How NomadMetrics works.

Getting started

NomadMetrics is built for fast, manual entry. Download it from the App Store, open it, and start logging right away. There is no account to create, nothing to connect, and no setup to sit through.

Your running totals appear in your home currency, which is set to US dollars by default and can be changed in Settings.

Adding expenses and income

Tap the + button to add an expense, or switch to income at the top. Enter the amount in whatever currency you actually paid, choose a category, and save.

Income such as a pension, salary, freelance work, a transfer, rent, or dividends sits right beside your spending, so your real cash flow lives in one place rather than two apps.

Currencies and your home total

Enter what you paid in the local currency and NomadMetrics converts it, so your totals always read in your home currency. No exchange math at the table, in the taxi, or at the till.

Exchange rates come from the European Central Bank, through the Frankfurter service, with a second source as a backup, and they refresh automatically. Past transactions keep the value they were saved at, so your history stays stable even as rates move.

Trips

Keep travel separate from everyday life. Daily Living is your home base, and each trip, like Hanoi, Lisbon, or Tokyo, gets its own bucket with an optional spending cap, its own map, its own report, and its own history.

A month abroad never muddies the picture of what home really costs, because trip spending stays in the trip.

Projects

Projects is for large, one-off spending that does not belong in your monthly budget, like a house build, a renovation, a vehicle purchase, a medical bill, or a move. Give the project its own categories and an optional total budget, log each cost, and see the breakdown as bars or a pie chart along with how much budget is left.

You can attach up to 3 photos to each project expense, such as receipts or invoices, and swipe through them. When you want a record to keep or share, export a PDF report that includes those receipt photos at the end.

Each amount shows in the local currency with the home-currency equivalent beside it, so a build priced in baht is still easy to read in dollars, euros, or pounds.

Days by Country

Days by Country shows how many days you were present in each country, worked out from your tagged transactions. Set a day limit for a single country or a country group, with a one-tap preset for the 29 Schengen countries, and choose how it is counted: a rolling window such as 90 days within any 180, a calendar year, or a count starting from a specific date.

NomadMetrics adds up the days you have tracked within that window and shows how many you have used and how many remain, with a clear color status and an optional visa-expiry countdown. If a day is missing, you can add it manually.

Only transactions that have a saved location count toward it, so it works best with location tagging turned on. Days are counted as of today, and rolling counts change daily as older days fall outside the window.

This is a planning estimate based on the days you have tracked. It is not visa, immigration, or legal advice. Always check the official rules for your situation.

Location and maps

Location tagging is optional and off by default. When you turn it on, you can tag a transaction with where it happened, either automatically or by searching for a place by name, and see your spending plotted on a map.

Only your coordinates or the words you type are ever sent, and only to turn them into a place name or to find matching places. Your spending and personal details are never sent.

Your dashboard

The dashboard is yours to arrange. Choose from the metric cards that matter to you, such as today's spend, budget left, income, savings rate, top category, and trends, then drag them into the order you want.

The cards you pick and the order you set are remembered, so the dashboard opens the way you left it.

Categories

Categories are fully editable. Rename them, choose an icon, and add your own to match how you actually think about your spending.

If you delete a category, its transactions are not lost. They move to Misc, so nothing disappears.

Receipts and photos

You can attach a photo to an expense for your own records, such as a receipt or an invoice. Photos are stored privately on your iPhone.

Nothing is scanned and no AI reads them. They are simply there when you want to look back.

Importing from another app

Coming from another app or a spreadsheet? Import a CSV file and match its columns to the fields NomadMetrics uses in a few taps, so your past months come across with you.

The importer flags likely duplicates, so you can avoid double-counting anything you already had.

Backup and export

Your data lives on your device, so you stay in charge of it. Export a full JSON backup at any time and restore it later, including any receipt photos you saved.

You can also export your transactions as a CSV, with country and country-code columns included, for use in a spreadsheet or your own records.

Trial, unlock, and no subscription

NomadMetrics is free to download and free to use for 14 days, with every feature unlocked. After the trial, a single one-time unlock keeps full access.

There is no subscription and no recurring fee, and your data stays exactly where it is, so you never lose what you logged.

Privacy

There is no NomadMetrics account, no cloud database, and no ad tracking. The handful of services the app talks to, for exchange rates, for turning coordinates into a place name, and for searching places by name, only ever receive what they need to do that one job.

Full details are in the privacy policy.

Android

iPhone comes first. Android is being looked at based on demand. You can join the Android release list on the home page, and you will get one email when it is ready, with no spam in between.

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