What’s New

Updates and improvements as they ship.

355 updates since launch

October 2026

Wednesday, October 21

Paid another way, after the fact

A bill you already marked paid that's waiting on the bank can now be told it was paid another way. Tap "It went through", and under the bank's payments choose "None of these, it was paid another way". It stops counting on the planner straight away.

Paid another way

When a bill was paid from somewhere other than its usual account, say an HSA or a card that isn't in Pitch In, tick "Paid another way" when you mark it paid. It's recorded as paid on the day you give, without taking the money out of the bill's account or waiting for that bank to show it, so the planner stops counting it straight away.

Card and loan payments on the calendar

The minimum on a card or loan from Debt & credit now shows on Calendar on its due day, in Agenda and Month, the same as on Bills. Tap Paid there and the payment is logged on the card. One a bill already pays isn't shown twice.

A week's notes, newest first

Notes and heads-ups under a week on Chores now start with the most recent, so the latest is the first thing you read.

Tuesday, October 20

Card and loan payments show on Bills

A card or loan on Debt & credit with a minimum and a due day now shows on Bills and its Month calendar, every month, like any other bill. Tap Paid and the payment is logged on the card, so its balance and history stay right; Undo takes it back. Card links to it on Debt & credit, where you change it. One already paid by a bill isn't listed twice, and a past month with no payment logged isn't called late, since card payments usually go through the bank.

A hint when an email doesn't turn up

After you ask for a password reset or a new confirmation link, or send an invitation, Pitch In now says where to look if the email doesn't arrive: your spam or junk folder. Marking it Not spam helps the next one come straight to your inbox.

The Planner page shows every bill at once

On Bills, the Planner tab no longer scrolls inside a box on a computer: the whole month is on the page, top to bottom. Home's planner card still keeps to its column and scrolls there.

Groceries, Horizon and Vehicles use a big screen

On a computer, these three pages are now as wide as the rest. Groceries puts the list on the left, with what people could use and past trips beside it. Horizon puts adding a wish and the list on the left, with the totals and what's been got beside them. With two vehicles or more, Vehicles shows them side by side. On a phone, nothing moves.

Savings plans are on Budget itself

Savings plans had a tab of their own on Budget. Now they're a card on the Budget page: each plan, when it's due and how much should be set aside by now, with New savings plan to make another. Budget no longer has tabs.

Link a charge that looks like a bill to one you already have

In “These look like bills” on Bills, “This is” now lets you pick one of your bills, not only a new bill or a card payment. Choose it and press Link it: the bill learns what your bank calls it (“Epay” for a card, “Att” for AT&T), so its payments are recognized and the charge stops showing up as a new bill. You'll find it on the bill as “At the bank it's called”, where you can change it or clear it.

People uses more of a big screen

On a computer, People and Responsibilities now take the same width as the money pages, with three cards across on a wide screen, so the edge of the page stays put as you move between sections. The money pages get a little more room on a wide screen too. With the sidebar folded, What's New and Help sit one above the other.

Bills named like AT&T match their payments

A bill whose name is all short pieces, like AT&T, couldn't be matched to its payment from the bank, and Find bills could offer it again as a second bill (“Att”). Both now recognize it. If you have a duplicate from before, remove the one you don't need in Bills.

Sunday, October 18

Tap a chore's name to see it; tap the circle to tick it

Tapping anywhere on a chore used to tick it off, even when you only wanted a closer look. Now the circle ticks it, and the name opens the chore: who it's for, when it repeats, its steps and time so far, and Mark done, I'll take it, Skip, Edit and Remove, all in one place. On a phone that replaces the ⋯ menu. Home and the calendar work the same way.

Monday, October 19

Debts kept current from your bank, and payments from checking

A mortgage, loan or card that your bank connection brings in can now keep its debt up to date on Debt & credit: add it as a new debt, or have one you typed in follow it and keep its history. Its balance then comes from the bank every time it updates. And on Transactions, any payment going out can be marked “Paid toward” a debt, so it shows in that debt's history — once, however often you pick it.

Retirement accounts

Accounts can now be Retirement: a 401(k), an IRA, a pension. They count toward your net worth, but never toward what's in checking or savings, since that money isn't for spending now. A connected one is recognized on its own.

Stepping through days keeps your place

On a phone, going to the next or previous day on Calendar or Chores used to jump you back to the top of the page. It now stays where you were while the next day loads.

Sunday, October 18

Pitch In's own loading screen

Opening Pitch In fresh now shows its logo building itself while your household loads, and checking your bank shows the Pitch In arrow instead of a spinning circle. Moving between pages still shows the page's shape filling in, which is quicker.

Connect a bank from Add account

Adding an account now offers to connect it instead, if your plan includes bank connections, for a checking account, a brokerage or an HSA. And if connecting a bank goes wrong, the message now includes the bank service's own code, so we can tell you exactly why.

Events: a friendlier date picker, a clearer list, driving directions

On a computer, an event's dates open a month you can click through, in Pitch In's own style, instead of the browser's little calendar; phones keep their own date wheel. The list on an event now says what it's for, “What to bring”, and that commas or new lines add several things at once. And the Google Maps and Apple Maps buttons start with driving directions.

A little more fits on a laptop

On a laptop-sized screen, Pitch In is now drawn about 5% smaller, as if you'd zoomed out a step, so Home fits with less scrolling. Phones and big monitors look the same as before, and your browser's own zoom still works on top.

Directions in Apple Maps too

An event with a place now offers directions in Google Maps or Apple Maps. Apple Maps opens the Maps app on an iPhone, iPad or Mac; Google Maps opens its app if you have it, or its website.

Step through the calendar a day at a time

On Calendar, the day's list beside the month now has arrows to go to the day before or after, and the highlighted day in the month moves with it. On a computer, the ← and → keys do the same. Past the end of a month, the next month opens on that day.

Say what you did when you log time

Logging time on any chore now takes a note too, like “scrubbed the tub as well”, and the note shows with the time on the day's list and in the chore's details. On Ongoing chores, Log opens the form straight away, so the time and a note go in as you log; “Log it” still saves with neither. What's been logged there reads as plain lines with the whole note, instead of small grey bubbles that cut it short.

People says “a member”, not “an member”

A small one: at the top of People, members were told “You're an member”. It reads properly now.

Every card shows up when a found bill pays one

On Bills, “These look like bills” lets you say a payment is for a card or loan. Cards whose old bill was deleted or paused were missing from that list; now every card and loan is there. One that another bill already pays is shown, greyed out, with that bill's name, so you can see why it can't be picked twice.

Home on a computer ends in one even line

On a big screen, Home's columns now finish at the same height: a shorter column's last card stretches to meet the others, so the page reads as one shape instead of three ragged ones. Home is shorter on a laptop, too: a smaller This week card and greeting, and the balance planner's list runs to the bottom of the page instead of stopping partway down its card.

Connecting another bank says what it needs

When a bank needs you to confirm it's you first, Accounts now says so, instead of quietly leaving out the Connect button. And if your phone isn't handy for the passkey, “Use this device instead” makes one on the computer you're on, with Touch ID or your PIN.

Date and time fields fit on a phone

On a phone, date and time fields could run past the edge of their card. Heads-ups were the worst. They now stay inside it everywhere you pick a day or a time.

Add charges to a budget from the budget

On Budget, each category now has “+ Add charges”: tick this month's charges that belong there and they count toward it, even if they were filed somewhere else. Two people's gym memberships at two different gyms can share one Gym budget. And when your bank's charge is matched to a bill, it now takes the bill's category on its own, so recurring bills land in the right budget without filing them each month.

Chores by age, free to print

A new page lists chores kids can really do at each age, from putting toys away at 2 to planning the week's dinners at 17, with how to make each one doable. Print any age's list for the fridge. Printing from Pitch In now uses as little ink as it can: white paper, no dark backgrounds.

Look back at any week's chores, with everyone's notes

Chores → Week now shows the numbers for past weeks too, not just this one: who did what, and how many got done each day. Underneath is every note left on a chore round that week, in full, and every heads-up that week, so you can read back what happened. The week starts on Sunday, the same as your calendar, on Home too.

Say No to a suggested category

When Pitch In suggests a category for a charge and it's wrong, tap No beside it. That suggestion won't come back for that charge, and the charge stays unfiled for you to file however you like. Unticking one still just means you'll decide later.

Change a round, and add a note

On an ongoing chore like Cleaning or Laundry, tap a round you logged to change it: what you did, how long (any number of minutes, not just the buttons), and a short note saying exactly what, like “vacuumed the basement stairs.” You can add the note when you log it, too. Notes show on the chore and in the household's activity.

Help shape Pitch In

There's a tester group now. Join from Help shape it, at the bottom of the Pitch In website, and you'll try new things first, get the odd question by email, and now and then an invitation to a short call. It's optional and unpaid, and you can leave any time from the same page. The privacy policy says what joining means.

Put suggested categories away for now

The suggested categories card on Transactions has a Not now button. It hides the card until there's a new charge to sort, or for a week, whichever comes first, on that phone or computer. You can still pick a category on any transaction yourself in the meantime.

File some suggested categories, and leave the rest for later

When Transactions suggests categories for your charges, each one now has a tick box. Untick any you'd rather decide later, and File files only the ticked ones; the rest stay on the card for another day.

What's New, easier to search

What's New now filters by part of Pitch In (chores, calendar, groceries, money, people and sign-in, or the app itself), keeps the search box in reach as you scroll, and highlights what you searched for. On a computer, the month list no longer slides under the top of the page.

Connect a bank from Transactions

Transactions now has a Connect a bank button beside Add. If you run the household and it's on Free, it tells you what Connected does and exactly what you'd be agreeing to (the price, that it renews until you cancel, and that Pitch In can only read your bank), then takes you straight to payment and on to choosing your bank. If you're already on Connected, it goes straight to choosing your bank.

Starting a household takes two steps

Make an account, name your household, and you're in. Home then asks what you want to start with: tap a few common chores (dishes, trash night, laundry) and add them in one go, type your groceries, or add a bill or an account. Choosing a plan and inviting people come later, whenever you're ready. Opening Add a chore or Add a bill from Home now opens the form straight away. And a new account is no longer told the terms have changed, minutes after agreeing to them.

Turn reminder emails off, or back on

If you set up a household and haven't started it yet, we may send you one short reminder. Every reminder has a link to turn them off, and your account now has a Reminders by email switch for the same thing. Emails you need to use your account, like password resets, sign-in and billing, still come either way. The privacy policy says so too.

Bills, Accounts and Budget, easier to read

On a phone, each bill's full name now gets its own line, with the amount and Paid under it, and the months-ahead chart stays inside its card. On Accounts, each bank account's name sits above its controls instead of squeezed beside them. On a computer, Budget's charts sit beside your categories instead of below them, with a way into savings plans right there. And on Home, the balance planner runs to the bottom of your window and scrolls inside, however tall your screen.

Saturday, October 17

Smaller filters on a phone, and pages that hold still

The filters on the calendar and on Activity (Everyone, Everything, and the rest) are a size smaller on a phone, still easy to tap, and so are the chores on Home and the calendar. Pages no longer jump while they load: a back arrow used to appear for a moment above everything and push the page down. And the lines beside your balance on Home are straight now.

More of Home fits on a computer screen

Home is a little more compact on a computer: the cards sit closer together, This week puts its number beside the chart instead of over it, and Ongoing's rows are slimmer. More of each column shows before you scroll. Phones are unchanged.

The balance planner scrolls on Home

On a computer, a long month of bills no longer makes the balance planner the longest thing on Home. Its list shows about ten at a time and scrolls inside the card, with the end-of-month figure and lowest before payday kept in view above it.

The Horizon's top three, on Home

Home used to show the Horizon only when a wish was waiting for your vote, so once you'd voted on everything it disappeared. Now, when nothing is waiting for you, Home shows the household's top three wishes in the Horizon's own order, with how many people want each. A new wish to vote on still takes the card's place when there is one.

Time on chores sits beside the list

On a computer, the day's Time on chores card now sits in the Done column, under what's been done, instead of below the whole list. On a long day you no longer scroll past every chore to see it.

Home: your day first, your money beside it

On a computer, Yours today now runs down the left, and what's in checking sits across the top beside it, with what's overdue and the next two weeks of bills next to the balance. The balance planner has its own column, every bill in view, and the household's lists fill in wherever there's room. On a phone it reads in order: your day, your money, the planner, then the rest. If you can't see the household's money, or none is set up yet, Home leaves the money out entirely instead of showing empty figures.

Fixed: People's tabs no longer jump

On a computer, switching between People, Activity and Responsibilities moved the page title over a moment after each switch. It stays put now.

Home, arranged in three on a big screen

On a wide screen, Home is now three columns, each starting with what you came for: your day and the house's week, then what's in checking with your vehicles and budgets under it, then the balance planner, with every bill and paycheck in view instead of a few. On a laptop the planner sits under your week, and a phone keeps the order it had.

Home fits together on a big screen

On a wide screen, your day and the household's cards now share two balanced columns beside the money, instead of one column running far longer than the others. The balance planner on Home lists the next four bills, with Show all for the rest, and the end of the month is said once, in the planner, where it changes with what you tick.

See what everyone else just did

When someone else in your household ticks off a chore, takes one that was up for grabs, or adds to a list, your screen now catches up on its own: as soon as you come back to Pitch In, and within about a minute if you've had it open the whole time. Before, you saw their changes only after moving to another page.

Changed your mind? Keep Connected

If you've cancelled Connected and your paid time hasn't run out yet, Plan & billing now has a Keep Connected button. One tap and it renews as before, on the same card, without going through checkout again.

Ticked boxes are easier to see

Checkboxes now use the same color as the text around them, so a ticked one stands out clearly. In dark mode they used to be a pale gray that looked switched off, which mattered most in the balance planner, where every box decides what's counted. Autopay bills, which are always counted, keep their softer gray tick.

Done gets its own column, and this month's spending moves up

On a wide screen, Chores now shows what's done today in a column beside what's left, instead of folded away, and you can still change who did each one right there. The Today tab starts with today; the week's summary is on the Week tab. On Budget, how this month's spending compares with last month now sits beside the summary on a computer, and on a phone the summary says it in a line.

Friday, October 16

Get the app, from inside the app

Pitch In installs straight from your browser, with no app store needed. Look for Get the app in More on your phone, or the download arrow beside the logo on a computer. On Android and in Chrome or Edge it installs in one tap; on an iPhone it shows you the two steps. Once Pitch In is on your home screen, the button goes away.

Ticking off a chore feels like ticking off a grocery

Tick a chore on Chores or Home and the circle fills green, the row folds away so the rest of the list slides up, and Done counts it with a quick green flash. Ticking a chore's last step now does the same right away, instead of pausing first. If your phone is set to reduce motion, the chore just moves to Done.

Import is now inside Add

On a phone, the Import button crowded the Transactions heading until the two overlapped. To bring in a file from your bank, tap Add on Transactions and choose Import it at the top. Page headings also shrink a little on narrow phones so they always fit.

Hide amounts stays inside the app

Hiding amounts used to blur the example numbers on the Pitch In website too, even after you signed out. Now it only blurs your household's money, and it's still on when you come back.

Yours today shows what's already done

Chores you've finished today stay on Home with a green check and "You did it", and when someone else does one that was up for grabs it says who. Chores up for grabs now say so on their own row.

A key for the calendar's dots

On a phone, the month's colored dots now have a key underneath: chores, events, bills, late bills and heads-ups. The Chores page also says how many chores your household has set up.

Tilt the background

On a phone, the soft light behind the app moves a little as you tilt it. On an iPhone, turn it on with Tilt in More, which asks your permission once. Turn it off there any time and it holds still.

Screenshots from an iPhone attach to feedback

Attaching a screenshot to Send feedback on an iPhone showed an error instead of the picture. It works now, the same as everywhere else: the picture is made smaller on your phone first, which also drops a photo's location.

A found payment can be a card's

When Bills spots a charge that repeats every month, like a payment to a credit card or a loan, you can now say which card or loan it pays before adding it. It's added as that card's payment, named for the card, and the Balance planner counts it once instead of also planning the card's minimum.

A tidier Home

This week now sits at the top of the household column on a computer, so the three columns are closer in length. The grocery card shows each item as a row, ongoing chores read as a simple list of names with a Log button, and when nothing is planned this month the Balance planner says so in a line instead of repeating your checking balance.

One Log button for ongoing chores

Dishes, cleaning and the other chores with no finish line now have a single Log button instead of "I did some" and a clock. Tap it and it's logged. To say how long it took, tap Add details on the line that confirms it. Chores with steps to pick, like laundry, open the same short list as before.

Thursday, October 15

Send a screenshot with your feedback

Send feedback now takes up to three pictures: attach a screenshot, paste one, or drag it in. You see each one before it goes, and you can take any back. To keep money out of a screenshot, turn on Hide amounts in your menu first. Pictures are made smaller on your device before they're sent, which also drops a photo's location, and they're deleted after 90 days.

Search What's New, and jump to any month

What's New has a search box: type a word like chores, bills or groceries and only the updates that mention it stay on the page. On a computer, a list of months down the side takes you straight to any of them and shows which one you're reading; on a phone, the months are a row you can swipe. Every month is open now, so nothing has to be unfolded to be found.

Show more than one person, or more than one kind, on the calendar

The calendar's filters now let you pick more than one at a time: you and Isabella, or chores and bills together. Tap Everyone or Everything to see it all again. On a computer, who and what sit side by side on one line. Recent activity's people filter works the same way.

See what's due at a glance

Every bill on Bills now starts with its due date, like a little calendar page: red when it's late, amber when it's due this week, and plain when it's further off. Beside it, the bill says how far off it is in words, like "due in 5 days" or "3 days late".

Getting around a section works the same everywhere

On a phone, the switcher for Transactions, Budget, Bills and Accounts is back at the bottom, right above the tab bar where your thumb is, and part of the bar itself instead of a second bar floating over your list. It now stays on every Money page, including Bills' Month and Planner, Debt & credit and Savings plans. People, Activity and Responsibilities use the same switcher too. Different ways of looking at one page, like Chores' Today, Week and All, stay as tabs under the page's title.

Done shopping keeps the trip

When you're back from the store, tap Done shopping on Groceries. Everything you ticked comes off the list and is saved as that day's trip, with who shopped. Anything you didn't get stays on the list for next time. Past trips sit under the list, so you can see what was bought and when. And when something goes back on the list, it says when it was last bought.

Tuesday, October 13

Tabs that stay put

On a computer, switching between tabs in a section no longer changes how wide the page is. Chores' Today, Week and All are one width, as are Calendar's Month and Agenda, every Money page, and People, Activity and Responsibilities, so the tabs and the page's edges stay where they are.

Show only chores, bills or events on the calendar

Under the names at the top of Calendar there's a new choice: Everything, Chores, Bills or Events. Pick one to see only that, on the month and on Agenda. It works with a person too, so you can see just Crosby's chores. Bills is only there for people who can see the money.

Calendar opens on the month, on phones too

Calendar now opens on the month on a phone, as it already did on a computer. It starts on today, with today's chores, bills and events right under the grid; tap any day to see that day instead. The two-week list is still there under Agenda.

Chores people take turns at

A chore given to several people can now go round: pick “They take turns”, and the order you tick their names in is the order they go in. Each time it's due, it's the next person's: Bella this Monday, Crosby the next, then Betsy, then Bella again. A missed turn stays that person's until they do it, without pushing everyone else back a week. If someone can't make their turn, another of them can tap “I'll take it”, and the order carries on as before.

No longer under 18

Someone marked under 18 can now be taken off it. In People, open Manage on their card, tap “No longer under 18”, and say whether they've turned 18 or were marked by mistake. They can then be made an admin or the owner. What they see of the money stays as it is until you change it.

Who's done what, redrawn

On Chores, Week, the card showing each person's week is clearer: one bar each, a piece for every chore they were given, filled in as they're done. Chores someone did beyond their own, from Up for grabs, show as extra pieces in a lighter green instead of disappearing. Time logged is written under the bar. The arrow in its corner that took you back to Today is gone.

Events end an hour later, unless you say otherwise

When you add an event and pick when it starts, the end fills in an hour later, the way Google Calendar does. Change it or clear it if that's not right. Move the start afterward and the end moves with it, so the event stays the same length. Events over several days are left alone, since their end is on the last day.

A little more room on your phone

Text on a phone is a size smaller, and the rows in “Yours today” on Home are a little shorter, so more of your day fits on the screen without anything getting harder to tap. Nothing changes on a computer.

Monday, October 12

How you found us, counted anonymously

When someone creates a household, Pitch In now asks how they heard about it. It's optional, and the answer is counted anonymously, never saved with their account. The privacy policy says so, so you'll see a short note about the updated version. Still no trackers, pixels or analytics, anywhere.

Refresh from your bank

On Connected, “Refresh from your bank” under the figures on Home, and on Accounts, asks your bank for what's new right then, instead of waiting for its next update. It usually answers within a minute, and the page fills in by itself. Each household gets two a day, up to twenty a month. If your bank updated in the last few minutes, it says so and doesn't use one. Your bank still updates on its own a few times a day, as before.

Your bank balance says when it's from

A connected bank's balance now shows when the bank last sent it, under the figure on Home and beside each account on Accounts: “as of 3:12 PM”, or “as of yesterday”. Your bank sends Pitch In an update a few times a day, so anything you've spent since then is in your bank's own app first and here at the next update.

Chores that happen once a week, any day

A new way for a chore to repeat: “Once a week, any day.” Pick a day to aim for if you like (cleaning the rat cage on Wednesdays), and it's on the list all week until somebody does it, then gone until next week. Done early is done. If the day you aimed for passes, it shows as late. If someone else did it, a parent can tap the name under the tick to say who.

Chores: today's list comes first

On Chores, the day's list is now at the top, and on a computer the ongoing chores (dishes, laundry, cleaning) sit in a column beside it instead of pushing the list down. Each ongoing chore keeps who did what today right under its name, and “I did some” has a clock button beside it for adding how long it took.

Sunday, October 11

Help, with step-by-step guides

There's a Help link beside What's New (on a phone, under More), with short guides for the things households do most: connecting your bank, adding a recurring chore or a bill, the balance planner, inviting everyone and choosing what each person sees, the grocery list, putting Pitch In on your phone, and managing or cancelling Connected. Search them by what you're trying to do.

Delete your account yourself

“Delete my account” is now at the bottom of Your account, instead of an email to us. Before you confirm, it says which households go with you (any you're the only one in, with everything in them) and which stay because others share them. A Connected subscription is cancelled and any bank you connected is disconnected first. The privacy policy says so too, so you'll see a short note about the updated version.

Getting set up is one guided path

From creating your account to a working household is now one run of short steps: your account, your household's name, your plan, your bank, and the people who live there. Choosing Connected goes straight to paying and then straight to your bank, with no hunting through Settings. Protecting your bank with a passkey is one button that uses Face ID, Touch ID or your device's PIN, in place, on Accounts too. You can leave at any step and pick up where you were.

Connected is here: your bank, filling itself in

You can now upgrade to Connected from Settings, then Plan & billing: $10 a month or $100 a year for the whole household, sales tax included. It connects one bank or credit union, so transactions and balances come in by themselves several times a day, and the balance planner starts from your bank's real balance. Everything in Free stays free. It renews until you cancel, and you can cancel from the same page any time.

Friday, October 9

The balance planner is back on Home

Home shows the planner again, trimmed to what's due between now and your next paycheck. Untick a bill to see what holding it would leave, and the new "Lowest before payday" line shows how low checking gets before the check lands. Show all brings back the rest of the month, and the full planner is still under Bills.

One address to write to: hello@pitchin.house

Help, Security and the legal pages now give hello@pitchin.house as the place to write, and replying to any email from Pitch In reaches it too. Before, replies to an invitation or a notice went nowhere.

Updated terms and privacy policy, for paying for Connected

The terms of service and privacy policy now cover paying for Connected: what it costs ($10 a month or $100 a year, sales tax included), that it renews automatically until you cancel, how to cancel from Plan & billing, refunds, and what happens if a payment fails. Stripe, which handles the card, is added to the companies that help run Pitch In. It never shares your card number with us. Pitch In is operated by David Elliott. Free stays free, and nothing changes unless your household chooses to pay.

Overdue bills take one line on the calendar

On the calendar, overdue bills are now one slim line at the top: how many, and how much. Tap Show to see them and mark one paid, or × to hide it until tomorrow. It used to be a full card with every bill in it, which pushed today off the screen on a phone.

Home shows what matters first

The top of Home now answers how things are going at a glance: what's yours today, what's in checking, where the month ends, and any overdue bill, or the next one due. Each is big enough to read across the room and turns red only when something needs you. Tap one to go deal with it. Below that, Yours today comes first, then the household's things, then what's coming out, with overdue bills at the top of the list so there's one place to mark them paid.

The balance planner has its own page

The balance planner moved from Home to Bills, under a new Planner tab beside List and Month. Everything works as before. Home still shows where the month ends, and tapping that number opens the planner. Its bar now turns red only if the month would end below zero.

Getting around is simpler

Home is now the first item in the sidebar on a computer, where you'd look for it. The bottom of the sidebar is quieter: What's New and your name. Tap your name for your account, household settings, Send feedback, and the switches for hiding amounts and light or dark mode. On a phone, Transactions, Budget, Bills and Accounts now sit at the top of each money page, so the bottom of the screen is just the tab bar. Pages also load in the shape they're about to be, so nothing jumps when they arrive.

Each money page leads with its answer

Budget opens with what's left this month, Transactions with how much was left over, Bills with what's still to pay and Accounts with your net worth, each in large type with the other figures smaller beside it. On Budget, your budgets now come right after that, with where the money went and how past months went underneath. On a computer, the Transactions chart sits beside the summary so the list starts higher. The tabs inside a section, like Today, Week and All chores, or Agenda and Month, now look the same everywhere and sit under the page title.

Thursday, October 8

Easier to see what needs you

Green now marks the thing to press, and not much else. A Paid button is filled only once a bill is overdue. Other bills, and I did some on quick chores, have a lighter outlined button, so the one that's late stands out. Ticked boxes, the tab you're on, the filter you've picked and the switches in the menu are gray now instead of green, in both light and dark mode. Nothing moved, and every button does what it did before.

Wednesday, October 7

Quick chores are one tap

For an ongoing chore like taking out the trash, I did some now logs it straight away, with an Undo for a few seconds after. No form to get through for something that took a minute. To say how long it took, tap Add time beside it. Chores with kinds of help to pick, like laundry, work as before.

Home fills a wide screen better

On a wide screen, the balance planner now has a column of its own on Home. Your day and the household's things share the first column, and your balances, bills and budgets sit in the middle, so the page no longer runs long down one side and empty down the other. Each card on Home also shows a set amount now, however much your household has: up to six of your chores, three up for grabs, three of your events and two event lists, each with a link to the rest.

Calendar opens on Month on a computer

On a computer or tablet, Calendar now opens on the month, where there's room to read it. On a phone it still opens on Agenda, the next two weeks as a list. Either way, Agenda and Month are one tap apart at the top.

Home starts with what's yours today

Home now opens with Yours today: your events today and tomorrow, your chores to tick off, and anything up for grabs that nobody has taken yet, with an I'll take it button right there. Under it come the household's things, like event lists, groceries, Horizon votes and a car that's due. If you can see the money, that has its own column: your balances, what's coming out, budgets worth watching and the planner. On a phone they're in that order, one after another. On a computer they sit side by side, three across on a wide screen. A few cards moved to where you'd look for them. Who did what this week is on Chores, under Week. The month's spending chart is on Budget. Recent transactions are on Transactions, and recent activity is under People, then Activity.

Reordering the Horizon works properly now

Dragging a wish to a new place on the Horizon was jumpy: rows could flip back and forth under your finger, and you couldn't drag past the edge of the screen. Now the wish follows your finger and the others slide out of its way. Hold it near the top or bottom of the screen and the page scrolls. You can also move another wish straight away, without waiting for the last move to save.

All chores, grouped and searchable

The All chores tab now groups chores by how often they happen: every day, some days each week, monthly, ongoing, and one-time ones still to do, soonest first. Tap a name above the list to see just that person's chores. Once a household has more than 20 chores, a search box appears too.

Tuesday, October 6

I'll take it: claim a chore

A chore that's up for grabs, or shared among a few people, can now be claimed for one day. Tap ⋯ beside it and choose I'll take it, and everyone sees it's yours. Only you, or whoever runs the household, can tick it off after that. Plans changed? Let it go puts it back up for grabs. It works on today and on days to come, so the week can be shared out ahead.

Chores: Today, Week and All chores

Chores now has three tabs at the top. Today is the day's list. Week shows seven days side by side, with who's doing each chore and an I'll take it button on any that are open to you. All chores is the list of every chore and its schedule, which used to sit at the bottom of the page.

Today's chores lead with what's left

The three boxes counting what's left, done and skipped are gone from the top of Chores. The count is now one small line under Today. Chores you've finished fold into a single Done today line at the bottom of the list. Tap it to see them, untick one, or change who did it.

See one person's calendar

Calendar now has a row of names above it. Tap someone to see only their events and the chores that are theirs, in Agenda or Month, without paging through everyone else's. Tap Everyone to go back.

A roomier month on a big screen

On a wide computer screen, the month now uses the width. Names show in full over two lines instead of being cut short, chores show their time, and each day lists more before "+ more". On a phone it's the same as before.

Tell a ride it's not needed

Pitch In works out an event's rides from what's on the calendar, and you know things it doesn't: they're already there for something else, or a friend's parent is driving. Tap Not needed beside a ride the event offers and it stops offering it. Changed your mind? Offer it again is right underneath.

Rides: who's driving there and back

An event for someone in particular, with a time and a place, now shows the rides it needs: a drop off when it starts and a pick up when it ends. When one thing runs straight into another at the same place, like class and then driving practice, there's no pick up in between, and a drop off and a pick up close together become one trip, like taking one kid down and bringing the other home. Add them to Chores with one tap. Nobody's on them yet, so whoever's driving taps I'll take it.

See who voted on each wish

Each wish on the Horizon now says who wants it and who doesn't, by name, right under it, instead of just a count. Change your vote and your name moves with it.

See what's coming up for someone on their page

Each person's page now lists the events they're going to over the next eight weeks, with the day, the time and where, so you can see all of someone's appointments in one place instead of paging through the calendar. Tap one to open it and get directions.

Events can have a time and a place, with directions

When you add an event, you can now say when it starts and ends and where it is. The time shows on the calendar and on Home, and a day's events are in time order. Open the event and tap Directions to get there in your phone's maps app.

Slimmer alerts at the top of Home, and you can dismiss them

An overdue bill and a heads up are now one slim line each across the top of Home instead of big cards. Pay opens the bill to mark it paid, and × hides it until tomorrow (it comes back if another bill goes overdue). Got it clears someone's heads up from your Home; it stays on the calendar. Give one with Heads up beside the greeting.

Responsibilities: whose job is the mail?

People has a new Responsibilities tab for the parts of the house someone owns: the mail, the cars, school forms, taxes. Say whose each one is, whether two of you do it together, take turns or either of you can, and how it's handled, written down once so nobody has to ask again. Chores can be part of one, and each person's page shows what they're responsible for. Start from the usual ones with a tick.

See Pitch In the way someone else in your household does

Owners and admins can now tap Preview as on someone's card in People and see the household exactly as they do: their chores, and only the money they're allowed to see. It's read only, nothing you tap changes anything, and it ends when you tap Stop previewing or after 30 minutes.

A clearer People page

Everyone in the household now has their own card, side by side on a bigger screen, saying their role and what they see of the money at a glance. Changing someone's role, money access or anything else is under Manage, so the page isn't a wall of controls.

Log a whole run of laundry at once

When you tap I did some, you can now pick more than one kind of help: Started a load, Moved to the dryer and Folded as one entry, with one time for the lot. Whoever puts it away later logs just that.

Ongoing chores, like dishes and laundry

Some chores are never done: every day there are dishes. Set one to Ongoing and it stops sitting on the list as undone. Instead anyone taps I did some whenever they do, and can say how long it took. Give it kinds of help, like Started a load, Moved to the dryer, Folded and Put away, so folding three loads counts as folding. It's on Chores and Home, and This week counts the rounds.

A Could use list for each person

The small things someone could use, like a couple of belts or pants a size up, now have a list on each person's page. Everyone's shows on Groceries, by person, for whoever's at the store. Tick them when they're got, or make one a wish on the Horizon if it's bigger than a store run.

See a budget by car or by person

Set a category to break down by car or by person, like Gas by car or Clothing by person, and its budget line shows where the money went: The Fit $180 · The Caddy $85. Filing a charge there asks which car, or who it was for. A category with no budget yet shows what it usually costs, with a button to set the budget at that.

Give the household a heads up

Taking a car overnight, staying at a friend's, running late? Give everyone a heads up from Home instead of a text thread. Say when it's about and which car you're taking if you are. It sits at the top of Home until it's over, shows on the calendar for those days, and the car shows who has it on Vehicles. Everyone else can tap Got it, so you know they saw it, and gets a notification unless they've switched those off.

See one person's activity, or a few

Activity now has a row of names at the top. Tap one to see just what they've done, tap more to see several people together, and Everyone to see it all again. Each person's page shows what they've done lately, with a link to all of it.

Done chores are easier to read on a phone

Chores you've ticked now sit under Done, one tidy row each: the whole name, wrapping instead of being cut off, the time logged small on the right, and who did it small underneath. Tap the time to log some, or the name underneath to change who did it.

This week's chores, by person, on Home

Home now has This week: for each person, how many of the chores given to them they've done, and the time they've logged, as bars side by side, so you can see who's been carrying the house. It's a count, not a score.

Bills as a month

Bills has a Month view beside the List: the month as a calendar, each day with what's due and what it comes to, paid ones in green and overdue in red, so the heavy days stand out. Tap a day to see its bills.

Vehicles: who drives it, the registration fee, what's next due, and what a car costs

A car can now say who drives it. Its registration fee becomes a yearly bill, so it shows in Bills, the balance planner and the reminders. Maintenance can say when it's next due, by date or mileage, and Home says when one is coming up. And when you open a transaction, Car tags it with one: gas, a repair. Each car then shows what it's cost this year and this month.

Budget is easier to read

Budget now groups its categories: the ones with a budget, the ones with spending but no budget yet, and, folded away, the ones with nothing this month. A category without a budget no longer says it's over one, and the bars turn amber as a budget gets close and red when it's over.

Monday, October 5

Bank connections nobody's using end, with a warning first

If nobody in a household uses Pitch In for 60 days, its owners and admins get an email saying its bank connection will end in 14 days. Signing in is all it takes to keep it. If it does end, every transaction and balance stays, and you can connect again any time. The privacy policy says so too.

Bills: what's ahead, notes, history, and bills found for you

Bills now opens with Going forward: what a month of your bills comes to, the next three and six months, where most of it goes, and a bar for each of the next six months. A bill can carry a note, like how it's billed, shown under it on the list. Its edit sheet has its History: each time it was paid and what it came to. And when a store has charged you about monthly, three times or more, and it isn't a bill yet, Bills offers it: Add as a bill, or Not a bill.

Vehicles

A new Vehicles page with the house: each car, its registration date, whether its loan is paid off, and its maintenance — what was done, when, at what mileage and what it cost. Renewed moves the registration on a year, and Home says when one is due within a month. Everyone sees the cars; the maintenance log, which has costs in it, only whoever sees the household's money. Owners and admins add and change the vehicles.

Net and what they kept, on a person's page

In a month someone had income, their page now shows their net — income less what was spent on them — and what share of their income they kept.

Chore notifications, and a switch for each kind

With notifications on, Pitch In now sends one notification in the morning on days you have chores, listing them with their times, and tells you when someone gives you a chore due today. Owners and admins also hear when a bank needs signing in to again, or when an autopay still hasn't gone through three days after it was due. Your account page lists every notification Pitch In sends, each with its own switch.

A time of day on a chore

When you add or edit a chore, At is a new, optional time, like 4:00 PM to pick someone up from practice. It shows first on the chore, and the day's chores are listed in the order the day runs: on Chores, on Home and on the calendar. Errands like these can be one-time chores, ticked off by whoever does them, with the time they took logged.

Look back on a person's months

A person's page now has month arrows, like Budget: go back to September to see what was spent on them that month, their income, the charges themselves and their time on chores. At the bottom, The last six months shows a bar a month for what was spent on them and for the time they put into chores, so you can see a trend.

File a charge right from the list

On Transactions, a charge with no category now has a category list under it, so you don't have to open it. When Pitch In has a guess, from what you've filed before or the store's name, like McDonald's under your Fast food category, it shows as a button to confirm. Nothing is filed until you tap it or pick another.

A charge can be for more than one person

Under For, when you open a transaction, tick everyone it was for. Each person's page counts their share: $30 of movie tickets for two kids is $15 on each of their pages.

Sunday, October 4

A page for each person

Tap someone's name on Members to see their page: what they like and don't, so the rest of the household knows; their chores and the time they've logged; what they're wishing for on the Horizon; and, for whoever sees the household's money, their paychecks, the bills that are theirs and what's been spent on them this month. Owners and admins can now say who a transaction or a bill was for, under For when you edit it.

How a budget has gone, month by month

Budget now has How it's gone: pick a category and see the last six months, a bar for what was spent and a dashed line for the budget, red where it went over. Underneath, what it averages and how often it went over. If a budget is consistently off, owners and admins get a button to set next month to what it really costs, and it carries on from there.

Take a charge back out of a budget

In a budget's Show transactions list, each charge now has Take out, for one filed there by mistake. It goes back to Uncategorized, and the budget and the balance planner update. For a split charge, only the part under that budget moves.

Fixed: a bill and its budget held back twice

When a budget counted in the balance planner also had a bill filed under it, like an Amy Gas bill under Gas, the planner held back both the bill and what was left of the budget. Now the budget's line leaves out bills in its category that are already in the planner.

See what each budget counted

On Budget, each category now has Show transactions: every charge filed under it that month, newest first. A split charge shows just its part, like $30 of $70, so the list adds up to what the budget says you've spent.

Split a transaction across categories

Open a transaction and tap Split it across categories: $30 of a $70 gas station charge under Gas and $40 under Groceries, say. It saves once the parts add up. Each budget counts only its part, and the transaction stays one line, as your bank has it. A charge can be split once it's posted, since a pending amount can still change, and if your bank changes the amount later, the split is undone so you can do it again.

Rename a category

On Budget, tap a category and then Rename. Everything filed under it, its budgets and its bills keep it under the new name. Delete this category is in the same place. Owners and admins can do both.

Budgets carry over to the next month

A budget used to start blank every month until someone set it again. Now a month you haven't set uses the last budget you did, and Budget says same as last month. Change it and the months after start from the new amount, or tick Just this month, say for more gas during a busy couple of weeks, and next month goes back to what it was. Set it to 0 to stop a budget.

Budgets in the balance planner

For spending that goes out a bit at a time, like groceries and gas, a budget can now count in the balance planner instead of a bill. On Budget, tap a category and tick Count what's left in the balance planner. The planner then holds back what's left of it this month, and that shrinks as charges are filed under it, so the same money is never taken off twice. In Next 30 days it also counts its share of next month.

Charges from stores you've filed before

When a charge comes in from a store you've put under a category before, like Wesco under Gas, Transactions lists it at the top with that category. Check them, change any that are wrong, and tap File these. Nothing is filed until you do.

Turn a wish into a savings plan

On the Horizon, a wish now has make it a savings plan, for whoever in the household sees all of its money. It opens a savings plan already filled in with the wish's name and cost: pick the date and save. The wish stays on the Horizon and says Saving for it, so everyone can see it's happening, without the amounts. When you tap Got it, the plan stops setting money aside in the balance planner. New savings plans now go into the balance planner as soon as you save them; untick Put it in the balance planner if you'd rather not.

Autopay that hasn't gone through yet isn't overdue

Banks often take an autopay a day or two after its due date. When a bill is on autopay from an account connected to your bank, those first three days now say autopay, not through yet instead of overdue, and it stays off the overdue banner. It still counts against your balance in the balance planner. If your bank still hasn't shown the payment after three days, it's marked overdue, because the autopay may have failed.

New bills start paid from checking

When you add a bill, Paid from now starts on your checking account, so marking it paid counts against your balance until your bank shows the payment. You can still pick another account or Not from an account. If some of your bills don't say which account pays them, Bills lists them with one button to set them all to checking, or Leave them if they're paid another way.

Fixed: a paid bill counted twice while pending at the bank

When you marked a bill paid and your bank was still showing the payment as pending, your available balance had already gone down by it, but the balance planner and Home took it off a second time. Now a payment the bank shows as pending says pending at the bank on Bills and stops counting against your balance a second time. Once it posts, it shows as went through.

Saturday, October 3

Fixed: a paid bill counted twice after it went through

A bill marked paid kept showing as not through yet after your bank had already taken the payment, when the bank called it something else, like a mortgage under your lender's name. The balance planner then took it off your balance a second time. Pitch In now also recognizes the payment by its exact amount from the same account. If it still doesn't, open the bill under Paid on Bills, or in the balance planner, tap It went through and pick the payment.

One-time bills

When you add a bill, How often now has Just once, for something you'll pay one time, like a car repair or a tax bill. It's due on the date you pick, and it shows on Bills, in Coming out on Home, on the calendar and in the balance planner like any other bill. Mark it paid and it's done.

Friday, October 2

Bills: one list, with a pencil to change each bill

The Bills page is one list now. Each bill has Paid for this time and a pencil to change the bill itself: its amount, schedule, autopay, pause or delete. Paid and skipped bills fold into their own group, and each one says when it was paid and whether the payment has come through at your bank. Bills with nothing due in the next few weeks, like a yearly one or a paused one, are under Not due soon. The second list of every bill further down is gone.

Bills you've paid count until your bank catches up

When you mark a bill paid from a bank you've connected, it can take a few days to show at your bank, and until then your balance hasn't gone down by it. Now Home's Checking card says how much is paid but not through yet, and what's left after it, and the balance planner keeps counting that bill until the payment arrives. Once your bank sends it, Pitch In matches it to the bill and stops counting it twice. If the bank never shows it, it stops counting after 10 days.

Put away Finish setting up for good

The Finish setting up card on Home now has Don't show again beside Skip for now. Skip for now still hides it until you close the app. Don't show again hides it for good on that phone or computer. Everything it suggests is still in its usual place in the app.

Log time on chores, and see who's putting in how much

Tap Log time on Chores to record how long you spent on a chore today or an earlier day, whether or not it's finished: forty minutes of laundry today and twenty tomorrow both count. After ticking a chore, + time beside it does the same. Owners and admins can log time for anyone. A new Time on chores card shows each person's time for the day, the week and the month, side by side, and Activity says who spent how long on what. It's all optional: a chore ticked without a time is still done.

Steps on a chore, so everyone knows what done means

When you add or edit a chore, you can now list its steps, one a line: wash your clothes, move them to the dryer, fold them, put them away. The chore shows how far along it is, like 2 of 4 steps, and you can tick steps on different days. Ticking the last step finishes the chore. Tapping the chore's circle still finishes it in one go.

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Wednesday, September 30

Autopay bills say so on Home

Bills you've marked autopay now say "autopay" under their name in Coming out, on the calendar and in the overdue list. Their Paid button is quieter, since the bank pays them on its own, but it's still there for the month an autopay fails or you pay by hand.

Sign in with Face ID or Touch ID

Add a passkey under Account, and you can sign in with Face ID, Touch ID or your device's PIN, with no password or code to type. A passkey only works on Pitch In itself, so a fake site can't trick you out of it. Connecting a bank now needs one: if you signed in another way, you'll be asked to confirm with your passkey first. Banks you've already connected keep working, and you can still update or disconnect them as before. Two-step codes still work too. We've updated our privacy policy to say what a passkey stores.

See what everyone's been doing

A new Activity page, under Members, shows what the household has done in the last two weeks: chores finished or skipped, groceries added and got, bills marked paid, events and their lists, wishes on the Horizon, savings plans, and imports. Home has a Latest card with the last few things other people did. Everyone sees the same page, as far as their money access goes, so someone who doesn't see the money won't see bill payments. It never shows when anyone signs in or what they look at.

Enter the next few months' amounts from the bill itself

For a bill whose amount changes, tap it under All bills and the edit sheet now lists its next few months, each with its own amount box. Leave one blank to plan on the estimate. There's no set amount for a bill like this, so the amount box above is now just the estimate to use until there are payments to average. In the list of all bills, it shows next month's amount.

Enter each month's amount for bills that change

When a bill like electricity or gas arrives, tap its amount on Bills or Home and type what it says. That month's bill uses the real number everywhere: Home, the balance planner, the reminder the day before, and the payment form. The usual amount stays for next time. You can also mark a bill as one whose amount changes. Until you enter a month's amount, we plan on the average of its last three payments and show it as "about $118", with a note that the amount isn't in yet.

See your household's plan in Settings

Settings has a new Plan & billing page that shows which plan your household is on. Upgrading to Connected from there is coming soon. When it opens, the household's owner, or whoever pays, will upgrade and manage billing on Stripe's secure pages, and your card details will never come to Pitch In.

Tuesday, September 29

Edit a savings plan

A saved savings plan now has Edit plan: change its name, the amount, the date, what's already set aside, whose paychecks it comes from, or how it's split. It's planned again from today, starting from what should be set aside by now. If it's in the balance planner, the planner follows the change. Each plan also says whether it's split by pay or by hand.

Save a plan, and put it in the balance planner

On Budget's Savings plans, give a plan a name, like Christmas for the kids, and save it. Anyone in your household who sees all of the money can open it again and see the same plan: who sets aside what from each paycheck, every payday, and how much should be set aside by now. Use this plan puts each payday's set-aside into the balance planner as money moving out of checking, and Undo takes all of them out again. Savings plans are part of every plan, free included.

Home's Checking card, easier to read on a phone

Under your checking balance, Home now says only what's still pending, not the bank's current balance as well, which was the two added together. Accounts still shows both. The next money in and out show their date on a line of their own, so it's no longer cut short.

Savings plans: now on Budget, shared by pay

Save toward a date is now Savings plans, and it has moved from the menu to a tab on Budget, beside the monthly budget. When a goal comes from more than one person's paychecks, it's now split by pay: each of you sets aside the same share of what you're paid, so whoever earns more puts in more. It shows what each person sets aside from each paycheck. With two of you, a slider moves the split by hand, and Back to by pay puts it back.

Save toward a date

A new page under Money for Christmas presents, a birthday or a trip: type how much you'll need, the date you need it by and anything already set aside, and choose whose paychecks it comes from. It works out the same amount to set aside from each paycheck until then, lists the paychecks it's counting with a running total, and gives the weekly figure too. It works from the paychecks you've already entered and saves nothing, so try different numbers freely. It's for whoever sees all of the household's money.

Monday, September 28

Your bank's updates arrive without opening the app

When your bank sends Pitch In something new, your transactions and balance now update within moments, even if nobody has the app open. Before, they waited until someone opened it. And pulling down to refresh right after opening the app now gets the fresh balance from your bank, the once a day it's available. Before, it could still show the older one.

See when your balance is from, and a fresher one when you ask

Under Checking on Home, Pitch In now says when your bank gave that balance, like “From your bank at 9:40 AM”. Banks send their balance to Pitch In a few times a day, so a balance from this morning says it's from this morning. When you tap Update now or pull down to refresh, Pitch In asks your bank for the balance right then, once a day for each bank. After that, you see the latest balance your bank has sent, with its time.

Your bank updates itself

With a bank connected, pulling down to refresh on Home, Transactions, Accounts, Bills, Budget, the calendar or the household plan now asks your bank for anything new first. Opening Pitch In, or coming back to it, does the same quietly if it's been more than 15 minutes, and the page updates when something new arrives. While it's checking, a small note at the top says so, then tells you how many new transactions came in, or that you're up to date. You can keep using the app while it works. Update now still works whenever you want it.

Search transactions by amount

Type an amount into the search box on Transactions, like 35.44 or $35.44, and it finds the transactions for that amount, whether the money went out or came in. It narrows as you type: 35. shows everything from $35.00 to $35.99. Words still search the description, category and account.

Pending first, and what the bank is holding

Pending transactions now sit at the top of Transactions, under their own heading, above what's posted. Some banks take a pending charge out of your available balance before they send it as a transaction. When that happens, Transactions shows how much is on hold but not listed yet, and on Home the Checking card shows it as pending, next to your available and current balances, so the numbers add up.

Moving money between your accounts isn't spending

When money leaves one of your accounts and the same amount lands in another of them within a few days, like checking to savings, Pitch In now treats it as a transfer. It stays in your transactions, marked transfer, but it no longer counts as money out on one side and money in on the other, so the month's In and Out show what actually came in and went out. A payment to someone else, like a Zelle to a friend, still counts as money out. Transfers from your bank are found each time it updates.

Show only money in, or only money out

Transactions has a new filter beside the search box: In and out, Money in, Money out, or Transfers.

Try a household plan in the balance planner

On the household plan, type what someone puts in from each paycheck and tap Plan with it in the balance planner. The planner then counts their checks at that amount, marked planned, with what the check usually is beside it, so you can see how checking holds up through the month. Back to the usual amount undoes it. Their paycheck itself doesn't change.

Horizon: drag to reorder, thumbs up and down

The Horizon is now a single table. Owners and admins drag a wish by its handle to change the order, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, and tick a wish when it's got. Everyone votes with a thumb up or down. Tap a wish's name to edit it. Totals sit at the top: about how much the list comes to, how many wishes still need a cost, and how many are crossed off.

Household plan: a paycheck that isn't anyone's yet

A paycheck that isn't assigned to anyone, for example the paycheck of someone who hasn't accepted their invitation yet, is now its own choice in the household plan, named after the paycheck. You can ask what happens if only a fixed amount comes from that check, without waiting for them to join. Once they join, assign the paycheck to them and it shows their name.

Household plan shows everyone's pay

Below the fixed amount, the household plan now lists everyone else's pay: whose it is, where it's from, how often it comes and what it adds up to in a month. When people are paid on different schedules, like every two weeks and twice a month, you can see how each one is counted. The note on a paycheck, like how a varying hourly amount was worked out, now shows beside it.

The Horizon: your household's wish list

Horizon is a new page for what your household is hoping for: a trip, a bike, a new couch. Anyone can add a wish, for themselves, for someone else or for everyone, and everyone can vote Want it or Not for us, kids included. Owners and admins set the order and mark a wish as got. A rough cost can be added by anyone who sees the household's money, and only they see it. When someone adds a wish you haven't voted on, it shows on Home until you do.

Household plan: does a fixed amount per paycheck cover it?

A new page under Money for whoever sees all of the household's money. Choose who puts a fixed amount from each paycheck toward the household and how much, and it shows what that brings in each month, what they keep, what has to be paid every month (bills, debt minimums and the mortgage), and what's left for everything else. Below that, a reality check against what actually left checking in each of the last six months. It works from what you've already entered and saves nothing, so try different numbers freely.

Bills that look paid say so

When your bank shows a payment that looks like one of your bills, with the same name, a similar amount, and near the due date, the bill says “Looks paid” and shows the payment. Tap Yes, paid to mark it paid with that payment, or Not this and it won't be suggested again. Nothing is marked paid until you say so. It shows on Bills, on Home and in the balance planner, where it keeps a payment the bank already took from being counted twice.

Bring in earlier transactions from your bank

A connected bank's transactions start on the day you connected it. Now you can reach further back: in Accounts, under Bank connections, tap Bring in earlier beside an account and choose a start date, up to the beginning of the month two months before you connected. You'll see every transaction before anything is added, next to anything you typed for the same dates, so you can spot doubles.

Sunday, September 27

Typed transactions stay out of your bank's feed

Once a bank is connected, anything you type goes into an account you keep yourself, like Cash, never loose among the bank's transactions. If all your accounts come from the bank, Transactions no longer offers Add or Import, because the bank brings everything in.

Bill names that don't shout

Bills named after a bank's description, like DISNEY PLUS RECURRIN BURBANK CA, now show as Disney Plus Recurrin: normal capitals, without the town and phone number the bank tacks on. The name is only tidied for display. Edit a bill to give it the name you'd use. On Bills, Due soonest now shows the bill's name at a readable size.

A debt can be paid by one of your bills

If a loan or card is paid by a bill you already have on Bills, edit the debt and choose that bill under Paid by a bill. The balance planner then counts the bill and leaves out the debt's minimum payment, so the same payment isn't planned twice. The debt shows which bill pays it.

“Paid” instead of “Pay”

The button beside each bill on Bills, on Home and on the calendar now says Paid, because it records that you paid the bill. Pitch In never pays anything itself. It works just as before: check the amount and the date, and it's recorded.

Debt & credit moved into Accounts

Debt & credit is now a tab at the top of Accounts, beside your accounts, instead of its own item in the menu. Your cards and loans are one tap from the balances they're paid from. Old links still work.

Transactions: the month, day by day

Until you have two months of history, Transactions shows the month day by day instead of six months of mostly empty bars: money in and money out as two lines, with what's left over above them. Drag across it to read any day. Once there's more history, the six-month view returns, starting from your first month.

Balance planner: will checking make it?

Home now has a balance planner beside Checking. It lists everything due out of checking and coming in, for the rest of the month or the next 30 days: bills, minimum payments on your debts, paychecks, and anything you expect once, like a car repair or a refund. Tick what you plan to pay and it shows what checking would be afterwards. Tap an amount to change it, or tap a line to mark it paid, hold off on it, or take it off the planner (you can put it back). Add a paycheck, with how often it comes, from + Add.

Bills: autopay, and a smaller amount that also works

When you add or edit a bill you can now mark it autopay, so the balance planner always counts it. You can also give it a smaller amount that still settles it, like a utility's minimum to keep the service on, and the planner can show you either one. Marking a bill paid when it comes out of an account connected to your bank now just records that it's paid. The bank brings the real transaction, so it isn't counted twice.

Tap Checking to see its transactions

Tapping Checking or Savings on Home opens Accounts with that account highlighted, and its whole history underneath, newest first, loading more as you scroll. The full list on Transactions now has a heading for each month, so you can tell where you are as you scroll.

A back button wherever there's somewhere to go back to

Every screen except Home now has a back button beside its title whenever you got there from another screen, on a computer as well as a phone. It takes you back to where you were.

Home's cards line up

Cards side by side on Home are now the same height, so there are no gaps under the shorter one. When Checking sits beside the balance planner, it uses the room to show the next money coming in and the next going out.

“Skip for now” stays skipped

Skipping the Finish setting up checklist now keeps it out of the way until you close the app or the tab. Before, it could come back as soon as you moved around.

Checking and savings, side by side on Home

Home now shows your checking balance and your savings balance as two separate cards, and credit cards count in neither. For a connected bank, the checking figure is the available balance, the one your bank's app shows, with the current balance beside it when the two differ. Mark each account as checking or savings on Accounts.

Delete a budget category

If you run the household, you can now delete a category from Budget. Tap its line to edit it, then choose Delete this category. Its budgets go with it, and anything filed under it becomes Uncategorized, so no transaction or bill is lost.

See every transaction, not just one month

Transactions has a new Month / All switch. All shows every transaction, newest first, and loads more as you scroll, with a Load more button if you'd rather tap. Search, the filters and Select work on everything loaded, so you can clear out typed transactions from several months at once.

Choose which bank accounts to track

When you connect a bank, every account at that login comes with it. Now, at the bottom of Accounts, you can say what each one is (checking, savings or credit) and switch off any you don't want tracked. A switched-off account leaves your totals and stops bringing in transactions. Switch it back on and its history returns on the next update. The Bank connections card now sits below your accounts.

Saturday, September 26

Your bank's transactions and your typed ones, kept apart

Once a bank is connected, its accounts show only what the bank sends. You can't type into them, but you can still change a transaction's category. Transactions now says where each one came from, and a new filter shows just the ones from your bank or just the ones you typed. To tidy up, tap Select, tick the typed ones (or select them all), and delete them in one go. You'll be asked to type DELETE first. Connected banks also have an Update now button on Transactions, showing when they last updated.

Connect your bank

Households on the Connected plan can now connect a bank or credit union from Accounts. You sign in to your bank on Plaid's secure screen, never ours, and from then on its balances and transactions come in by themselves, starting from the day you connect. Only an owner or admin with two-step sign-in turned on can connect one, and you can disconnect at any time; anything already brought in stays. Our privacy policy and terms have been updated to say exactly what's shared, and you'll see a note about that the next time you open Pitch In.

Bills that come every three months

When you add or edit a bill, you can now choose Every 3 months, then pick which months it falls in, such as January, April, July and October. Handy for insurance and anything else that bills quarterly.

Where the month's money went

Budget now starts with a ranked chart of what you've spent in each category this month, biggest first, with each one's amount and share of the total. Past the top seven, the rest are grouped into a single bar.

Six months of money in and out

Transactions now shows a chart of money in and money out for each of the last six months, side by side, so you can see which way things are heading. Tap or hover over a month to see its totals and what was left over.

See how this month's spending is going

The Balance card on Home now has a chart of this month's spending, climbing day by day, with last month's as a dashed line behind it. You can see at a glance whether you're spending faster or slower than usual. Drag a finger or your mouse along it to compare any day with the same day last month.

Debt & credit

A new page under Money for your mortgage, credit cards, HELOCs, loans and money you owe someone. See what's owed in total, how much credit you have left and how much of it you're using, and your minimum payments each month. Each one shows its balance, rate and minimum, when it'll be paid off at the minimum, and how much sooner if you pay a little more. Log a payment or a charge and the balance updates, with a full history. Only people who can see all of the household's money can see this page.

Trips show as one bar across the month

On a computer or tablet, an event that lasts several days, like a camping trip, now shows in Month as a single bar from its first day to its last, the way other calendars do, instead of repeating in every day. If it runs into the next week, it carries on in the next row. Tap the bar to open the event and its list.

Transaction names that don't shout

Names your bank sends in capitals, like "CELEBRATION CINEMA N GRAND RAPIDS", now show as "Celebration Cinema N Grand Rapids". State codes and reference numbers stay as they are. Each amount now lines up with its name instead of floating between the name and the date. When you edit a transaction, you still see the name exactly as your bank sent it.

A quieter, tidier Home

Home says good morning, afternoon or evening now, in a smaller greeting with today's date under it, so more of what you can act on fits on your phone's first screen. Your balance and this month's money in and out are one card instead of two, with the month's figures in a single row. On a computer, money sits on the left and the house (events, chores, groceries) on the right, with even spacing and no stretched cards. Bank transaction names are a size smaller too, on Home and on Transactions.

Stop or delete any chore from its edit screen

If you run the household, open any chore from All chores on the Chores page, and at the bottom you can now stop it after today or delete it completely. Stopping leaves today's on the list and keeps a record of the days it was done; deleting removes those too, and asks you first. This works even for a chore that isn't due today, so you no longer have to find a day it's on.

A calmer calendar

The calendar's Agenda view is easier on the eyes. Today is still a full card where you can pay bills and tick off chores. The days after it are now one short line each, under Coming up: each day's date as a small calendar tile, then what's on it, such as an event, a bill with its amount, or a chore that doesn't happen every day. A new month gets its own label. Tap a line to open that day in Month.

Jump straight to any month

On Calendar, Budget and Transactions, tap the month's name to see the whole year and pick a month, instead of tapping the arrow once for every month. "Back to this month" brings you home.

Say someone is under 18 after they've joined

If you invited someone without ticking "They're under 18", you can now fix that. On Members, tap Under 18? on their row, accept the terms on their behalf as their parent or guardian, and choose what they'll see of the money. It applies straight away. Anyone under 18 is labeled on the list, and stays a member: they can't be made an admin or the owner.

Events on the calendar, each with its own packing list

Put a camping trip, a birthday party or the first day of school on the calendar with Add event, and give it a list. Some things everyone brings their own, like a toothbrush, and each person ticks their own. Others are shared, like the tent, and whoever packs it ticks it off. Tap a name at the top to see just that person's list. If you run the household, you can tick someone else's for them, which helps when you're packing a little one's bag. Starting a new event? Copy the list from a past one, such as last year's trip. Once an event is a week away, whatever you still have to pack shows up on Home.

Give credit to whoever did the chore

If you run the household, you can now say who actually did a chore that was up for grabs or open to anyone. Tap "by" on a done chore on the Chores page and pick the right person. Handy when someone forgot to tick it off, so you did it for them, or when you ticked it but they did the work. Chores assigned to one person already give them the credit when you tick them.

No more black screen when the app opens

If you've added Pitch In to your iPhone or iPad Home Screen, it now opens on the Pitch In mark, matching your phone's light or dark setting, instead of a blank black screen while it starts. The mark breathes gently until everything's ready. On a computer, the little loading ring now sits in the middle of the page instead of off to one side.

A calendar for the household

Calendar is its own tab now, between Chores and Money. It opens on the next two weeks, day by day: what's due, what's on, and anything missed at the top. Pay a bill or tick off a chore right there. Chores that happen every day are folded into one line, so the days that are different stand out. Tap Month for the whole month at a glance, and tap any day to see it. Groceries has moved to More, and it's still on Home whenever there's something on the list. Anyone who can't see the household's money gets the calendar too, with chores only.

Pay bills and tick off chores right from Home

Home now does more than show you things. A missed bill gets a banner at the top with a Pay button beside it, and every bill under Coming out has one too. Tap it, check the amount and the date, and it's recorded, with no trip to Bills. Today's chores have circles to tick, the same as on the Chores page, with yours listed first. "After upcoming" now counts every bill due in the next two weeks, not just the first few.

Thursday, September 24

Flipping between days and months answers straight away

On Chores, Budget and Transactions, tapping the arrows now changes the date or month the moment you tap. What's underneath gently pulses while the new one loads, then slides in from the side you tapped. You can tap ahead several days without waiting for each one.

Easier to see which page you're on in Money

On a phone, the Transactions · Budget · Bills · Accounts switcher now marks the page you're on in green, like the Add button, so it stands out at a glance.

Meal ideas go straight on the grocery list

There's no longer a separate switch for meal requests. A meal you'd like goes on the list like anything else — just type it in, and your name shows beside it so whoever does the shop knows who asked. The box to add things is a line shorter too. And ticking something off now works like a chore: the circle fills, the item fades, then it drops to Got it — so you can see it took before it moves.

Chores show they're working on it

When you skip a chore, remove one, or take back a tick, its row now gently pulses until the change has gone through, instead of sitting still for a moment as if nothing happened.

Cards that stand out from the page

The page behind your cards is a shade darker in light mode, and the cards are a shade lighter in dark mode, so each section stands clearly on its own. Lighter gray text is a touch darker to match, so it stays easy to read.

Edit a chore right from the day, and ticks that get out of the way

Owners and admins now see a pencil beside each chore on the day's list. Tap it to change the chore's name, its days or who does it, all in one place. The small "Anyone" menu under each chore is gone; who a chore is for is still shown beside its name. And a chore you tick now fills in, fades away and drops to the done list, so the next one moves up under your finger.

Change a chore after you've added it

Chores now has an All chores list under the day, showing every chore, how often it repeats and who it's for. Owners and admins can tap one to change its name, its days, its start or end, or who does it, using the same form you added it with. Changes apply from today, so what was done before stays on the record. Move a one-off to a new day and it leaves the list it was waiting on and turns up on that day.

Wednesday, September 23

Add several groceries at once

Type or paste a whole list into Groceries — one per line, separated by commas, or straight from a spreadsheet — and each becomes its own item. A list copied from your notes or a recipe comes in clean, without its dashes, bullets or numbers, and the button tells you how many it's about to add. On a computer, Shift+Enter starts a new line.

A sign of life while pages load, and no accidental sign-outs

When you move to another page, a thin green line now glides along the top of the tabs on your phone until the page has arrived, and a small spinner turns over the page's outline while it loads. And Sign out has moved: it sat at the bottom right of More, right where your thumb lands to open it, so a quick double tap could sign you out. It's now under your name on the left, and asks for a second tap. Tap your name to go to your account.

A little light behind the app

The background behind your household's pages now has the same soft green glow, faint dots and fine texture as our front page, falling from the top right corner. It's quiet on purpose, in light and dark mode alike.

Members has room to breathe

Each person on Members now has more space around them, and what they can see of the money sits in its own panel under their name, so it's clear whose setting it is. On a phone, the choices stack neatly instead of squeezing into one row.

A new calendar for picking a day on Chores

Tap the date on Chores and a calendar opens right under it: today is marked, the day you're looking at is filled in, and days out of range are dimmed. Use the arrows beside the month to move between months, or the arrow keys on a keyboard. Back to today is one tap at the bottom.

New tabs on your phone: Home, Chores, Groceries, Money

The bar at the bottom of your phone now has Groceries, and one Money tab in place of Transactions and Budget. Money opens on whichever money page you used last, and Transactions, Budget, Bills and Accounts are one tap apart, just above the tabs where your thumb already is. In More, Hide amounts and Light or Dark mode are buttons now, and you'll find yourself, your household and Sign out at the bottom. On a computer, the sidebar hasn't changed.

Every page opens at the top

In the installed app, moving to another page could leave you partway down it, with the title hidden under the top of the screen. Pages now always open at the top. Going back still returns you to where you were.

Swipe left to delete

On your phone, swipe a transaction, a grocery item or a one-off chore to the left to uncover Delete, then tap it. On Members, the same swipe uncovers Remove, which asks first what removing someone means. Tapping the × still works everywhere: instead of a question popping up over the list, a Delete button now slides in beside it, and tapping the × again keeps the item. Past imports can be undone the same way. The Add buttons at the top of each page are shorter on a phone, too.

Import transactions from your bank's CSV

If your bank lets you download your transactions as a CSV file, you can now bring them in instead of typing them. On Transactions, tap Import, pick the account and the file, and check the preview: Pitch In works out which column is which, and you can correct it. Anything you've already imported is skipped. A row that looks like a transaction you typed yourself — same amount, a few days later — is matched to yours instead of added twice, keeping your description and category; when the names don't agree either, you choose. Card files that list purchases as positive numbers can be flipped. If the file shows a running balance, an owner or admin can set the account to what the bank says it holds. The file itself stays on your device. Changed your mind? Undo the whole import from the same page. It's free, like typing.

Faster pages, and smoother moves between them

Pitch In now runs right next to where your household's information is stored, and asks for less each time a page opens, so pages should load noticeably quicker. Moving from one page to another also eases in now instead of snapping. If you've turned on Reduce Motion on your device, pages still appear straight away.

Look back and ahead on Chores

Chores is no longer just today. Use the arrows to go a day back or forward, or tap the date to pick any day from the last year or the year ahead. You can still tick off a past day's chores — for when you took out the trash yesterday and forgot to say so. Days still to come show what's on them, and you can skip one ahead of time if you'll be away, but they can't be ticked until the day.

Invite a nanny or sitter as a helper

When you invite someone, you can now choose Helper — for a nanny, a sitter, or anyone who helps run the house without being family. They get their own sign-in, see the chores and the rest of the house, and never see any money, from the moment they join. The members list shows them as a helper. If that changes later, you can adjust what they see like anyone else's.

A grocery list everyone can add to

There's now a Groceries page under House. Anyone in the household can add something that's run out, or ask for a meal they'd like this week — meal requests sit at the top so whoever plans the shop sees them first. Tick things off as you shop, and clear them when you're home. While anything is on the list it also shows on Home, with a box to add to it from there.

Remove a chore for a day, from now on, or completely

When an owner or admin removes a repeating chore, they can now choose: just today, today and every day after (days already done are kept), or the whole chore and its history. Deleting the whole chore asks one more time first.

One-off chores wait until they're done

A "Just once" chore nobody got to no longer disappears at midnight. It stays on the list, marked "from yesterday" or "from Monday", until someone ticks it off, skips it or removes it.

Know when a new chore starts

Add a chore that doesn't start today, like one every Thursday, and Pitch In now tells you when it's first due instead of closing onto a list it isn't on yet.

"Today" means your today, evenings included

In the evening, Pitch In could jump ahead to tomorrow: the chores list showed tomorrow's chores, and a chore added for tonight didn't appear. Today now follows where you are, and if you leave the app open overnight it moves to the new day when you come back to it.

Set up two-step without scanning a code

If you can't scan the QR code when turning on two-step verification, tap "Can't scan it?" to see the key on its own, spaced out for easy typing, with a button to copy it into your authenticator app.

Chores everyone does, and chores that are yours to tick off

When you give a chore to two or more people, you can now choose "Each person does it": everyone gets their own to tick off every day, so two kids each owe a high five instead of the first one finishing it for both. "Up for grabs" is still there for chores where whoever gets to it first is fine, and chores you already have stay that way. Chores are also now ticked off by the person they're for (or anyone, if they're for anyone). Only they or a household admin can tick theirs or un-tick it, and when an admin ticks someone's chore, it counts for the person it was for.

Tuesday, September 22

Two-step sign-in now covers Google sign-in too

If you've turned on two-step verification, Pitch In now asks for your code whether you sign in with your password or with Google. Before, signing in with Google skipped the code. If you ticked "Trust this device" after entering a code, that device still won't ask again for 30 days, either way you sign in.

Light or dark follows you across open tabs

If you have Pitch In open in more than one tab and change your light or dark setting, the other tabs now switch too, straight away, instead of waiting until you reload them.

A record of sign-ins, to protect your account — and an updated privacy policy

We now note each time someone signs in to your account, or tries to and is refused, and how: with a password, Google or a two-step code. We also note when a password or two-step sign-in changes. It's there so that if something happens you didn't do, it can be spotted and you can ask us. No IP address, device, browser or location is kept with it, and sign-ins are deleted after 90 days. We've also stopped keeping IP addresses with your signed-in sessions. The privacy policy says all of this, so you'll see a note asking you to take a look.

Ask to join with one tap, and a hint for Google sign-ins

Anyone waiting for an invitation can now ask with their Google account instead of typing, and the form itself is down to just an email. If you signed up with Google and try a password on the sign-in page, it now reminds you to use Continue with Google, or to set a password with "Forgot your password?".

A dot when there's something new

What's New now shows a small green dot when there's an update or an announcement you haven't read. On a phone it's on More as well. Opening What's New clears it. The current announcement is also pinned at the top of What's New, so you can read it again after closing it, and closing it on one device closes it on all of them.

Tick off chores with a circle

Each chore on today's list now has a circle beside it. Tap the chore and the circle fills in and the chore is crossed off, straight away. Changed your mind? Tap the filled circle to un-tick it.

Changing a budget is easier to find

On the Budget page, each amount has a pencil beside it. Tap it and the amount turns into a box right where it was — type the new figure and press Save, or Cancel to leave it. A category with no budget yet says "Set budget" instead of $0.00.

Easier-to-read summaries, and overdue warnings that suit dark mode

On a computer, the labels and icons over each page's summary figures are a size larger. In dark mode, the red warnings — money going out, an overdue bill — were showing as a pale pink box on the dark page; they're now a dark red that matches everything around them.

Page labels are one quiet color

The small MONEY and HOUSE label above each page's title is now the same soft gray everywhere, instead of blue on the money pages and violet on chores. The words still tell you where you are.

Change, pause or delete a bill

Bills now has an All bills list at the bottom. Tap one to change its name, amount, account, category or when it's due. A change to when it's due applies from today, so it never turns into a missed payment you didn't owe. Pause a bill to stop new due dates until you resume it. Delete one you no longer have, and the payments you've already recorded stay in your transactions.

Rename an account, or set its balance to what your bank says

Owners and admins can tap an account to rename it, change what kind it is, or correct its balance. Setting the balance leaves every transaction you've recorded as it was — no more made-up transaction to make the numbers match. Archiving an account has moved in there too.

Dashboard is now called Home

The first page of your household — the one that says welcome back and what's next — is called Home in the menu and in the bar at the bottom of your phone. Nothing on it has moved.

Fix a transaction instead of re-entering it

Tap any transaction to change it — the amount, the date, the account, the category, or what it was. Account balances follow the change, so moving a purchase from one account to another, or correcting what you paid, keeps every balance right. Before, the only fix was to delete it and type it in again.

Deleting a transaction asks first

Deleting a transaction, or taking a chore off today's list, used to happen on the first tap — easy to do by accident on a phone. Both are now a small × that asks before anything goes. On a phone, pages you reach from More have a round back button beside the title, and the figures at the top of each page take up less room.

Money and the house are easier to tell apart

The side menu now groups its pages under Money and House, with icons, and each part has its own quiet color: blue for the money pages, violet for chores. The same color sits above each page's title and on the icons in the bar at the bottom of your phone, so you can see where you are at a glance. The page you're on is still green.

Monday, September 21

Pull down to refresh

In Pitch In on your Home Screen, pull down from the top of any page to bring it up to date. Before, the only way to see something new was to close the app and open it again.

Tapping a notification opens the page it's about

On an iPhone, tapping a notification while Pitch In was in the background could open the app on whatever page you had left it on, instead of the one the notification was about. It now goes to the right page.

Say who a chore is for

When you add a chore you can pick who it's for: one person, several, or nobody, which means anyone in the household. Pick two people for a job they share, like the rat cage three times a week, and either can do it. Whoever marks it done gets the credit, and the list now says who did it. Owners and admins can change who a chore is for from today's list.

“Bring the household in” ticks off when you invite someone

The last setup step on the dashboard waited for the person you invited to join before it ticked itself off, so it looked like inviting hadn't worked. It now counts as done as soon as you send an invitation or make a join link.

Chores that happen once, every two weeks, or every month

When you add a chore you can now choose Just once, for a one-off task like renewing a registration, as well as every two weeks on the days you pick, or every month on the same date. Repeating chores can also have an end date, so something that only matters for the summer stops on its own.

Tell us what you think, from inside the app

There's a new Send feedback page in the menu. Write what's broken, confusing, missing or good, and it goes straight to the person building Pitch In, with your name and email so it can be answered. You can send up to five a day.

American spelling throughout

Words like “Uncategorised” and “colour” are now “Uncategorized” and “color”, and the examples speak American too: take out the trash, vacuum upstairs, a checking account.

Choose light, dark, or match your device

Your account page has a new Appearance setting: System, Light or Dark. System follows your phone or computer, including when it switches to dark at night. The Dark mode and Light mode switch in the menu still changes it for the moment, and Pitch In goes back to your setting the next time you open it. If you had used that switch before, your last choice is already saved as your setting.

Removing someone now asks first

Pressing Remove next to someone on the Members page used to take them out of the household right away. Now it asks you to confirm, and says what removing them does, before anything changes. Canceling an invitation and stopping a join link ask first too. Making someone else the owner no longer asks you to type their name, just to confirm.

Your household's name at the top of your phone

On a phone, the dashboard now opens with the small Pitch In icon and your household's name, instead of the full logo, and the month that sat beside your greeting is gone (it's still on the This month card). If you belong to more than one household, tap its name to switch to another one.

The top bar stays with you as you scroll

On the website and the sign-in screens, the bar with the logo and the Sign in button now stays at the top of the screen as you scroll, instead of scrolling away, so the way in is always one tap from wherever you are.

A smoother logo, and an app icon that says In

The Pitch In logo has softer, more even corners, and the small rough spots in a few of its letters are gone. The app icon is new too: the arrow from the logo arriving at “In”. You’ll see it in your browser tab, on shared links, and on your Home Screen. If your Home Screen still shows the old icon, remove Pitch In and add it again; phones hold on to app icons for a while.

New sign-in screens

Signing in, creating an account, asking for an invitation, resetting a password, two-step verification and accepting an invitation all have a new look: the form on one side, with nothing else competing for your attention, and Pitch In’s green on the other. Each has a Light mode / Dark mode switch at the bottom, and they all open in the same theme, so moving from one to the next no longer flips between light and dark.

Tabs answer the moment you tap them

Tapping a tab at the bottom of the screen used to do nothing visible until the page had finished loading, which could feel like the tap hadn’t registered. Now the tab lights up and darkens under your thumb right away, and the new page appears at once in outline while your numbers fill in. The same goes for the sidebar on a computer.

The website is dark by default, with a switch at the bottom

Pitch In’s public pages — the home page, pricing, the demo and the sign-in screens — now start in dark mode unless you’ve chosen otherwise, and there’s a Light mode / Dark mode switch at the bottom of each. Whatever you pick is remembered, inside the app too. The app itself still follows your phone or computer until you choose.

A welcome email with the way onto your phone

When someone sets up or joins their first household, they now get a short welcome email with one button: put Pitch In on your phone. Open it on the phone and it shows the two or three taps that phone needs. Joining a second household later doesn’t send another.

Notifications for the things you'd want to know

With notifications on, you now get a nudge the day before a bill is due — one a day at most, however many bills — if you can see the household’s money. Owners and admins also hear when someone joins the household. Tap one and it opens the right page. Nobody on “No money” is ever told about a bill.

Getting Pitch In onto your phone

Pitch In lives on your Home Screen — there’s no app store version, and on an iPhone that’s also the only way it can send you notifications. On a phone, your dashboard now shows exactly the taps it takes on your phone: one Install button on Android, three pictured steps on an iPhone. Once it’s installed, turning notifications on is one tap, right there. The same steps are at pitchin.house/install to share with anyone in your household.

Budgets are set by an owner or admin

How much each category is budgeted for is now changed by an owner or admin of the household. Everyone who records spending still sees the budget, can add a category while recording something, and watches the numbers move — but the plan itself belongs to the people running the household, so it doesn’t change under anyone’s feet.

Adding something is quicker, and you can make a category as you go

Adding a transaction, bill, account, category or chore now closes the panel when you save, so you see it land in your list — or press “Save and add another” to keep going. Recording a transaction, pick “+ New category…” at the bottom of the list to file it under a category you don’t have yet; if one with that name already exists, it goes there instead of making a second. Money in and money out is now a clear two-way switch, and the small gray writing across the app is darker and easier to read. On a phone, every page that isn’t one of the four tabs now has a Back button at the top.

Show someone Pitch In without inviting them

There’s now a sample household anyone can try at pitchin.house/demo — no account, and nothing they do is saved. They can tick off a chore, record something they spent and watch the budget move, and switch to seeing it as the family’s 16-year-old, for whom the money isn’t there at all. If someone asks you what this is, that’s the link to send.

Choose how much of the money each person sees

On Members, an owner or admin can now set each person to see Everything, Only what’s shared, or No money. “Only what’s shared” starts from nothing and shows just the accounts you pick — including leaving out any account added later, until you share it. “No money” is chores and people only: the money pages disappear for them entirely. Inviting someone under 18, you can now accept the terms for them as their parent or guardian and choose what they’ll see before they arrive, so they never see more than you meant them to.

A green app icon

Pitch In’s icon — in your browser tab, and on your Home Screen if you’ve added it there — is now our green, with the mark in a single color. If your Home Screen still shows the old one, remove it and add Pitch In again; phones hold on to app icons for a while.

Less scrolling to reach your lists

Transactions, Budget, Bills, Accounts and Chores each opened with three big separate cards for their totals — on a phone that was most of the first screen before you reached anything you’d recorded. The totals now sit together in one card: a short list on a phone, three columns on a computer. The month switcher is one control with the arrows at either end, and the count under each page’s title no longer wraps halfway through.

Members is easier to use on a phone

Pending invitations squeezed the email address down to a single letter on a phone, so you couldn’t tell who each one was for. The address now gets its own line with the buttons underneath. Making a share link has a label over each choice instead of a sentence that fell apart when it wrapped, the invite form keeps each label next to its own box, and roles like “owner” sit beside the person’s name instead of on a line by themselves.

A new household’s dashboard is never blank

In a household with nothing in it yet, “Skip for now” on the welcome card hid the only thing on the page and left an empty screen — and it stayed empty every time you came back. The welcome card no longer offers to skip itself, and if you’d already skipped it, it’s back. Once there’s something in your household, the smaller “Finish setting up” card still has Skip for now.

Getting around on a phone is one tap

On a phone, the menu used to hide behind a button in the top corner — the hardest place to reach with the hand holding it. Now Dashboard, Transactions, Budget and Chores sit in a bar along the bottom of the screen, always there, right where your thumb is. Everything else — Bills, Accounts, Members, What’s New, your household’s settings and your own account — is under More, in the same bar. The logo bar across the top of every screen is gone too, so each page starts with what it’s about, and you get more of it on screen. On a computer nothing has changed.

Adding things slides in from the side

Accounts, Transactions, Budget, Bills and Chores each had their add form sitting permanently beside the list — and on a phone it sat underneath, after scrolling past everything. Now there’s an Add button at the top of each page that slides the form in from the right. On a phone it fills the screen and the button to save stays at the bottom however long the form is; on a bigger screen your list stays visible beside it, and the panel stays open after you add something so you can add the next one right away.

Choose how you appear

Under Your account there’s now “How you appear”: pick one of twelve marks — a sun, a wave, a mountain and the rest — and that’s what everyone in your household sees next to your name, instead of your initials. It’s the same across every household you’re in, and you can go back to your initials whenever you like. We deliberately don’t take photo uploads: some of the people in these households are teenagers, and a picked mark doesn’t hold anybody’s face or where they live.

Easier to find yourself in the members list

Everyone in your household now has a circle with their initials, and your own row is marked — a hairline and a faint tint, so you can see which one is you instead of reading for it. Nothing about who can see what has changed.

Notices from us now follow you around the app

A message from us — like “Pitch In is still being built” — only appeared on the dashboard, so if you opened Bills and stayed there you never saw it. It now sits at the top of every screen in your household. It also has a level now: green for something worth knowing, amber for something that affects you, red for something actually wrong. The level is written out as well as colored, so it doesn’t depend on telling green from red.

The logo got a little friendlier

Same mark, softer corners — and the arrow in the middle of “Pitch” is now the same color as the letters around it instead of green. Color still lands on “In”, which is the part that means everyone taking part. You’ll see it in your browser tab, on your Home Screen if you’ve added us there, and anywhere we show up in a link.

The price on the pricing page is the price

Our paid plan was shown as “$8.33 a month” — what it works out to if you pay for a year up front — with the real monthly price underneath. That’s how the rest of the industry quotes it and it still wasn’t straight with you. It now says $10 a month, which is what you’d be charged on the day you signed up, and the yearly option ($100, two months free) is stated once at the top where you can find it.

Setting up a household is one question now

Creating a household asked for a name and an invitation code, even when the code was already in the link that brought you there — a box with the right answer already in it, in the way of the only button on the screen. The code is now just shown back to you, with a way to change it if it’s wrong. We also suggest a name based on yours, so for most people it’s one tap. You can rename it whenever you like.

You can put the setup checklist away

The “Finish setting up” card on your dashboard now has a “Skip for now”. If you’re never going to set a budget, you shouldn’t be told to every time you open the app. It stays hidden in that browser; it still disappears by itself once the steps are done.

A better page when a link goes nowhere

A mistyped or out-of-date address used to land on a bare browser error with no way back. There’s a proper page there now, with a way home. Opening a household you’re not a member of gets its own page too, which explains what to do about it.

Tidy up an account you didn’t mean to add

Accounts could be added and never removed, so a mis-typed one stayed on your list forever, counted into your net worth, and turned up on every member’s visibility settings. Owners and admins can now archive an account: hover a row under Accounts and choose Archive. It drops out of your lists and totals right away, and the transactions and bills that ran through it are kept exactly as they were — archiving hides the account, it doesn’t erase what really happened. The name becomes free to use again afterwards.

One press, one thing added

Pressing Add twice — or leaning on the button while the page thought about it — could add the same account, bill, chore or transaction several times over, and sending an invitation twice sent two emails to the same person. Every Add and Send button now goes quiet while it’s working and tells you what it’s doing, and the form empties itself once it’s done so there’s nothing left sitting there inviting another press. Adding an account with a name you’re already using now says so instead of quietly making a second one.

Sunday, September 20

Send a pending invitation again

Under Members, every invitation you're still waiting on now has an “Email again” button next to it. It sends the same invitation to the same address — the link doesn't change, so anyone still holding the first email can use either. Handy when the first one went to spam or got buried. You can send it again every few minutes rather than on demand, so nobody's inbox can be hammered by accident; Share is still there if you need it to reach them right now.

A dashboard that tells you what to do next

If your household is still finding its feet, the dashboard now opens with the handful of things left to set up — add an account, record something you spent, set a budget, bring everyone in — and ticks them off as you go. It disappears once they're done. Before this, adding a single chore was enough to swap the welcome screen for a page of zeroes with nothing to click, which was a poor way to meet a product.

We have a name: Pitch In

Until now this has worn a working title. It's called Pitch In from today — because that's what it's for: everyone who lives in your household pitching in, on the chores and on the bills. You'll see the new name and logo everywhere, including the icon on your phone if you've added us to your Home Screen. Nothing about your household, your numbers or who can see what has changed. Because our terms and privacy policy mention the product by name, they've been reissued under the new one, and you'll be asked to accept them again the next time you sign in — the wording is otherwise the same.

Notifications, on your phone

You can now get a nudge when something happens — turn it on under your account. It's per device rather than per account, so switching it on here says nothing about your phone. On an iPhone or iPad you'll need to add Pitch In to your Home Screen first; that's an Apple rule rather than ours, and the page says so rather than leaving a button that quietly fails. We'll mention it once on your dashboard when there's a second person in your household, because that's the first point notifications have anything to be about — and “not now” means not now.

Notices from us, and your account keeps the sidebar

Your dashboard can now carry a message from us — what's being worked on, what to expect, what's changed. You can put most of them away, and they come back if we change what they say. Separately: opening your account used to strip the whole sidebar away, which made it feel like you'd left the app rather than opened a page in it. It keeps the frame now, and says plainly that your account is you rather than one household.

Notifications when someone joins a household

Creating a household sent a push; joining one that already existed sent nothing, so a second or third person arriving was invisible — which is the half that matters more, because a household growing is the sign the product is being used rather than just signed up for. That now notifies, by invitation or share link, and so does somebody creating an account before they've done anything with it. There's a list under Notifications on the console overview for choosing which of the five kinds you want. Anything you haven't touched stays on.

Being removed, or made an admin, now tells you

Joining a household sent an email and everything after it was silent — which was the wrong way round, because losing access is the more notable half. If someone removes you from a household you're now told, and told who did it, rather than opening Pitch In to find it missing and wondering what broke. Its owner and admins are told too. Being made an admin, or having it taken away, now sends you a note saying what that actually changes, and handing a household over tells both people where they stand. Removals and role changes also show up in the household's activity now, which they didn't before.

You'll be told when the terms change

The privacy policy always said we'd tell you when it changed in substance, and nothing actually did — the version you agreed to was recorded at signup and then only shown back on your account page. Now a change puts a notice at the top of Pitch In with links to both documents, and it stays until you've said you've seen it. Two corrections while we were in there: the policy said there was one cookie, and since two-step verification arrived there are two — the second is what remembers a device you trust for 60 days. And the policy now says we tell you in the product rather than by email, because that's what happens: an email can sit in a spam folder unread, and a notice on the page is one you actually get.

Somewhere to send someone who's joining your household

The front page only ever offered one thing: ask us for an invitation. That's the wrong errand for someone joining a household you already set up — and it doesn't work, because only you can add them, not us. There's now a page at /join that says so, and tells them the two things that do work: open the link you sent, or sign in with the address you invited. Send them there if they get stuck.

Signing up is the same two steps either way

Setting up used to work differently depending on which button you pressed. With Google you made an account and named your household on the next screen; with an email and password you did both at once on a form of five fields — so the page had to carry a paragraph explaining which button led where. Now it's an account first, your household second, whichever way you came, and each screen says where you are. If you signed in with Google to ask for an invitation, the link in the email no longer asks you to make a second account — it takes you straight to naming your household.

Teenagers can be in a household

The terms used to say you had to be 18 to hold an account at all, which ruled out exactly the people a household tool is for. They now say what was meant: you must be 18 to create a household, and a parent or guardian can invite someone aged 13 to 17 into theirs, accepting the terms on their behalf. Pitch In still isn't for under-13s — a household can record chores against a younger child without giving them a login. The privacy policy says the same, and because this changes what you agreed to, it's recorded as a new version.

Forms tell you what's actually wrong

When a form wouldn't accept something, it used to say an error had occurred — which reads as the site being broken rather than as the thing you typed needing another look. Now it says what it is: that the amount isn't a number it can read, that a bill needs a name, that what you typed didn't match. Adding a weekly chore without picking any days used to replace the whole page with an error; it now just asks you to pick a day.

You're told when someone joins

Whoever owns or helps run a household now gets an email the moment somebody joins it, saying who it was and whether they used a share link or an invitation. A share link can sit in a message thread for a week, so this is how you find out it was used — and how you find out if it was used by someone you didn't mean to send it to.

Belong to more than one household

If you're in two households — your own and a parent's, say — there's now a switcher at the bottom of the sidebar, and it keeps you on the same screen when you move. And if an invitation was sent to a different address than the one you're signed in with, the page now says which, instead of listing three things that might have gone wrong.

Two-step verification

Your account can now ask for a code from your phone as well as your password, which makes a stolen password useless on its own. Turn it on under your account — you'll scan a QR code with an authenticator app and get backup codes for the day you replace your phone. Devices you trust won't be asked again for 60 days.

Choose what each person can see

Under Members, an owner or admin can now set what each member sees of each account: everything, spending only (what was spent, never the balance), or hidden entirely. Everyone still sees everything unless you decide otherwise — this is here for the cases where that isn't right, like a teenager who should tick off chores without reading the mortgage. Hidden accounts drop out of totals and budgets too, not just lists.

Budget and Accounts tell you the headline first

Budget opens with what you planned, what's gone and what's left, and says up front if any category has gone over rather than leaving you to find it. Accounts separates what you hold from what you owe, because one net figure hides the difference between a household with savings and one with a card to clear. Both use the width of the screen now.

Overdue bills say so first

Anything overdue now leads the Bills page in red, with what it adds up to — rather than being something you find by reading down a list. Above the list: what's still to pay, what's been settled, and what's due soonest. The form for adding a bill sits beside the list on a wide screen.

Search and filter a month of transactions

A search box and a category filter above the list, answering as you type. The page also uses the width it has now: the form for adding something sits beside the list on a wide screen instead of below a month of rows, and the month's in, out and net are three cards at the top.

Rename your household

Settings, at the bottom of the sidebar, now lets an owner or admin change the household's name, currency and language. Renaming doesn't break any links you've shared.

Invitations you can send yourself

Inviting someone to your household said “Invitation sent” whether or not the email actually went — and while we're on a shared sending address, most don't. You now get the invitation link on screen every time, to send however you like. When email is working it says so instead.

Settings, at last

Your household's name, currency and language were fixed when it was created and couldn't be changed by anyone — so a household set up in the wrong currency had every amount in it rendered wrong forever. Settings in the sidebar fixes all three, and shows you what an amount will look like before you save. Your own name and password now have a home too: click your name at the bottom of the sidebar.

Signing in with Google needs an invitation too

Creating an account with a password has always needed an invitation; doing it with Google didn't, which meant anyone who found the page could end up with an account they couldn't use. Both doors now ask for the same thing. If you were invited — by us or by a household — nothing changes.

One place for letting people in

Requests and invitations were two lists describing the same thing — who asked, and what you gave them. They're one list now. Every row carries what it can do: grant, withdraw, undo a decline, issue a fresh code when the old one expired, or delete the record. Inviting someone who never asked files the request for them, so there's still only one way in.

A way in when you don't have an invitation yet

Signing in without an invitation used to land you on a form asking for a code, with nowhere to get one. Now it tells you where you stand and lets you ask, in one click — we already have your email. If you've been granted an invitation, the code is on that screen rather than waiting in an inbox, and if the one you were given has been used or withdrawn you can ask again instead of being stuck holding it.

One address for Pitch In

The website and the app are now the same place. Signing out takes you to the front page rather than back to the sign-in form, and every page you can reach without an account — sign in, set up your household, ask for an invitation — has the Pitch In name at the top to get you back out.

Readable warnings in dark mode

Confirmation and warning panels had dark text on a dark background in dark mode — technically there, practically unreadable. Every accent color now has a proper dark-mode equivalent.

Owners, admins and members

You can now change someone's role after inviting them, and remove people who've left. An admin manages the household day to day; the owner is the one person who can delete it or hand it to someone else. Making someone else the owner keeps you as an admin, so you lose nothing but the ability to delete it. The owner can't be removed without transferring first, so a household always has someone in charge of it.

Bills that remind you before payday

Set up what goes out regularly — rent, subscriptions, the electric bill — monthly, every two weeks, weekly or yearly. Bills shows what's due, what's overdue at the top, and what it all adds to. Recording a payment writes it straight into your transactions and moves the account balance, and you can change the amount for the bills that vary. Pick the 31st and short months use their last day instead of skipping.

A clearer way in

The first thing to do is ask for an invitation, so that's what the front page offers. Opening the signup page without an invitation now explains that rather than showing you a form you can't finish, and the Google button says what it actually replaces.

A clearer message when Google sign-in can't be used yet

If you already have an account with a password, Continue with Google won't attach to it until you've confirmed your email address — that's deliberate, since otherwise someone could claim an address they don't own and wait to inherit the account. Previously it just failed silently; now it tells you what to do.

Ask for an invitation

If you don't have a code, you can now leave your email and we'll send you one when there's room. No account needed to ask.

It has a name: Pitch In

The app, the emails and the sign-in screen all say Pitch In now instead of a placeholder.

Sign in with Google

You can now use your Google account instead of choosing another password. If you already signed up with an email and password, using Google with the same address signs you into the same account rather than making a second one. You'll still need an invitation to create a household.

A dashboard worth landing on

Your household's home page now shows what you actually have across your accounts, what's gone in and out this month, the budget categories closest to their limit, today's chores and your recent transactions. A brand-new household gets a short setup list instead of a screen of zeroes.

Everything reads a little larger

Text throughout the app was sized for a dense desktop dashboard rather than something you read on a phone. It's all a notch bigger now.

Saturday, September 19

Accounts, transactions and budgets

The budgeting part is here. Add your accounts with what's in them today, record what you spend and earn, and set a monthly budget per category. Transactions move the account balance automatically, and the budget screen shows what's left in each category with a bar that turns red when you go over. Step back through previous months with the arrows.

You can sign out before joining a household

If you had an account but weren't in a household yet, there was no way to sign out — the only escape was clearing your cookies. There's now a sign-out link on that screen.

Skipping a chore works on a phone

The Skip and Remove buttons on a chore only appeared when you hovered a mouse over the row, which meant they were invisible on a phone — tapping just marked the chore done instead. They're now always visible on touch screens.

Hide amounts when someone's looking

There's a Hide amounts switch in the menu. Turn it on and every figure on screen blurs until you turn it back off — useful on a train, or when you're sharing your screen. It remembers your choice on that device.

Dark mode

The whole app now follows your device's light or dark setting, and you can override it from the menu. No more being flashbanged at midnight.

Invite the rest of your household

Members lets you invite someone by email and choose whether they can manage people as well as use the household. Invitations show as pending until accepted, and you can cancel one you sent by mistake. Forgotten passwords can now be reset by email too.

Chores

Set up a chore to repeat every day or on the days you choose, and it appears on the right days by itself. Tap one to mark it done. Skip one that doesn't apply today and it moves to a Skipped list showing who skipped it, with an Undo if you change your mind.

Households

Create a household when you sign up, and everything you add lives inside it. You can belong to more than one — your own, and a parent's, say — with a different role in each.