What HeyKit does

Everything you need to run a family,in one place.

Track budgets, scan receipts, manage children's schedules, split trip expenses with friends, clock in domestic staff, get daily Telegram updates — and a lot more. Made for South African families.

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Budgets & spend

Track where the money actually goes — by category, by month, automatically. No spreadsheet drift, no end-of-month surprises.

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Per-month category budgets→

Set a monthly budget per category — Groceries, Fuel, Electricity, Entertainment, etc. Each month is its own snapshot, so editing today never retroactively changes history.

  • •Budget month optionally starts on a custom day (25th by default, common for SA pay cycles)
  • •Visual progress bar per category with tone-coded status (mint / amber / coral)
  • •Total spent / budgeted with daily-pace projection
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AI receipt scanning→

Snap a till slip or upload a PDF — Claude or GPT-4o reads the store name, total, and items. Fills the expense form in seconds.

  • •Works with photos and multi-page PDF invoices
  • •Tuned prompt for SA receipts — knows Pick n Pay, Checkers, Woolies, Dis-Chem etc.
  • •Smart category matching: store name is matched against your history so Netflix always lands in Entertainment
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End-of-month forecast

After a few days into the month, the dashboard projects your total at current pace. Coral when over, mint when under.

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Recurring expenses

Set a template once — rent, school fees, levies, savings transfer — and it auto-logs as an Expense on the 1st of every budget month. Same generator handles auto-logging from Subscriptions.

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Subscriptions tracker

Track Netflix, Showmax, gym, medical aid. Each sub picks an expense category — auto-logs on the billing day so your budget stays accurate without manual entry.

  • •Monthly / quarterly / annual cycles with proper alignment
  • •Renewal-reminder integration: alerts at 30/14/7/3/1/0 days before contract end
  • •Pause / resume any sub without losing its history
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Income tracking

Log salary, bonuses, freelance, dividends, gifts. Net flow card on the dashboard shows what you actually have after spending.

  • •Optional tax field for PAYE/UIF — gross is computed (amount + tax)
  • •Attribute income to specific family members
  • •Year-to-date tax total surfaces in the Income tab — handy at SARS time
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Bank feeds

Connect Investec and transactions arrive on their own, or forward your bank's notification emails and HeyKit logs each purchase with its category.

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Bills & due-date reminders

Rates, school fees, levies. Email + Telegram reminders ramp up as the due date approaches.

Family life

The non-money side of running a household — kids' schedules, shared lists, and the routine stuff you forget at 7am.

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Children's schedules→

Daily routine per child: what to wear, what to pack, school hours, activities, pickup arrangements.

  • •Per-child colour coding
  • •Edit week-by-week from one screen
  • •Surfaces in the morning Telegram message + iCal feed
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Daily Telegram briefings→

Morning, afternoon, and evening messages with the day's schedule, weather, and reminders. Send straight to your phone — no app to open.

  • •Cape Town weather pulled from Open-Meteo
  • •Afternoon ping warns of pickups/dropoffs ~15 min before
  • •Friday evening 'have a great weekend' replaces the usual preview
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Telegram quick-add→

DM the bot to log expenses, add shopping items, capture todos, view schedule, or scan receipts — without opening the app.

  • •/spent 250 PnP groceries — logs with smart-matched category
  • •/shop milk, eggs, bread — adds three items in one tap
  • •/budget — quick spend-vs-budget snapshot
  • •Send a receipt photo → bot OCRs it and confirms before logging
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Shopping list & todos

Shared shopping list and family todo list. Tick items off as you go. Sync across devices in real time.

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Recurring chores

Daily, weekly, or specific-day-of-month chores auto-generate on the morning routine. Lawn maintenance every Friday, bins out on Tuesday, change the air filter monthly — set once, never forget.

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Calendar (iCal) feed

Subscribe in Apple Calendar / Google Calendar to see your kids' activities + bills + renewals alongside your normal calendar. Token-gated link, refreshes automatically.

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Bring in your calendars

Add Google, Apple, Outlook or school calendars by their private iCal link. Events sync every 15 minutes and show in the app, on the photo frame, in the morning briefing and in Ask HeyKit.

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Kids' chores & pocket money

Give each child chores and a pocket-money wallet. They get a private link, with an optional PIN, to tick chores off and see their balance; payouts are logged as spending.

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Dinner ideas

Three dinner ideas every day, suited to the weather and the night of the week, each with ingredients and method. Choose one and add its ingredients to the shopping list in one tap.

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Kitchen photo frame

Open your family's frame link on an old tablet: what's next for each child, the hourly weather, today's calendar, chores and shopping to tick off, tonight's dinner and a slideshow of your family photos.

Things you own

Every household item with a serial number, a warranty, or a service log. Stop digging through email for that one PDF.

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Cars→

License renewals, insurance, VIN, mileage, fuel type, service history. Receipt photos OCR'd into provider + cost. Renewal alerts via email + Telegram.

  • •Service history with type (service / repair / tyres / roadworthy / fuel)
  • •Tap a service row to view the attached receipt in an inline modal
  • •Mileage automatically tracks forward as you log services
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Asset register→

Track fridges, electronics, tools, furniture, sport gear. Photo, brand, model, serial, purchase date, warranty expiry, retailer, location, service log.

  • •Categories with emoji-tagged filters (appliance, electronics, tools, etc.)
  • •Warranty countdown badge: mint when months out, amber within 30 days, coral when expired
  • •Attach manuals, warranty PDFs, service invoices
  • •AI scan a purchase receipt — auto-fills name, brand, model, serial, retailer, price, date
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Loyalty cards · Apple Wallet

Store every loyalty card (Pick n Pay, Clicks, Dis-Chem, Engen, etc.) with barcode + member number. One-tap Add to Apple Wallet so they're on your lock screen at checkout.

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Family documents

Vault for birth certificates, passports, ID copies, rates accounts, lease agreements, insurance schedules. PDFs and images, organised per child + family-wide.

  • •In-app preview modal — no download required
  • •10 MB per file, auto-compresses photos so iPhone captures don't bloat
  • •Renewal reminders for documents with expiry dates
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Municipal rates

Track your monthly rates bill — account number, due date, amount. Reminders before the due date.

Money with others

Splitting expenses with friends. Paying domestic staff. The shared-finance corner.

Insights & alerts

The app doing the watching so you don't have to.

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Weekly email digest

Friday evening recap: spend total vs budget, week-ahead schedule, upcoming renewals, electricity units left, open todos — all in one beautifully-formatted email. Dark mode supported.

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Budget alerts

Email pings when any category crosses 80% or 100% of budget. Per-month dedup so you never get spammed.

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Renewal reminders

License, insurance, warranty, contract end, card expiry — emails + Telegram nudges at 30, 14, 7, 3, 1, and 0 days out.

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Cape Town weather

Open-Meteo pull every morning briefing — what to wear, what to pack, will it rain.

Privacy & control

It's your data. Stays your data.

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Three sign-in methods

Sign in with Google, email + password, or magic-link emails. All three coexist on the same account.

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Multi-family

Each family has its own data, members, schedules, budgets. Invite a partner via email. No cross-family leaks — every query is scoped.

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iPhone app + web

A native iPhone app on the App Store, and the web app on any phone, tablet or computer (install it to your Android home screen). Everything stays in sync.

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Full backup + restore

Export all your data as JSON whenever you want. Restore from a backup file if needed. No vendor lock-in.

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Ask HeyKit

An AI assistant that knows your family's HeyKit. Ask what you spent, who's doing pickup or what's on today — and have it add expenses, to-dos and shopping for you.

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Claude & ChatGPT (MCP)

Connect HeyKit to Claude or ChatGPT with its MCP server and talk to your family's budgets, schedules and lists from there.

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External API

Per-user bearer-token API for Apple Shortcuts, Zapier, IFTTT, or your own scripts. Log expenses from the Lock Screen, pull budgets into Numbers, automate anything.

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Built for South Africa

Rands by default, 25th-of-month budget cycles (SARS pay calendar), Cape Town weather, Engen / PnP / Woolies retailer aliases, Mauritian Rupee in the trip currency list. Made by an SA family for SA families.

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