About
A ledger, not a dashboard.
Kanjō is built on kakeibo — the Japanese practice of keeping a household account book by hand. The point of that practice was never the arithmetic. It was noticing.
Why it looks like this
Most budgeting apps are built to be looked at: charts that move, streaks to keep, a notification when you overspend. They are designed to be opened often.
A kakeibo is designed to be written in, once, calmly, and then closed. That is the register we build to. Warm paper rather than dark glass, one accent used like a stamp, and every figure in a monospaced face so columns line up the way they would on the page.
It is also why sharing works at the level of a category rather than an account. A household book was always partly shared and partly private.
Who is behind it
Kanjō is made by Hanso Pte. Ltd., a small company registered in Singapore. It is not venture funded, and it does not sell data — the subscription is the entire business model, which is the only arrangement under which a finance app's incentives point the same way as yours.
There are no advertising identifiers in the app and no third-party analytics SDKs. What we measure, we measure ourselves, and the privacy page lists it.
If something is broken or wrong, a person reads the report. There is no support tier that gets a faster answer.
What it will not do
Stated plainly, because the absences are deliberate rather than unfinished.
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It will not connect to your bank
No open-banking credentials, no third party holding a token to your account. You bring a statement; we read it.
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It will not sell or share your data
Receipts and statements go to Mistral to be read and nowhere else. Nothing is used to train a model.
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It will not nag you
One daily reminder if you ask for it, one weekly summary if you ask for it. Both off until you turn them on.