Settings
Set up your budget, shape your categories, and make Monivera fit how you actually spend.
Budget settings
Settings → Budget Settings is where your budget takes shape.
- Total budget — the monthly amount for everyday, variable spending.
- Recurring budget — a separate envelope for fixed bills (rent, subscriptions, utilities), set aside before the month begins so bills never eat your everyday money.
- Per-category allocation — optionally split your budget across categories. Each category then gets its own progress bar in the budget view.
- Budget resets on — the day of the month your budget cycle starts. In a shared household this start day applies to every member, so the whole household is always looking at the same period.
Categories
Settings → Categories — add, rename, and reorder your spending categories. These are your categories: the AI categorizer only ever suggests from this list, so shaping it well pays off everywhere in the app.
A good starter set is broad (“Food”, “Transport”, “Fun”) — you can always split a category later when one bar keeps maxing out and you want to know why.
Personal info
Settings → Personal Info — edit your name and password.
Lock with Face ID
Settings → Require Face ID locks the app behind Face ID or Touch ID, with your device passcode as a fallback. Once enabled, Monivera asks you to unlock when you open it and when you return to it after a short time away. You stay signed in the whole time, so unlocking never re-enters your password. The toggle shows as Unavailable if your device has no biometrics or passcode set up.
Household sharing
Share one budget with your partner or household members:
- Open Settings and choose the household/invite option.
- Enter the member’s email — they receive an invite they can accept or decline.
- Once accepted, they join your household: same budget, same ledger, same categories, synced live on every device.
You can cancel a pending invite or remove a member at any time, and members can leave on their own.
Limitations to know:
- One household at a time. Each person belongs to exactly one active household — accepting an invite moves them out of their personal one. Leaving (or being removed) reverts them to their own personal household, with their data intact.
- Up to 10 members per household.
- The household’s budget start day applies to every member, so everyone is always looking at the same period.
Leave feedback
Settings → Leave Feedback / Request a Feature opens your email app with a message to our team already started, so you can report a bug or ask for a feature in a couple of taps. If no email app is set up, we show you the address (support@monivera.app) to reach us directly.
Make it yours
Everything above composes: pay-day start + recurring envelope + per-category allocations is a very different setup from a simple monthly total — and both are two minutes of settings. Start simple, then tune the pieces as you learn how you actually spend. The Tips & tricks page collects the setups we see work best.