Built for Ahmed and Dina — and every Egyptian family asking the same question
Say it or type it, in Arabic. Flosyfeen logs each expense without ever asking for bank details, and shows you where the money went, category by category.
Ahmed and Dina — when their budget was off by 4,000 EGP a month
Ahmed is an engineer at a company in New Cairo. Dina is a teacher. They have two boys in primary school. The household brings in 22,000 EGP a month. They thought they were spending around 14,000, but at the end of every month the account was empty and they couldn't say where the money had gone.
Dina had tried three budgeting apps before and gave each one up within two weeks, for the same reason: pick a category, type a number, press save — while walking out of the supermarket carrying bags, with the kids waiting in the car.
One evening Ahmed was working it out on paper. Dina opened Flosyfeen and said, in Arabic, "Spent 380 on groceries at Carrefour." It was logged on the spot. Ahmed looked up from the paper and said: "Try it for a month. Show me the result."
Why budgeting apps get abandoned: the logging gap
Most budgeting apps assume you will sit down and enter every purchase by hand. That is a lot to ask of someone with five small payments a day and no spare minute between them.
In Egypt nothing fills the app in for you. None of the expense apps we compared lists a direct connection to an Egyptian bank, and in the World Bank's Global Findex survey only 5.2% of adults in Egypt made a digital payment to a shop in 2024. Cash has to be typed or said by the person who spent it.
We call the time between paying and writing it down the logging gap. The longer it lasts, the easier the expense is to forget. So Flosyfeen is built to make one entry as small as possible. There is more on this in why budget apps don't stick in Egypt.
How does Flosyfeen work?
You say "spent 380 on groceries" in Egyptian Arabic or English, or type the same sentence into the text box. Flosyfeen files the amount, the category and the date. If it picks the wrong category, you can change it.
Built around a household's budget
A home's money goes on the same things every month: food, rent, electricity, school, transport, and the costs that come once a year. Flosyfeen's categories and its budget are organised around those.
On the Budget screen you enter the monthly salary and split it across needs, wants and savings, and it shows what is left in each. Recurring bills such as rent and internet are entered once, and you get a reminder before they are due. An account is for one person today; there is no shared household account.
Privacy: no bank details, ever
Flosyfeen never asks for access to your bank account. You tell it what you spent and it organises that. It does not see your account, it does not read your bank messages, and it does not ask for a card number to get started.
- Never asks for a bank account number or a banking password.
- Does not read SMS from banks.
- Your data is encrypted and stored on Firebase.
- You can delete your account and all your data from Settings at any time.
Why the size of one entry matters
An expense you mean to write down later has to be remembered later, and small cash amounts are the first to be forgotten. That is why logging in Flosyfeen is one sentence and not a form. This is not only an Egyptian problem: Adjust, an app analytics company, reported for the first half of 2023 that roughly 1 in 10 people who install a finance app are still using it a month later, across all finance apps worldwide.
A streak to keep the habit going
Flosyfeen counts the days in a row on which you logged at least one expense. It is there to encourage you to carry on, nothing more. If you miss a day, that happens.
Ahmed and Dina, three months in
After three months on Flosyfeen, Ahmed and Dina found that they were really spending 18,400 EGP a month, not the 14,000 they had assumed. The 4,400 EGP difference was going on delivery orders, coffee out, and fixed bills that had crept up without their noticing.
Once they saw the numbers they made four simple decisions: halve the delivery orders, cancel two subscriptions they had forgotten about, switch to a cheaper supermarket for the big shop, and share the school taxi with neighbours. The result: 2,800 EGP a month saved, and for the first time they can see the whole household's spending.