Never forget
to pay a bill.

Nowhere. PocketBills keeps your bills and payment history on your phone. The only thing it ever sends over the network is the optional check for a newer version on GitHub. Nothing about your bills or spending leaves your phone.

No. There is no account, no sign-up and no server to connect to. Install it, add a bill and you are set.

No. It is a reminder and a record, not a payment app. You pay your bills the way you always do, then mark them paid in PocketBills. It never asks for bank, card or login details.

The payment is recorded with the date and the amount, and the bill moves to its next due date. If you tapped by mistake, Undo is offered while the bill is still where the payment left it. "Skip this one" drops a single occurrence without recording a payment.

No. Repeat rules are anchored to the rule, not to the day you paid. A bill due on the 1st of every month stays due on the 1st, whether you paid it on the 1st or the 9th.

Every N days, every N weeks (on the weekdays you pick), every N months or every N years. Monthly bills can fall on a day number, on the last day of the month, or on a pattern like the second Tuesday. In shorter months a day number falls on the month’s last day, and the form previews the next due dates so you can check the rule.

Yes. Give a repeating bill an end date, the last date it may fall due, and paying or skipping the final occurrence ends it. Or use Stop this bill to end it right now. Ended bills leave the unpaid list and stop reminding you, but their payment history stays, and you can resume or delete them from the Ended filter.

The header counts bills due this month plus any that are overdue. A bill you have already paid ahead for a later month does not count.

A payment keeps the amount it was paid at, so changing a bill’s amount only affects occurrences paid from then on. For a one-off difference, use Pay a different amount… to record what you actually paid. You can also edit or delete a single payment later without touching the bill. The amount is optional, so a bill that varies can be left blank.

There is a daily reminder at a time you choose. Each bill that needs paying, because it is overdue, due today or inside its reminder window, gets its own notification with Mark paid and Snooze buttons, grouped under a summary. The reminder window defaults to five days before the due date and can be set per bill. Snooze hides a bill’s reminders for a length you set, eight hours by default, then brings it back if it still needs paying.

Mark a bill as auto-pay and you get a single heads-up before it, instead of daily reminders. If you like, PocketBills can also record it as paid on its due date, moving a repeating bill to its next date. Turn that off in Notifications if you would rather confirm each one yourself.

It shows the currency symbol you choose in Settings. That only changes the symbol: amounts are never converted, and PocketBills does not look up exchange rates.

English. The app reads its text from a simple language file, so more languages can be added, but English is the only one included today.

The app redraws the widget whenever you change a bill or use the app, and it can also refresh in the background so “due in N days” and the counts stay current while the app is closed. In Settings you can turn background refresh off, set how often it runs (15 minutes to 24 hours, hourly by default, and Android may delay it to save battery), and choose what tapping the title does: open the app, refresh, or nothing. Tapping a bill always opens it, and the check button always marks it paid.

Pick a folder with Android’s own folder picker, then back up manually or on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. A backup holds your bills, payment history and app settings. Restoring adds a backup file’s bills and payments to what is already on the phone. Nothing you already have is removed or overwritten, and restoring the same file twice adds nothing new. App settings in the file replace the current ones.

Yes, PocketBills is currently free.

No, PocketBills is currently not open source, but may be in the future.

PocketBills requires Android 8.0 (Oreo) or newer.

No. PocketBills is Android only, and iPhone is not supported.

PocketBills development uses AI responsibly. Please see the full AI disclosure at the bottom of this page.

PocketBills is made available to all, free, the same way its sibling apps are.

Developer accounts for the Google Play Store cost money and this app is free. If I released it in the Play Store, I would have to charge for the app to make back that money, which I do not want to do.

Yes. Please email me (admin) to collaborate. This domain name is the second part of the address.

If the app becomes open source, I will release it to F-Droid.

PocketBills only communicates with GitHub. Once every 12 hours, or if you hit the check now button, PocketBills checks the release versions to see if an update is available. Your data is not sent to GitHub, rather it pulls the latest version number and compares it locally to the installed version.

PocketBills asks only for what it needs to run its features:

• Notifications. Used for your bill reminders, including the Mark paid and Snooze buttons. Android asks you the first time, and the app shows a banner if they are turned off.
• Internet. Used only for the optional check for a newer version on GitHub. Nothing about your bills or spending is sent.
• Network state. Standard permission from the Android library PocketBills uses for scheduled tasks, so a background task can check the phone’s connection.
• Biometrics. Only used if you turn on biometric unlock in Settings, which is off by default. Android checks your fingerprint or face, and PocketBills never sees it.
• Startup and wake. Standard permissions from the same library. They let reminders and automatic backups resume after a restart, and keep the phone awake briefly while a background task runs.

PocketBills does not request location, contacts, camera, microphone, or access to your files. Backups are saved to a folder you pick with Android’s own folder picker.