Trip mode

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.

Know you are over while you can still do something

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 prices converted. Photograph the bill afterwards and it comes back as a split, line by line, for you to check. Both are part of Pro.

Worth knowing before the trip