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SMF·TILLER-MONEY
Received on
31.07.2026
Reviewed on
28.09.2026
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SMF·TILLER-MONEY

Can a prompt replace Tiller?

Personal finance — budgeting, invoicing and small-business finance

Not yet Verdict recorded on 28.09.2026 · Verified on 31.07.2026
Price
$6.58/moSource: tillerhq.com · Checked on July 31, 2026
Per year
$78.96
Build time
One sitting
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Exhibit tracking slip

Exhibit A The prompt
Exhibit B What you lose
Exhibit C Why people still pay: financial integrations, compliance, and trust
Exhibit Q Questions

Verdict

Tiller's actual product is less an app and more an automated feed into a spreadsheet you already control — that's a genuinely honest, buildable idea: import bank CSV or OFX exports into a real spreadsheet-shaped local ledger with deterministic categorization rules you can inspect. What doesn't survive: live, automatic bank-feed connections (no screen-scraping or aggregator here, on purpose) and the maintained template library Tiller sells.

Exhibit B — What you lose

Exhibit A — The prompt

Received on31.07.2026
Build a local, spreadsheet-shaped budgeting ledger that imports bank transaction exports rather than connecting live to bank accounts — no screen-scraping or third-party aggregation, by design. Use a Next.js/TypeScript app with SQLite, or, if you'd rather stay closer to Tiller's actual model, a Google Sheets API integration that writes into a spreadsheet template you own — either is a legitimate approach. Support CSV and OFX import with a saved column-mapping per bank (so re-importing the same bank's export doesn't require re-mapping every time), and duplicate-transaction detection by date, amount, and description matching. Implement accounts, categories, payees, and split transactions (one transaction covering multiple categories). Add deterministic categorization rules — if description contains X, categorize as Y — that are visible and editable, not a black-box classifier, so every categorization can be traced back to the rule that produced it. Build budget, cash-flow, and net-worth views computed directly from the ledger. Keep an immutable import log so you can always see exactly what was imported and when. Do not build live bank-account connections, payment initiation, or tax/accounting compliance features — those are explicitly out of scope; this is an import-and-categorize ledger, not a bank aggregator. No API key needed for the CSV/OFX path; the Sheets API path needs a free Google Cloud project credential.

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Exhibit B — What you lose

  • B.1 live automatic bank-feed connections
  • B.2 maintained spreadsheet template library
  • B.3 accountant and tax-season ecosystem
  • B.4 support when a bank feed breaks

Prior art

Exhibit C — Why people still pay: financial integrations, compliance, and trust

The spreadsheet-shaped ledger is easy to copy; keeping the bank connections themselves alive as institutions change their export formats without warning is the unglamorous, ongoing part.

Questions

Does it connect directly to my bank the way Tiller does?

No — on purpose. This build only imports files you download from your bank yourself (CSV or OFX), which avoids the security and reliability risks of screen-scraped bank connections entirely.

How much manual work is importing each month?

A few minutes — download your bank's export, drop it in, and saved column mappings mean you're not re-configuring the import every time, though it's still a manual step Tiller's live feeds skip.

Can I keep using it inside a spreadsheet like Tiller does?

Yes, if you build the Google Sheets API variant described in the prompt — it writes into a real spreadsheet you own, matching Tiller's actual product shape rather than being a separate app.

Is this safe for tracking real bank data?

It's as safe as any local tool handling sensitive data — nothing is transmitted anywhere on its own, but you're responsible for backups and device security, since there's no vendor doing that for you here.

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