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The Tiller Alternative for People Who Are Done Maintaining a Spreadsheet
Tiller does one clever thing: it pours your bank transactions into a Google Sheet or Excel file every day, and from there you build whatever budget you like. The power is the spreadsheet, and so is the chore. You maintain tabs, fix categories, and keep formulas from breaking. If you want the automatic budget without living in a spreadsheet, Auritrack is the alternative that hands the whole job to an AI.
- Pricing verified:
- Jul 2026
Why people move on from Tiller
Tiller fans love control, and that is fair — nothing beats a spreadsheet for bending your budget to exactly your logic. But two things wear people down. The maintenance is constant: AutoCat rules need tuning, categories drift, and a spreadsheet is only as tidy as the last hour you spent in it. And there is no real app; you are working in Sheets or Excel, which is fine at a desk and awkward on a phone.
Auritrack replaces the sheet with a budgeting app and an AI. You type what you spent or upload a statement, and it categorizes for you. There is a free tier for manual tracking, and the AI features run from $3 a month or on pay-as-you-go Auricoins that never expire.
Auritrack vs Tiller, side by side
Feature comparison of Auritrack and Tiller
| Feature | Auritrack | Tiller |
|---|---|---|
| AI chat expense tracking | Yes | No |
| AI bookkeeping & categorization | Yes | AutoCat rules inside the sheet |
| Automatic bank sync | On the roadmap; statement import today | YesDaily feed into Sheets or Excel |
| Bank-statement import (PDF/CSV/Excel) | YesPDF, CSV or Excel, read by AI | Manual import into the sheet |
| Budgeting | Yes | YesPrebuilt budget templates |
| Savings goals | Yes | Via templates |
| Invoicing | Small-business records and reports | No |
| Receipt scanning | Yes | No |
| All currencies with live conversion | YesLive exchange rates | Only if you build it in the sheet |
| Data export (PDF/CSV) | YesPDF and CSV anytime | YesIt is your spreadsheet |
| Telegram tracking | Yes@auritrack_bot | No |
| Investment tracking | No | Account balances only |
| Shared / household accounts | Yes | YesShare the sheet |
| Sells your data to advertisers | No | No |
| Price | Free tier + AI from $3/mo | $79/yr |
Tiller: honest strengths and limitations
Tiller: strengths
- total spreadsheet flexibility
- daily automatic bank feeds
- you own the raw data
- huge template library
Limitations
- you maintain a spreadsheet
- no real mobile app
- US and Canada focused
- no free tier
An app that categorizes, not a sheet you maintain
With Tiller, keeping your budget accurate means keeping the spreadsheet accurate — every new merchant, every miscategorized row, every formula that needs a nudge. Auritrack takes that off your plate. You write “40 on fuel” and the AI logs and categorizes it, or you upload a bank statement and it reads the file at once. The budget stays current without you opening a spreadsheet to make it so.
You can track from the web, Android, iOS, or straight from Telegram with the @auritrack_bot, so logging on the go does not mean squinting at a spreadsheet on a phone.
Where Tiller is genuinely the better pick
Give Tiller its credit. Because your data lives in a real spreadsheet, you can build any report or formula you can imagine, and you own every row outright. Its bank feeds are automatic and daily, pulling from thousands of institutions, so the raw data lands without you uploading anything. Auritrack does not have live sync yet — you upload a statement instead.
If you genuinely enjoy building your own views and want your finances in a spreadsheet you fully control, Tiller is hard to beat. Auritrack is for people who want the result without the spreadsheet and would rather an AI did the categorizing.
Recreate your Tiller budget in Auritrack
Copy this prompt, create a free account, and paste it into the Auritrack AI chat. It sets up a budget with your categories so you can leave the spreadsheet behind.
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Copy the prompt
Grab the ready-made setup prompt below.
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Create a free account
Sign up on the web app or mobile.
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Paste into AI chat
Auritrack sets up your budget from it.
The honest verdict
Pick Tiller if you love spreadsheets, want daily automatic bank feeds, and want to build your own reports with full control over every row. Pick Auritrack if you want the automatic budget without maintaining a spreadsheet, want an AI to do the tracking, and want to start on a free tier before paying for the AI.
Where Tiller still wins
- total spreadsheet flexibility and formulas
- daily automatic bank feeds into Sheets or Excel
- raw ownership of every row of data
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Life after Tiller
Keep the budget. Close the spreadsheet.
Auritrack gives you an automatic budget with an AI that does the categorizing — chat your spending or import a statement, no tabs to maintain. Start on the free tier, add AI when you want it.
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