Fresh Brews: MoneyCoffee and ScanToPDF Join the Menu
MoneyCoffee brings private money tracking to Americano, ScanToPDF completes the Latte scan family, and TripRoute is coming soon to Frappe.
Two apps left the waitlist this week, and a third name landed on it.
MoneyCoffee is live in Americano
MoneyCoffee is live in Americano, a personal finance tracker that keeps a month of spending on your own Mac. No account to create, no bank to connect, nothing synced, nothing uploaded. Money gets in the same way it already exists: a statement your bank lets you download, a block of pasted bank messages, or a photo of a receipt.
The interesting part is how it reads that input. Give a category the keywords you actually see on a statement, and every import after that files itself. Paste a line like "1.2tr rent yesterday" and it works out the amount, the day, who you paid, and where it belongs. Short amounts, weekday names, a minus sign meaning money out: it handles the way people actually write about money, not just the way banks print it.
Budgets warn you before you blow through them, with caps per category or overall, weekly to yearly, and optional rollover. Recurring bills post themselves. Reports show spending pace and a ranked breakdown, twelve months side by side. Your month starts on your payday, whatever day that is. Savings goals project from how fast you are actually saving, and loans in both directions settle straight into your balance. A receipt photo is read on the Mac itself, so the image never goes anywhere. One click exports the lot or takes a backup.
ScanToPDF completes the scan family
Over in Latte, ScanToPDF went live and rounded out the scan family. Drop in photos of a contract, a stack of receipts, or twenty pages of notes, and you get back flat, evenly lit sheets whose text you can select, copy, and search. One click binds them all into a single PDF in the order you dropped them.
Every stage runs through Apple's Vision framework on your machine: page detection, perspective correction, text recognition. A payslip never leaves your Mac. Your originals are untouched; each cleaned page is written as a new file beside the photo it came from.
ScanToPDF reports a word count for every row, because a searchable PDF with an empty text layer is the one failure the file itself won't show you. A sheet shot from an angle comes out square, and a shot with no detectable document is still cleaned and saved, with the row telling you so.
Latte's paper pipeline is now three deep: ScanStraightener for flattening and straightening, ScanToPDF for searchable archives, and ScanToDocx still steeping, for turning photos of documents into editable Word files. The Cold Brew shelf also got a copy pass this week, with MindNote, WallpaperBrew, HydraSip, and PressZip reading tighter.
TripRoute is coming soon
And a new name on the Frappe board: TripRoute, which animates your trip across a 3D globe and exports it as video. Still Coming Soon.
The savings math
The savings math moved again. Sixty-five paid apps bought one at a time come to $787, so the first year on the menu saves you $691. Downloads passed 400,000 along the way.
MoneyCoffee and ScanToPDF are both $9.99 once, or included in any subscription. The whole menu runs $4.99 a month on annual billing.