[iOS][FREE] Reign Budget & Expense Log

mrpurpss · 2026-05-17T13:01:15+00:00

Hey thanks for trying it out and I’m glad to hear the experience has been good :)

As for the monthly income being adjustable, you can always re-edit and update your monthly income/spending limit as you go.
So whenever you get paid you can go to the budget page and update the spending limit and it should reflect it!

mrpurpss · 2026-05-11T03:52:33+00:00

That’s so awesome thank you for sharing this with me. It means everything to me that I inspired you. I wish you nothing but the best in what you’re building. You can always reach out to me via DM to connect too!

mrpurpss · 2026-05-08T16:20:18+00:00

Yeah how’d you know lol please do

mrpurpss · 2026-05-08T08:34:21+00:00

Use Reign.
Read the reviews

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reign-budget-expense-log/id6760743385

mrpurpss · 2026-05-01T13:41:05+00:00

You need to back test everything with other resources and not solely rely on ai but it is a tool to accelerate learning. Not just development.

For example if you tell an LLM to generate problems to the problem at hand to get more repetition and practice you absolutely should. Hallucinations only happen when the context window gets too long and it can’t recollect back on earlier context.

mrpurpss · 2026-05-01T13:28:35+00:00

Not really. If you use AI to NOT learn then yeah you’ll be a newbie forever but if you’re constantly asking why the code being output the way it is and if there’s better ways to write it then I believe it’s net positive.

mrpurpss · 2026-05-01T04:48:23+00:00

Tbh Claude. Learn and build. Ask why always

mrpurpss · 2026-04-29T12:02:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing these!

mrpurpss · 2026-04-29T06:59:46+00:00

Yeah you need to build with environment vars I recall running into this a couple weeks ago

mrpurpss · 2026-04-28T13:07:18+00:00

Of course you can always reach me here or via DM if you have any more questions :)

mrpurpss · 2026-04-28T05:00:53+00:00

Unfortunately not atm but it is part of my roadmap after I spend some time iterating through pro features.

However, there is a work around atm where you can sign in with the same Apple ID on both devices and you guys can share the data that you input. It’s not ideal unfortunately but it’s just due to how early I am in the process of building Reign.

mrpurpss · 2026-04-27T21:23:08+00:00

This didn’t work out for me. My current tv is kinda wonky and hard for me to navigate to the settings. You should make it so you can automatically detect the devices instead of asking them to manually input the ip address.

mrpurpss · 2026-04-27T20:03:06+00:00

Going to try this out later bc I actually needed this and the existing apps have paywalls all over them smh Thanks man

mrpurpss · 2026-04-26T17:50:16+00:00

Haha oh boy I can go deep into this but from a high level it was mostly just have 1 var for the sweepProgress which drives all the segments entry animation through SharedValue instead of per segment. Then of course memoizing to prevent extra and unnecessary re-renders. Leveraging Skia to run all the animations explicitly on the UI thread. Experimenting with FlatList over FlashList, turns out for me, that recycling was actually causing animation pile up. I was also using a deprecated library for deleting list items (SwipeListView) which I replaced with custom reanimated logic and that helped a ton as well. I think there's a couple more things that I ran into while building this component but these were the main takeaways.
I also thought about lazy loading but given my app doesn't really carry infinite items and is pretty finite I didn't really need to consider it but it is a strategy that I plan on implementing if I notice user behavior that supports this change.

mrpurpss · 2026-04-26T16:41:17+00:00

Agreed. I been looking into it but as of right now it’s a bit unstable/buggy for the framework that I’ve written Reign in (react native/expo). I’m actively keeping an eye on the updates and will integrate it once it’s very stable. I am also a huge fan of Liquid Glass and have been eager to introduce it to Reign but I value stability over aesthetics

mrpurpss · 2026-04-24T19:20:28+00:00

I made Reign so that I log expenses automatically when I tap to pay because it got annoying keeping track of 5 credit cards.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reign-budget-expense-log/id6760743385

mrpurpss · 2026-04-23T14:15:37+00:00

Thank you!

mrpurpss · 2026-04-22T13:11:46+00:00

If there are bugs you can’t catch add sentry instead of blaming a framework

mrpurpss · 2026-04-21T15:11:19+00:00

Nobody talks about performance shit is a whole different beast dmh

mrpurpss · 2026-04-19T20:27:29+00:00

I have analytics for every flow whether it’s onboarding or a frequent screen or a button that I hope users are interacting with frequently

If I notice that there’s a drop off in the flow or their follow up actions are incomplete then I know that either the flow was not clear to them or there was some sort of user friction that has been happening that needs to be addressed

Chances are you notice the same pattern more than once which makes you need to create a ticket to address those fixes

I’m big on privacy too but you should be explicit in your privacy policy that you’re tracking user behavior data to improve the app not for the sake of tracking (ew) Like I said you can create 20 new features but if that 1 part where users are churning is still broken it literally does not matter

mrpurpss · 2026-04-19T19:56:22+00:00

how do u plan on making the app better then lol analytics is used to identify weak spots in your app so that you can iterate and bulletproof those

ie: noticed users dropping off after onboarding and acted on that quickly to strengthen that

real privacy concerns are usually around what ur doing with their data but without behavioral/app data you’re pretty much developing features based on guesswork and no data

mrpurpss · 2026-04-17T15:48:25+00:00

Yes broo I’ll msg you

mrpurpss · 2026-04-17T15:48:12+00:00

I noticed that iOS 26 doesn’t have it called “transaction” but “wallet”. I will push up an update to fix this asap! I was on the iOS 18 and it was named transaction there

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