly glance, together. Which envelopes are healthy, which are tight. Takes less time than picking where to order dinner from.
- Talk about the envelope, not the person. "Dining out is over" is a shared problem. "You spent too much" puts someone on the defensive.
The numbers become the referee, so neither of you has to be.
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