Cowspent

Shared budget manager able to sync with Nextcloud Cospend.

This work is based upon MoneyBuster. Which is originally a fork of PhoneTrack-Android. Which is itself a fork of Nextcloud Notes for Android. Many thanks to their developers ❤️ !

🌄 Screenshots

⭐ Features

• manage projects (add/remove/create/delete/edit)
• manage members (add/remove/edit)
• manage bills (add/remove/edit)
• search bills (by payer, name, amount, date) - still WIP
• project statistics (Table, Graph and Sankey) with sharing
• project settlement plan with sharing
• dark theme and customizable main app color
• share/import projects with link/QRCode

Extra Features:

• Custom Split of bills
• Support for Cospend archived-status (hide archived projects by default)
• Modern UI and code with Kotlin and Jetpack-Compose

📳 Installation

Note:

• Fdroid: requested, see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/work_items/4412
• PlayStore: alpha test restriction by Google. To access, join https://groups.google.com/g/helcel-android-test

⚙️ Permissions

• CAMERA: recommended for scanning barcodes from camera
• INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: necessary for synchronization with Cospend/IHateMoney servers
• GET_ACCOUNTS necessary to log in with the Nextcloud account for Cospend

📝 Contribute

Cowspent is a user-driven project. We welcome any contribution, big or small.

• 🖥️ Development: Fix bugs, implement features, or research issues. Open a PR for review.
• 🍥 Design: Improve interfaces, including accessibility and usability.
• 📂 Issue Reporting: Report bugs and edge cases with relevant info.
• 🌍 Localization: Translate if it doesn't support your language.

✏️ Acknowledgements

Thanks to all contributors, the developers of our dependencies, and our users.

Signinig key

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📝 License

Copyright (C) 2026 Helcel

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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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