Barriers: Tasks & Finances

Barriers are the things standing between you and a clear day. Barriers is an app that keeps three scattered parts of life in one place — your tasks, your money, and your receipts — without ever asking you to make an account. It reads like a small, private newspaper for your day: Playfair headlines, warm cream paper, a deep pine-green spine. No feeds, no streaks, no noise. Just the next thing, made clear. TASKS — clear the day • Editorial task cards with a checkbox that draws its own tick • Deadlines, a five-minute pool for quick wins, and a backburner for "later" • A morning banner for what's urgent — and an "all clear" celebration when you're done • Home Screen widgets (Today · All Clear · Quick Add) and long-press actions to add, speak, or scan • A Live Activity quietly appears about five minutes before something's due FINANCE — read your month like a statement • Every month is a Statement: the month name in italics, a bold NET SAVED figure, and a clean income / outgoings table • A receipt-style ledger of expenses — monospace figures, dashed rules, warm paper • A deep-green hero predicting your year-end savings, with a progress bar to watch it grow • Multi-currency, with a main currency you choose • "The Annual" — a shareable year-end broadsheet generated from your own numbers RECEIPTS — scan and forget • Snap a receipt; on-device OCR pulls the vendor, amount and date for you • Files itself onto the right month's statement • A gentle nudge when receipts are still unfilled THEY WORK TOGETHER • Attach a cost to a task — finishing it logs the expense to that month • A search across tasks, expenses and receipts that jumps to the exact item and flashes it • A true editorial dark mode — "Night Edition" PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No analytics. Your data lives on your device and your own iCloud — nothing leaves except an anonymous currency-rate lookup. Lock the app with a PIN and Face ID (your PIN is stored hashed, never in the clear). WORKS WITH THE MAC Barriers syncs through your iCloud to a companion macOS app, so the same calm carries to your desk. HONEST PRICING Tasks are free, forever. A single £1.99 unlock — Barriers Premium — opens Finance and Receipts for good. No subscription. No upsell. Buy it once, keep it. Clear your barriers. Keep your day — and your data — your own.