Centavo
Personal finance, kept personal

Track your money without handing it to anyone else.

Centavo is a simple, private expense tracker. Every transaction lives on your phone first — sync to your own Google Drive is optional, and nothing is ever visible to us.

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Works with no connection

Adding transactions, editing accounts, browsing history — all of it runs on your device, signal or not.

Private by construction

No ads, no analytics, no third parties. Your spending data is never sent to us — there's no server that could see it.

Optional Drive backup

Connect your Google account to back up and sync across devices, using Drive's hidden app-data storage — invisible even in your own file list.

Import your history

Bring in existing transactions from a CSV file, or export everything you've logged whenever you want.

Built for one person's ledger, not a company's database.

Centavo started as a personal project to track everyday spending without an app quietly reselling that data. That's still the whole point — it stays a straightforward, honest expense tracker.

Legal

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 19, 2026

What Centavo stores

Centavo stores the transactions, accounts, and categories you enter directly on your device, in a local database. This data is not collected by us, is not sent to any server we operate, and is not shared with any third party. We do not run analytics, tracking, or advertising of any kind inside the app.

Optional Google Drive backup

If you choose to connect a Google account, Centavo uses the drive.appdata scope to store a single backup file in Google Drive's hidden application-data folder. This folder is not visible in your regular Drive file list and cannot be accessed by other apps.

  • Only your own transactions, accounts, and categories are stored in this file.
  • We — the developer — never see, receive, or have access to this data. It moves directly between your device and your own Google Drive.
  • Signing in is entirely optional; every other feature of the app works fully without it.

Data deletion

You can delete your local data at any time by uninstalling the app or clearing its storage in your device settings. To remove your Drive backup, disconnect Centavo from your Google Account permissions page (myaccount.google.com/permissions), which also deletes the associated app-data file.

Children's privacy

Centavo is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the update will be posted on this page with a revised date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to runway.hippo+centavo@gmail.com.