What Makes Tiller Different from Other Personal Finance Apps and Services?
Tiller is the only personal finance service built on Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, combining the limitless flexibility of a spreadsheet with the ease of an app.
When we set out to build Tiller, we discovered that people who felt most confident about their finances had one thing in common – and it wasn’t wealth.
It was that they were all highly engaged with their money.
They tracked transactions, reviewed trends, and checked on the progress of their financial goals. And spreadsheets were the tool they used for the job.
That’s because spreadsheets are simple, private, and endlessly flexible. You can use a spreadsheet through every stage of your unique financial journey.
So instead of building yet another app, our team focused on making spreadsheets easier for everyday personal finance.
Today Tiller is thriving, with tens of thousands of customers and an exceptionally high annual renewal rate.
When we ask our customers what they love about Tiller, this is what they say.
1. The flexibility of a spreadsheet combined with the ease of an app
Tiller makes spreadsheets 10x faster for personal finance by eliminating data entry and multiple account logins
Tiller keeps your financial life updated in your own private spreadsheets.
Each day Tiller Money Feeds imports your latest spending, income, transfers, and account balances into your spreadsheets from 21,000+ banks and other financial sources.
It’s the easiest way to manage your money with the unlimited flexibility of a spreadsheet.
2. Strict privacy and no ads
Unlike other personal finance services, Tiller doesn’t see or sell your data.
Tiller’s team is blind to customer transactions and balances. Your data remains encrypted and private externally and internally. Additionally, we have rigorous protocols in place to protect other information beyond transactions and balances, such as user names and email addresses.
3. Support for Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel
Connect your banks to your spreadsheets and gain powerful insights about your money.
With Tiller, you can use both Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel with a single subscription. And only Tiller includes flexible templates and AutoCat for both Google Sheets and Excel.
That’s why Microsoft exclusively partnered with Tiller in 2022 to transition Money in Excel users to Tiller’s service.
4. Track all transactions in one place
Tiller imports your spending, income, and transfers into a unified Transactions Sheet. Review everything at a glance and filter, split, and delete all your transactions with ease.
With a unified Transactions Sheet, you can:
- Easily review all your spending at a glance
- Always know what’s safe to spend
- Catch suspicious and unauthorized charges
- Search, filter, split, export, and delete all your transactions with ease
- Editable transaction dates, descriptions, amounts, and account ID
5. The most customizable transaction categories
Tiller has the most customizable transaction categories of any personal finance service.
Tiller is the most customizable personal finance service.
Create custom reports and charts. Choose your favorite fonts and colors. Try new spreadsheet templates for financial planning, budgeting, spending analysis, and more. Use your favorite spreadsheet formulas and functions.
And you always have complete control of your categorization rules.
6. Automatic transaction categorization 100% based on custom rules
AutoCat is the only auto-categorization engine for Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel.
Tiller’s AutoCat feature automatically categorizes your spending, transfers, and income into the transaction categories of your choice.
And unlike any other automated personal finance service, AutoCat only categorizes transactions according to your custom rules.
7. Easy budgeting and expense tracking tools
The Tiller Foundation Template includes prebuilt monthly and yearly budgets, plus net worth and cash flow tracking
In addition to the Foundation Template, you can also experiment with free, prebuilt templates and reports build by the Tiller Community.
8. Friendly, top-rated customer support
Tiller’s U.S.-based support team receives rave reviews.
Tiller’s customer service is top-ranked as you can see in our many customer reviews. Tiller’s team constantly communicates with our customers through chat, the Tiller Community, the Tiller Money Memo, social media, and email.
We love hearing from you. Peter Polson, Tiller’s founder and CEO is always eager to chat with prospective and current Tiller customers. (Seriously – email him at peterp@tillerhq.com!)
Edward Shepard
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