Can a budget app be installed on your phone like an app, and does it work offline?

Installing on Android and on a computer

• Open ledger.wiozen.com in Chrome or Edge and sign in.
• Go to Settings from the Menu. If the browser offers installation, the page shows an Install the app card.
• Press Install and confirm in the browser's window. The icon goes to your home screen on a phone, or to the desktop or start menu on a computer. You can close the browser tab after installing.
• If the card doesn't show, the app may already be installed or your browser doesn't offer this kind of install. Try again in Chrome or Edge.

Installing on iPhone and iPad

There is no Install button on an iPhone, because Safari doesn't let websites open that install window. The card in Settings tells you the way instead: in Safari, tap the Share button, then choose Add to Home Screen. Opened from that icon, Wiozen Ledger runs like a separate app rather than as one of your Safari tabs. It asks for microphone permission here too; without it voice entry doesn't work and you carry on by typing.

What does the installed app do differently?

The pages and your entries are the same. Installing doesn't unlock anything; whatever you do in the browser you can do in the installed app. The difference shows when you open it: the app has its own window, with no address bar or tabs. The same goes for a computer, where the app installed from Chrome or Edge sits in the taskbar with its own icon.

On Android, press and hold the icon to see three shortcuts that open the assistant, the new entry form or the transactions list directly. iPhone doesn't show these shortcuts. On a phone, the middle button of the bottom menu also goes to the Assistant. Voice entry still asks for microphone permission in the installed app; the voice entry guide explains how it works.

What happens without internet?

Wiozen Ledger does not keep your ledger on the phone. Your records sit on the server, in a separate file for each user, and every page loads them from there. Reports and charts are also built on the server each time, so no old report shows while you're offline either. The only things the app stores on your device are the icons and the files that draw the pages. Those files are the same for everyone and hold none of your data.

When the connection drops, the page you wanted is replaced by the “You're offline” page, which says: “Entries are only saved while you're online, so nothing is stored on this device.” Once you're back online, press Try again. If the connection goes while the app is open, the page on screen may stay visible, but moving to another page or saving won't reach the server. There is no feature that saves an entry offline and syncs it later. If you don't want to forget something you bought on a plane or underground, jot it in your phone's notes app and enter it when you have a connection.

There is an upside too: if you lose your phone, your ledger doesn't go with it. Sign in with your Wiozen account on another device and every record is there.

Updates, and a connection lost while saving

You don't need to update the installed app. Pages come from the server every time you open them, so when a new version ships the installed app shows it too; there is no update button like store apps have. If something looks out of date, closing and reopening the app is enough.

If the connection drops just as you press Save, the entry may not have reached your ledger. When you're back online, check the Transactions page: if the entry isn't there, enter it again; if it is, don't enter it twice. The same goes for assistant cards: a card that never showed Saved may not have been written.

Which plan has it?

Installing the app is open and free on both plans, and your plan's limits apply in the installed app as well. The free plan has 1 account and 30 records a month. Every new account gets 14 days of Pro without a card; after that Pro is $12.99 a year or $1.99 a month in Türkiye and $39.99 a year or $6.99 a month elsewhere. Details are on the pricing page.