developer_mamba

bitcoin

I built an app for Bitcoiners to see their lives priced in sats. Meet Compass!

Most def, you can also manually enter the balance too and it still keeps up with the floating rate of Bitcoin so that net worth and spending in accurate

Currently just one wallet, but if you're interested I can add multi support. Let me know

Mine is better. It's more personalized especially for daily spending. https://www.compassbtc.app

Definitely! And seeing it for everyday purchases is the game changer, you start to truly see your life get cheaper over time and it prevents you from making purchases that add up in Bitcoin. https://www.compassbtc.app

Yeah def check it out! And feel free to reply here or message me on reddit (@developer_mamba) if you need any help too. Hope you enjoy it https://www.compassbtc.app

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Hey everyone,

I'm a solo developer and Bitcoin Maxi, and I built Compass after being frustrated with two things: my own spending habits and how other personal finance don't factor it in net worth/spending.

I've always seen USD as kinda worthless and I tend to spend it almost with ease versus when I see Bitcoin. Also, apps like Rocket Money didn't make it easy for me to truly track my Bitcoin holdings since you have to enter the value manually and with Bitcoin that number of course changes. I wanted something that allowed me to see the true value in BTC in my spending habits to help me slow down and something that Bitcoiners were complaining about in other finance apps where you have to babysit the balance of your Bitcoin wallet.

So I built the thing they and myself actually wanted.

**Better**

Compass just knows. Your net worth, your spending, and your goals are all priced in Bitcoin by default, and the Bitcoin part updates itself. You never type a balance again. Expenses from years ago use the price that Bitcoin was then and it's always up to date with current day prices for today when it comes to measuring.

**A few things I tried hard to get right:**

Your Bitcoin balance updates on its own. **YOU NEVER HAVE TO ENTER ANY PRIVATE KEY** and I knew that **security was a huge thing when working on the app.** You can either just enter the manual balance or the public read only address and it just watches and auto updates the balance. This gives me more accuracy when checking my balance.

Every purchase shows up in sats. For example, A $47 dinner lands as 73,194 sats or $2500 in rent is 3,893,293 sats / 0.4 BTC. Four categories: Bitcoin, Necessary, Discretionary, and Wasteful to easily categorize your spending. You have to spend money. Rent, groceries, kids. The point of holding Bitcoin was never to die with it. So instead of guilt, every purchase just shows you what it did to your goal's completion date. So like if your goal is to get to 1 BTC and you're spending a lot in wasteful, it will show you how many days you are behind to your goal.

**Technical:**

I made the app available on mobile, web, and desktop. **The desktop app has no account and no server. Nothing to sign up for, everything encrypted on your own machine.** This is what most people have liked but you have the option to look at it on all devices with sync which is still encrypted in DB. I've also opened source the compass-core that runs the app for the encryption, xpub, and conversions. Linked it in this post

**Cost:**

I'm doing a current deal right now for just $60 one time purchase for LIFETIME. You can pay in Bitcoin or USD. I think if we want to drive adoption of Bitcoin, I think it's important we start actually using it and this is your chance to as well.

I'd genuinely love your feedback, especially if you've been stacking for a while and have quietly given up on your finance app ever understanding it: long-time holders, self-custody people, anyone who already converts prices to sats in their head. Tell me what's missing or what feels clunky. I read every comment.

Thanks for reading, and I really appreciate any thoughts.

iOS App: [https://apps.apple.com/my/app/compass-bitcoin-finance-app/id6776933441](https://apps.apple.com/my/app/compass-bitcoin-finance-app/id6776933441)

Website: [https://compassbtc.app/overview](https://compassbtc.app/overview)

Source (the Bitcoin core): [https://github.com/HRZN-BTC/compass-core](https://github.com/HRZN-BTC/compass-core)

Demo: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRxwfyRaTE\&t=10s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRxwfyRaTE&t=10s)

This is the best app for Bitcoiners

I built a Bitcoin portfolio tracker after getting fed up with every other option

Let me know if you need any help! Would love to hear your feedback!

I realized I was pretty bad at paying attention to my money. Not broke, just... not paying attention. I used Rocket Money for a while to track spending. It was fine. But my Bitcoin wasn't in there and there was no way to add it. So I'd have this dashboard showing my "full picture" that was missing the asset I cared most about.

But the bigger thing I noticed was that looking at everything in dollars made me think about money less, not more. A dollar amount feels abstract. You get used to it. You stop reacting to it.

I wanted an app that leaned into that. Something that showed my Bitcoin alongside my actual life, priced in a way that made me feel the numbers. I couldn't find it so I built Compass.

You can connect your wallet with an xpub key if you want automatic syncing, or you can just type in a number manually if you're not ready for that step. Either way you get a clean view of your balance in your local currency, with the sat-denominated perspective underneath.

No exchange account. Nothing custodied. Just a clear picture of where you stand.

If you've ever felt like fiat framing was making you numb to your own money, that's exactly what I built this for.

You can check it out at www.compassbtc.app for free, please let me know thoughts